bpchaps

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by bpchaps 11y ago
An ungodly amount of reasons. The ability to manage that many, for one. Those poor devops folk who have to deal with that. On a more technical side as an example, the number of open files can only be so high. You really start to hit the lim
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by bpchaps 11y ago
My only concern with that, from personal experience, is that groups like HIPAA tend to be about as dismissive, but often significantly more. But you're right. If I don't get a decent response by tomorrow mid-afternoon, I'll r
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by bpchaps 11y ago
Not sure if it needs to get to that point yet. I'd like to do this civilly first and more aggressively with complaints like that only if necessary.
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by bpchaps 11y ago
Oh trust me, I get it. There's definitely a middle ground, though. If you want to know locked down, my last place locked down icmp between vlans for security reasons. Ironically, it's what got me to learn nmap. It was also hell. :
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by bpchaps 11y ago
Absolutely. I have zero interest in letting this go. :)
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by bpchaps 11y ago
Tell me about it. Then there's the incredible feeling of frustration when you're close to the perfect shot... and then your muscles start to run out of oxygen and build up lactic acid..... 7 seconds in. I've never had to wal
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by bpchaps 11y ago
Schools are pretty bad, too, who are strongly enforced by federal security policies. Recently I had an fMRI done as part of a research program at North Western and had to sign a bunch of paperwork where it was said that my data would be sec
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by bpchaps 11y ago
It's a very large French bank. I don't know anything except that it was a paired batch processing server and didn't push further questions, honestly. For some reason, I found absolutely nothing in the news about it, but my so
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by bpchaps 11y ago
Sometimes I would actually use my heartbeats to help with shooting. It tended to do a sideways figure 8 pattern, so it was "just" a matter of learning when the sights would lead towards a good place and sometimes even pulling the
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by bpchaps 11y ago
I used to do competitive shooting back in the day. I got 4th in nationals in overall and first in JROTC overall for my last ever competition. I was only a few points away from being olympic quality and actually turned down a full ride schol
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by bpchaps 11y ago
Right. I wasn't really commenting on whether git/linux were coded "correctly" in either case, just that it's not a very helpful metric for the larger conversation.
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by bpchaps 11y ago
That's awesome. A company I left a while back recently had two servers accidentally rebooted through sort of automated task (probably puppet). The fine, I'm told, was one billion dollars. Someway, somehow, he still works there. :)
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by bpchaps 11y ago
Nah, I totally get it. It's still incredibly frustrating, especially considering it only broke after spending three hours fixing an issue that pacman itself caused. I'm definitely in the works of finding a new distro. :)
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by bpchaps 11y ago
Offtopic-ish, but the 2015 model recently had its sound completely demolished by a kernel release in arch. The only fixes are to either downgrade the kernel or recompile it with a flag. Both fixes are annoying as all hell and there doesn&#x
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by bpchaps 11y ago
Dang, last time I worked with one of those agencies, they never got back to me. Still hopeful! ;)
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by bpchaps 11y ago
Offtopic (sorry) - why is it that I can't read this short article in full in one screen on a 4k monitor? And why is it that when I move my mouse around, I get about 10 different places where a mini dialogue pops up? Somebody needs to m
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by bpchaps 11y ago
Wow, cynical much? I've been running linux professionally as a sysadmin for going on 10 years now and have had more consistent and mindfuckingly time wasting issues in the past year than I've had in the past five years. "That
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by bpchaps 11y ago
I think it's a bit more than that, but overall I agree with what you're saying. Package managers, config managers and popular distros have been getting to me more and more lately because of their lack of understanding of polish or
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by bpchaps 11y ago
I never understood the whole sexual harassment thing in tech. Don't get me wrong, I understand how awful the entire situation is, but it sounds much more like a systemic issue than an issue that simply affects tech. The whole idea that
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by bpchaps 11y ago
So. Much. Advertisement. I got about a 5th of the way in, started skimming and found nothing but fat in a nearly meatless article and a whole lot of ferrari stroking. This author needs to learn how to condense his words to get his message a
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by bpchaps 11y ago
Oh, stop :p "$ find git -name .c -type f | xargs fgrep '{' | wc -l" 19288 "$ find linux -name .c -type f | xargs fgrep '{' | wc -l" 1408368
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by bpchaps 11y ago
Stephen Fry has bipolar and is very aware of what it means to be "triggered" and the incredibly adverse effects it can have an effect on his well being. Being called something bad or offended isn't always black and white. I&#
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by bpchaps 11y ago
It's almost as if opinions are complicated things! :D Stephen Fry and I share similar mental health issues (bipolar), and one of the things that comes with this awful disease is that "triggers" exist for us in unexpected and
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by bpchaps 11y ago
Yep! Check this out. I'm not the owner of the site, but it's pretty indicative of the situation in Chicago and blows my mind away. I didn't see any news from this, either. http://thamovement1.blogspot.com/2015
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by bpchaps 11y ago
By pretending it's the still the golden age of the internet and use physical servers in those locations. You might have to hire some admins, though ;).
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by bpchaps 11y ago
I'm not sure why you wouldn't consider this noteworthy. No, the effects aren't directly measurable. But why does this necessarily need to be an academic persuit? Trust me, I completely understand why purity of information&#x2
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by bpchaps 11y ago
Ah! Fair enough. I'm mostly aiming my aggression towards US schools.
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by bpchaps 11y ago
Replying to your edit - It sounds like you're an exception and a smart person, then. No sarcasm there. The problem with being exceptional is that you tend to think of everybody else as exceptional, so the ones who'll naturally fai
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by bpchaps 11y ago
I agree. Just so long as we don't mandate a degree for everyone. A friend of mine works in non-tech recruiting. Just about every job they post requires a degree. Their understanding of the world now leans towards the idea that getting
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by bpchaps 11y ago
I'm not necessarily saying that school is useless and that my choice was the best one. I'm saying that there are alternatives that work but are never talked about. I'm saying that "I didn't go to college", shou

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