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by belorn 9mo ago
> An employees actions would be a matter of judgment between the company leadership and themselves There has been a few news articles (and court cases) where this question has been raised and it is not strict true. Employee actions are o
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by belorn 9mo ago
Several years ago in Stockholm (2014) during a conference focus on the Internet, the Chief Technology Officer for Barack Obama's 2012 re-election campaign held a talk on how they revolutionary the campaign process by using targeted adv
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by belorn 9mo ago
Yes, I did write that a bit hasty. I changed above to the normal process. As it happened we just installed a server without hotswap disk, but to be fair that is the first one I have personally seen in the last 20 years. Remote hands is a th
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by belorn 9mo ago
I wonder how much companies pay yearly in order to avoid having an employee pick up a drive from a local store, drive to the data center, pull the disk drive, screw out the failing hard drive and put in the new one, add it in the raid, veri
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by belorn 9mo ago
It is fairly lenient. The review board, assigned political, do hold a bit of moral responsibility and got no punishment. The reason I mentioned that this occurred right after metoo is that the cultural environment in Sweden was a bit unstab
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by belorn 9mo ago
In Sweden there is a additional review board that go through the decision made by the inspector. The idea is to limit the power that a single inspector has. In practice however the review board tend to rubber stamp decisions, so incompetenc
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by belorn 9mo ago
It is approaches like that which gives some hope to the future. War crimes are indeed something which should never be allowed or overlooked. Being a political leader doesn't make people immune to criticism, but rather should be someone
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by belorn 9mo ago
Yes, it is true that no one ever got fired for buying IBM. It is also very common that people just use an AI for reviews and then deal with the fallout if anyone actually calls them on the bluff. Paying fines, if anyone do care, are just pa
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by belorn 9mo ago
Given the period of 2010-2012, the president at the time was Barack Obama. It does not seem realistic that people would accept opening a criminal case.
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by belorn 9mo ago
Easier is a very subjective measurement. Lets compare two solutions with different hires. One hire system administrators that rent space in a serverhall. The other hire cloud managers that rent space in the cloud. What can we definitive say
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by belorn 9mo ago
Go through a security review. It not as simple as just saying "we outsource that so we have no idea what they do or how they manage the data". It is disingenuous to claim that people can just outsource the whole problem and not ca
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by belorn 9mo ago
Listened to a story about a fairly large company that switched to cloud and then back to on-premise. When they went cloud they quickly found out that they needed employees to manage the cloud infrastructure. The employee costs were similar
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by belorn 9mo ago
I would say it depend on where you are. City driving is generally not a great experience and its not that uncommon to see a speed bump before almost every crossing, to the point where you get surprised if there isn't one. That said, as
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by belorn 9mo ago
If you drive in Sweden you will occasionally come up to a form of speed reduction strategy that may seem counterintuitive. They all add to make driving harder and feel more dangerous in order to force attention and lower speed. One is to me
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by belorn 9mo ago
I mentioned it in the comment above. Commands that you run in a shell script do not always block execution until the underlying resources is fully available. If we take the network as an example, the script to open a vpn tunnel and providin
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by belorn 9mo ago
In the old time with init scripts you had to figure out where to put all those sleep(10) based on the servers specific hardware and software stack. Far from everything in the initi script blocked execution until they completely finished, an
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by belorn 9mo ago
I don't get it. If you install openbsd, you get dependencies that openbsd developers has chosen. You can try to remove every aspect of those choices but at some point it won't be openbsd anymore. Is the claim here that Red Hat is
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by belorn 9mo ago
No one has to be accepting to have an environment where people feel safe to participate in a dialog. Civil disagreement is a good thing and can improve a discussion just as civil agreements. If however a large portion of comments get flagge
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by belorn 9mo ago
TV the broadcast station was held responsible for the content they distributed and if they failed too much they would loose their access to the radio spectrum and unambiguous stop to exist. The rules online is different. Not only are they n
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by belorn 9mo ago
Can we have a discussion that improves in quality if people dissent to the view of the article, agree with the article, or hold a view that is something in between? If the answer is no then the risk that someone will flag the article increa
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by belorn 9mo ago
You can look at studies like https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/1331677X.2022.20... if you want to look at those multi-causal aspects. In general however, demographics with higher socioeconomic statu
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by belorn 9mo ago
It is fairly well established that social economic status is the largest predictor for crime than any other predictor. In order for immigrants to commit crimes at a lower rate than US born people we would have to make the claim that immigra
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by belorn 9mo ago
Asking people where the final line is with a nuclear option is a classic question with no satisfying answer, and the classical answer is that there is no line for when the button will be pressed.
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by belorn 9mo ago
The primary alternative is to have signed delivery, in which case some people will simply refuse to sign it and thus prevent delivery. Signed delivery is the way the postal service usually differentiate between normal delivery which has som
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by belorn 9mo ago
Could you elaborate on the connection between ICE and allied countries trust in US and US signed treaties?
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by belorn 9mo ago
Something that may be worth to know, women and men vote different in other countries and especially when it comes to left vs right. Women in Sweden votes with about 10 percentage points more towards left than men, and men vote 11 percentage
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by belorn 9mo ago
I would follow the money. Which country is currently earning the most profits by selling weapons within NATO? From a cursory glance, 2/3 of all arm exports towards NATO country is done by the US. Buying weapons from other NATO countrie
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by belorn 9mo ago
UK is currently limited by transmission. Gas can only be displaced by wind if the energy can be transported to the location where it is being consumed.
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by belorn 9mo ago
The more variability there is in the grid, the more the grid need to invest in balancing, reserve energy and transmission. Each of those are expensive to build out and maintain. They are usually paid through taxes and grid fees, and here in
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by belorn 9mo ago
> There were great HN-related conversations to be had around DOGE and what it was (purportedly) trying to achieve with automation, AI, replacing old code bases etc I have a very different impression of those discussions, with more or les

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