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by zxcmx 9y ago
I think theres a valid argument to made for spending effort to maintain some degree of decentralisation. That is, enough individual resilience adds up to a degree of collective resilience. I suppose I have been fortunate enough to have neve
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by zxcmx 9y ago
Fair call, the author does just advocate tests before code rather than "tests as thinking". But oh, there are a ton of people who have tried to use tdd as a design process (aka test driven design, as opposed to development, I gues
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by zxcmx 9y ago
Right which is an interesting case because you're really doing TDV (test driven verification) against an existing design. Or ... testing.
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by zxcmx 9y ago
Not buying the dogma. OK, having tests and code reviews sure, but spec-first has generally beat test-first in my experience. Not "design the whole thing waterfall-style" specs, but actually just a wide ranging discussion on what t
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by zxcmx 9y ago
FIPS compliance is honestly THE WORST. This is a butchered version of my standard write-up for customers who have customers who ask about FIPS. FIPS is really an unsuitable way to evaluate the security of large or complex systems. The major
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by zxcmx 9y ago
This is super awesome and fun but personally I had to migrate my micro datacenter from pis to nucs. The "armhf tax" is that you tend to have to build your own images for stuff :( Then you need your own build infra (or "heat
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by zxcmx 9y ago
Oh hey, and all your js is now on one origin so if you have an xss in your third-party blog software, you now have xss in your app! Also, good luck writing a sane content-security-policy if you do this.
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by zxcmx 9y ago
Might have been a spreadsheet port?
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by zxcmx 9y ago
Probably firebase, auth0, cognito or a similar third-party system. To me that fits in with the node ethos, which has always seemed to be to be, roughly, "mash things up".
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by zxcmx 9y ago
I think that's a good example. Yes or no, is the world "round"? Well, it's sort of a very slightly lumpy oblate spheroid... it also ties into whether we agree on what "round" means. There's a knowledge pro
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by zxcmx 9y ago
It is also partly because we are less inclined to lock up, beat or detain people who violate social norms in western countries anymore. Neither do we socially support those properly, turns out running mental health and substance abuse suppo
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by zxcmx 9y ago
In terms of second order effects, I think one interesting angle is that low-setup manufacturing makes ip / copyright in the STL files more valuable. If you don't have the design then a human needs to spend a bunch of time dialling
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by zxcmx 9y ago
Stats don't make much sense. Self hosted bitbucket is huge. I've worked for Atlassian companies lately but none of their crap calls out to the Internet and tells the mothership what they're up to. Well I guess they do. But no
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by zxcmx 9y ago
The short answer is that if you build an x86 box based on crappy linux and updates then your security is based, fundamentally on the primitives which secure eveything else in the world. It doesn't mean that it's the best. An x86&#
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by zxcmx 9y ago
Well maybe we shouldn't have intervened. I sort of say "we" in a loose way since family. I dunno. Maybe it would have been better if they'd just worked it out themselves. That said, do you know any Koreans?
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by zxcmx 9y ago
I sometimes forget the HN audience doesn't have all this context. You're totally right. Thanks.
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by zxcmx 9y ago
By defending people. This doesn't mean murdering people remotely with robots. I get that's the most efficient way of doing it. The US is looking at backlash and wondering why: it's because you lost the moral fscking high grou
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by zxcmx 9y ago
How about I respond with: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/lesser-known-trolley-pro... The world is not utilitarianism. [edit] on reflection you might have been agreeing with me but I still think the trolley problem
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by zxcmx 9y ago
Is it so different if you fire the guns yoursef? Is the experience more "authentic" if you are in the warzone? Are we in a world where we need artisanal, hand-fought wars? I know exactly what you mean though :( But the problem is
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by zxcmx 9y ago
I get it, I think. On the other hand I don't think South Korea would exist without intervention. My grandfather spent the rest of his life after the Korean war (as an an anzac, artillery, ironically I guess) in a mental hospital, &quot
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by zxcmx 9y ago
Shelling Seoul is worse. Just ask yourself which would be worse for you, say, a week or even a month without power or a rain of explosives randomly demolishing buildings in your city. We can get stuff working one way or the other without ne
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by zxcmx 9y ago
It's a good list. I just hate those things now. I worked as a wireless router firmware developer for a while and as a result... I don't use them anymore. The whole industry is just producing unfixable tire-fires. Different level o
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by zxcmx 9y ago
I think you are taking at face value what is actually quite a subversive game. I don't know if you played it but I took away the opposite message (that states which act this way are evil).
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by zxcmx 9y ago
Some people are consistently more focused on status signalling than actual communication. They're difficult to be around. I've never figured why, maybe it's insecurity? But I honestly can't say. In general the people I k
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by zxcmx 9y ago
Talking about what you're working on and being a douche are entirely orthogonal. I feel like you have this whole interaction framework in mind (a certain social context). If you were to explain that you might get more useful answers. O
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by zxcmx 9y ago
It's not precision loss, it's that when you DFT you choose an interval. If you choose a short interval you are less certain about frequencies while if you choose a long interval you are less certain about time domain changes (i.e,
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by zxcmx 9y ago
Network effects and a unique investment cycle are the root causes IMHO. It's a machine that vacuums up talent, powered by money.
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by zxcmx 9y ago
I find it really interesting that we don't have, for example, a cheaper way of doing front-line health care than teaching people to diagnose every possible ailment. Similarly that that the mechanics of surgery aren't considered a
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by zxcmx 9y ago
> any nation state... Or one of many different groups of people who can do computers.
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by zxcmx 9y ago
Yes, it still does get shipped a lot of places though. For example,"float glass" is not manufactured in New Zealand - no windows have been made there for 25 years, every single one is imported. It seems that at the scale these pla

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