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c2h5oh

1,566 karmajoined 11 years ago
[ my public key: https://keybase.io/lisiewski; my proof: https://keybase.io/lisiewski/sigs/SJyQ_MgV53R3r_9Hc4cbQhAjXL_gexpXssBPeZ_XR7k ]

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c2h5oh
·4 days ago·discuss
I've got a fairly new Toyota and I when I found myself needing a 2nd car for my family I ended up buying a 20 year old Honda and I have to say I enjoy driving it much more.

I might also be safer in it - oversensitive security systems nagging me with false positives almost constantly don't pair well with my ADD
c2h5oh
·4 days ago·discuss
People are selling those older cars at a significant discount compared to previous years, because they got banned from low emission zones - you need euro 5 for diesel and euro 4 for petrol to be allowed in centers of many of large EU cities.
c2h5oh
·10 days ago·discuss
Property managers handling municipal property in mid+ cities will want one.

Any company dealing with construction waste disposal will want one.

Both will have no problem shelling out 1000 euro per unit.
c2h5oh
·15 days ago·discuss
Cynic in me thinks it's some or all of the following:

- extract monetary contributions for their side of political spectrum from ai companies

- extract money for personal gain

- grokify ai answers on political / worldview topics, because polls are showing people trust ai answers more than wikipedia
c2h5oh
·last month·discuss
This is already the case in most (all?) EU countries. Government-issued photo ID is required to activate a SIM card.

If you really need a burner you can still get one - there are people who activate SIM cards in bulk using their ID and resell them without collecting IDs. The practice itself is either gray area legally or straight up illegal depending on the country
c2h5oh
·last month·discuss
One that got pushed out by investors, which is good enough for me. No need to name and shame beyond that.
c2h5oh
·last month·discuss
A CEO got entire 20 man dev team into boardroom and asked everyone to voice any concerns about technical debt, bad development practices, anti patterns as well as project management issues.

The 4 people who spoke up were all fired on the same day 3 or 4 weeks later. 7 more quit shortly after - as soon as they got any decent offer. 6 months later about a quarter of the 20 were still with the company.
c2h5oh
·2 months ago·discuss
More often than not security minded people are encouraged to focus on things that get the product to market faster instead.
c2h5oh
·3 months ago·discuss
I suspect you mean register/renew:

Depends. If it's something really high priority (like main domain for a large corporation) I'd likely be paying CSC 4 digit sums per domain per year.

For stuff a tier below that I'd be looking at companies that are serious about security and happen to do domains as well e.g. Cloudflare, Amazon
c2h5oh
·3 months ago·discuss
They are not, but npm is uniquely bad in that regard. Refusal to implement security features that would have made attacks like this harder really doesn't help https://github.com/node-forward/discussions/issues/29
c2h5oh
·5 months ago·discuss
7 nights is not nearly enough to get used to new environmental factor introduced in the study, possibly exacerbating disruption from sleeping in a new place (sleep clinic).

n=25? Seriously?

This is barely passable as an early hypothesis test before you perform an actual study.
c2h5oh
·6 months ago·discuss
Majority of EU population. Even in US debit is more popular than credit in 18-25 age bracket.
c2h5oh
·7 months ago·discuss
GDB supports it https://sourceware.org/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdb.html/AMD-G...

You also get UMR from AMD https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/tomstdenis/umr

There is also a bunch of other tools provided: https://gpuopen.com/radeon-gpu-detective/ https://gpuopen.com/news/introducing-radeon-developer-tool-s...
c2h5oh
·8 months ago·discuss
Qualcomm doesn't bother to upstream most of their SoCs. They maintain a fork of a specific Linux kernel version for a while and when they stop updating it or new version of Android requires newer kernel then updates for all devices based on that SoC end.

They have little experience producing code that is high enough quality it would be accepted into Linux kernel. They have even less experience maintaining it for an extended period of time.
c2h5oh
·8 months ago·discuss
I'd agree if you could stick them in the containers discharged, but you can't. This means that even safer chemistry like sodium battery is still hazardous cargo.
c2h5oh
·8 months ago·discuss
The small handful of sodium batteries that are currently available retail all seem to have rather bad roundtrip efficiency compared to LFP and voltage drop starting at a high state of charge.

Also LFP prices dropped enough that shipping cost from China became a significant part of the price. This will be even more of a factor should the less energy dense sodium batteries ever reach the promised $30/kWh.
c2h5oh
·9 months ago·discuss
With de minimis for US-bound packages suspended I suspect way more packages are inspected than used to be.
c2h5oh
·10 months ago·discuss
Similar three stages are also at every job you have:

- you underperform while onboarding and rapidly learning to cover whatever skill gaps you discover

- you slowly go from doing OK to being overqualified, but it doesn't get reflected in compensation or title enough and your employer has little incentive to help you reach the next stage, because you are currently overperforming compared to your pay

- you are so much past your paygrade you quit and go to a company that will pay you what you will be worth after onboarding and learning to cover skill gaps

With everything that companies provided to earn long term employee loyalty being sacrificed to stock price employee growth through multiple roles in the same company has become more of an exception.
c2h5oh
·10 months ago·discuss
Unless you equate web development and SaaS then no. It's the same in education, finance and SaaS targeting Fortune 500 companies.

Source: most of the companies I worked or consulted for in the past 20 years.
c2h5oh
·10 months ago·discuss
This is not a "companies don't spend enough time with static and dynamic analysis of their software" problem, it's "less than a third of companies I worked or consulted for in the past 20 years mandated having input validation of any kind" problem.