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I couldn’t buy the Xbox Game Pass in either Edge or their stand-alone client. I had to switch to Chrome before I could get through the process. I think it was something about billing address not updating country settings correctly but was too annoyed at the time to dig in any deeper.

It was my understanding that natural immunity to covid19 isn’t long-lasting but does work well as a replacement for one of the two doses.

A quick Google search turns up this too: https://news.yahoo.com/vaccination-may-more-protection-covid...

I’d love to read up on the other side though, if you happen to have any articles to share.

My first thought too was that this got dropped more as protecting-an-asset (Wish has a ton of SF-area investors) than stopping-a-conversation.

Out of curiosity (banned book effect) over this, I did read through the article. The tone is way more confrontational than informative! My bet is that it was the tone that got it killed.

In that same vein though, is there a list somewhere of all the articles that got pulled? It might be fun to read through more of these “banned books”.

What’s “creepybill”? Obviously Bill Gates but a quick search isn’t showing what’s it a reference to?

The RAM chips on the back of the card aren’t cooled well and can hit 110C regularly when mining. That can be fixed by using better thermal pads for the most part though. So my bet is that EVGA used a set of really bad thermal pads and the RAM on the back is dying.

That was my first thought too! Looks like it’s actually a command-line tool that scans backups though. It might get access to all your private keys but can’t install malware!

I think it has a lot more to do with burnout than anything else, and the article does kind of touch on that a bit. Working through the pandemic was tough but, it was important, so we push through to be helpful. Now that it’s done though, I think some healthy down-time is in order and the two weeks or whatever you get normally isn’t going to cut it.

Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23463279 It’s usually number 1 on these lists but definitely deserves it!

A Denial of Service attack (flood the server with requests) might look like that. What I would do instead though, is have the form pre-filled and scripted to submit the moment it’s live. That might be done with curl/Python/etc to skip the browser render too. If so, it might also inadvertently look like DOS if they forgot to put a delay between attempts.

I just hope the Reactive Oxygen Species that are 10M times more lethal to bacteria aren’t equally more lethal to humans. Also, if this requires electrolysis-level power, it might still not be worth it in most cases.

Forking it to remove these would be audacious. Seriously though, I’m having thinking of a more awesome name than Audacity.

This thread on their GitHub also caught my attention because it went straight into complaining about Discord: https://github.com/audacity/audacity/issues/1213 I’m not sure how I would handle that if this was my project.

I wonder what Facebook (et al) planned to do if this went live? Would it be easier to drop all of Florida (similar to the Australian news thing) than comply? Or maybe open up a Florida-only version to limit exposure? I’m not sure this legislation would have helped the state if it went through.

Growing wheat and grinding it out into flour isn’t something I’ve ever heard anyone take on as a hobby before. Having all that actually cost less (including time) than buying bread would be a huge achievement!

Hey is an awesome email client on a terrible email server and Fastmail is an awesome server with a terrible client. I only wish there was a standard protocol we could use to mix and match!

I’ve noticed this too. It’s a lot easier to talk about someone behind their back if you’re behind a locked, sound-proof door (which is what Zoom meetings are).

It feels a lot to me like the “Old Boys’ Clubs” are stronger remote, not weaker, because of this. They don’t have to hide biases when remote, it’s hidden by default.

That was my read on this too and Dr. Bloom accidentally hacked the NIH. The next question though is whether they’ll change this or not? Is the guarantee that anyone can retract at any time important enough to make the db useful? Will the Chinese government mandate no one there ever use it again now?

I’ve had a lot of trouble finding org editors for my phone. Org web like it might be the favourite right now but I don’t really want to host it myself.

Can I ask what format you use for calendar files too? That’s another one I have a bit of trouble with! Everything seems to want to use the Google APIs for everything.

It reminds me a bit more of talking about p50 vs p99 latency times but where we’re not measuring production data, more like what we’re guessing production loads will look like.

Maybe The Matrix wasn’t the right power fantasy to compare it to? How about the DBZ over-9000 meme instead because he does have a big group of friends that help?

The problem with power fantasies is that they don’t really show all sides of the argument. If the intentions of moochers is a social safety net and the intention of the looters is infrastructure maintenance, those aren’t villains.

It’s a very addictive, ego-boosting way of thinking but is very broken. It’s like this fantasy that you could be _the one_ like Neo from the Matrix. Except that doesn’t work in real life because everyone has the same fantasy of being _the one_.

Ursula K LeGuin covered the same subject but a lot more even-handedly. The Dispossesed is a good counter to Ayn Rand.

I thought this way for a long time too but maybe even more pessimist. Because it’s negatively useful not just neutral as soon as you take taxes into consideration.

What’s brought me around is this recent thing with NFTs and the question about how we price art. I’m not talking about the Mona Lisa, that’s obviously striking. I mean more like, these two pictures of an apple at a local art show. One artist wants 50 for theirs and another wants 400 for theirs.

With crypto, you’re buying a number. Some pretty fantastic numbers! I don’t know why one is worth 8x more than the other but I don’t really need a picture of an apple either.

Assuming you aren’t certificate pinning, if someone gets access to the device unlocked for a moment, they can add their own cert to the device trust and you’re dead. This is a big deal if you’re building a kiosk type of thing but not so much if it’s a phone app.

The better approach is to assume your app will get MITMed and reduce how much damage the attacker can do.

There’s a dev-time vs. reliability debate here, I think. I don’t think it’s worth worrying about most of the time but I would approve a PR if someone did do the work.

When scripting things that probably shouldn’t be scripted but I care about them (like covid stuff), I’ll take the time to find a good browser user agent. I would be worried about bot-prevention measures catching a non-standard user agent and taking it down. Or even worse, someone else made a terrible script posting dos-level traffic and mine gets banned along with it...

The next level is using a custom but specific-to-the-script user agent. I do this whenever I also own the backend, to make tracking down logs way easier.

For everything else, I use the default! In this case, taking the extra time to think of an appropriate user agent isn’t helpful to the project. Sometimes, I might still send up Star Wars references for fun.

I use emoji for this pretty often but mostly just as inside jokes. If you don’t let someone in on the joke, it might have a completely different meaning. The eggplant is an obvious example but not as subtle as what I mean.

Here’s a different perspective that might help: If you don’t enjoy being on mountains, why would you waste your life on that?

For more helpful advice, find people who also like learning languages/frameworks and spend time with them. Ideally, not at the same company you’re in but that totally works too.

I think the debate is whether it should be tuned to make it more accessible to yourself (code owner) or others (code owners of nearby systems). And the best advice is where we started:

> use your best judgement

If you make a code change that breaks one test and think it might be a broken test, it’s easier to read that test if it’s not dry. Because all of the dependencies are listed out more explicitly.

Dry tests use a lot of helper methods and those are a layer of indirection. To understand a dry test, you have to also understand the helper methods, and whatever helpers they all call.

> Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.