orthogonal_cube

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by orthogonal_cube 10d ago
It’s career-suicide to do so in nearly all cases. If your constituents disapprove then you can kiss re-election goodbye. If your party disagrees then you can kiss funding goodbye.
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by orthogonal_cube 10d ago
I really wish we could experience at least a single year where our representatives worked to cover the needs of citizens in a collaborative, non-partisan manner rather than focusing on corporate interests and political theatre filled with s
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by orthogonal_cube 11d ago
Programmers certainly believe that, but they quickly learn not to.
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by orthogonal_cube 18d ago
> I was referring specifically to the idea that you have to stand by the code that you write. Any serious entity which has experts handling code will do so, yes. My employer, for example, has various teams of actual developers and others
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by orthogonal_cube 1mo ago
There’s still levels to it. “Isolation” can mean the network hardware has no direct connections to an extranet. Data is transferred manually by physical media (USB, DVD, etc.) with logging and dedicated transfer stations. “Isolation” can me
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by orthogonal_cube 2mo ago
> I'm surprised there are comments here that aren't impressed about what was accomplished here. Possibly because some of the elements mentioned are suspected to be vibe-coded (JFrog Artifactory as the proxy cache) and some othe
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by orthogonal_cube 2mo ago
> AI costs aren’t going to stay this high. They will go down. I hear this a lot and it seems to be far too optimistic. Call me skeptical but plan pricing continues to increase with tighter usage constraints. We’re still at the point in t
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by orthogonal_cube 2mo ago
Any plans to let people create accounts to track their scores over time?
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by orthogonal_cube 2mo ago
It would be very surprising for somebody without a formal software development background and years of experience. Looking back at 2015 when Python 2 was still supported, there was a lot of confusion for why Python 2 would create a tuple wh
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by orthogonal_cube 2mo ago
> I am able to see my PCP and dentist within a week if I want. This is very much location- and provider-dependent, regardless of rural or urban setting. You also have to factor in that some doctors do not work at a single clinic but may
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by orthogonal_cube 2mo ago
Was this by chance inspired by a previous submission (now defunct) that had a similar premise? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40536488 Edit: I believe it was transferred to a new domain at https://wordnerd.
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by orthogonal_cube 3mo ago
$240/yr in software subscriptions but likely far more than that by selling the extra metadata they can extract from the service
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by orthogonal_cube 3mo ago
Are Ubiquiti products commonplace for companies that contract with the US government outside of the DoD/DoW? Since DoD/DoW generally requires STIG compliance, and none authored are for any specific Ubiquiti product, we can cross t
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by orthogonal_cube 3mo ago
It was fun exploring this to make a native-shell-only peer-to-peer file transfer utility at work for some automation scripts. At least, it was until trying to replicate it in Powershell was somehow triggering Crowdstrike and the corporate C
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by orthogonal_cube 3mo ago
This is not uncommon when becoming disillusioned with something that has been hyped up and forced upon you for an extended period. The fatigue of the product (and sting of false promises) causes the negatives to overshadow anything positive
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by orthogonal_cube 4mo ago
I find this study interesting but wonder if the wording is specifically done to cause some sensationalism. > However, there is a twist: for positions on distributed teams, the firm consistently hired more experienced workers, even after
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Remote Work Leaves Younger Workers Sidelined(libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org)
1 points by orthogonal_cube 4mo ago|1 comments
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by orthogonal_cube 4mo ago
I miss working at a place which allowed this. Some employers get tangled up in just the legal review process. Once I asked permission to submit a patch to a project and it had quite an interesting email trail. It came down to a single quest
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by orthogonal_cube 4mo ago
I frequently reference this exact meme to people whenever someone complains about complicated or difficult-to-write code. Now that’s you’ve made this project I suppose we have zero room to complain anymore!
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by orthogonal_cube 4mo ago
Dang, haven’t read much on Julia as of late. I remember using it for a CS 300-level course around 2016 when learning about tokenizing and parsing as part of language fundamentals. Julia has undoubtedly made some significant performance impr
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by orthogonal_cube 5mo ago
To answer the first question, a number of veteran independent researchers probably wouldn’t have touched such a system. Plenty of companies will send their lawyers after you if you tell them that you’ve discovered a vulnerability of some so
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by orthogonal_cube 5mo ago
Honestly I’m surprised this wasn’t already a feature in macOS. Thank you for coding it and publishing as open-source!
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by orthogonal_cube 5mo ago
SQLite did decently well but I think they should’ve done an additional benchmark with the database loaded completely into memory. Since they’re using Go to accept requests and forwarding them to their SQLite connection, it may have been wor
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by orthogonal_cube 5mo ago
Seems the installers hosted by them are fine. The links on the site have been changed to direct people towards Cloudflare R2 storage with various copies of malicious executables. Looking forward to information down the line on how this came
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by orthogonal_cube 6mo ago
That’s the ironic part. Plenty of consumer-grade devices have had very lax security settings or backdoors baked in for purposes of “troubleshooting” and recovery assistance. It’s never been limited to foreign-made devices. Security has neve
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by orthogonal_cube 6mo ago
> Why does it ask a yes-no question if it isn’t prepared to take “no” as an answer? Because it doesn’t actually understand what a yes-no question is.
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by orthogonal_cube 6mo ago
> even configuring servers is easier with Claude To what extent is Claude configuring these servers? Is this baremetal deployment with OS configuration and service management? Or is it abstracted by defining Terraform files to use pre-cr
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by orthogonal_cube 6mo ago
Ha, well I’m not on the spectrum but ADHD does have some overlap here and there.
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by orthogonal_cube 6mo ago
> Good writing doesn't have mad tangents anyway, there should be a flow and natural transition. In general, yes. Technical documents, research reports, news articles, and other formal publications should follow this. Anything else w
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by orthogonal_cube 6mo ago
> The stigma comes from people being lazy and letting the AI do the heavy lifting of thinking. This is essentially my point. The AI emits an answer and people will, in turn, copy and paste the result as-is. It’s a repeat all over again o

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