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by bennyelv 3y ago
This must be US only? Consumer protection law in the EU/UK has got this covered for those citizens. There could be unforeseen consequences for this regardless: 1. The amount of dodgy sellers slinging garbage on amazon has only been gr
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by bennyelv 3y ago
27001 doesn’t actually explicitly dictate anything other than the structure and operation of the ISMS itself. The selection of appropriate security controls to implement is made on the basis of a risk assessment, and although the standard
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by bennyelv 3y ago
As someone who has to make product/technical decisions in this space, my experience is that the regulation is so far removed from the technical/physical reality that it becomes impossible to work out what you're supposed to d
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by bennyelv 3y ago
When your system gets to a certain size, this is absolutely fatal. Please halt and throw a massive exception, shrugging and carrying on makes bugs impossible to track down and the whole system unpredictable. It’s a philosophy that might b
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by bennyelv 3y ago
You can almost guarantee that. Even if they don’t want to share it, a Freedom of Information request will force them to.
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by bennyelv 3y ago
In my experience it's simply down to convenience rather than malice. You have all your colleagues phone numbers, you know that a whatsapp is going to fire a notification that will get noticed whereas an email may not. Or that email wi
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by bennyelv 3y ago
Agreed - but only where it makes commercial sense to, and each of the layers of the company's IT platform may end up with different plans for integration and end goals for it. You probably don't want 10 different desktop hardware
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by bennyelv 3y ago
I think you’re correct - I worked there for about 5 years in the infrastructure engineering department. We had very rigorous processes around the underlying platform and keeping the operating systems and hardware up to date. They’re talkin
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by bennyelv 3y ago
I’ve already tried this - it worked great! Copy/paste my library of security questions and answers into GPT-4, copy paste the customer question, answers were as accurate as a human doing it!
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by bennyelv 3y ago
Quite - free soloing and eating bacon are on the same scale just at opposite ends of it. Neither can really be classed as committing suicide - it has an explicitly different intent.
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by bennyelv 3y ago
You spend at least 3 times as long going up the hill as you do going down it, and a reasonably fit person will be putting out the equivalent heat of an 800w-1000w heater during that period. This makes wearing protective gear impossible. I
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by bennyelv 3y ago
That first bit sounds like a very hot take to me - the headset quite literally blocks and intercepts the standard human signals for attention and emotional response and then tries to recreate them on an OLED screen with a CGI model. I can&#
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by bennyelv 3y ago
It’s not a completely valid comparison - the ski goggles are much closer to your face so have less of a moment on your neck. While the vision pro notionally looks like a set of goggles from the front, the side view shows that they’re just a
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by bennyelv 3y ago
You need to be specific about what legal jurisdiction you're talking about here then - the world is a very big place and different laws apply. I'm not aware of any EU wide laws that prevent what you're talking about here. In
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by bennyelv 3y ago
I don't think this is correct - even under the GDPR. If the company has good reason to look inside someone's mailbox (I don't think the bar for that is particularly high for a company email account) then any personal data th
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by bennyelv 3y ago
A very large proportion of the kind of health problems that limit your options in life significantly do not have guaranteed solutions no matter how much money you have. It’s probably more of a US problem when there are guaranteed solutions
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by bennyelv 3y ago
I can give an example - the ability to form a romantic relationship with someone without the risk that they’re just in it for your money.
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by bennyelv 3y ago
I couldn't remember if I'd played this mod - then I saw the teeth/mouth that surrounds the screen when you play on the alien team in one of the screenshots and it all came flooding back. Original HL had an absolutely awesome
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by bennyelv 3y ago
Law is a protected profession - you have to pass exams to be able to call yourself a Lawyer, and a law firm will verify that you have passed the relevant exams. Same for medicine, engineering... Any chump can call themselves a software en
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by bennyelv 3y ago
Correct - if you're enforcing a judgment in the UK, the cost of doing so gets paid by the defendant. The bailiffs will handle this themselves by seizing enough to cover the judgment amounts and their own costs. Once you have an order
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by bennyelv 3y ago
A perspective from the other side of the desk (playing devil's advocate here): There's a fundamental skill that a good programmer has to have, and that is to be able to take a novel problem that they haven't seen before and b
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by bennyelv 4y ago
Interestingly, I’ve experienced exactly the same thing, but the outcome is that I care very little about what people think would be an “age appropriate” approach to life and just optimise for maximum fulfilment right now, whatever form that
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by bennyelv 4y ago
It’s completely legal, even under GDPR. You need to have a grounds for processing personal data. Consent is the easiest one to defend, but there are other grounds available. One of those is “legitimate interest”, which if you’re using yo
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by bennyelv 4y ago
Agree 100% - I think it was due to an arrogance about the quality of the idea and the fact that "we knew" what was going to be best, and it would be damaging to hit the market without it "perfect" according to that visio
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by bennyelv 4y ago
A massive reluctance on behalf of my co-founders to actually take the product to customers, iterate on their feedback and get some paying customers in the door. Also competition in the same space who were making much better progress than us
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by bennyelv 4y ago
It could be because they're all planning for market conditions predicted by the same forecasts. Also if your strategy is to hire as many engineers as you can possibly afford so that you can keep up with or beat the competition, then if
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by bennyelv 4y ago
Maybe my experience is different to the author’s but I’ve encountered lots of unmaintainable incoherent mess and extremely little over-designed works of art. As such the message is very unfcomfortable. It’s fundamentally saying, don’t prema
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by bennyelv 4y ago
Application insights is amazing - I didn't realise how amazing until I had to try and achieve the same thing in the JavaScript/Node ecosystem.
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by bennyelv 4y ago
That’s a great theory, but do you have any evidence to support it? Otherwise it’s just conjecture…
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by bennyelv 4y ago
Interesting take from Mr Gorman. I wonder if he knows that when I worked at Morgan Stanley 10 years ago, I absolutely did choose to work remotely whenever I liked. My team was spread all over the world, I was in London and my boss was in

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