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ZeroSSL appears to have the advantage of fewer rate limitations if that's an issue. Haven't used it a ton myself though.

To help keep it as blind as possible, studies sometimes use something that is better understood and gives you the side-effects you might expect if you weren't on the placebo. Like the Pfizer COVID study used the meningitis vaccine as a placebo IIRC.

edit: see another comment suggesting that control is the right term for this rather than placebo - face palm moment.

Or just lead with "Perforce powers the technology that drives the digital economy", and that way I know there's no substance to the rest of it and can stop reading right away.

Ha! There was also Apache S4 - a distributed stream processing framework from Yahoo! But it was retired before leaving the incubator a very long time ago.

The arms race already exists: hash sizes and standard key sizes have increased. Because Moore's Law already applies to classical computers: you effectively lose 1 bit of entropy / security every year.

Yeah but you're replying in a thread below where I already answered your question about how these concerns get addressed with a person.

No, but I have underground pipes managed by a metro district. I've had people come by who were supposed to be inspecting a meter and they do have reasonable requirements for giving notice that they're entering or doing work. I've also had people come by to mark utilities who didn't realize they weren't in the right place until my dog's presence in the back yard made them talk to me first, so this is an expectation I care about maintaining.

The city worker carries credentials and is usually driving a marked government vehicle. Neither one gets to be in my backyard without talking to me first.

And going to another extreme - I know couples who have lived together for years before deciding to get married, and the marriage really didn't last very long at all. A lot of sociological explanations but the point I really want to make is you can't always look at something that doesn't work out and assume that you would have made a better decision with more time.

We could double the size of our interview panels and still get people that weren't right.

I'm pretty sure the most common picture of Linus Torvalds is a picture of him giving NVIDIA a rather rude gesture with his finger, and the reason was because of the way they push a proprietary driver and don't work well with an open community.

The problem is that many graduate degrees are very research focused and they don't say a lot about the skills many company's may need from software developers. Jobs I've worked that used Leetcode simply wouldn't need you to do the kind of work you did in your thesis. So they shouldn't be requiring your degree in the list of candidate requirements, but they also shouldn't place a lot of value on it if they're not doing that kind of R&D. I've met a few computer science Ph.D's who showed up on day 1 and appeared to have the coding skills of someone who used BASIC for an assignment in their "Technology" class in high school. One wonders if they're even the kind of people who got pushed through a program so their advisor could stop dealing with them. Maybe they are great at researchers, and abstract thought, and maybe they were very well versed in writing code a decade ago. Maybe they're just not good at it. But either way stuff like this isn't made up: https://blog.codinghorror.com/why-cant-programmers-program/. Leetcode comes about to deal with that. Not saying it's a great solution, but don't dismiss the problem.

>> Please come back with a warrant we can verify

Ok. Now how do I verify one, assuming the information in this article is accurate?

I feel like I've been seeing a lot of comments lately to the effect of, "no - that would be illegal!" Yeah, we are talking about criminals who are already breaking one law. Often criminals who, in the very nature of their crime, are hard to identify.

But then, even if they're not overtly breaking the law with a simple request for information, debt collectors and car warranty salesman are notorious for sending letters that will imply they are your financial institution, the letter was sent by your account manager, etc. IRS impersonators will tell people that jail time is imminent. I can imagine someone could create something that looks to a non-lawyer (who's afraid and not paying attention) like it's basically warrant signed by someone who's basically a judge, but just doesn't outright say that. You'd still need to verify - hey is this person actually a judge, and did this person actually sign that as a warrant?

Getting a call claiming to be from Trump's campaign asking for money doesn't even mean it's actually the Trump campaign, it could be anyone trying to get money from people who are passionate about Trump. And that's one of the problems here: unsolicited calls are real and problematic, unsolicited calls who aren't even from the person they appear to be are also real and even more problematic.

Federal law requires a lot of things, but that doesn't mean people comply. Robocalls are already illegal. Soliciting people on the Do Not Call List over the phone is already illegal. Yet they happen daily for me.

>> So it's still coming from a pretty dark place.

I think it's worth remembering that the world can be a pretty dark place anyway, and being prepared for stuff can make it less dark. The training I did was basically a civilian adaptation of the TCCC course taught over a weekend, taught be ex-military PMC types, so I expected it to be a bit of a stretch to apply it to civilians. And yeah, it's pretty dark: we practiced dragging limp bodies out of a building while they played loud sounds of gun fire. We put chest seals on dead pigs.

But a lot of the videos they played to demonstrate various conditions that you could treat with an IFAK - the basic military first aid kit - were totally civilian situations. We went over car accidents, camping mishaps, failed suicides. And as someone who overthinks and worries about potential problems - can I just say how good it feels to go on a road trip or go camping with my kids and know "hey - I have a trauma kit in the back of the car and I know how to use it". As dark as all those things are, I'm far better able to help people going through those things than I was before.

It really sucks that school shootings are so common that they influence policy like this. But... I think school shootings shouldn't be the only reason. I think far more people should do things like go get the Red Cross First Aid / CPR / AED course and practice those skills every couple of years. And not just because of shootings.

