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by zerkten 26d ago
My fingers are curling up at the look of the angle on that keyboard. I love the idea and the aesthetic, but I could never use this full time.
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by zerkten 3mo ago
Putting everything behind a VPN seems like the solution selfhosters have landed on. That way you have some control over how quickly you have to respond.
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by zerkten 4mo ago
You still need to manage that change to varying degrees. For every organization which can shift on a whim, there are many more which require mitigation. Normally, there are a lot of things carried forward for internal or external reasons.
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by zerkten 4mo ago
Anything that reduces the blast radius helps. There should still be a focus on further hardening. Most value comes from exploits that enable pivots. Attackers will focus on other vectors that enable broader pivots because immediate high val
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by zerkten 4mo ago
>> But they are so common, i don't know who designs them and makes me feel like 5yo. Often these are the product managers building follow-on features that don't get the usage they want. Users aren't using them, but mont
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by zerkten 5mo ago
Prisoners do get taken in situations where they'd be taken without drones. Drones hitting support groups behind enemy lines are akin to airstrikes. When drones are used on the frontline to support ground forces, the enemy will emerge a
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by zerkten 5mo ago
Integration points increase the risk of compromise. For that reason, I never use the desktop browser extensions for my password manager. When password managers were starting to become popular there was one that had security issues with the
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by zerkten 5mo ago
My point is that they don't capture the effects you describe - unless designed in. There is little motivation to do that though because they can track larger effects which are aligned with current leadership priorities. That's why
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by zerkten 5mo ago
>> Then before you know it, the devops folks have decided that they need to put a gazillion other services and an entire software-defined networking layer on top of it. I don't work that closely with k8s, but have toyed with a cl
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by zerkten 5mo ago
In enterprise, you have little chance of getting the real story from end users in many cases. IT will also tell you that things are used one way, only for analytics to tell you it's the opposite. If you spend some of your UX research b
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by zerkten 5mo ago
The reality is that most product leaders only care about the feedback that has visible consequences. If users aren't performing some action like quitting the app that shows in the telemetry, then they aren't going to pay attention
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by zerkten 5mo ago
I don't think this is always true, but it's true a lot. I think there are better descriptions than moronic as well. People use moronic when people are just as smart but have a different (and possibly better) direction. It's j
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by zerkten 5mo ago
They have a perpetual pricing option available alongside the subscription one. It's still worth thinking about the economics of this. How are they supposed to fund development? It's important to differentiate independent devs and
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by zerkten 6mo ago
SQL Server 2000 was well received in the segments that mattered as a challenger . Oracle was in first place running on Unix. However, it was viewed as expensive and the procurement experience was regarded as unpleasant. People wanted compe
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by zerkten 6mo ago
>> And "the community" isn't moving to Codeberg because Codeberg can't support "the community" without a massive scale up. People have a superficial knowledge of the space (I think this extends beyond Cod
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by zerkten 6mo ago
This is an interesting point when the question is "how do I build a Windows app?" and a decision needs to be made. React is definitely one of the options that some consider when this question arises. I think you miss the more comm
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by zerkten 6mo ago
One issue is that 95% of the integrations will be fine with the default configuration. The others including some with high profit potential will have weird configs that will frustrate your customers the first time they try if not well teste
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by zerkten 7mo ago
There can be different cohorts of students. If a student is at the point where they can start exploring iOS development they can perhaps have a swing at it with this machine. In reality, they'll have been using this machine, know enoug
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by zerkten 7mo ago
I found mixed results given underlying anxiety that hadn't been diagnosed at the point I was trying this. Talking to new people at work, while out pursuing hobbies, and around town, all accrued to more and better conversations. It was
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by zerkten 7mo ago
We delegate power already. Is unleashing AI in some place different from unleashing JSOC on an insurgency in a particular place? One is code and other is a bunch of humans. You expect the humans to follow laws, follow orders, apply ethics,
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by zerkten 7mo ago
A big part of the problem is being permitted to teach this stuff. As a UK CS grad from the early-2000s, my observation was that academic staff recognized the need for these skills. They weren't permitted to teach it due to time availab
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by zerkten 7mo ago
I think it's reasonable to distinguish which side drove this. RAM prices are going up but it's not engineered primarily by RAM manufacturers. They are naturally jumping on the bandwagon and responding, but they aren't the dri
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by zerkten 7mo ago
Kusto is similar: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/kusto/query/
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by zerkten 7mo ago
I don't believe that devs are the audience. They are pushing this to decision makers where they want them to think that the state of the art is further ahead than it is. These folks then think about how helpful it'd be to have 20%
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by zerkten 7mo ago
Even if you talk to users, you can do it the wrong way. Big companies are incentivized by the stock market to care more about new users than existing ones because their only focus is growth. Growth can't be rooted in your existing user
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by zerkten 8mo ago
It's not just about the language. The good money for these low-code tools is larger organizations which have deployment/hosting/compliance/maintenance concerns that need to be accounted for. You can knock out as many app
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by zerkten 8mo ago
>> Being a "transparent umbrella" does require knowing the personalities of your reports, some people do get distracted when they think higher-up decisions or unhappiness are going to affect their team. There is the expectat
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by zerkten 8mo ago
I've wondered if people who write detailed specs, are overly detailed, are in a regulated industry, or even work with offshore teams have success more quickly simply they start with that behavior. Maybe they have a tendency to dwell be
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by zerkten 8mo ago
>> Perhaps LLM's will force developers/companies to change their stance and to stop users from recreating what they have already created, just buy an at-a-time snapshot of their app for a one-time-fee? Probably not but one c
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by zerkten 8mo ago
This is a better article than other recent ones on XML vs JSON. "The S-Expression Connection" is something that resonates having been in the .NET space where Don Box was active and whole bunch of web services things (good and bad)

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