bumblehean

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by bumblehean 8d ago
>and then you just sit there looking at the 3 dots indicating they're writing something. I know it's not exactly your point, but I turned off the "X is typing..." indicator in Slack and it made my day to day life at w
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by bumblehean 9d ago
I do this occasionally. But it's because my company's security org has a ridiculous policy enforcing 0 CVE images for anything running on our infra (including internal CI images). In some cases baking a dependency into an image is
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by bumblehean 10d ago
This. We have (well, had) customers running in me-south-1 and once the first AZ went down we wanted to proactively move their data to other regions even just as cold backups. But our legal department slapped that down pretty quickly.
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by bumblehean 13d ago
There are already numerous examples of law enforcement abusing data from Flock to track and stalk citizens who have done nothing wrong. There are already numerous examples of Flock misidentifying citizens as suspects of crimes and them bein
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by bumblehean 13d ago
This entire post seems like a strawman? What do Oakland or Skid Row have to do with people not wanting Flock cameras installed in their communities tracking all of their movements? I don't care about Flock tracking petty criminals, I c
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by bumblehean 18d ago
I'm reminded of a book I read a few years ago, Notes from an Apocalypse by Mark O'Connell, which discusses (among other things) the phenomenon of "prepper" culture.
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by bumblehean 19d ago
The cynical view would be that all of our politicians are already bought and paid for, and existing political establishments would block any "serious" candidates who support those sorts of policies. Personally I think that's
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by bumblehean 2mo ago
>Hours + Hours of reading and a lot of trial-and-error. The loop was so long and sooo slow. But that's how you learn...
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by bumblehean 2mo ago
I think there's a large middle ground between relocating somewhere undesirable (or to a developing country) just to stretch your money as far possible vs "keeping up with the Joneses". Even if your goal is financial independe
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by bumblehean 2mo ago
Many people across all income levels are really bad at dealing with personal finances and long-term financial planning.
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by bumblehean 3mo ago
> Are we discussing Steve Jobs in 1985? Steve Jobs left because he lost a corporate power struggle. Sam Altman was fired because the board thought he was too fundamentally untrustworthy to remain as CEO (if we're to believe their st
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by bumblehean 5mo ago
Hugs going out to the teams at Instructure working to fix this. I've been through a similar Ransomware attack (national news stories, lots of customers dead in the water, etc.), and it's about as bad a situation you can wind up in
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by bumblehean 5mo ago
It's going to depend on the type of team and environment you work in. Probably on how senior you are as well. If your boss asks you for specific documents and expects a quick turnaround, and you regularly take 3 weeks or whatever to pr
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by bumblehean 5mo ago
Why wouldn't they?
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by bumblehean 6mo ago
>Is Azure really this unreliable? There are concrete numbers in this blog. For those who use Azure, does it match your external experience? IME, yes. I'm currently working as an SRE supporting a large environment across AWS, Azure,
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by bumblehean 6mo ago
AWS me-south-1 got hit (again) earlier today.
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by bumblehean 6mo ago
Firing someone for an honest mistake is a great way to make all of your employees afraid to push changes out of concern that they'll be next (although to be fair this was a pretty big mistake). Things like this are usually a systemic f
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by bumblehean 6mo ago
>before I went to elite companies, where it is quite normal for people to live-and-breath software, at almost all hours. Honest question: Do they actually _want_ to live-and-breathe software, or do they work in a highly competitive and h
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by bumblehean 7mo ago
>It is true IF you live and work in the Bay Area, Seattle, and TLV - which represent the bulk of tech industry employment. Is that actually true (the bulk of people in the tech industry are working in "big tech" or startups)? I
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by bumblehean 8mo ago
Same here. A local grocery store and several other local businesses got bought out and demolished so Amazon could build a new Fresh store. I guess Amazon pulled out of the project halfway through, since for the last ~2 years there's be
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by bumblehean 8mo ago
This is why you shouldn't waste your money on expensive "consultants" like this guy. We've had 100% success in reducing Dependabot noise by disabling it in our repos. Why should we pay this guy to configure it for us and
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by bumblehean 9mo ago
Aren't the shape/size/placement/etc. of human teeth fairly unique across different individuals? At least unique enough to use dental records to identify bodies. I don't see if mentioned in TFA, but if new human teet
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by bumblehean 10mo ago
Sure I'll go suggest that to my C-suite lol
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by bumblehean 10mo ago
>The thing to do is to monitor your dependencies and their published vulnerabilities, and for critical vulnerabilities to assess whether your product is affect by it. Only then do you need to update that specific dependency right away. T
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by bumblehean 10mo ago
"When Zork arrived, it didn’t just ask players to win; it asked them to imagine" Literally the first sentence.
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by bumblehean 10mo ago
>Welcome to America where you must watch the kid every second until they turn 18 This must be a regional thing? I live in New England and I always see kids out and about with no adults around supervising. Especially from 1-3PM on weekday
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by bumblehean 1y ago
Interesting! I'll be sure to ask my doctor about those options
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by bumblehean 1y ago
I really wish my body could tolerate stimulants. I tried the major ones (Adderall, Ritalin, Vyvanse, Concerta, etc.). They all made dealing with ADHD significantly easier, but even at the lowest doses they turned me into an extremely anxiou
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by bumblehean 1y ago
> You can get work done in 1/2 of the time it used to. Now you got 1/2 of the day to just mess around. Socialize or network. This has never been the case in any company I've ever worked at. Even if you can finish your day&
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by bumblehean 1y ago
> They provide a tagging system but it's only informative if someone spends several hours a month tracking down the stuff that didn't get tagged properly. The way to deal with this is with an org-level Service Control Policy th

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