gemma

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Resident Evil: Understanding Residential IP Proxy as a Dark Service(medium.com)
2 points by gemma 8y ago|0 comments
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by gemma 8y ago
https://mastodon.technology is chock full of geeks, so the local timeline is all people's hacks and bugs and side projects. It's one of the older instances, and it's maintained by this guy: https://ashf
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by gemma 8y ago
I love how many ways there are to do this. My version uses empty Git commits: https://github.com/ellotheth/dotfiles/blob/master/bash_funcs...
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by gemma 8y ago
To tack on some more folks well-known in the outside world (some of these signed up last year and aren't active now): - Michael W. Lucas, author: https://bsd.network/@mwlucas - Amanda Rousseau, malware researcher: htt
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by gemma 9y ago
I initially bumped on this one too, but "obligation to consider" doesn't mean "obligation to quit their jobs over". You consider the ethical implications, you push back against management, management tells you sit d
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by gemma 9y ago
> you can be labeled as sexist You'd have to take those data points in isolation and conclude "men like money more than women" to earn that label. I don't think anyone is surprised to see evidence that an exclusive wo
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by gemma 9y ago
Nono, just the classical guitarists who play my music flawlessly with a minuscule fraction of the effort needed on violin. You with your frets and extra strings and inability to sustain. grumble (But seriously, play the music that makes y
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by gemma 9y ago
As a violinist with a degree in performance: I harbor eternal bitterness towards you and the rest of your kind.
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by gemma 10y ago
Sure. Quoting from the History of Apollo On-Board Guidance, Navigation, and Control (David G. Hoag, 1976): "Each of these later [complex manned] missions was assigned the responsibility of a senior engineer who assumed a more technical
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by gemma 10y ago
Cool. I'm going to go with NASA, MIT, Wired[0], and the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory History of Apollo On-Board Guidance, Navigation, and Control[1] as my sources of information on this one. [0] https://www.wired.com&#x2F
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by gemma 10y ago
NASA[0][3] and MIT[1][2] both agree that Apollo 11 ran her software (where "her software" means "software she and her team wrote", not "software she wrote entirely on her own"). The TechCrunch article echoes th
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by gemma 10y ago
What are you balancing by pointing out that she was a junior programmer who relied on the real key people? Are there incorrect references to her achievements in this comment thread or in the article?
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by gemma 10y ago
It's heartening to see this thread land so solidly on the intersection of sexism and ageism. You're right, assuming older generations are technically incompetent is wrong, mean, and unnecessary--just like assuming the same thing a
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by gemma 10y ago
Me.
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by gemma 11y ago
> if for a second you think (exceptions excluded) women, during pregnancy and first months of a newborn can run a business without sacrificing something I'm not an entrepreneur, but isn't sacrificing something part of the deal,
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by gemma 11y ago
> The guy was taken out of context and clearly said he was trying to explain why the number of female founders was less. His thoughts had to do with not many of them applying because they prefer to be mothers. Out-of-context quote from t
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by gemma 11y ago
> It is certainly possible to write a spaghetti component that would do everything. So...like PHP, then?
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by gemma 11y ago
Right, your comment argued that "view logic, domain/business logic and database boilerplate code intermixed in a single file" is not "ancient history in the PHP world". Which it is, regardless of the `<?php` tag
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by gemma 11y ago
Author here, happy to answer any questions.
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by gemma 11y ago
Author here, just noticed this submission. Happy to answer any questions. (You may also be interested in the discussions on Proggit[0] and /r/golang[1].) [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments&
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by gemma 11y ago
Yup. It adds an extra identity verification layer, whether your script is served over SSL or not.
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by gemma 11y ago
Use your words, kind of like you just did. Throwing a disorder around as an insult is always the wrong choice.
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by gemma 12y ago
It's about quality, not quantity. http://wheresitup.com/results/54c732d88c3dcf8416232c91
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by gemma 12y ago
Very slick! Reminds me of a slimmed-down version of the Where's It Up API ( https://api.wheresitup.com/ ), but with monitoring. (Full disclosure: I've done some work for the Where's It Up folks.)
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by gemma 12y ago
Ithaca is full of hippies, it doesn't count. /s (GREETINGS, MY ITHACAN BROTHER)
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by gemma 12y ago
I agree! I'd put unethical behavior like distortion and lying in a different category than Facebook's, but I agree. I was trying to kill the parallel between Facebook intentionally manipulating user emotions for science, and Budwe
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by gemma 12y ago
If your A/B testing is intentionally inducing a negative mental state in your users without letting them know up front, I'd say that's probably an ethical breach. In general, A/B testing is studying the website. You&#x27
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by gemma 12y ago
I can understand why some people have concerns about it, and my coauthors and I are very sorry for the way the paper described the research and any anxiety it caused. In hindsight, the research benefits of the paper may not have justified
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by gemma 12y ago
This is marginally tangential (because the Intelligent Mail tracking programs are completely separate from the tracking the article references), but tracking mail is hugely important to the USPS. Giant postal customers who individually mail
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by gemma 13y ago
> assuming competing broadband services are available to those users You are hilarious.

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