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A NATO member is as trustworthy as a country actively trying to destabilize democracy around the world? One who has brazenly done this sort of attack before and has a very obvious recent history of silencing dissidents? I'm all for some healthy skepticism, but this is ridiculous.

A lot of my CEO and founder friends talk about this"... rephrased: "My CEO and founder friends are upset that their employees use a piece of software to talk about the toxic culture my CEO and founder friends have cultivated"

Yep. Higher taxes + minuscule military spending (compared to U.S.) + citizens who probably believe more in governance and social welfare than your average American.

Because in many cases we signed legally binding treaties with what were sovereign people at the time (and ostensibly are today but in practice not actually). We have either used loopholes or outright reneged on the treaties to further take their land away. I don't know if the time passed is relevant, when we pass treaties and sign agreements in general they have to mean something if we intend to be a nation of laws.

What are some examples good KPIs and A/B tests for better consumer user experiences? Engagement is obviously deeply flawed if a good consumer user experience is your goal, but it does have the nice property of being easily measured. Do you rely on users constantly rating their experience on a numeric scale?

I could make some guesses, but can someone give me a good answer as to why there aren't any of these satellites close to the poles?

I'm skeptical. Amazing progress has been made in the last 5-10 years but it still feels like we need more paradigm shifting in the ML/AI field. It feels like we're approaching the upper limits of what stuffing mountains of data into model can do.

But with the speed of the field, maybe we can figure it out in three years. It just seems like we're still missing some key components. Primarily, reasoning and learning causality.

I've been curious about the freelance route, but unsure what this really looks like in practice or if it's even possible for me to get into it.

1) How did you get started? Is it feasible for more junior engineers to get into it or not so much?

2) How do you find work consistently enough to make a living? What does the work often look like?

I don't agree entirely with all these, but I think 3 is the most compelling. It was kind of magical to younger me discovering the interoperability of podcasts and the freedom that granted listeners (and creators too). I've been a big fan of Spotify, but I don't like this recent push to fracture the podcast market with exclusive deals.

That being said it does allow some podcasts to exist that might not otherwise. The only examples I can think of is The Besties.

Low bar or not, they had to rewrite the entire app to get those gains. I think it's still technically impressive.

Here's my two cents as a developer who has only paid the cost of AWS once for a one-off project (in retrospect I could've gotten more value with similar processing power with a different service).

AWS is established and relatively straightforward. I found the user experience to be pretty seamless. Maybe there are better alternatives but I've found Google Cloud Platform and IBM Cloud to be absolutely miserable and confusing (the latter more so).WRT Google Cloud Platform I think the main sin is the UI/UX, and if I had to foot the bill I would give them another consideration. I had very limited (but good) experience with DigitalOcean and Heroku, but those just don't have the infrastructure at scale to compete with AWS in my opinion.

What do you think is the best alternative to AWS?

This is referring to RSA the company, not RSA the public key cryptosystem (both created Rivest, Shamir, and Adleman)

time to restore from backup really is not a personal concern

"whatever it won't happen to me" isn't my point, but okay. I'm not advocating for recklessness or apathy toward infosec / IT. I'm not trying to tell anyone how to live their lives, and explicitly I'm not saying what a company should do. I'm just trying to convey how I view MY risk from a target probability perspective vs the loss it would incur, and thus how I decide to trust some HW/SW

Not sure why you're trying to strawman me here, no need to be hostile

Regularly backup and keep those backups off your network, boom problem solved. My point was not that I take no precautions or that you're not at risk because you're not a government agent.

Sure, which is why I mentioned the "wide net". I take reasonable precautions, apply basic monitoring, and take care with what software I'm downloading so that I lower my risk of this. It's not foolproof but it's good enough to keep me from being an easy target, while not sacrificing any convenience or spending a lot of time fortifying my machine.

I think it's all relative really. I don't really worry about these sorts of exploits because I'm not a high value target whose going to be attacked by most scary exploits. Certainly there are exceptions, especially when the exploit casts a wide net and doesn't care about who it hits. Your trust in your HW and SW should be proportional to the risk. I would hate to have my private data leaked, but realistically it wouldn't be much more than a nuisance I have to sort out. The same is not true for a government agent or a CEO for example. It would be nice if we could just 100% trust all our software and hardware, but it's just not practical these days.

Life, uh, finds a way

I love when people port software onto hardware you wouldn't expect. Takes a certain kind of mind to approach it and maintain the motivation to stick through it. Great writeup.

I've played Rocket League for years on PC with next to no issues? I use a controller though

This article really made me think about the Google Ads API. Miserable to work with.