Calamitous

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by Calamitous 11mo ago
The only anti-phishing program I've ever seen that was even a little effective was at one company I worked at, where there was an ongoing phishing test. Users were randomly selected to get the test, and each phish was hand-crafted to t
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by Calamitous 1y ago
> If we had universal healthcare in the USA, we'd have to have a common charting protocol and a medical chart exchange. Isn't this exactly what HIPAA was supposed to address?
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by Calamitous 1y ago
Elixir has this as well, IIRC.
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by Calamitous 2y ago
That's because it moves from being a project to being a process. I've tried to express this at my current job. They want to take time out to write a lot of unit tests, but they're not willing to change the process to allow&#x
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by Calamitous 2y ago
I'd argue it's the main benefit.
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by Calamitous 2y ago
> These are surprisingly often easy to answer I agree that maintenance costs are often overlooked/ignored, but I'm curious how you get answers on the costs. I've never found it particularly easy to get reliable information
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by Calamitous 2y ago
Whatever became of the tweel?
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by Calamitous 2y ago
Cynical, but probably the most humane take I’ve seen here so far.
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by Calamitous 2y ago
There’s still some of that feeling in little pockets around the Internet. The tildeverse ( https://tildeverse.org ) might interest you; it’s a loose group of servers that offer free shell accounts for hosting simple web pages, cha
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by Calamitous 2y ago
That’s… not a senior engineer. Whatever his title may have been.
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by Calamitous 2y ago
The article is from 2001, but it’s an evergreen reminder to _stop building solutions in search of a problem._
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by Calamitous 2y ago
> Punishing people for making mistakes means very few will be willing to take responsibility. That’s what responsibility is: taking lumps for making mistakes. If I make a mistake on the road and end up killing someone, I can absolutely b
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by Calamitous 2y ago
Came here to recommend rectangle and iterm.
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by Calamitous 2y ago
Fundamentally, GraphQL is a _query language_, but people keep trying to build/use it as an _API_.
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by Calamitous 2y ago
I’ve had a lot of success with namecheap. Granted, I haven’t tried many others, but it’s worked well for me.
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by Calamitous 3y ago
So go build something better.
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by Calamitous 3y ago
> Nobody wants deflation. I hear this argument regularly, but I’ve never understood why. Hyperinflation is historically a bad thing, but whenever I ask about deflation, I just get hand-waving about the Great Depression. Is there any read
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by Calamitous 3y ago
Haha. But seriously, Kagi gives you all this out of the box, in any browser…
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by Calamitous 3y ago
In business, I have four "bad words": just, only, simply, and obviously. Used in a work context, they are nearly always used in an attempt to diminish the perceived effort of something, so I get very sketched out when anyone (eve
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by Calamitous 3y ago
Why not both?
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by Calamitous 3y ago
Never before have I been so repulsed by a thread on HN.
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by Calamitous 3y ago
> three times a fortnight I approve of this unit of measure.
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by Calamitous 3y ago
Has it? From what I’ve heard about the textbook industry, I feel like it hasn’t.
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by Calamitous 3y ago
My company issued everyone headsets, and the audio is night-and-day difference, but maaaaaaan I hate wearing a headset.
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by Calamitous 3y ago
I have long been of the opinion that, if multiverse theory is correct, there must be one timeline that is the most hilarious, and I believe we are in it.
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by Calamitous 3y ago
This is precisely why, though I find it to be a fascinating idea, I have steadfastly refused to do one of these genetic tests.
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by Calamitous 3y ago
> overestimate their own happiness ? How can you overestimate your own happiness? Either you happy or you aren’t. In my experience, comparing yourself to others, regardless of circumstances, only leads to unhappiness.
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by Calamitous 3y ago
Key takeaway: > No current artificial intelligence is powerful enough to hide the weirdness of Weird Al.
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by Calamitous 3y ago
Is there a phone that’s not entirely made in China?
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by Calamitous 3y ago
> Go, TypeScript, and Python are pencil and rust is ink I love this analogy

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