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xarope

1,437 karmajoined 12 yıl önce
email: xarope425 at gmail dot com

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/phing; my proof: https://keybase.io/phing/sigs/A9vBGkxFpuJoKe5x5mJCYTJpb6wodoyO-MehJSRnjUc ]

CIO/CTO for the last 20+ years (databases and ecommerce, software development, cyber security and production deployments). Open to remote work opportunities where collaboration is required between UTC+4 to UTC-+12

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xarope
·3 gün önce·discuss
Yes, this was a bit of a surprise to read when dealing with crypto: "This one lives in CIRCL's threshold RSA implementation... float64 has a 53-bit mantissa... the result is silently rounded before it is ever cast back to an integer. "

this is numerical methods 101, i.e. why 1+1 != 2

I'm a bit surprised that this is from cloudflare. Anybody from CF care to comment? Is this like prototype/super skunkworks code that somehow made it through?
xarope
·9 gün önce·discuss
are you allowed to video them to see whether they can actually do a good job?
xarope
·9 gün önce·discuss
-Phone notification- Your chinchilla rug had finished the wash cycle

I don't have a rug... oh wait...
xarope
·9 gün önce·discuss
I feel like this is the sort of thing William Gibson should write...
xarope
·22 gün önce·discuss
That would a Microsoft'ese, "Some regions are encountering issues" => "The entire world is down, but our status page is working"
xarope
·30 gün önce·discuss
I've read blindsight and echopraxia, but not starfish, so thanks for the reminder.

If starfish is even despairing than blindsight and echopraxia, then this should be "fun"!
xarope
·geçen ay·discuss
part of this I understand is survival. And I understand why you do this.

The other part of this is why it's so frustrating for me to find the right person. Everybody's resume looks perfect for the role, and I have to waste 30-45 mins digging into their actual experience. You have done yourself a great disservice by wasting that time sitting in an interview you were not qualified for, and worse still I always feel there are other, more qualified people, who I have missed/passed over their resume since it wasn't AI tuned.

Sincerely, I don't know how t make this better.
xarope
·2 ay önce·discuss
that's a very dangerous analogy, because you would be considered the domain expert and you are just asking for synonyms for something you already know but may not remember off-hand.

now, what if you asked for the synonym for "provides" in a language that has gender differences (e.g. spanish/portuguese) as well as societal nuances (e.g. japanese) and it gives you "confers", how would you now know that's correct?

ah, so you say you tell it to take into consideration gender differences, as well as societal nuances. What are those, if you were not already familiar with the language?
xarope
·2 ay önce·discuss
if you are hitting pauses due to GC issues, you should into putting appropriate data structures into a memory arena, here's a reasonable read:

https://uptrace.dev/blog/golang-memory-arena

These are all tools. Java used to have this all the time, and we (ex-java programmer) had ways around this until the JVM improved.
xarope
·2 ay önce·discuss
something about the current trend of AI vulnerabilities reminds me of the old Asimov Robot series and the three laws of robotics:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics
xarope
·2 ay önce·discuss
In healthcare, HIPAA/GDPR equivalent would block this. Let's be realistic in our discussion; this is not the same as google buying up a library worth of books, scanning and destroying them
xarope
·3 ay önce·discuss
the consensus seems to be that the foam itself is the spring (hence the successful adidas evo sl and dynafish xiaonian), and the carbon plate/rod/whatever is more to control/manage that "spring".
xarope
·3 ay önce·discuss
I can see the dichotomy forming in the "post AI" world;

1) massive companies spending millions of tokens to write+secure their software

2) in the shadows, "elite" software contractors writing bespoke software to fulfill needs for those who can't afford the millions, or fix cracks in (1)

(Oh wait, I think this is what is happening now, anyway, minus the millions of tokens)
xarope
·3 ay önce·discuss
can't several small hometown grocers get together to be able to make that volume/quantity? Surely that would be better than just buying from costco?
xarope
·3 ay önce·discuss
interesting the ones they chose to name; I would have probably started with 6502/68000/68020/z80 assembly, fortran, cobol, basic, c, ada, simula 67, sh, zsh, bash, napier 88, tcl, perl, rexx, before hitting the next generation of python, c++, etc.
xarope
·3 ay önce·discuss
somehow mixed grip makes me twist slightly which caused me back problems; after a few tweaks to the lower back, I decided that mixed wasn't worth it (I don't compete anymore). Yes, you are right, I do use the hook grip, since I also do some weightlifting.
xarope
·3 ay önce·discuss
my clothes haven't changed in size, but I fill them out better, is probably best to describe it!
xarope
·3 ay önce·discuss
ditto. I don't have great numbers, my bench is terrible, not even 1.5x BW, but I did manage to get my DL to ~2.5x in a competition, then tweaked my back and now only double overhand, which means my grip tends to go when I get to ~2x BW (my gym doesn't allow chalk, and I don't use straps, so it is what it is).
xarope
·3 ay önce·discuss
It's interesting you mention this (anhedonia), since the guardian just published this article: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/apr/06/is-retatruti...

How did you actually feel? Disinterested in stuff, ennui, or other?
xarope
·3 ay önce·discuss
wasn't one of the controversies, that the simulation didn't account for the fact that Red's boats couldn't actually/launch carry the cruise missiles that were used to sink these ships?

be that as it may, the lesson still stands