pocket_cheese

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by pocket_cheese 2y ago
I think therapy can be used very strategically. Maybe you want to end a friendship and don't know how to break it to them. Or maybe you don't like the way you are being treated by someone and you want to know effective ways of set
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by pocket_cheese 2y ago
They're not. Almost all of their infra was on prem when I worked there 3 years ago.
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by pocket_cheese 3y ago
How about Apple maps, windows 8, the Samsung Galaxy with the exploding batteries, the entire metaverse.
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by pocket_cheese 3y ago
Not trying to be combative - but you do have a choice to refuse. To me, it seems like they wanted to add diversity to account for bias and failed hilariously. It also sounds like this wasn't intended behavior and are probably going to
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by pocket_cheese 3y ago
Investors in Google should consider Google's financial performance as part of their decision. 41% increase YOY in net income doesn't seem to align with the "go woke or go broke" investment strategy.
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by pocket_cheese 3y ago
Fortune 500s are laughably insincere and hamfisted in how they do DEI. But these types of comments feel like schadenfreude towards the "woke moralist mind-virus" But lets be real here ... DEI is a good thing when done well. How ar
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by pocket_cheese 3y ago
A few different techniques - 1. use mobile phone proxies. Because of how mobile phone networks do NAT, basically it means that thousands of people share IPs and are much less like to get blocked. 2. Reverse engineer APIs if the data you wan
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by pocket_cheese 3y ago
You're right - no legitimate bank would serve those criminals. You have to be a white-collar criminal for banks to serve you.
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by pocket_cheese 3y ago
While I believe selling zero days to NSO group is significantly worse than working for Google or building surveillance capitalism software - we are mercenaries. Like 60% of software work is vehemently anti-middle class. Almost all of us ha
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by pocket_cheese 3y ago
I have lots of criticisms of Google, but let's not forget they have Gmail + workspaces,Google Domains, Android, Google Cloud, Google Fiber, Google Fi, The pixel, Nest, Maps, Youtube, Fitbit, and probably the browser 90% of people on he
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by pocket_cheese 3y ago
Payments and stablecoins have many usecases. Like international payments, irrevocable payments, and auditing. However NFTs are just a deed to an address space on the blockchain. I don't see anything useful that can be implemented with
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by pocket_cheese 3y ago
IP restrictions are easy to overcome using mobile networks. Basically, mobile networks assigns your device an internal ip and NATs out to a very small pool of ip public addresses. If they block you, they also block a very large chunk of leg
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by pocket_cheese 3y ago
What happened to Cardpool was pretty messed up! I knew some people in the industry who knew the people in charge and mentioned that one day they just started getting a bunch of complaints, and then bam - out of business. But yes! especially
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by pocket_cheese 3y ago
Haha, I bought the domain debatelord.com to build something similar, but never started development! This is awesome. Will check this out.
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by pocket_cheese 3y ago
I only go to authorized distributors, where the brand themselves has approved the vendor to resell the cards. For game keys, I haven't done anything in bulk, but the best route is going directly to the publisher and getting permission,
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by pocket_cheese 3y ago
There's a bunch of shady ones that I avoid, and the really big legal ones are blackhawk networks and incomm. Becoming an official distributor requires a lot of vetting from their side though, so it isn't like any joe blow can app
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by pocket_cheese 3y ago
Correct! customer buys a playstation $10 card for $9.80, I buy it for $9.20, and pocket the spread.
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by pocket_cheese 3y ago
Fraudulently obtained inventory is actually something I actively want to avoid. I don't want to go to jail, or risk getting banned from marketplaces - among ethical considerations.... I only go to authorized distributors where there is
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by pocket_cheese 3y ago
I am a gift card reseller. Pretty much, there are marketplaces where you can sell gift cards and cd keys for games and when a customer places an order, I make an API call to procure that item and deliver it. Currently at 70k Euros a month.
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by pocket_cheese 3y ago
You can still do a few things to make it super annoying to scrape your site. Cloudflare bot detection, captchas, 2fa, obfuscated JS, api/ip rate limits, georestrictions, anti-replay tokens, not exposing API resources that can be enumer
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by pocket_cheese 3y ago
OMG I owe me pushing my career to the next level due to Pavlo's course! There's so many technical interviews where I've impressed my interviewer with explaining low-level details of how databases do things. Don't be foo
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by pocket_cheese 3y ago
My experience at FAANG was that every major service had like 9 layers of abstraction or had to traverse several hops to do the actual thing. I've kinda become jaded and feel like most things that make money are ugly. Whether it's
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by pocket_cheese 4y ago
In my experience, the thing that makes me actually have to lug out my ol' headless browser is that a lot of websites are starting to implement obfuscated cryptographic puzzles in their JS, making it really difficult to emulate without
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by pocket_cheese 4y ago
Could you elaborate what you mean by "naive indexes"?
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by pocket_cheese 4y ago
The company that mints BUSD Paxos actually is the most regulated crypto company in the US. They are a trust and have proof of reserves which is audited by a big 4 accounting firm every month. My very amateur guess is that Paxos sees stabili
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by pocket_cheese 4y ago
I 100% recommend browserflow. It's fucking awesome!
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by pocket_cheese 4y ago
FAANG is what you make it. If you wanna coast and make 350k for 20 hours of actual work, it's doable. But if you wanna work on some super fancy team, make it to staff eng, make an impact etc... there's a path for that too. Neither
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by pocket_cheese 4y ago
The worst case scenario with a union is bad employees taking advantage of a company. Without unions, the worst case is a bad company taking advantage of its workers. If you are a capital owner, I can see why unions are bad. If you are a wor
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by pocket_cheese 4y ago
This is not true. Any column store database (bigquery, Redshift, snowflake) implements distributed compute behind the scenes. When an analyst/business intelligence people have a query return in 3 seconds instead of 15 seconds, it'
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by pocket_cheese 4y ago
Magnificent software is software that makes money or ads value. With Python, technical debt has a higher interest rate, but the loan amount is greater. Right now, I've worked on a webapp that actually makes me money. It took my 6 weeks

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