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gjjrfcbugxbhf··on What People Think You Can’t Say in Silicon Valley
Wow just wow.
gjjrfcbugxbhf··on What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (2014)
Most ORMs have way too write raw SQL. Furthermore someone using an ORM well will understand how their queries are mapping to SQL.

Your scenario happens with people that either don't know or don't care. They will write crappy queries with any tool.

gjjrfcbugxbhf··on What People Think You Can’t Say in Silicon Valley
The OP is talking about extreme views like racism (or in their case hating trans people).

You are talking about listening to Democrat opinions.

Very very different thing.

I am quite happy to be friends with people with different political opinions or who vote for another party.

I am also happy to know who is spouting racist, sexist or crazy drivel. This allows me personally to avoid them.

Others may choose to engage with the extremists I choose not to waste my time. This is a matter for individual free will.

NB once again listening to Democrat/republican media when you are voting for the other party is just normal and has nothing to do with choosing not to associate with e.g Klansman.

gjjrfcbugxbhf··on What People Think You Can’t Say in Silicon Valley
I am not discriminating. Your s.o. is free to hold and promote whatever views they have our want to have. I support their right to do so. I however also have rights. I have the right to defend that people are allowed to be themselves+ without fear of persecution. I also have have the right to choose who to associate with.

+I think for example that gender and sexuality are not choices and that I should not tell other people how to live their lives.

gjjrfcbugxbhf··on What People Think You Can’t Say in Silicon Valley
The thing is you are free to hold and expose extreme views - and I strongly support your right to do so and not to be subject to persecution from the state for doing so. However I also have the right to not associate with you if I think that you are a dick.
gjjrfcbugxbhf··on What People Think You Can’t Say in Silicon Valley
Bigots usually wrap their hate in fancy words. It doesn't make their hate less hateful.
gjjrfcbugxbhf··on REST is the new SOAP
The author seems confused between 401 (not logged in) and 403 (user doesn't have permission).
gjjrfcbugxbhf··on Ask HN: Writing cover letters for tech jobs
Oth. If I don't include a cover letter and you want to find out more about me you have to interview me...
gjjrfcbugxbhf··on Ask HN: Writing cover letters for tech jobs
If they require a cover letter then that is because they want you to think of them in the former category...

That said I've found cover letters to be pretty much a waste of my time so far.

gjjrfcbugxbhf··on Millions Are Hounded for Debt They Don’t Owe. One Victim Fought Back
My point is that instead of standing around crying about how terrible it is that people need to take predatory loans (and it is terrible) we should work out how we can change things so that they don't have to. My suggestion is to work with a proven mechanism - the welfare state.
gjjrfcbugxbhf··on Millions Are Hounded for Debt They Don’t Owe. One Victim Fought Back
Please read with good faith and also appreciate that we don't all live in America.

The original situation is horrible. No one should ever be put into it. There is little point answering the question - it has no good outcomes. Instead we need to think about how to prevent it happening. I suggest that we should strive to build societies where it does not happen. I offered a concrete suggestion for how an individual can help themselves and another for how they can try to help everyone.

In terms of the USA - Lobbying by the public has slowed attempts to decrease healthcare provision in the USA. People like you that care and live there need to continue pushing.

