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by alex- 4y ago
Yes, a secret key like this could have made this breach much less concerning. Assuming you trust the company to not also lose this data (that they generate and claim to not store). What I was really hoping to find was a paid, cross platfo
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by alex- 4y ago
I initially assumed I would be safe because of 2FA. Sadly it looks like this is not the case, the second factor is used to access the encrypted data, not decrypt the data. As the attacker already has the encrypted data, they have bypassed t
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by alex- 4y ago
This makes me think of something Antoine de Saint-Exupery said, "Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
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by alex- 7y ago
Not sure how I missed that, thanks.
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by alex- 7y ago
My guess is it's less about a moral issue with marijuana and more about a fear of upsetting people displaying the adds. Many of whom won't want to be associated with something federally illegal. The alternative headline being &quo
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by alex- 8y ago
If your employer is happy with your performance then you are probably "good enough" as you say. However if you truly do always want to be improving your ability as a software engineer, then you are in luck, this field is so vast a
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by alex- 8y ago
My favorite unpacking snippet is rotating a matrix >>> matrix = [(1,2,3),(4,5,6),(7,8,9)] >>> list(zip(*matrix)) [(1, 4, 7), (2, 5, 8), (3, 6, 9)] Not as readable as a real maths library, but pretty cool and educational. T
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by alex- 8y ago
This also really highlights the scale of the population explosion over the last 500-ish years!
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by alex- 8y ago
> given the abysmal quality of this thing, nobody will ever insist that they release the sources I am interested in seeing the source :)
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by alex- 8y ago
I think most people, at some level, know this and accept it. I think the shock comes when you think how long this information is kept for, and what that means. i.e. each year they can advertise age appropriate birthday presents, a few years
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by alex- 8y ago
I also agree that it is not a helpful term. I like to think we are all 10x developers. The question of a 1x developer should be how to grow their productivity (assuming they are motivated to do so). Less productive developers should not fee
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by alex- 9y ago
It really is scary. They claim to anonymise the data, but to me it feels like removing your name and address from your DNA is like removing the make and model from a car schematic (where only one model was produced).
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by alex- 9y ago
I try and mitigate the password management single point of failure with two factor authentication. Obviously that it not an option for every site but access to my password manager, alone, will not provide access to my email (which lets me r
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by alex- 9y ago
It might be interesting to some to know that relatively recently (2016) PEP 523 ( https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0523/ ) was created which provides a more efficient alternative to PyEval_SetTrace or PyEv
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by alex- 9y ago
I also have trouble keeping mac windows where I left them with external displays attached. I invested $15 in stay https://cordlessdog.com/stay/ I would not say the problem is solved (it's not going to solve artifa
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by alex- 9y ago
It looks very useful thanks for the image and sponsoring events like this!
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by alex- 9y ago
This was just mentioned today at north bay python. Another alternative for a fast speed up by changing your base image is trying out the pypy images.
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by alex- 9y ago
Looks like it is in the works https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46941308/python-3-suppor...
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by alex- 9y ago
Looks like it defaults to providing a python2 2.7.12 environment. I don't see anyway of selecting python3, any one found the option? Or are they only supporting Python2?
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by alex- 9y ago
This to me seems like the major point. If we imagine we own a restaurant and a customer refused to leave, forcing us to call the police. Then the police show up, over react and shoot the customer. Surely the law enforcers doing the shooting
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by alex- 9y ago
> "...can make as many shirts per hour as about 17 humans" Surprised they are looking at it per hour. Presumably the automation could run for close to 24 hours a day, whereas the human workforce could not. So each of these unit
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by alex- 9y ago
The future of meetings: starting them in SF and ending them in Tahoe. Maybe it's a cheap video conferencing platform :)
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by alex- 9y ago
Could the model 3 be a very expensive video conferencing platform?
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by alex- 9y ago
I could imagine some firearm owners being willing to trade 100% reliability to prevent a casual accident. I imagine some firearm sales are for more recreational purposes.
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by alex- 9y ago
Having moved to the US from a country that had a universal health care system, the idea of choosing a doctor was quite strange to me. Luckily I have not really had a need, however my colleges have suggested that when the time comes looking
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by alex- 9y ago
PyCon 2017 had a really good talk about debuggers [1] which covered how PEP523 [2] is making debugging python 3.6+ code much faster. I think that a profiler is somewhat similar, however instead of, potentially, stopping execution on each li
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by alex- 9y ago
psutil ( https://pythonhosted.org/psutil/ ) is awesome for collecting valuable monitoring information. pyrasite ( http://pyrasite.com/ ) will let you inject code into a process. This can be used to add mon
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by alex- 10y ago
> "when Facebook employees are not actively making changes . . . the site experiences higher levels of reliability." This seems like a great thing to me. i.e. The system is stable and the error budget is being used to facilitat
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by alex- 10y ago
Another (cheaper?) solution would be to randomise the location of the keys each unlock attempt. It would cause me a massive problem - I basically only remember my pattern
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by alex- 10y ago
A few states including California have the WARN act [1]. The latest layoffs reported can be found here: http://www.edd.ca.gov/jobs_and_training/warn/WARN-Report-for... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/

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