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> A usability professional would have caught that immediately - and would have been way cheaper.

To be fair, lots of risk-mitigation investments are cheaper in hindsight, once you know the risk actually got realized.

> Citi learned the hard way

Do we have evidence that they actually learned anything from this?

> So the only means to have a situation where you don't risk bigco for a single department is not making it a department. Make it a Ltd. in a holding or something.

I was thinking that as well. Can anyone explain why this isn't common practice?

When sleeping, do obese people generally do more mouth-breathing? (IIRC, obesity is a major risk factor for sleep apnea.)

If so, it might take some legwork to untangle those two factors (mouth breathing vs other obesity issues) to explain covid's disproportionate impact on obese people.

You make an excellent counterpoint.

I think your comment also exposes an ambiguity in the phrase "support the status quo."

One meaning is to affirm the status quo as generally acceptable.

Another meaning is to (implicitly) decide that one particular aspect of the status quo falls below the cutoff line of what you have the time or energy to deal with in the moment.

I don't know if conflating the two intentionally is a common occurrence, but I can see how doing so could be used to incite outrage amongst uncritical thinkers.

Anyone know AMD's plans for remote work? I'd love to apply for some of their positions, but I'm strongly tied to my local community in New England.

Can you expand on this a little?

I sometimes hear of keyboard aficionados having strong preferences for various "colors" of Cherry key switches. And I see high-end keyboards advertised with having particular choices of Cherry switches.

But I have no idea if it's actually worth the effort of making the stars align so that I have a particular kind of Cherry switch under my fingers.

How do people figure this out without wasting a lot of money? I.e., is there some kind of keyboard that shows off all the popular Cherry switch types? If so, do people end up having to buy one just for that single use, or is there a way to rent one?

I would think that being "gay" doesn't 100% prevent someone from fathering / mothering children.

I'm delighted at the multiple ways one can parse the headline!

Sure, best wishes.

A quick parting thought: one feature of HN (with which I strongly disagree) is that downvotes require no accompanying explanation or justification.

I've sometimes been pretty vexed when my perfectly good comments got downvoted.

I'd encourage you to not read too much into a downvote. It can be impossible to divine what actually motivates each occurrence.

I wonder if you'd benefit from starting a new HN account, and try to not reveal anything that would let people connect it to your real identity?

BTW, I'm a guy, and I'm trying to be friendly, and I can assure you I'm not looking for a date.

Nice sentiment, but I'd liken it so a 26.2 mile sprint.

Thanks for the context! You saved me from foolishly wandering into crowd-with-pitchforks mode.

> The short of it is that the title has arisen as a result of a form of professional jealousy, primarily with medical professionals. Everyone wants to stand out and mark their social class even in supposedly "classless" societies.

This is my understanding too. In my opinion, use of honorifics demonstrates a character flaw that should be corrected, not accommodated or encouraged.

My general M.O is to use the same level of formality with a person that they use with me. For example, if my physician uses my first name, I use hers.

This lets me match their desired level of familiarity, but disregards any pretense they might try to introduce.

Thanks for reporting this. It's the first evidence I've heard of someone (Google?) abusing their power with LLVM in order to protect Google's products.

Mind sharing a link to your submission's discussion thread(s)?

I hope nobody at Harvard reads about this. They'd respond by developing their own strain of metastatic brain goiter.

I have serious reservations about headlines like this, but perhaps I'm being pedantic without realizing.

My concern is that a particular mathematical function can be expressed in many different ways using Python and using C++. And practically speaking, it's impossible to be sure that you've created the fastest-possible implementation of that function in either language.

And even then some implementations' performances are dependent on the compiler, supporting libraries, and underlying processor architecture.

So AFAIK a headline like this leaves out way too many details to be generally true. Am I missing something?

Thanks for sharing! I'm curious about the exact dividing line between PII and non-PII. So if you know, could you clarify a detail?

Your phrasing was: "If the hashed password *is used as* a lookup key, that makes it a unique identifier, and it's PII."

If I take your wording literally, your saying that I could store everyone's SSN in a database, but as long as my system didn't attempt to use SSN as a unique identifier, the SSN doesn't count as PII.

