bikingbismuth

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by bikingbismuth 2y ago
Though my Erlang skills have long atrophied, this book was my intro to functional programming and helped me understand recursion. It’s been a while since I’ve read it but I remember it being kind of funny as well as informative.
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by bikingbismuth 2y ago
I recently took a Waymo back to my hotel in Phoenix after a few drinks and it was a really pleasant experience. It didn’t take the freeways but it navigated the surface streets pretty much perfectly. It helped that it was about 25% the cost
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by bikingbismuth 2y ago
Probably not in any meaningful way, but I would agree the above comment they are ethically distinct.
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by bikingbismuth 2y ago
I know this video is humorous, but it’s also kind of touching. After watching, I started taking random measurements in my field notes book and had a really nice time.
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by bikingbismuth 2y ago
I will eventually read through this because I have a reasonably good handle on Python/Go, but don’t have any experience with Rust. This book will help me focus on the parts of Rust that I am most interested in given my current InfoSec
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by bikingbismuth 2y ago
I worked for a brand that was heavily impacted by phishing sites that used LE certs. It was annoying, but honestly I wasn’t sure what LE couple do about it. If you deny creating a cert with Gmail in the domain, people will just use somethin
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by bikingbismuth 2y ago
Don’t forget CAASM!
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by bikingbismuth 2y ago
I think the implication is that if a kid buys a toy they will have something tangible that they can play and interact with, but tipping/donating to a streamer doesn't provide that.
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by bikingbismuth 2y ago
The skilled people I know who work for the US government usually are very mission driven and/or working towards a pension. For foreign governments, people tell me they like the stability.
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by bikingbismuth 2y ago
The sad truth is that no one is getting a promotion to staff for just maintaining a service. I wish this wasn’t so. At a previous job I had a VP tell me that my team was like a public utility and I took that as a compliment. Later my boss e
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by bikingbismuth 2y ago
This is giving me major Geth from Mass Effect vibes. Given the massive impact that AI has had on the cultural conversation, I wonder how far away we are from a similar conversation about robots.
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by bikingbismuth 2y ago
I enjoy reading things like this. It’s posts like this that have helped me build my command line text processing skills over the years. If you are early in your career, I suggest you work on these types of skills. It is surprising how often
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by bikingbismuth 2y ago
It is going to be close between my gmail (I was invited during the beta in 2004) and my bank which would have been 2002/2003 timeframe but I can’t remember for sure. I can remember earlier accounts like deadjournal, Hotmail, something
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by bikingbismuth 3y ago
It’s a bit older, but I learned a lot from “Writing idiomatic Python”. Honorable mention to “the little book of Python antipatterns” as well.
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by bikingbismuth 3y ago
Think Python 2e changed the trajectory of my life. I took a single Java class and hated it so much I gave up on programming. A few years later as a network engineer I had a problem that seemed like it could be scripted and ended up picking
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by bikingbismuth 3y ago
I had a brief, but passionate fountain pen phase and it was great. I mainly used Pilot metropolitan, and found the world of inks to be fun to learn about. Then I had a pen leak a bunch of red ink on me on a plane somehow and fell out of lov
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by bikingbismuth 3y ago
My personal example of this is the security company “Thycotic”. They could be greatest InfoSec company in the world, but I really hate their name. It looks like the word psychotic said with a lisp.
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by bikingbismuth 3y ago
My current team is a hulk assembled from a few previously broken teams. Essentially no one is doing the work they were hired for and there is fairly intense resistance from other areas of the business when we try to make change. Lesson here
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by bikingbismuth 3y ago
Thank you for the response. I really want to avoid formal stuff like sprints and stand ups if at all possible. As a former engineer, I agree that it burdens ICs needlessly and would take up a lot of my time to manage. I am struggling with f
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by bikingbismuth 3y ago
This is a hard reality I am learning right now. At my previous company I had an amazing team that was very intrinsically motivated, they needed me to generally protect them from politics, participate in planning, and stay out of the way. Th
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by bikingbismuth 3y ago
Never used mint, but if you are looking for something to help you budget and categorize your transactions, I love YNAB. I have been a user for just about 3 years and it has significantly improved my relationship with money.
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by bikingbismuth 3y ago
At least we are protected.
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by bikingbismuth 3y ago
Having worked in the fraud space for a large fintech, I understand that it can be hard to determine if transactions are legitimate or not. Bad actors has strong financial incentives to find any and all loopholes to move dirty money. It suck
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by bikingbismuth 3y ago
Sadly, yes. This isn’t a statement about the death penalty, just a confirmation that gang leaders have been known to continue to operate in a leadership capacity even when incarcerated.
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by bikingbismuth 3y ago
I am an advocate for ortholinear boards. I have used simple 4x12 split boards (Let’s Split/Levinson) since 2017 and haven’t had any pain or other issues with my wrists. It is pretty easy to build your own now as there are hot swap PCBs
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by bikingbismuth 3y ago
I’m not a professionally trained philosopher, but I have read and taken a lot of value from ancient stoic writers (Seneca in particular). I remember reading Seneca’s letters and feeling frustrated that he almost seems to get close to a deno
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by bikingbismuth 3y ago
Checking 1Password, I have 283. If I include sites I keep only in my brain that is probably a touch above 300.
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by bikingbismuth 3y ago
Essentially yes. Sometimes it also includes people who have installed “free” VPNs.
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by bikingbismuth 3y ago
That is for the interactive chat experience. API calls are sold a la carte. Details here https://openai.com/pricing .
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by bikingbismuth 4y ago
MacOS has a pop up that tries to identify the keyboard layout. If this screen came up when I plugged something in that wasn’t a keyboard, I would assume the device was malicious. It is probably possible to automate the keystrokes to quickly

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