doliveira

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by doliveira 5mo ago
Funnily enough, to me these aphorisms (?) sound almost like the replicant test in Blaze Runner. Like these are the unit bit of "nudging"
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by doliveira 10mo ago
Only half-joking: maybe Java was a mistake. I feel like so much was lost in programming language development because of OOP...
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by doliveira 3y ago
As long as you don't keep switching the DC current on and off, which is what computers are all about
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by doliveira 3y ago
Yeah, perhaps. One I remember from last year is the cryptography and numpy package, for instance. Now they do seem to ship with binary wheels, at least for my current Python and Linux version. Kerberos and Hadoop stuff obviously still doesn
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by doliveira 3y ago
They all come as wheels, they just aren't precompiled.
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by doliveira 3y ago
Honestly I don't think I've ever used a precompiled package in Python. Every single C stuff seems to take ages and requires all that fun stuff of installing native system dependencies. Edit: skimming through this page, precompilin
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by doliveira 3y ago
I thought so too until I got to interact with databases and Big Data tools written in Java. God, what a mess that requires so much upkeeping, more dependency problems than I remember from C++ and probably some orders of magnitude more resou
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by doliveira 3y ago
Is that an advantage? At the very least, what it entails is that losing your private key is game over.
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by doliveira 3y ago
I mean, that sucks, but honestly she's not a ~digital influencer~. So I don't think her views matter that much.
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by doliveira 3y ago
That's not the point...
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by doliveira 3y ago
I was watching a video about nesting in CSS and how it's just in Chrome and comments were all about how cool it is and how they can't wait to use it, and so on, and so forth. I think it's quite a representative example: we ca
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by doliveira 3y ago
Yeah, financial and social pressure is basically the only weapons we have against corporations when regulations don't exist. And honestly, financial pressure doesn't work at this scale or in this case.
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by doliveira 3y ago
They literally already store the whole conversation...
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by doliveira 3y ago
I have 4 banking apps and about 8 government apps in my phone. All of them require device attestation. I have no doubt they will use the Web Integrity API as well.
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by doliveira 3y ago
Even if they don't, a lot of websites are just breaking on Firefox. The development community decided they want a Chrome monoculture.
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by doliveira 3y ago
Do you know how rooting Android is basically useless nowadays? Most banking and government apps, at least in my country, don't work if Google didn't give the seal of approval for your system. I take it you see as good thing to bri
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by doliveira 3y ago
Nah, scientific papers are supposed to be precise and technical. This reads like those quite frequent suggestions here of switching all equations in papers to plain English or code: it honestly comes from a place of ignorance, and I say tha
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by doliveira 3y ago
Yeah, I'm interested in knowing how people manage it. With Redis, I usually put the Lua code within the same repo and embed the Lua code within the deployment artifact, so it gets tested and deployed together with the rest of the code.
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by doliveira 3y ago
Yeah, I find it funny to see technologists being surprised that in most cases judges won't mind that the signature wasn't done with quantum-resistent cryptography stored in a blockchain or whatever. Technical solutions to politica
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by doliveira 3y ago
The common thread is these are utilities, not VC-backed start-ups wanting to dominate the world.
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by doliveira 3y ago
If the Future, Executor, Optional, Streams, etc played nice with checked exceptions it would probably be different. Right now at some point you do have to wrap it into an unchecked exception.
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by doliveira 3y ago
Isn't it how it works right now with Excel? Pretty sure every company relies on a obscure spreadsheet that no one knows how to maintain
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by doliveira 3y ago
Probably I had already heard it in a longer version but wow, summing it up like that really hits home.
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by doliveira 3y ago
Ironically for crypto bros, I think the way forward will be to codify the real-world trust structures into the digital world. The future is trustful. I just really hope we find a way to codify it without scanning people's eyeballs into
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by doliveira 3y ago
Honestly, when we're discussing with humans we want the humans' response. Anyone of us can ask ChatGPT, I don't know why people keep pasting its answers
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by doliveira 3y ago
Cross-platform? I guess technically it is...
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by doliveira 3y ago
I assume you haven't been through the absolute hell that are Hadoop JARs
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by doliveira 4y ago
Those regular people making incremental improvements are the aforementioned giants...
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by doliveira 4y ago
Interesting, referring to remarkable people as giants doesn't exist in your native language?
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by doliveira 4y ago
Lol, matrix arithmetics and scientific programming in Go

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