But it seems unlikely that that's how you meant it.

Can you elaborate?

I'm interested in what you're saying, but after some quick Googling I still don't understand the significance of "Londonderry".

Ugh, this is so frustrating. I'd love to solve this mystery, but I can't easily set up an environment for it right now.

Best of luck. I hope you'll post an update if you ever get to the bottom of it.

Interesting. I just took a look at the line of gdb code that's crashing on you. I'm only slightly familiar with gdb's internals, but I can imagine a bunch of different sources for this bug:

- gdb has a misconception about which c++ ABI was used when compiling the target program, or

- your program is stomping on an object's vtable pointer, leading gdb to follow invalid pointers when trying to parse the object's RTTI, or

- there's a bug in clang++, or

- there's a mix of abi versions in your program's code, perhaps because of unexpected linking issues (static or dynamic), or perhaps because of inconsistent compiler flags when building your code

I'm curious what happens if you build your program with g++ instead of clang++.

> Hell, in my main project I've been unable to use any version of gdb & lldb for something like two months as both segfault a couple seconds after reaching a breakpoint for some reason. It's a shitshow.

I'm really surprised. In my experience it's really rare for either of those debuggers to crash, let alone for both to crash on the same target.

A bit of a tangent, but would you mind sharing some details about your compiler / OS / debugger / target-hardware versions?

> Expressing "horror" every time data is mentioned in connection with health data is a very one-sided reflex.

Good call. It was a mistake for me to post such a once-sided comment.

> and TONS of platforms wanted to warehouse this data. My coworker and I were there looking for exactly those sorts of things, and it was great to see so much.

As I read your comment, I had a growing expectation that you were about to express horror at the mass gathering and warehousing of individuals' health data. I was very surprised when you expressed such excitement at the prospect.

> So, I buy tons of IP from companies and individuals willing to sell them - the more generic, the better. I then troll around looking for companies that make products that might fit some of the patents I just bought.

That fits my understanding of patent trolls' behavior. What I still don't understand is, why is this seen as worse than e.g. a streaming service like Funimation/Sony buying up exclusive rights to anime that other entities have created, and then Funimation/Sony sues other website that continue to stream those videos?

My best guess is that because the USPTO has issued patents that seem unjustifiably broad/vague, it's harder to be certain that you're not violating some patent, than to be sure that you're not violating someone's copyright. But if that's really the reason, it still seems to me like the real villain here is the USPTO / U.S. Congress. Because (to my current way of thinking), they created the business landscape that rewards this kind of behavior.

Apologies if this is too tangential, but does anyone know where I can find a good explanation of why patent "trolling" is seen as worse than any other kind of IP enforcement?

TL;DR:

My (perhaps wrong) view is that people are misdirecting their anger; that the real target should be governments' loose standards for what's patentable, and for the breadth of some of the patents they issue. But given that people don't show equal outrage for copyright / trademark litigation, I suspect I'm genuinely missing something.

> But why does it have to be an either or?

In mixed onsite / remote teams, the remote employees can be seriously disadvantaged regarding access to information, participation in decision-making, etc.

Some of the comments above mention this effect, and my own personal experience has very painfully confirmed it. It was a truly awful experience for me. I suspect it's what lead to the maxim, "If anyone is remote, then everyone must be remote."

The specific clip I had in mind can be found in "Overlord" (English dub), season 3, episode 9, 20m25s - 20m50s ([0] and [1]).

[0] https://www.hulu.com/watch/1657b4d2-49dd-450d-9a0f-aa2e1d45d... (requires subscription or free trial)

[1] https://www.funimation.com/shows/overlord/war-of-words/uncut... (requires subscription)

> So your venting is deleted for yourself, but preserved eternally for the people with power over you. I rather like it.

I love the phrasing. It instantly made me imagine those words being spoken by Lord Demiurge [0] (as voiced by Jeff Johnson [1]).

[0] https://overlordmaruyama.fandom.com/wiki/Demiurge

[1] https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/tv-shows/Overlord/Demiu....

I didn't notice anything in the article about the author trying to get help from Apple.

Is that just known to be so pointless that it's not worth mention?