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by wayfinder 3y ago
And you start on the journey when you first learn about hash maps or binary trees.
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by wayfinder 3y ago
Expecting people to know what makes an app store safe is like expecting people to know how to change their spark plugs. It’s a niche skill. The only people who are going to know are into the hobby. Your average person does not have “compute
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by wayfinder 3y ago
A good reliable system pretty much has error handling every step of the way, down to crash-first programming at the very end. It’s more possible to recover from errors higher in the system but you can’t predict every problem so you need lay
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by wayfinder 3y ago
Same. I shut down a ticket last week that would create an “final” error handling path that happened to re-invoke half the code paths that could error.
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by wayfinder 3y ago
Insurance is not free money. Hypothetically say I was losing a car once per month… then my premiums would reflect that. The purpose of insurance in that hypothetical would be to insure against losing 2 cars per month but I would be paying
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by wayfinder 3y ago
I own the Aranet4 sensor (highly recommend) and I’m in the US with not particularly great sealing and my sensor will read a 600ppm jump in a matter of 30 minutes. I basically have to keep the window in my bedroom open 24/7, even when i
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by wayfinder 3y ago
Google is good at making algorithms and tech but product development and long term vision have never been its strong points.
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by wayfinder 3y ago
Instagram has like 2 billion users and I got spammed the shit out of to open a Threads account. That’s like saying it’s impressive I made a million dollar company after my dad gave me 2 billion.
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by wayfinder 3y ago
Practically speaking, if you have to involve any libraries or tooling one day, if you stuck to standards or de-facto standards, you save yourself some pain because you got a lot interoperability for free.
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by wayfinder 3y ago
I would be more down if it wasn’t tied to the generation of phone. Also I’d love a keyboard with more buttons personally. I know I’m in a tiny minority here but I get ~70 WPM on an iPhone keyboard but if I have to do symbols or anything it
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by wayfinder 3y ago
If anyone wants to build this by themselves, I recommend using an optimization solver library like OptaPlanner. It basically implements standard optimization algorithms you can read in academic papers (which are interesting to read!) so you
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by wayfinder 3y ago
There are people that can do this and you can also do this in the iPhone Photos app.
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by wayfinder 3y ago
13 GB a lot? What year is it? 1995? If Apple or Google wanted to add 1 TB to their phones, it wouldn’t cost them anywhere near what they charge us to add 256 GB. A copy of GTA V takes like 100 GB.
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by wayfinder 3y ago
Unsurprisingly, they already integrated OpenAI into Windows. You can ask it questions and pass it files.
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by wayfinder 3y ago
I used to work at a medium-sized non-tech company (<200 employees) that had a fair amount of IT staff. Stripe is expensive asf and we always talked with banks and payment processors directly. We never stored CVVs or any of that insane no
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by wayfinder 3y ago
Google just spends millions of dollars building a product then dumps its own baby on the streets. Then goes and makes new babies.
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by wayfinder 3y ago
Instead of idempotency you can return a 4xx error too. You use idempotency because it’s logistically less complicated for the client.
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by wayfinder 3y ago
It gave me an intuitive understanding of state machines and idempotency is one solution to transitions. If you start with State A and a call changes it to State B, what does running the call again do? A->B? But you’re already at B. Shit’
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by wayfinder 3y ago
The only reason I knew about idempotency is because growing up I was a little shit and I learned that you could break a LOT of electronics by getting it to do a second thing midway before finishing doing the first thing. If it had a screen
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by wayfinder 3y ago
In 2006, Mark Klein working for AT&T leaked it. It was in the news. Snowden did his leak way later in 2013.
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by wayfinder 3y ago
I don’t see how anything you said contradicts anything I said, which was just a more general summary. And there is a significant effort by a lot of people to split California into two or more two states but it’s all talk. The Jewish relocat
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by wayfinder 3y ago
I mean digital signatures have really only been a thing for like 20 years, and barely because people only started caring about it more in the past 10. While the US has been around for nearly 250 years. And truthfully, despite a highly techn
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by wayfinder 3y ago
Well yeah those models would have the most, because people buy way more of them than a Corolla or Camry. It’s like using an overall statistic versus the per capita statistic. https://www.goodcarbadcar.net/2022-us-vehicle-sal
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by wayfinder 3y ago
Hmm I think you’re skipping some major parts of world history. Jewish immigration to Palestine was not particularly great. Jewish people were not really heavily trying to move to the Middle East where people didn’t like them. What happened
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by wayfinder 3y ago
Sedans actually kill more pedestrians than heavy vehicles overall despite there being 4 SUV/truck purchases for every 1 sedan purchased. Deaths by SUV seems to be on the rise though. Here’s data from a bike site. https://dat
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by wayfinder 3y ago
No, if you read history, Israel had done a ton of stuff to make Europe and America happy. They invaded the Suez Canal when Egypt tried to nationalize it. They did it for France and Britain. During the Cold War, they provided of information
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by wayfinder 3y ago
I mean there have always been a market for 48V components. The problem is that the market is much smaller so as a customer, you’re paying a lot more and it’s hard to justify raising the price of your car because you decided to go 48V.
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by wayfinder 3y ago
It doesn’t really matter how Apple is doing because the rules of cryptography are set in stone. - To ensure that you message is unreadable, you must correctly encrypt the data symmetrically or asymmetrically with a key. Well we can assume A
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by wayfinder 3y ago
Well these apps don’t even let you verify the keys even if you wanted to, so you can’t even tell if it’s being man-in-the-middle’d. Some people said they are finally adding key transparency features to let you do that, but it should have be
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by wayfinder 3y ago
Asymmetric encryption doesn’t change anything. Apple is still the one telling your client whose key to encrypt the data for. A BIG part of successful encryption is key exchange. A successful SSL/TLS man-in-the-middle attack exchanges f

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