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cdmckay

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CTO and Co-Founder at Process Street. Open source developer. https://www.process.st https://www.cdmckay.org
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cdmckay··on Codecov Bash Uploader compromised
Why did you wait 2 weeks to notify us?
cdmckay··on Codecov Bash Uploader compromised
And their page is down so I can't find out any details. Great.
cdmckay··on China accused of forcing 570k people to pick cotton in Xinjiang
A US-based think tank releases a report accusing a rival of genocide. I would be highly suspicious of this and look at it carefully.

For example, it’s authored by Adrian Zenz, a religious zealot who feels “led by God” to research Chinese minority groups. If you dig into his research and his credentials, it’s all pretty flimsy.

But, it fits the narrative the US would like to have about China, so everyone eats it up uncritically.

cdmckay··on Israel's autonomous 'robo-snipers' and suicide drones raise ethical dilemma
People don’t like to kill, and if they do, there’s a cost. The person doing the killing has to decide to kill someone and live with that.

If a robot does the killing, it just becomes a figure, and human life is cheapened further.

These kill walls will be deployed more and more and I can guarantee the people being shredded by them won’t be people from Western countries.

cdmckay··on Irish teen invents magnetic liquid trap to remove microplastics in water (2019)
All it took was a plucky teenager to solve it, too!
cdmckay··on TLD Graveyard
They don’t do that because they can charge companies $185,000 to become a custom TLD and $6,250 a quarter after that.

https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/24460/how-can...

cdmckay··on Virtual passport app presents real data risk, experts warn
I'm also a Canadian and my experience has been much different.

I've done the process many times, and it takes a couple hours max to gather everything you need.

You can download the forms from the Government of Canada website and complete them using the free version of Adobe Reader, or you can print them out and do them by hand.

Probably the most annoying part is getting the photos, but nearly every pharmacy can take the passport photos for you, and they all know how to do it because it's very common. I've never had a photo rejected by the passport office.

You don't need to know who the doctor who delivered you was.

You don't need a "public servant of some sort". The passport application clearly says they just need to have known you for 2 years and have a Canadian passport already.

It's also rare that they ever call the guarantor, or the references. I've never heard of it happening to any of my family or friends.

It's a pretty simple process and you only have to do it every 10 years.

Source: https://www.canada.ca/content/dam/ircc/migration/ircc/englis...

cdmckay··on SDL Moves to GitHub
Can you give some examples of the fantastic failures?
cdmckay··on What's New in PHP 8.1
It’s easy to maintain if you don’t change versions. If you upgrade, have fun finding all the pages throwing new warnings.

Contrast that with going up one major version in Scala where all I need to do is fix the compile errors and then I’m confident it won’t surprise me with runtime errors.

cdmckay··on Prop 22 Is Here, and It’s Already Worse Than Expected
Have you considered that maybe it wasn’t a viable business model to start with?
cdmckay··on Wikipedia is 20
For anyone wondering what Panda is: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Panda

“Google Panda is a major change to Google's search results ranking algorithm that was first released in February 2011. The change aimed to lower the rank of "low-quality sites" or "thin sites", in particular "content farms", and return higher-quality sites near the top of the search results.”

cdmckay··on Parler removed from Google Play store
No one is stopping them from side loading an APK of Parler.
cdmckay··on Why Clojure? (2018)
The JVM ecosystem is many orders of magnitude larger than than BEAM/OTP.

For example, you can usually find an API library for Java even from small vendors. I don’t think I’ve seen any vendor provide an Erlang API library.

cdmckay··on Why Clojure? (2018)
The JVM interop is a huge positive for Clojure, in my opinion.

Being able to consume any JVM library makes Clojure usable in many more professional settings than Haskell.

cdmckay··on IntelliJ Idea 2020.3.1 Is Out with Apple Silicon Support
Doesn’t IntelliJ use its own bundled JRE? If that’s the case, it won’t matter which JRE you have installed.
cdmckay··on Intel Is Finished
BlackBerry once owned nearly the entire smartphone market.
cdmckay··on Wall Street Begins Trading Water Futures as a Commodity
This has environmental consequences.
cdmckay··on Wall Street Begins Trading Water Futures as a Commodity
How do you know there's not enough water supplies?

In this case, it sounds like what's needed is better city planning and more equitable distribution of water. I don't know the specifics here, but I suspect there's plenty of water but it's probably being tied up in industrial applications.

Also, instead of letting the market decide where to build houses, why not build them where there's infrastructure to support them, instead of building them where the profit is highest?

Also, have you even considered what a one-child policy entails? It's forcibly sterilizing or aborting pregnancies.

cdmckay··on Google plans to shut down Google Voice integration with classic Hangouts
But there’s no Messages app for iOS?
cdmckay··on Fast UTF-8 validation
Why are emojis garbage?
cdmckay··on U.S. Accuses Google of Illegally Protecting Monopoly
Doesn’t Qualcomm do this too?
cdmckay··on Something Awful, a Cornerstone of Internet Culture, Is Under New Ownership
That’s life on a PvP server
cdmckay··on Thousands of Amazon workers demand time off to vote
Heaven forbid a company give paid time off so its workers can exercise a civic duty.
cdmckay··on Ora2Pg – Oracle to PostgreSQL database schema converter
The first that comes to mind is cost.
cdmckay··on Microsoft's underwater data centre resurfaces after two years
You must be great at parties
cdmckay··on Dune Official Trailer
I feel all his movies post-Arrival have that feeling. Before that I loved his work.
cdmckay··on Google has removed the option to disable autoplay from Mobile Chrome
Seems unlikely given the biggest search engine makes the majority of its money from ads :(
cdmckay··on Scrollbar Blindness
Or good battery life
cdmckay··on Microsoft joins App Store backlash after xCloud game streaming blocked
Sounds great. I guess since MS is doing this, they will stop collecting the 30% on games for Xbox?
cdmckay··on Google resumes its attack on the URL bar, hides full addresses on Chrome 86
Hasn’t Safari already been doing this for ages with no issues?
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