gjjrfcbugxbhf··on Hearing on Cybersecurity of Voting Machines: Testimony of Prof. Matt Blaze [pdf]
Even in fptp systems like the UK and the US correctly predicting the precise polling stations to infiltrate and compromise to stuff the required 1000-100000 ballots is tricky. And in the UK your whole plot would probably fail anyway - as random people and representatives of the other parties would be present observing you.
gjjrfcbugxbhf··on Hearing on Cybersecurity of Voting Machines: Testimony of Prof. Matt Blaze [pdf]
Not sure. In UK often local, European and e.g. police commissioner elections will be held on the same day. But these are handled using multiple ballot papers. So the counting process scales purely horizontally.
gjjrfcbugxbhf··on Hearing on Cybersecurity of Voting Machines: Testimony of Prof. Matt Blaze [pdf]
Not at scale.
gjjrfcbugxbhf··on Hearing on Cybersecurity of Voting Machines: Testimony of Prof. Matt Blaze [pdf]
Exit polls are instant. The national implications of elections are usually declared around 3-5am (counting starts around 10pm). The last constituencies usual declare by midday the next day. In the last UK general one constituency took two days - there were about 12 votes between the top two parties so they did a few recounts.
gjjrfcbugxbhf··on Hearing on Cybersecurity of Voting Machines: Testimony of Prof. Matt Blaze [pdf]
Even there people occasionally suggest electronic voting as a means to speed things up.
gjjrfcbugxbhf··on Millions Are Hounded for Debt They Don’t Owe. One Victim Fought Back
Don't be in that situation. No seriously. I even went so far as emigrating and moving to a country with a better welfare state partly to avoid this ever happening.

Not everyone has the luxury of being able to move countries+. Which is why we should all vote and lobby for better welfare systems - so that we and our loved ones never have to take these types of decisions.

Edit + It usually takes marketable skills that allow a well paid job such that welfare doesn't seem like a priority.

Edit Would down voters care to chip in with a comment? Drive bys don't really lead to good discussion.

gjjrfcbugxbhf··on Hearing on Cybersecurity of Voting Machines: Testimony of Prof. Matt Blaze [pdf]
We don't.

People want it because it is faster to count.

gjjrfcbugxbhf··on Make SSL boring again
But they also seem to be supporting some features they previously had out of the box?
gjjrfcbugxbhf··on Android 8.1 Oreo
That's the point. They will be very confused when they Google for help with their phones.
gjjrfcbugxbhf··on 'Snoopers' charter' changes put forward
It basically comes down to whether the amount of noise is enough to lose them their seat. Majority of 10000 and 10 letters - they don't care. Majority of 10 and 10000 letters - they will pay attention.
gjjrfcbugxbhf··on Never edit a method, always rewrite it?
Why? Your revision history is already in version control.
gjjrfcbugxbhf··on Dice Become Ordered When Stirred, Not Shaken
Ordering alignment of rectangular prisms under simple shear is well established by now.

As is the variable effects of shaking - can increase or decrease packing fraction and order depending on magnitude.

In addition ordering in packings of rectangular prisms extend up to 8 particle lengths from the side walls - and are variable with time and history. This experiment's results could be partly due to edge effects.

gjjrfcbugxbhf··on Maintaining an Independent Browser Is Expensive
If only ms would just make their software available cross platform.
gjjrfcbugxbhf··on How do you move out of a smarthome?
Except that many buyers would see this as an elaborate attempt to hide bigger issues...
gjjrfcbugxbhf··on Netflix Stole My VHS Cassette Photos for Its Stranger Things Boxed Set
Still the agency should have processes in place to avoid this. Every professional designer I've asked about this sort of thing is very aware.
gjjrfcbugxbhf··on The beginning of the end for copper wire
Maybe they should compete for the service contracts - but even then cost benefit should compare with insourced provision.
gjjrfcbugxbhf··on A stolen painting appears for sale on the dark web
Similar to any criminal exchange I guess.

Presumably any potential buyer has access to the ability to make your life very short and painful...

gjjrfcbugxbhf··on Stop Using Excel, Finance Chiefs Tell Staffs
Alternatively you misunderstood the business requirements and would have cost then a fortune on a failed project.

Alternatively you were brought in by management to make cost cutting recommendations - and your solution wasn't cheap enough.

Alternatively the company accounted for the enormous risk of the project succeeding but actually being worse than what they had in place.

You really don't know the politics of this.

Edit: Another alternative is that your plan would have resulted in sufficient job losses that the company was worried that it would demotivate other employees and damage the company more than the cost savings.

gjjrfcbugxbhf··on Uber Paid Hackers to Delete Stolen Data on 57M People
It depends upon the culture. Some places favour a project repo others a repo per microservice/job.
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