alex_anglin

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by alex_anglin 5y ago
Not the GP, but I think the comment is akin to 'inertia is the competitor of everything.'
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by alex_anglin 5y ago
I've had WikiHow help me out in similar ways to GP a couple of times. Wasn't watching videos though.
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by alex_anglin 5y ago
For those unaware of the history here, 'Residential School' is a misnomer for what these institutions were. There are plenty of details on Wikipedia [1] for those seeking more information. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org&#
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by alex_anglin 5y ago
Is there any reason to use Qwant over DDG, aside from a Francophone focus?
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by alex_anglin 5y ago
My experience is that capturing and holding smaller continents early on is best. Capturing and keeping North America, Europe or Asia early on tends not to work well when I play.
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by alex_anglin 5y ago
Vomit zombies, of course.
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by alex_anglin 5y ago
MITREs ATTaCK [1] matrix is a great resource for describing incidents like these. To answer your question, it is a combination of Initial Access and Lateral Movement techniques that depend upon an attackers aims. They're by no means t
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by alex_anglin 5y ago
The Critical Security Controls [1] are a good place to start. Alas, it's neither free or necessarily straightforward to implement them - which is why breaches persist. [1] https://www.cisecurity.org/controls/cis-co
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by alex_anglin 5y ago
Part of the trouble here is that the Google brand spans their B2B and B2C offerings.
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by alex_anglin 5y ago
Agreed. It always seemed to me as analogous to the situation whereby one enters some identifying information in a phone prompt, only to have to spell it out again for a CSR. Both are just plain bad design.
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by alex_anglin 5y ago
On the other hand, it seems to be working out pretty well for Netflix.
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by alex_anglin 5y ago
On the other hand, ERPs and associated systems tend to involve a huge amount of work too.
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by alex_anglin 5y ago
The Secrets of Consulting[1][2] sounds like a book you might appreciate in your current situation. [1] https://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Consulting-Giving-Getting-Suc... [2] https://www.goodreads.com/book/
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by alex_anglin 5y ago
I'd suggest that, unlike poker, it's best not to look at a career as zero-sum.
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by alex_anglin 6y ago
Snail-mail ain't dead yet.
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by alex_anglin 6y ago
I would respectfully suggest that referring to people as 'a cancer' says more about the person than whatever point they're trying to make.
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by alex_anglin 6y ago
Have a look at mortality and poverty rates globally. There is good news, as well as bad.
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by alex_anglin 6y ago
Thanks to fees, professionals can also keep a portion if they loose. If they under-perform, they also win as long as their clients aren't calling them on it.
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by alex_anglin 6y ago
To each their own, but in the case of ETL/ELT, you would just be asking for pain not using aliases.
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by alex_anglin 6y ago
Agreed that graph databases are super useful for a variety of purposes. However, it's usually worth consideration as to whether a whole separate data store is needed for that. Postgres, for instance, has uses that would allow for this
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by alex_anglin 6y ago
As a middle-aged IT person, that sounds like poor advice to me for two reasons: 1. Marketing to the 'cool kids' with the expectation that everyone else will follow-along... is probably not good advice in the absence some key diffe
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by alex_anglin 6y ago
Anecdote time - I use Apple music and am generally happy with it. However, some time ago I started putting on the 'Sleep Sounds' playlist before going to bed. That's messed up my recommendations for my 'New Music Mix,&#x
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by alex_anglin 6y ago
It's being talked about in Canada a great deal these days with medical assistance in dying legislation [1][2][3] having recently come in to effect. [1] https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/medi
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by alex_anglin 6y ago
Source?
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by alex_anglin 6y ago
Why would someone choose Confluent Cloud over the Kafka offerings of Azure/AWS/GCP?
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by alex_anglin 6y ago
Not to spoil a cold war joke about excesses of American procurement, but that story has been debunked pretty thoroughly: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fact-or-fiction-n...
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by alex_anglin 6y ago
It's worth a read, if just to consider that many of the observations made in the industry during the 70's hold true today. Wikipedia has a summary of the book[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical
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by alex_anglin 6y ago
I'm not surprised at all. When I was working in Africa, circa 2002 I took a couple of trips to Zimbabwe with friends, crossing land borders. Aside from many places needing to be paid in $USD during the trips, changing money at official
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by alex_anglin 6y ago
I would add that "How the Measure Anything in Cybersecurity Risk" should be a core part of Infosec literature.
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by alex_anglin 6y ago
Another great example of Betteridge's law.

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