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by fvold 1y ago
The biggest change Copilot has done for me so far is to have me replace my VSCode with VSCodium to be sure it doesn't sneak any uploading of my code to a third party without my knowing. I'm all for new tech getting introduced and
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by fvold 2y ago
The real scam is the audit. Many moons ago, I failed a "security audit" because `/sbin/iptables --append INPUT --in-interface lo --jump ACCEPT` "This leaves the interface completely unfiltered" Since then, I&#x
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by fvold 2y ago
Yeah, if I had a spare million, I can imagine buying that dip.
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by fvold 3y ago
We don't pay nearly enough attention to this, considering how relatively simple it is to do right.
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by fvold 3y ago
You can't outgrow your lineage in evolution. We're monkeys. KFC is made of dinosaurs. Anything descended from bacteria would still be bacteria.
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by fvold 3y ago
I guess there is no PR wins in just listening to the floor-level employees, then?
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by fvold 3y ago
It's ostensibly "pure science", where we "just" gain more information on how the most fundamental building blocks of reality work. It's hard to predict what new technology can come of this. For example, who cou
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by fvold 4y ago
In my experience, Ali Express is absolutely 100% a buyers market, in every single way. I've bought random junk with a somewhat long fulfillment time, and contacted the seller just to politely ask about a time frame without in any way i
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by fvold 4y ago
There is growing legal pressure to not consider an IP address used as evidence that the "owner" of said IP address is the one doing the activity. For example, my IP address is paid for by me, through a run-of-the-mill ISP subscr
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by fvold 4y ago
I have a feeling the different sports corporations/leagues have done the research on this. I can't find any offhand, but maybe someone else has more luck? Maybe it's the beer sponsors that want the game to be as easy to follo
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by fvold 4y ago
This is done for copyright reasons. You can't copyright the raw list of ingredients, as it is a factual statement with too little creative input (in the list, not the recipe itself!) to get copyright protection. To stop the recipe blog
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by fvold 4y ago
"It's an offset from the beginning. The first element is 0 slots from the beginning." is what I was taught. (Of course, it's more complicated than that, with pointer math etc etc, but that works as a general gist) In the
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by fvold 4y ago
N=2
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by fvold 4y ago
I don't know about the market at large, but I do not want that. I want the a search engine to just have a huge database of websites, and look up stuff in that database based on my query, spitting out a link to the page that matches bes
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by fvold 4y ago
Yep, I feel that exact way about Nvidia Canvas [1]. It does not produce anything even close to usable as a final product, but it can produce an amazing start to a concept. [1] https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/studio/ca
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by fvold 4y ago
I don't think the breach frequency is increasing per service we use, just that we're using a lot more services now, and they're better at detecting and communicating when they've had breaches. So yes, the absolute number
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by fvold 4y ago
I hate fixing bugs, but I love having fixed them more. It's the same sort of relationship I have with playing hard games, like Elden Ring, or whatever. The actual search for the problem, and sometimes even the implementation of the fix
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by fvold 4y ago
I've had someone tell me, with a straight face and serious voice, to "stick to the agile process from now on"
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by fvold 4y ago
Yep yep yep. I've made it clear to bossmang that I don't really do customer contact. I got badly burned out in technical support decades ago, and it's still baggage I carry around, so I simply do not have a "customer
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by fvold 4y ago
I want to see a comparison of the infrared from Hubble vs the infrared from James. I also want to normalize calling JWST just "James" :)
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by fvold 4y ago
Something smooth, with a stutter-free Compiz implementation, I'm sure.
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by fvold 4y ago
A while back I was working on a logistics follow-up system at a call center. The system would fetch the logistics data from the different logistics partners and chew on it for a while, trying to determine which ones were "delayed"
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by fvold 4y ago
I don't know if this is supposed to be amusing or informative, but I don't think it does either. For example... > Linux is an alternative operating system (the software allowing apps to use a graphic based interface) to Microso
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by fvold 4y ago
Exactly! I don't understand this obsession with enterprise-level security on home networks and hobby projects. If you think it's fun and educational to set up, then you're doing it for fun and education, not security. If you&
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by fvold 5y ago
Hah, that's funny to me, because after my second burnout, I'm just super happy working for someone else. I don't have to care about bringing in customers, my signature is only on one contract (employment contract), and the
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by fvold 5y ago
As it happens, I'm reading this thread while taking a break from writing tax handling in a piece of e-commerce software. It relies 100% on the settings of the application in question, because tax codes and procedures vary greatly aroun
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by fvold 5y ago
For the last few days I've been rewriting one of the company's legacy WordPress plugins to work better with modern WooCommerce. That's right: PHP, baby. Ugly, hacky, sticky, oozing PHP. Oh woe is me, etc etc, but you know wh
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by fvold 5y ago
My coffee consumption is associated with lower risk of death to those around me , yes.
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by fvold 5y ago
Exactly. Surveillance is one of the methods of control, but it's really about oppressing the way people think, shaping it to suit the needs of The Party.
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by fvold 5y ago
The thing is, a commercial-scale fusion reactor could produce the same energy as a truly vast solar array, and also produces power at night, does not need to be exposed to wind and rain to operate and can be scaled directly instead of with

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