I did secondary school in the US, and there are lock-down drills that are mostly motivated by school shootings. In fact the first time I experienced practicing one was shortly after Columbine in a school not that far from Columbine. That said, the only time we actually had real lock-downs were for things like phony bomb threats, or dangerous criminals being pursued by police nearby.

On the other hand, I did some primary school in New Zealand and we had what I would now call a lock-down for the same reason, where school shootings really aren't a thing. I think schools ought to plan for that kind of thing for safety. I think the kind of first aid they teach you in active shooter training if you happen to take them as an adult (I did because I had a buddy trying to start a business after leaving the military doing it) is actually also really good first aid for anyone who's doing extreme sports, or going in the wilderness, or working around heavy machinery, etc.

I don't think any of that means that people shooting up schools is accepted as normal.

edit: Now that I've read TFA, I'll also add that I've worked in the US my entire adult life and I've never had active shooter training that was mandated at work, or heard of anyone I know having that.

Some people are good at the discipline and self-motivation required to make this work and like the situation where you're more isolated except when you go out of your way not to be. Some people are much happier and productive in an environment where face-to-face communication can happen frequently and when unplanned, and when you can have more personal communication. Obviously it's not as simple as those 2 categories, but as some companies embrace WFH and others go back to in-person, we're going to find that people gravitate towards environments that are one or the way other and find people that are like them. I wouldn't view one as worse or caused by a "leadership / management issue".

It just means that traffic is encrypted at a lower layer in the network stack, so there are entire protocols that get "wrapped" in it, and they can't sniff the IPs you're talking to, etc. Of course, now your VPN provider can.

If one did need to worry about trusting public wi-fi, one would also need to worry about trusting one's cell service provider or home / business ISP. And you can use a VPN for an additional layer of security over all this, but then you need to trust the VPN.

But I think you're largely correct. If I'm on wi-fi that I trust less than my VPN provider of choice, I use the VPN. And then I move on and live my life.

But there are already series that do that, and they've been doing it more and more. And honestly even in those series' it's hardly a surprise which teams are finishing at the top all the time because they snag the most expensive drivers and just have a more well-oiled operation.

Why can't there be 1 open-wheel series that is more about the engineering?

Yeah just so you know that show twisted all kinds of things to add to the drama. More drivers speak out every season about how audio clips of them were edited to make them sound more adversarial to their team mate, etc. and they really don't feel that way. Look at the social media comments about it from fans, and everyone feels like they ignored the big stories everyone really talked about and just fixated on drama.

But a lot of teams have historically had this "we win as a team" vibe and done things like expect the #2 driver to obey team orders and give up position to let the #1 driver score more points and increase the odds of the driver's championship going to a driver from that team. I don't have further reading on this topic specifically, but if you're wanting to learn more and you're in the HN crowd, Steve Matchett's books are awesome and Adrian Newey's autobiography is also pretty good and covers a lot of the last couple of decades with a ton of cool technical detail.

And if you don't already pay for ESPN, F1TV has a 7-day trial or $26 for the year (if you don't mind waiting 2 days after the race - there's a higher package that lets you see stuff live) that let's you watch on-demand and has a lot of content besides the race, etc.

Yeah a lot of these comments definitely sound like they are from a new fan who picked up the vibe from Drive to Survive, with its made-up rivalries and over-editorializing. I find the items laid out in the article to be some of the most untrue or frustrating things about the sport.

But hey if you're in the HN crowd / an engineer and this piques one's interest, I really enjoy the Tech Talk show with Sam Collins and following Craig Scarborough on social media because they both dive into the technical innovation (one might say "hacking" of the regulations) the teams are doing to try and eek out new advantages.

It could come off as a little snarkier than I would like to be, but as soon as someone says something should have been documented better I ask them where they think I should have put said document. Then I ask them if they looked there before asking me. 9 times out of 10 the answer is no, and it's then obvious to them that if I had already done exactly what they're asking of me, they still would have come and asked me.

Sometimes people have a point and something should be documented better. Especially if I've been asked twice, it's worth documenting better. And I would welcome their input on where and how that should be done. But those are the people are being constructive.

This is therapeutic to read - I've been on the receiving end of this a lot. Once I even had someone go about 5 levels deep.

"We should have a doc for this process."

"We do - here's the link."

"I couldn't find this - it should be linked more prominently."

"It's the first link when you go to the docs page."

"It didn't warn me about this tricky part."

"There's a warning at the top."

"It should be more prominent, bold and in red."

"It is bold and in red. [sends screenshot]"

"Oh okay, thank you..."

There are loopholes everywhere. Non-compete contracts for healthcare providers were already illegal in Colorado, but our pediatrician had to locate her new practice ~20 miles away from where she wanted because of a non-compete with her previous practice. She had already had a lawyer look into it and he assured her there was enough precedent that she couldn't win, despite the law being very clear, IMO.

The general complaints about the API's design and style have not changed so much even with the advent of eager execution by default, etc.

This is a pretty good write-up: https://nicodjimenez.github.io/2017/10/08/tensorflow.html

So 17 levels below a comment I made about the news just making everyone angry and addicted to it, people are still commenting about whether Nazis are economically left or right. I guess that tracks.