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by Boldened15 1y ago
Usually the passive voice is used at work to emphasize that it was a team/consensus decision, adjacent to the blameless incident management culture. It’s not important that one engineer or PM pushed it, but that ultimately the decision
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by Boldened15 1y ago
> As an aside, GDPR enforcement is so lacking (even today) it doesn't register on anyone's radar That’s not really true, every app offers some version of “Download your data” these days as a result of GDPR.
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by Boldened15 1y ago
IMO the backlash against LLMs is more philosophical, a lot of people don’t like them or the idea of one learning from their content. Unless your website has some unique niche information unavailable anywhere else there’s no direct personal
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by Boldened15 1y ago
Don’t 2FA apps have the major downside that if you lose the specific mobile device you installed it on you’re SOL, unless you have backup codes that are too technical for most. SMS gets you more human support since you pay your carrier, I c
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by Boldened15 1y ago
I would count is as decentralized enough if there are a few major players, you have Google, Microsoft, I assume Proton Mail works fine though don’t know as I only use it for burner accounts, iCloud Mail including Apple’s cool private email
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by Boldened15 1y ago
Yeah I'm no expert in financial systems but since the money ultimately needs to be spent in the U.S. it doesn't seem that important whether the funds are frozen in the U.S. or locked away overseas and can't be transferred in
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by Boldened15 1y ago
The Wikipedia article has "deprival of the rights of individuals and parties from running for election" listed as a method. So I assume the prison/fine part of the sentencing wouldn't really be defensive democracy but ba
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by Boldened15 1y ago
At some point we have to trust the electorate whether we like it or not, or democracy is impossible. If the populace is easily brainwashed by the media to believe in the innocence of a corrupt and extremist candidate they could just as easi
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by Boldened15 1y ago
That is all true but in this case she was sentenced to 2 years prison and 2 years house arrest, it's not exactly locking her up and throwing away the key for a minor infraction. Letting judges bar someone from running for office is sil
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by Boldened15 2y ago
Some are kind to eng ICs, you’re not laid off from the company just given time to join another team. As you can still be a high-performer with context on company culture/tech stack while on a non-revenue-generating team.
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by Boldened15 2y ago
Sorry I don't get the example, are both code blocks meant to be client-side code? > It acknowledges the reality that a non-exhaustive enum isn’t really an enum. It’s just a list of things that people might type into that field. I wo
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by Boldened15 2y ago
Since speedrunners who find glitches are obviously very technical, do they usually already have some sort of day job in tech? I imagine it might be easier and just as lucrative to work on some CRUD app 9-5 and devote the rest of their time
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by Boldened15 2y ago
Since Netflix never (edit: rarely) releases Blu-Rays for their original content, there's no source to produce high-quality versions of their 4K content right? Could be wrong but I thought webrips that screen capture are relatively low
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by Boldened15 2y ago
Headline buries the lede imo, should be "Xcode slows down builds by constantly phoning home". Given the walled garden nature of Apple and the app review process it's not really surprising that Xcode would be full of forced te
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by Boldened15 2y ago
That's cute. Also just reading the first part "Drone captures narwhals using their tusks..." my mind jumped to a more sinister interpretation, poachers using drones to spot and hunt narwhals by recognizing tusks with AI... I&
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by Boldened15 2y ago
I'm curious, why? The startup connection is disclosed in the third sentence so it's not particularly hidden. And at least if it's a real product they're putting their money where their mouth, you can check out their prod
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by Boldened15 2y ago
Curious what people would see as the longterm future of Firefox in the ideal world. Just being privacy focused isn't enough especially for the layperson, it needs some actual benefits like being faster or at least as fast, plus mindsha
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by Boldened15 2y ago
I hope they change the name of the browser at some point, it sounds vaguely promiscuous (maybe because "ladyboy" is the closest word to it). One reason Chrome started taking off in popularity is because tech enthusiasts appreciate
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by Boldened15 2y ago
Doesn’t seem like the author is recursively building solutions, so this doesn’t work.
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by Boldened15 2y ago
It’s just about having fun at the end of the day, the gamma function and square root are considered fundamental enough. But if one wants they could try to limit to different subsets of functions and prove which numbers are possible or impos
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by Boldened15 2y ago
I believe the audit stuff is overblown [1], there are strict requirements for passing and it doesn’t mean the money is literally disappearing into a black hole. I don’t have every Chipotle receipt saved in the past year but that doesn’t mea
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by Boldened15 2y ago
Did those teams have lots of senior engineers? I’d assume when you have a single tech lead over each area the team won’t fight each other since junior engineers will just follow their lead.
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by Boldened15 2y ago
IMO legacy code is code that has lots of if statements and special cases sprinkled in over the years to enable new features quickly and get out immediate hotfixes for bugs without doing full refactors and/or data migrations to address
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by Boldened15 2y ago
Wow this is a great formulation. I’ve started becoming senior more recently, for most code I’ve become pretty good now at making the tradeoff of how much refactoring to do versus a quick hack based on risk. Sometimes adding in an if stateme
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by Boldened15 2y ago
All Bluetooth technology is licensed, no? Then it's still the fault of Bluetooth if not only is their protocol so difficult for many or most manufacturers to get right, and their qualification process doesn't enforce correctness.
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by Boldened15 2y ago
> once things start being written down, the actual knowledge tends to get lost (see India for example) Curious, what do you mean by this? > pretty much no intellectual, either in India or the US, actually cares about the mass-wiping o
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by Boldened15 2y ago
It really depends on the product (or feature) how much of that expertise is necessary. You need some domain experts for sure who really know the ins and outs of the specific backend and frontend technologies to architect the overall app and
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by Boldened15 2y ago
Detection algorithms can be less useful in general if they're public and open source, eg. website operators sometimes mass ban on a delay so they can trap a lot of misbehaving users and don't immediately tip off the suspicious beh
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by Boldened15 2y ago
Deepfake is a pejorative not because of the artistic value of the AI but because of the ethnical concerns that spring to mind around one's ownership of their own likeness, and how the tech can be used for deepfake porn and political mi
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by Boldened15 2y ago
Subreddits sometimes split the difference by dedicating a single day of the week where something is allowed, eg. only allowing you to post questions on Fridays, or creating threads to consolidate off-topic discussion.

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