finack

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by finack 2y ago
I look forward to this never happening again and not becoming a massive problem for the next 10 years.
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by finack 2y ago
Corporations really are amazing. They are, simultaneously, in a superposition of getting away with crimes because they don't exist, and providing goods and services and benefitting shareholders because they do. Remarkable.
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by finack 2y ago
No they don't. Rules for companies and individuals are different in this country, unless you possess some secret to getting away with potentially ruining the lives of 1.5 times the population of the United States with the financial equ
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by finack 2y ago
Ah, so you want a service that forces employers to tell the truth. I think that's called "Congress", but it looks like it's been abandoned for a few years now.
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by finack 2y ago
Crazy idea: provide a search box, and when the user hits "enter", POST the data to the backend, which queries the database, and then returns the relevant results.
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by finack 2y ago
Until Google decides to give developers the ability to let the browser invade the rest of the system, which, in six months, will suddenly be necessary for everyone to do things like bank online and pay utility bills.
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by finack 2y ago
Web browsers can already do that. I'm not sure what else is desired beyond what they already do.
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by finack 2y ago
A lot of people died of heat stroke in India today.
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by finack 2y ago
I'm sorry one injury invalidates an entire mode of transit. Better luck next planet, I guess.
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by finack 2y ago
It's just kind of the experience, I don't know. It has a certain familiarity, but there's also the shared experience aspect of it. I don't like to be cloistered more and more at home, despite that being the overwhelming
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by finack 2y ago
I'm not, I'm using my decade of experience and nascent alcoholism.
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by finack 2y ago
None of these things are in scope for a program that is supposed to browse the web (by fetching web pages and rendering them).
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by finack 2y ago
Could it actually be the hundreds of megabytes of JavaScript each website insists on executing?
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by finack 2y ago
I truly do not understand the complaints about Firefox, the browser (and not Mozilla's questionable stewardship thereof). Every time someone starts talking about their issue, it's either something super niche and inconsequential,
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by finack 2y ago
Those web APIs aren't actually standard (WebUSB, for example, is still in draft status), and they have some gnarly privacy implications. Google steamrolls over standards bodies, and then somehow people believe their browser is the stan
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by finack 2y ago
Programs that don't require an entire web browser to run can already do all of those things.
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by finack 2y ago
Firefox has a low market share because Chrome is the default browser on so many systems and in IT departments everywhere. 99% of people don't think about which browser they want to use.
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by finack 2y ago
Learn some C, and dabble in assembly, because that's what the computer is actually doing under the hood. Every operating system you probably use is written mostly in C. It exposes you to the gory details of computation: memory manageme
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by finack 2y ago
OCR and pattern matching on text are computationally cheap and incredibly easy to do. For example, tax documents often bear the name of your government's tax authority, which presumably you are familiar with and can search for. They al
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by finack 2y ago
No, that's an important facet of compatibility. If a change is purely additive, existing clients will keep working, something the industry has basically forgotten all about, it seems.
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by finack 2y ago
Well yeah, who knew that letting your frontend developers blow up your database because nobody talks to each other or designs things anymore would be a bad idea?
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by finack 2y ago
I never understood why this was such a big deal... "Hey, we need an endpoint to fetch a list of widgets so we can display them." "Okay." Is that so difficult? Maybe the real problem lies in poor planning and poor communi
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by finack 2y ago
The amount of bush-league mistakes I see because people truly don't know any better is shocking. But we've gone from a world where you had to very intimately understand the machine to do your job, to one where a six-month crash co
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by finack 2y ago
I love movie theatres. I hate stupidly expensive popcorn and people talking and using their phones the entire time.
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by finack 2y ago
The solution is painfully obvious for anyone who isn't actually involved in milking every last red cent out of media: make movies people actually want to see, and not just shameless cash grabs recycling everything from 1980 onward. Of
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by finack 2y ago
What a colossal waste of land. We've emitted record amounts of CO2 this year alone (and it's only barely June), and yet we're still full speed ahead on cars. Anything to avoid smaller setbacks and bike lanes, I guess. THAT wo
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by finack 2y ago
Some computers make it harder than others.
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by finack 2y ago
You don't need a cryptographer on payroll to install and configure an SSO library. Maybe your developers aren't skilled enough to do that, but it is not a challenge for a proper senior developer.
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by finack 2y ago
What? Session tokens have been around for like 30 years now, and every web framework worth using has a rock-solid implementation; you haven't had to do it yourself since Full House was putting out new episodes.
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by finack 2y ago
No, it's a necessary feature if your credentials get stolen, which wouldn't surprise me considering how many people just cram JWTs into local storage, which is not the same as a secure cookie and has weaker security. Either you&#x

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