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by devonkim 3y ago
FWIW, more debugging information in an IAM failure is another round of information available to me as an attacker. If such a service existed available to the customer this also becomes potentially available to an attacker. In fact, it may w
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by devonkim 3y ago
And that’s part of the problem IME from the customer side. Many of the largest pockets come from those with the worst technical debt and cultural issues of past mistakes and trends all done precisely while trying to avoid said mistakes. Whi
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by devonkim 3y ago
I’m a big proponent of leveraging Amdahl’s Law in social policies and that freedom of movement should be promoted culturally given the nature of markets to solve a lot of problems although we have serious gaming and regulatory capture issue
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by devonkim 3y ago
I'm not disagreeing that throwing money at bad schools won't really help is the thing although it might seem like that's where my line of thinking may lead. Heck, usually more money at schools from what I've seen ranges
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by devonkim 3y ago
One of the key problems in the US funding system is that population clustering effects will cause exacerbating effects where people of increasingly similar socioeconomic and cultural strata all stick together - of course this will cause ris
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by devonkim 3y ago
You'd be better using South Korea as an example rather than France these days. To add more context, South Korea is an incredibly, incredibly corrupt country that sends its exiting president to prison to the extent that I joke that we n
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by devonkim 3y ago
We’re looking at a stagflation situation now where prices go up and wages and even underlying assets are supposed to be going down (cars and technically houses given they both depreciate as durable goods go).
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by devonkim 3y ago
I studied and played classical into college during my engineering degree and have some insight into the realities of the profession - it's much harder than that and the pay for those stable gigs are oftentimes less than $300 / mon
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by devonkim 3y ago
There is a huge difference between the arguments I'm seeing for large groups of people disagreeing completely upon what people have control over, which very quickly devolves into what control and rules we should exert upon others. Ther
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by devonkim 3y ago
The customer is the shareholders, silly Wait a second, tech stocks are down like crazy for most of us. Fat good that did for us all as employees. Clearly raising interest rates isn't the kind of silver bullet that economists hoped it&#
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by devonkim 3y ago
Part of the problem is that most human beings are fairly wired through various selection criteria and conditioning to accept even maladaptive behaviors through mimetics. The people that seem to quickly go against societal rules for whatever
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by devonkim 3y ago
A lot of people talk about the inefficiencies of government with lots of cushy career bureaucrats that are lazy. In truth, US government federal employees get substantially worse benefits and protections than private sector EU companies whi
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by devonkim 3y ago
The $100k is one figure I saw for the whole district but looks like they got it for $20k list each for a stationary one according to this article https://www.nbc12.com/2021/09/16/manassas-public-schools-use...
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by devonkim 3y ago
Not necessarily high confidence but certainly worth exploring given the minuscule costs compared to many, many other expenses, a local school district bought classroom air filters for about $100k each and had dramatically lower COVID relate
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by devonkim 3y ago
It’s usually political in nature I’ve noticed when being that specific and that would be Reagan’s first time. I go much further back than that to even prior to the Southern Strategy. It’s a tad of a red herring to look at a presidential ter
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by devonkim 3y ago
The test has a number of fairly loose factors that are explained to the candidate as more about approach and communication than a “correct” answer (although don’t keep sitting and wallowing about a particular problem like the Python GIL for
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by devonkim 3y ago
I came up with the term myself which is why you can't find it but I also half expected someone to have named it as well. Because "manners" or "nice" is a mostly culturally-loaded or very subjective term I wanted to
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by devonkim 3y ago
There are certainly unfamiliar people judging me and my coworkers when there’s an outage involving customers of various levels, yes. And in a previous company sadly yes we have had people let go for poorly handling incidents that resulted i
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by devonkim 3y ago
I've said before to other technical folks that the interview process in tech is more a measure of ability to handle anxiety and stress than whether one can solve problems competently and gracefully. Granted, in my current role I make i
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by devonkim 3y ago
I look back at myself and the kind of cringe responses (and questions!) I had earlier in my career and for the most part the interviewers were right to reject me but not necessarily on the basis of technical merit (or lack thereof). On a lo
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by devonkim 3y ago
Not exactly on brand for him to be modest though, so I don’t imagine it would be suggested except maybe as an April Fool’s Day joke
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by devonkim 3y ago
The founders of the US didn’t want it to become like England. England gave special tax breaks for churches and churches became very, very influential parts of the State due to tax policy alone. As such, the idea was that if churches are tax
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by devonkim 3y ago
Know of someone that paid money to have his seatbelt systems become non-functional basically. Basically yes - they hate being told what to do and will rebel harder. So maybe for these folks we should have a campaign to use even more fossil
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by devonkim 3y ago
I’m guessing PassKeys / WebAuthn rolling out everywhere but at the same time not every site will get it I know. After all, there’s still sites in 2023 that ask users to limit their password length to 16 and only use certain characters.
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by devonkim 3y ago
Using the wrong register is a form of humor as well just like in English and other languages but with different impact due to the politeness level being so important to the syntactic structure just like in Japanese. Being overly polite or u
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by devonkim 3y ago
IME most sushi places in the US in particular are operated by Koreans, not Japanese.
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by devonkim 3y ago
It’s for both reasons. If you have a separate refrigerator you might as well optimize it for the stuff you’re trying to store. Think wine refrigerators in the West.
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by devonkim 3y ago
I believe the 고추가루 was derived from a Portuguese chili plant which explains the timing. Why Japan didn’t go for more spiciness is not clear. Lots of Korean recipes seem to have parallels with Szechuan cooking methods and approaches (read: l
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by devonkim 3y ago
There’s various macro extensions and plugins available including .NET but these options tend to have a long history of horrible security problems because they are general purpose languages. While possible to crash spreadsheets with simple f
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by devonkim 3y ago
A long time ago I remember people saying that JavaScript is the most popular language that programmers don’t learn. A language with a sufficiently low bar for mass adoption by non-programmers in theory should be useful without needing to kn

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