MyNameIsFred

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by MyNameIsFred 1y ago
TL;DR Is US continues to change policy without any clear guidance nor facilitation. Impractical to comply. https://apnews.com/article/us-tariffs-goods-services-suspens...
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by MyNameIsFred 1y ago
I'm a personal and professional advocate from r passkeys, yet I must acknowledge that your criticisms and skepticism are valid. I don't see this as a flaw in the passkeys concept so much as a growing pain. It's a very differe
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by MyNameIsFred 2y ago
This rebuttalakes no sense to me. What you cite is about about transport encryption. App -> Server. The end of the process is that the receiver (Telegram servers) receives a decrypted (plaintext) message, just as kelsey98765431 is saying
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by MyNameIsFred 3y ago
The simplified terminology is not for you or I as technologists. It is for the general consumer market. Yes, public/private key cryptography has been a thing for decades, but it has been out of reach for the consumer market. The whole
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by MyNameIsFred 4y ago
You are completely correct and I really wish you weren't.
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by MyNameIsFred 4y ago
MS ToDo was hewn from the corpse of Wunderlist. It's the same "ding".
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by MyNameIsFred 5y ago
Yes! I dove into this (and later, Moondlander) because I have mobility issues and had to reduce travel, but the resulting 90WPM and (unprovably) faster coding have been awesome side-effects.
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by MyNameIsFred 6y ago
> Yeah it's a neat idea but I struggle to think of good use-cases [...] If I'm working on a service [...] I suspect that's simply not the use-case they're targeting. You're thinking of a database as simply the pe
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by MyNameIsFred 7y ago
That's an alarming equation. The harder you lie, the less likely you'll be called out on it. What else in life works that way?
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by MyNameIsFred 7y ago
Yes, thank you. A mindset which thinks that documentation is wasted due to a need to constantly update, is cousin to the mindset which thinks that software, once written, is a purchased asset which needs no further attention nor maintenance
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by MyNameIsFred 8y ago
They most certainly do not "handle it just fine". They are highly scammable, they know it, and it's "solved" my moving as much of the burden and repercussions onto the consumer as possible. I've had my identity
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by MyNameIsFred 8y ago
What wouldn't be the 5th time I've heard such stories, but I don't think it's in any way specific to IBM. Employers like that want any OT you do to be dedicated to THEIR endeavor, not somebody else's...even your own
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by MyNameIsFred 9y ago
My team of consultants will write Android apps, and the customer takes ownership of the code base when we're done. My wife would leave me if she knew how much I love Kotlin, but I could never use it for work projects because we just co
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by MyNameIsFred 9y ago
I haven't done Windows development for a long time, but I think that this may be an overstatement, at least on that platform. You need to have cursor focus to receive key events, right? The clipboard, by contrast, can be continually mo
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by MyNameIsFred 10y ago
I do not see this as an actual rebuttal to the idea of it being a backdoor. The article makes two points: 1. Ultimately, verification falls to the user, so even in a secure system, user error, misunderstanding, and/or laziness can resu
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by MyNameIsFred 10y ago
Sometimes PDFs store actual character data (like vector graphics), and sometimes they store static images. Last I checked (admittedly a few years ago), Word conversion only works on the former. It didn't do OCR or anything so dramatic.
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by MyNameIsFred 10y ago
Following that statement, the author spends the rest of the article explaining how the people asserting supremacy often do not see it as such. It is an implicit and unwitting reality of the position they are taking. I used to be one of thes
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by MyNameIsFred 10y ago
The striking difference here, at least to me, is the a matter of scale and delay. Aphids and fungus are smaller than the ants, and have shorter lifecycles than the ants themselves. Planting and cultivation of a coffee plant suggests underst
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by MyNameIsFred 10y ago
By what reasoning? On the surface I would assume that to be false. Please elaborate?
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by MyNameIsFred 10y ago
Sorta. The basis for your concern underlines one of the problems. When such gaffs happen in engineering, the firm is blamed. Within the firm, individual actors are blamed. In software, on the other hand, your major system might have respons
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by MyNameIsFred 10y ago
Well, yeah, that's one of her few points in this tiny article.
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by MyNameIsFred 10y ago
Your .bat files still work, and you can use the legacy terminal if you I insist. All they did was change the default terminal from the archaic one to newer one they first introduced as a the non-default option only a mere decade ago. Ther
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by MyNameIsFred 10y ago
Steam.
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by MyNameIsFred 10y ago
Sounds like a joke, yet it's spot-on.
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by MyNameIsFred 10y ago
Do you do much C programming? If I put my "Java goggles" on, the first, "untasty" snippet looks so very obviously to be the right way to do it. But... If I put my "C goggles" on, the "clever" versio
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by MyNameIsFred 10y ago
This is true. I must admit that my more recent, positive experiences are only possible due to my accumulated understanding of my dependency chain and toolkit. I work on multiple things, but my largest, indefinitely-running one has only a si
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by MyNameIsFred 10y ago
Yes! Sometimes I will have a have a big problem that I will decide not to fix immediately, even if it's more "important" than other things I'm working on. Then, when I come back and rapidly write a simple solution, the q
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by MyNameIsFred 10y ago
> In a sense, programming is all about what your program should do in the first place. The “how” question is just the “what”, moved down the chain of abstractions until it ends up where a computer can understand it, and at that point, t
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by MyNameIsFred 10y ago
Or too lazy to work it out in your head. Jeez.
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by MyNameIsFred 10y ago
That's a good point, but do you think that things have a chance of playing out similarly this time around? I get the feeling that web tech was more of an open question at that point, so people would look to a group like IBM to set the

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