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by zeveb 7y ago
> There are a lot of obstacles for temps/contractors to gain remote access at google. I thought that Google were all-in on BeyondCorp, which doesn't require a secure perimetre. Did they not actually convert everything, or is i
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by zeveb 7y ago
But how do you achieve that with those hand-sprayers? And don't droplets of black water fall all over one's hands and the sprayer when doing so? The whole thing just seems awful to me. I know, I know: I am the ignorant one. The
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Chinese scientists destroyed proof of virus in December?(thetimes.co.uk)
354 points by zeveb 7y ago|308 comments
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by zeveb 7y ago
> As opposed to what, private undemocratic unaccountable authoritarian institutions controlling peoples' lives? Which is more authoritarian: 50%+1 of the people with the legal authority to imprison or kill you, or hundreds of compet
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by zeveb 7y ago
> > Native Mac apps feel like a dying breed that are succumbing to janky web views > Yeeaaahhhh, not really. I was a diehard "native" person until recently and I can't believe just how much better developing for web
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by zeveb 7y ago
A lot of really good stuff in here. I have a few questions & quibbles though. > You’re probably all Macbooks. What if we're not? Are there any good MDM solutions for Linux? I would prefer not to force macOS on folks who don
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by zeveb 7y ago
Fair enough! I think that the mechanisms (called movements) are really cool too. I also like not having to change a battery. And I like the style I got for more money. Regardless, I like having a mechanical watch rather than yet another
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by zeveb 7y ago
I honestly don't understand how you read snobbery & condescension into my post; I certainly didn't intend them (as an aside, saying that your point of view is a 'no brainer' might be a tad … condescending). I just li
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by zeveb 7y ago
I like that my $300 automatic watch tells me the time and nothing more, not even a date. I don't want it to listen to me; I don't want it to log my location; I don't want it to store my health information on someone else&#
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What does it cost to run a restaurant?(eater.com)
2 points by zeveb 7y ago|0 comments
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by zeveb 7y ago
> They weren't talking about rewriting every tool in your preferred language otherwise how far down the stack do you go (Terraform in Rust today, Linux in rust tomorrow, etc)? Well, I'd say that one must start at the highest le
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by zeveb 7y ago
> In my opinion the best tool for basically all jobs is usually the main programming language of your project / team / company. I read a wonderful article some time ago (here maybe?) arguing exactly this, and positing that any
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by zeveb 7y ago
> I really like the segment.com blog. I've heard good things about it, but uMatrix blocks their entire site. A quick Googling indicates that they are some sort of analytics/tracking firm. Do they serve their tools off of the s
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by zeveb 7y ago
I don't think that's very actionable direction, because every post, no matte how dryly factual, can trigger someone who reads it. No doubt there is someone reading right now who would react violently to a post about an experime
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by zeveb 7y ago
> our American NATO allies which seemed to prefer to refer to the Soviet Union as the “evil empire”. It wasn't an entirely inappropriate term, given the Holodomor, the Katyn massacre, the massacre of the Cossacks, the suppression o
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by zeveb 7y ago
> Calling the coast "then Germany" in May is pretty weird. Founded in 1255 by Germans, Kolberg was part of Prussian Pomerania from the 1648 Peace of Westphalia until the August 1945 Potsdam Agreements which implicitly recogni
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by zeveb 7y ago
This is a strange way to define static. To me, a static site is one which doesn't make dynamic requests. Sure, it might load in static images (even static JavaSceipt!), but it would run fine if all resources were burned to a CD and l
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by zeveb 7y ago
> Signal doesn't know who sent most messages between friends. Why not? They know which device sent the message (because Signal were sent it) and they know which device received it (because Signal sent it). I know that they have so
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by zeveb 7y ago
That merely states 'The Congress shall have Power … To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United
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by zeveb 7y ago
> If we’re paying most of a trillion dollars each year for defense, why not defend us at least a little bit against stuff that might well happen sooner or later: giant fires, flooding, pandemics, big/long power outages, fuel shortag
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by zeveb 7y ago
> The biggest problem with SAML is probably XML-DSig. I hope that I live long enough to read the book-length historical treatment of the late 90s/early-2000s obsession with XML. My personal opinion is that it set the industry back
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by zeveb 7y ago
They've got some great ideas and insight here. The thing is, there already is a wonderful two-dimensional, general-purpose, interactive terminal/graphic interface: it's Emacs. And it really is awesome! I think this is a co
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by zeveb 7y ago
Interesting … it occurs to me that Signal ties everything to phone numbers, and is presumably able to see which phone numbers are communicating with one another (since they route messages between accounts and don't use private informat
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by zeveb 7y ago
> Figure out fair market value for it How would one do that without a fair market?
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> I personally know startups for whom I believe drinking the k8s/golang/microservices kool-aid has cost them 6-12 months of launch delay and hundreds of thousands of dollars in wasted engineering/devops time. If Kubernetes
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by zeveb 7y ago
If GCC had been more permissively licensed then Apple would not have released its Objective C compiler, which would have been a worse situation for everyone involved (to include Apple: they are simply wrong that a proprietary compiler is
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by zeveb 7y ago
They can almost-indetectably target an individual user or group of users at any point in time in the former case while the latter case would leave traces in e.g. git histories. I trust Mozilla to write Firefox and I trust Debian to package
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by zeveb 7y ago
> Firefox sync is the meat of the deal. Firefox sync really is neat, but be aware that for the last several years it has had a security flaw, one which the Firefox team has no interest in fixing (in fact, they consider it a feature!): yo
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by zeveb 7y ago
> Also, the fact that unix uses LF and windows uses CR/LF added to the confusion as well. And old Macs used CR. And some very rare old OSes used LF/CR! And then there's the practice on Unix of treating page feed as a scro
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by zeveb 7y ago
It's a little like Mr. Obama's Cash-for-Clunkers programme, which sounds awesome at first, right? We got all those old polluting cars off of the roads! Except that they were by and large replaced with new cars whose manufacture

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