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I wrote this up since, over the past year, I've encountered more and more weird behavior with s3 bucket policies. I haven't seen all of this behavior documented in a single place, …

I doubt this would get as much media attention if Tolkien wasn't involved.

Before anyone asks for sources: https://www.fpri.org/article/2017/03/nationality-ethnicity-e... https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2017/03/many-ethnic-russ... https://en.wikipedia…

Yes, and that directly causes a device to fail SafetyNet Attestation which can cause some third-party apps to not work even with sideloading/different app store. Edit: like Netflix…

> You can "unbreak" glass. I had a project that started to get a stress fracture as it cooled. I quickly put it back in a cool part of the torch flame to anneal it. The cracks lite…

The problem is that people often conflate dispassionate writing with neutral writing, which makes a biased dispassionate edit much more likely to get through.

Remember that these statistics are specifically from Amazon warehouses, and not from Amazon warehouse workers calling from home. We'd need statistics on calls from workplaces. A qu…

That's dangerous advice. Having access to some (or a combination of) "less-secure" accounts could allow an attacker to get enough personal information to escalate privileges throug…

Also, for the love of all the gods, don't prohibit pasting in the password field!!

Google changed the operators; now it's double quotes instead of plus (it was changed for google+ so that the plus searches g+ profiles and pages). You now have to search: "noir" "f…

That is a very shortsighted blame-the-victim mentality. You're conflating the power of the individual voter with that of the entire voting bloc. Besides, even if new affordable hou…

This looks like the generic "people" artwork you see in so many places.

> Laying everything on this thick just doesn't increase credibility for me. It makes me suspicious. Counterpoint: if you've gone through enough hardship, your self-esteem can tank …

> * All changes to the main source code repository MUST be reviewed by at least one other engineer. > Same as above. Just build and RTFO. Deploying without review is not only a dev…

The great thing about hypotheticals is you can just say "wins the lottery, leaves the job, and never comes back" and it's implied in the scenario that you shouldn't read too much i…

This sounds like a terrible idea. Similarly to implementing your own encryption, having a custom consensus algorithm can create additional vulnerabilities -- a custom consensus alg…

That gives rise to a very interesting concept: ML-based bias assessments. If you take some real-life hiring data (or other applications such as sentencing or generally human behavi…

The Amazon app has an absolutely horrendous FID of around 10 seconds or so. They could use a little bit of optimization.

Downwards arrow towards a disk: https://imgur.com/a/dMrixoi