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by briffle 5y ago
I think its much less dinosaurs, and much more people who have a very large, vested interest in office real estate. Everything from people that own the building, and want to show that its worth the money they spent, to business magazines t
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by briffle 5y ago
Server knows the plaintext password already, too. Servers should NOT be storing passwords in plaintext, ever. This has been clear for at least 20 years now. You should only store a salted hash of a password, and please, do not rol
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by briffle 5y ago
In my area, the highest upload with comcast and DOCSIS3 is 15Mb/s, and only the gigabit plans. My 250Mb plan gets a wonderful 5Mb/s upload.its completely rediculous.
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by briffle 5y ago
Dude, its been this way since the mid 1990's at least....
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by briffle 5y ago
And USPS still handles more in a day that either of those two do in a year.
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by briffle 5y ago
I firmly believe that the whole "masks aren't necessary for ordinary people" was not based in any science at all, but because they were next to impossible to find, and they didn't want a panic. In my midsize town, with a
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by briffle 5y ago
So nobody got fired for buying IBM?
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by briffle 5y ago
Been a sysadmin for many years. Your right, for a few computers. Once you start getting into more than a quarter rack, you also need to start worrying about cooling (which also is lots of electricity) and usually things like ensuring the
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by briffle 5y ago
Or at least made optional. Do you want our health insurance plan, or an extra $1500/month to find your own on the open market would be an interesting way of looking at it. But either way, both your employer and your cost for health ins
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by briffle 5y ago
We are in the same boat. We are looking at the cloud, but the migration tools are just a pain. I can migrate a project to the cloud from Jira, and it even gives me a report of workflow transitions I have to manualy update/change to fi
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by briffle 5y ago
In addition, if the last 6 developers all left because they got offers 30% more, maybe that will finally be the push to raise salaries for their current employees that are still there. Also, most places I have worked will not allow manageme
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by briffle 5y ago
Same thing here. My grandfather was excited when his dad found some pallets 'that fell off the back of a truck' so they could have a floor for the tent they lived in outside Portland, and not see the rats. (funny when people in PD
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by briffle 5y ago
Yep, the rules were, for chip and pin fraud, the liablility was no longer on the retailer, but still was for swipe fraud. So there was a HUGE push from retail customers to get chip-and-pin in place to cut down on the amount of chargebacks,
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by briffle 5y ago
I keep about $500 in small bills hidden I’m my car. I have been on road trips where I have had car trouble, and the small town mechanic nearby only takes cash or local checks. When it happened, I had to get a ride to an ATM with an huge fe
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by briffle 5y ago
My kids enjoy playing outside after school with the other kids on our street after school. I understand your point, but my family wants the opposite.
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by briffle 5y ago
> Google, not the Thunderbird team, are to blame for why your Gmail password is the same as your Google Vault password, which is the same as your YouTube password, which is the same as the password you use to mark your phone as needing t
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by briffle 5y ago
That is kind of the basic ugly fact of the US system. If you want rights, you need to support others that you don't like having those same rights. There have been several times where they ACLU has stepped in on behalf of the KKK to ga
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by briffle 5y ago
I wonder, did the regular employees see their income go up 1000% in this same timespan?
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by briffle 5y ago
"You never know when you might need this info to debug" The developer says as their cronjob creates a 250MB csv file, and a few MB of debug logs per day, for the past few years. "Disk is cheap" they say. As a sysadmin,
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by briffle 5y ago
You mean they are using IP's as they were originally designed? Those people probably have NO conflicts or problems with things like video conferencing, VPN's, etc. NAT is a cludge, not a security feature.
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by briffle 5y ago
at what point did I talk about removing safety requirements? I said to reduce red tape. Things like peforming multiple regulatory approvals at the same time. (do you really need to wait for the environment review to finish before you start
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by briffle 5y ago
I think the residents of texas that had no power for days, or $15k residential bills would disagree with you. In fact, my co-worker in MN had their natural gas rates go up a very noticable jump this year due to losses the company had in te
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by briffle 5y ago
I would love to see them fund (and drastically cut back the red tape) for some of the newer reactor designs that are looking very promising, like Nuscale Power. I know they are working on new plant in Idaho, seems like it should be sped up
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by briffle 5y ago
I guess I have not understood why the port in Long Beach is the one all these ships pile into? Aren't there large ports in San Francisco/Oakland? and the entire Puget Sound? Or are they, but the media doesn't talk about them
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by briffle 5y ago
I don't think I have ever seen a major US office building where the printers were on an isolated network. They are usually on the same network as the workstations, but sometimes on the server network, so the print server can connect d
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by briffle 5y ago
I hear people always complaining about 'needless' changes like systemd over init. But I sure like how my modern database servers reboot in less than 30 seconds, vs 5-12 minutes when they were running RHEL 5. (yes, some of that i
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by briffle 5y ago
The fun thing is, they have corrected a bunch of that in newer versions of postgresql. I'm surprised that the problem stemmed from an index where the 'AND NOT NULL' took forevery to scan, and they didn't include a partia
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by briffle 5y ago
In my area, homes have doubled in the past 4 years since I bought my house. its great, seeing the neighbors sell their home for what seems like crazy money, except, while I could do that, I would then need to buy a home. Only way it makes
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by briffle 5y ago
And those police unions are exactly why in many cases, an officer gets to see ALL evidence and video about a situation, with a required rep or lawyer, before making an official statement in many jurisdictions. Something you and I certainly
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by briffle 5y ago
Maybe in your area. My hospital is literally putting people in the hallways because every bed is full.

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