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by mieko 7mo ago
I wonder this too about X: when I sundowned my Twitter account when I started seeing 80% "no question literal nazi-posting" by bluechecks on my feed, I unfollowed everyone and kept the account just to prevent someone posting on wh
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by mieko 8mo ago
For 3D, the return of in-engine inverse kinematic nodes (SkeletonModifier3D descendants) has been a big deal for me. The old 3.x system was a mess, so it was dropped in 4.0. The community filled a lot of the gaps in the meantime, but havin
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by mieko 1y ago
For contrast: Chrome, a piece of software which has a huge amount of attackable surface area, and lives in a spot with insane stakes if a vulnerability is found, checks for updates every five hours, last I read.
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by mieko 1y ago
For people finding this thread via web search in the future: screen.studio is macOS screen recording software that checks for updates every five minutes. Somehow, that alone is NOT the bug described in this post. The /other/ bug
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by mieko 2y ago
I don't know where you're from, but in the US, the average spot I'd be killing time in is surrounded by acres of parking lots and a busy stroad or two. A Tamagotchi or 1980s pocket calculator is more engaging. Nothing to do
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by mieko 2y ago
If you're into this, here's my 2014 breakdown of the Silk Road CAPTCHA: https://github.com/mieko/sr-captcha
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by mieko 3y ago
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by mieko 4y ago
> keen to find out who was responsible at the lowest level It's funny how profit flows up, but legal responsibility trickles down.
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by mieko 4y ago
MIT's Living Wage calculator is mentioned in the article. It's a great project. A while back, I toyed with a project which needed to propose/estimate hourly labor prices for a service marketplace. Not wanting to contribute
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by mieko 4y ago
If you're being micromanaged to the point of "allowed" CSS selectors, perhaps you should branch out a bit?
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by mieko 4y ago
> I'm inclined to the view that perhaps there are too many coders in the world, creating compilers and package managers because they can't get a job doing something useful. I truly hope that this outlook on the world does you b
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by mieko 4y ago
> Use the facilities your host OS provides just as you'd do with Ruby, Python or Perl. Well that's the thing: I don't know anyone who actively develops in Ruby, Python, Perl or Node that uses the OS-packaged runtimes. T
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by mieko 4y ago
Yeah: Literally make it illegal for shops to possess the platinum or palladium without documentation of provenance. Unless you're cool with the thefts that are going on, or think any government regulation is "overstepping."
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by mieko 4y ago
Your local cat thief does not have connections overseas. This market only exists because domestic purchasers aren't regulated.
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by mieko 4y ago
Yeah: No one thinks it's mechanically difficult to remove identifiers. The point is to make such altered parts illegal to buy. Similar to VIN restrictions or handgun signifiers in many states.
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by mieko 4y ago
Because COBOL has been replaced with better languages for most purposes. SQL is entrenched. I'd also pick SQL for a greenfield project, because... what else? This says nothing about the quality of SQL as a language . What I think is
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by mieko 4y ago
The SQL language design is more contemporary to COBOL than anything we'd choose to use today. That's not implying that large, successful projects cannot be built upon SQL. We see them in the real world all the time. We have aweso
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by mieko 5y ago
Thanks for this project. I found SingleFile a year or two ago, and used it to take "HTML Screenshots" of third party sites I could embed in guided walkthroughs with modified/example data changed, instead of just PNGs. Single
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by mieko 5y ago
As someone whose pay is processed by Gusto, thanks. That was straightforward.
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by mieko 6y ago
As someone who has been responsible for large cloud budgets, I wonder if Google is aware that their "support strategy" toward both content creators/contractors and customers across the entire brand has completely ruled out GC
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It's almost 2020: It's Time for HTTPS by Default(mieko.dev)
1 points by mieko 7y ago|0 comments
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by mieko 10y ago
I've been running an east-coast-but-middle-of-nowhere startup, primarily implemented by myself, and self-funded, with the occasional with help of random one-off contractors in the hospitality/IoT space for two years now. Basical
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by mieko 10y ago
This is what I do, and just so others know: Realize that if your personal account's shell is pointed into the homebrew installation in /usr/local, and you implode homebrew or wipe /usr/local, you won't be able
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by mieko 10y ago
asuswrt-merlin is awesome. I replaced my ISP's shitty combo router with a barebones TP-Link DSL modem and an Asus AC5300 (which physically looks ridiculous) running asuswrt-merlin. It turned one of the more annoying parts of my day i
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by mieko 10y ago
> I'm not certain, but is it possible it went smooth because everyone working in C/C++ started paying attention to their data sizes? We don't have to guess. A huge amount of the code that made this transition was strewn a
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by mieko 10y ago
I've heard Microsoft had a great story there, but I was drawing from experiences with the open source Unix-likes. Seems like it was across the board until you get too far into the weeds.
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by mieko 10y ago
Yeah, I'm arguing that the situation you describe (accurately) is better than baked-in sizes all over the source code. Use the platform-native types (whatever size they may be) unless you have a reason not to, then use <stdint.h>
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by mieko 10y ago
> Looks like you haven't worked on embedded systems. I've deleted a defensive technical response to point out that these dismissive assumptions (usually unjustified) are pretty prevalent on HN, and I don't think it promote
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by mieko 10y ago
I've spent two decades writing C and C++, but the last 8-9 years in really high-level languages (Ruby, Javascript, Python). From either end of the spectrum, I've never felt the need for such emphasis on fixed-sized numeric types.
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by mieko 10y ago
This is a really good point, and I feel like the two issues are intertwined. I think HPKP being heavily adopted as it's spec'ed now makes it even harder for third parties trying to do the Right Thing, and their customers from tak

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