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Seems needlessly angry about what is ultimately a decent if imperfect source of entropy, and a good illustrative example for the general public

Giving LLM agents direct, autonomous access to a real production databases with write access seems insane to me. NO ONE, agent or human, should have direct write access to producti…

The author fails to mention any of the negative effects they experience due to this go version selection. They say that the effect is "viral" but don't give any concrete examples o…

It's much easier to detect a single account abusing your API and ban them/require payment. Trying to police an endpoint open to the internet is like playing g whackamole

Really impressive that it's implemented in < 400 lines of Javascript code and runs so smoothly in my phone's browser (Firefox on Android)

I would definitely recommend not putting complex logic like this in your cron definitions. Much more annoying to find and debug in the future. I prefer to write a short wrapper scr…

Some of the alternatives that the author suggests (Slack, Discord, Matrix rooms) are so much worse to search for answers in. Stack overflow has many disadvantages, but it is extrem…

Even in the case you mention you really shouldn't be overriding these methods. Your load settings method should take the path of the settings file as an argument, and then your tes…

This blog post talks as if mocking the `open` function is a good thing that people should be told how to do. If you are mocking anything in the standard library your code is probab…

I like how the article uses "Googling" as a verb meaning to shut down a service

I think the sandwich demo is really good. Once you establish the sandwich idea you can start zooming out to OK now you have a cook making multiple sandwiches, now you have a whole …

I think the "joke" is if the US government orders a company to hand over that data, the fact that the servers are physically in the EU won't stop anything

A solution could be enforcing hardware keys for 2FA for all maintainers if a package has more than XX thousand weekly downloads. No hardware keys, no new releases.

Another scummy tracking move from Meta, shouldn't be surprised. In general I think browsers should prevent websites reaching out to localhost without explicit opt-in from the user.…

With Java, there are a lot of usability issues with checked types. For example streams to process data really don't play nicely if your map or filter function throws a checked exce…

I'm confused why it's encrypted as a JPEG image per frame instead of one AES encrypted video file. Since the same AES key is used for each frame it wouldn't add any additional secu…

Charitable, use of system level randomness primitives can be audited by antivirus/EDR.

I was thinking that one solution might be to specify that the "justification" also has to be a justified true belief. In this case, the justification that you see a cow isn't true,…

> These interviews can identify candidates with strong problem-solving skills and logical reasoning abilities. I would disagree with this premise. Leetcode identifies people who ha…