jtheory

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by jtheory 2y ago
I especially appreciate this on the assumption that it will be pulled in as input for AI training.
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by jtheory 4y ago
Fathom takes privacy pretty seriously - they're still somewhat early stage in terms of functionality, but a great place to start.
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by jtheory 5y ago
My company relies on DynamoDB, so we're totally down. edit: partly down; it's sporadically failing
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by jtheory 6y ago
Nah. Java applets involved running an actual JVM on every client computer, which meant basically doubling the risk surface of the browser... plus you had a completely different UI (that couldn't match the browser UI) sitting inside a w
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by jtheory 6y ago
100% yes. It's also about the entire internet & its users, not just threat models on specific sites. We can't ask the general public to consider threat models and evaluate what sites should need HTTPS or just HTTP. General,
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by jtheory 6y ago
I did not get the sense that this is a balanced perspective. The author does have a point that not sterilizing your pet will likely lead to criticism, even though it's a more nuanced situation. But still — the solution to all of the so
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by jtheory 7y ago
Both using LetsEncrypt. A few maybe-useful thoughts: * setting up LE & an auto-renewing cert isn't too hard, and it feels smarter than paying for a cert the old way, but if you're super-busy with everything else, it may not be
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by jtheory 10y ago
Patients Know Best, REMOTE-only (no physical office). Full-time, with occasional exceptions. Core working hours: within a few hours of GMT -- current IRL span: Costa Rica to Bangalore, sometimes a bit further: I'm currently working fro
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by jtheory 10y ago
This is the reason. It's abstractly difficult to inform a person that their close family member has died, potentially from violent causes, possibly very suddenly. But come down this hallway, now, to tell this woman that her child is de
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by jtheory 10y ago
TL;DR... so how did they get it?
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by jtheory 10y ago
Hi Emil, apologies, we're due for another dive into applications. We do try to reply to everyone, but at present we're small enough (and busy enough) that we run through applications in cycles... so there can be a significant del
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by jtheory 10y ago
Patients Know Best, REMOTE-only. Full-time, with occasional exceptions. Core working hours: within a few hours of GMT (current IRL span: Costa Rica to Bangalore). See my other posts for more depth on work-life balance (& hiring working
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by jtheory 10y ago
I started writing Java with no IDE; and mostly just used * imports; that worked pretty well (and I don't remember it being a headache at all). In IDE land (since, uh, I guess the first I used was called Roaster) automatic imports mean
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by jtheory 10y ago
I have no trouble believing this of Facebook; that said, I find it frustrating that he could very easily be seriously misrepresenting what triggered this block, and still be "honest" about this report. More direct quotes from his
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by jtheory 10y ago
This is how my wife & I moved to France, in 2006; we each got a "Titre de sejour", a 1-year, renewable, long-stay visitor visa. It's not a regular tourist visa (and in fact if you're in France as a regular visitor&#x
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by jtheory 10y ago
It's worth emphasizing... the paper trail must show you're doing everything you can to warn the company that this project is currently on track to fail, and (as much as you can illuminate it) what the costs to the company will be.
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by jtheory 10y ago
I do think "they" will prevail, certainly more easily than than xe or thon or other invented options. So I actually use it, though there's still a part of my brain that flashes a red light each time, and I have to consciousl
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by jtheory 10y ago
It's just an alternative to using "he" (or "they", which still feels a bit awkward) to describe a hypothetical person. Either flip a coin to choose their gender, or always use "she" to counter-balance (a l
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by jtheory 10y ago
A few different people are trying to politely show you a way you're undercutting yourself.
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by jtheory 10y ago
Is this something only for people who want to start writing, and need to start building the habit to put in time every day? Or can it also be useful for people who already write? The main issue that pops out to me is that people who writ
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by jtheory 10y ago
A few other minor typos I noticed (since this seems to be the typo thread!): for today(the green circle) (missing space) On you profile page (your)
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by jtheory 11y ago
Yes, but if they're already downloaded the last decade of your email history... well, I'm not sure how much it helps that you're blocking them from further access. What if they start emailing "helpful" links, inv
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by jtheory 11y ago
Note to self: if I renounce my US citizenship, do NOT check the box saying "I'm doing this for tax reasons". Seriously, this is apparently real law, but according to a "citation needed" bit in wikipedia, has never b
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by jtheory 11y ago
What's your reasoning here, actually? There are still fairly few expats who go to the trouble to renounce their citizenship... so "good riddance" to them? It's perhaps worth pointing out that these are people who've
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by jtheory 11y ago
How many common "first instruments" are there for kids? Maybe 5? There's a pretty good chance you'll get it right without doing any research whatsoever. It's not quite as bad as asking "what species was your
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by jtheory 11y ago
> they're proposing using UTC everywhere which is what lots of people already do. "A lot of people"? I use UTC for a lot of things, because I'm writing code. But when I travel, I certainly don't use UTC everywhe
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by jtheory 11y ago
If you shower regularly and wash the parts of your ears that you can reach (as one does) you won't have problems with loose wax falling out of your ears during the day.
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by jtheory 11y ago
Eh, they really don't work well for cleaning the ear canal, though. I have ear canals that I thought needed to be cleaned regularly, until I stopped using Q-tips. Now they only seem to need to be cleaned once every 4 years or so (if
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by jtheory 11y ago
Rate limiting per-IP assumes an attack from a single IP, or a very small range of them (so, only defends against a trivial DoS, not DDos... which are sadly easy to set up these days). Per-IP per-account as well doesn't work if the atta
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by jtheory 11y ago
One thing I wonder about, as password hashes get both processor and memory-hard -- are we presenting a trivial DoS attack on our servers, by basically letting any IP submit a request for a server to dedicate this (non-trivial) level of RAM

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