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It's honestly better than this on all fronts, since you can get ProRAW out of recent iPhones even in the default camera app and get RAW without DeepFusion out of different alternat…

Yes, they expanded the context window, announced two days ago: https://github.blog/changelog/2023-08-28-github-copilot-augu... I'm sure they incrementally rolled this out so it's p…

FYI, the reason the pw change requirement went away is because NIST published an updated set of guidelines that explicitly disrecommend it: https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-FAQ/#q-b05…

Co-sign. You can run a SOC2 compliance program earnestly or as a check-the-box exercise. If you're running earnestly, I would argue that the hardest thing about a SOC2 is ensuring …

If you're an engineer and have trouble getting past project management methodologies that feel like bullshit (or conversely if you care a lot about them but have trouble convincing…

I'm certain all 37s employees have access to the production database anyway; they're still a fairly small company. The only real additional risk here is running non-production code…

We're about to open source a similar deal (redis-based "soft guarantee" mutexes) -- ours is written in Python and mostly used as a way to coordinate (very frequent) parallel task e…

Everything old is new again. Email status is a check-in method as old as, well, email. This works great if you have a reasonable number of people working largely on independent are…

I think a huge part of the appeal of Mailbox is it's less than a full-featured project management/GTD tool -- it basically prescribes a certain approach to managing your inbox (do,…

One of the things I think people who haven't spent a significant amount of time living in dense cities miss is that you do very little "living" in your apartment. I spend maybe two…

Even if the reply-to just dumps responses into a customer support queue, that's better than 90% of mass mail is doing. Separately, I think it's great if you can have all of your em…

This page appears to be positively ancient, referencing FreeBSD 5 and Red Hat 8, and a bunch of the technical differences are incorrect now; the Linux kernel hasn't used stable/uns…

This actually exists, sort of: http://pyrasite.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html I've done this manually a few times, but with foresight attaching signal handlers that open up a…

If you have a single-rack network, now your single point of failure is the rack switch or PDU. (This is why e.g. HDFS has rack-aware mode.) If you have a cage, it's the datacenter …

In the bay area, given the current market, any reasonably funded startup would likely work with you, assuming you passed interviews, etc. It may be somewhat easier at a company tha…

Soft-delete (+ action logs) for data recovery. Also, code review and lots and lots of tests. For schema changes, there are a bunch of approaches. Just a few: * Treat (non-purely ad…

They're not mutually exclusive: you want basic correctness/design review of course (my favored approach is now pre-integration code review + authoritative master/master-always-depl…

Facebook and Google both do their own targeting (obviously.) Google allows access to some data for 3rd-party firms via RTB. Neither pass on PII (or really any non-aggregate) data t…

Puppet and Chef are pretty agnostic. You can use them to manage only your infrastructure (packages, user accounts, databases) and leave app deployment up to something like capistra…

From my understanding, you're describing (edit: something like) Series FF (i.e. what Founders Fund issues) there-- the founder's institute stuff has certain additional voting right…

It's just an integration of ELPA ( http://tromey.com/elpa/ ) which has been around for quite a while. According to the mailing lists Tom Tromey will continue to maintain his archiv…

Magit apparently has git-svn support, though I've never used it.

gitsum is an add-on, not a full-featured git mode; so is git-dwim, I believe, although I don't use it personally. Recent Emacs have git support in VC; I tend to just use that since…

One of the commenters mentions the `say` command, which is super-useful, but they use it like so: `scp file some-host:~; say 'copy done'`, which will notify you even if the command…

Word (although I find K&R a pleasant read). My copy is at the office; I often take a quick glance through it when I need to poke at some C code and usually end up spotting latent b…