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tullo_x86

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Amateur spaghetti printer. Semi-pro electromancer. I get paid to build machines out of ideas.
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tullo_x86··on The Scam Dilemma: When Real Alerts Seem Like Frauds
I got an SMS like this many years ago from Capital One on the same basis, and it said to call a specific number if I had questions... I couldn't find that number anywhere online or on their site. It took forever to find their fraud hotline on the website, too. Different number to the one in the SMS, naturally.

Turned out to be legit, and they were calling about a transaction at a gas station that I had actually been to. But the fact that I had nothing to go on except a text message from an unknown number was super suspicious.

These banks need to realise that there is a difference between customers trusting their brand, and those same customers trusting some random message claiming to represent their brand.

tullo_x86··on The bottom emoji breaks rust-analyzer
Queer people. This is an easily-inferred reference for anyone who's decently-good friends with at least one gay guy or lesbian.
tullo_x86··on GitHub to lay off 10% and close all offices
Never has a phrase been so horribly exploited than by bad actors wishing to present themselves as innocent buffoons.

Conversely: “the greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist”.

tullo_x86··on Postmark has been acquired by ActiveCampaign
Trouble is, you can do this once just fine. But it means the next time you want to get investors or sell a company, potential payers will also weigh your past performance. If you say "yeah we have no idea what's going to happen, good luck" and the company tanks after being sold, who would trust that it wasn't your actions at fault?

As much as it sucks for consumers, the self-interested thing to do is sing the praises of your buyer -- because your reputation is at stake otherwise.

tullo_x86··on Show HN: Multi-threaded batch processing and background jobs for .NET Core
Progress reporting is something my company's in-house offline processing system has been lacklustre at (we overloaded it with a ton of uses like chained processes, without considering the usability penalty when managing this without an appropriate UI).

Does Runly have some way to set up something like a dependency graph, such as

      /--B--\
  A---+     +---D
      \--C--/
  
  ---->time---->
such that it can show you "hey, part B failed and this is blocking part D"?
tullo_x86··on Show HN: Multi-threaded batch processing and background jobs for .NET Core
This seems similar to Hangfire/Quartz. What does Runly do differently/better?

EDIT: Any plans to support other languages, e.g. everyone's favourite language to hate (JavaScript)?