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by devonkim 4y ago
Via healthcare.gov and COBRA from living in a state that dragged its feet maliciously and a prior employer in a really poor state with an awful risk pool for a family of two adults that cost me $1500 / month for mediocre coverage in 20
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by devonkim 4y ago
DDR5 JEDEC specification includes essentially a form of ECC so it may not be _as_ big of a deal for many users. It also means that setups on AM5 will have some level of ECC handling functionality on both the chipset and the CPU.
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by devonkim 4y ago
This is a flame graph I'd be interested in seeing from him on April Fool's Day
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by devonkim 4y ago
I do have it hanging in my office rather than my bedroom. I wouldn't recommend putting it in the bedroom unless one's spouse is also a sysadmin.
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by devonkim 4y ago
I think Brendan is still peeved that this video is his most viewed video on Youtube even after all this time.
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by devonkim 4y ago
This is fingerprinting across different identities which is a form of discovery. It’s why I have separate ssh keys for work and personal projects in the first place to better avoid associations across different online identities (with the f
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by devonkim 4y ago
And for the 20th anniversary it sounds like the project could use some better architecture to protect against a DDoS despite using Cloudflare. I'll be sure to donate somehow given it's been a big part of my life and I've sadl
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by devonkim 4y ago
Not intimately familiar with how text search works in indexing but in most Romanized / Latin script text determiners, articles, etc. are space separated from the nouns which can be confusing and introduce state into queries due to the
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by devonkim 4y ago
There’s another reason that’s a bit older but there’s a line item in section 404 of SOX called “segregation of duties” which many bureaucrats interpreted to mean “developers must not have access to production” when that’s not what the regul
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by devonkim 4y ago
Errors in a system are correlated with usage but a large part of our jobs as engineers is to reduce that correlation very, very hard. In organizations at even low scale I’ve had horrible levels of page outs (2-3 per night typical) but it me
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by devonkim 4y ago
The studies so far show that people are stressed a bit more when on call even when not likely to be called. I know for a fact that being on call can raise stress levels but I think there are many variables that should be considered to balan
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by devonkim 4y ago
FWIW, South Korea is quite corrupt as a system (all its presidents have gone to jail following their term minus one who was jailed already by a previous administration) yet is able to operate its nuclear reactors fine at high safety levels.
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by devonkim 4y ago
The small nuclear reactor designs by NuScale are commercially viable and are going to be approved by the nuclear regulatory commission rather soon. Thorium isn’t as important as the small and modular aspects. Also Gen IV and breeder reactor
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by devonkim 4y ago
Oh yes, BMCs can certainly be patched but I had the security issue long after the last patch for the motherboard was released so it really comes down to the manufacturer support level as usual. HP likely does better than Supermicro which li
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by devonkim 4y ago
Cheap, sustainable power is in the interest of most governments that haven’t been essentially paid off to stay on fossil fuels. But because the existing tech is more invested in various political campaigns and parties across most of the wor
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by devonkim 4y ago
For one thing a lot of BMCs are not the easiest to secure and at least KVM devices like a Spider or PiKVM can be patched so that these network accessible devices aren’t so easy to own remotely. A number of BMCs can start advertising and rou
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by devonkim 4y ago
It’s not 100% foolproof but just a rough guide because demolition and waste disposal costs are non-zero. For someone else to use the land my house sits on someone would need to deal with the asbestos likely in various walls. Additionally, t
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by devonkim 4y ago
SomethingAwful still keeps running along although site activity is probably nowhere near its peak. But that may be better off given the remaining users tend to offer higher signal to noise ratio in post content and the members have mostly m
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by devonkim 4y ago
It’s not just medical schools but the entire pipeline from there into professional accreditation by limiting residency programs working with Congress to cap them as part of Medicare legislation / funding. It’s only recently that the AM
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by devonkim 4y ago
I think there’s a lot of disagreements about what people think is desirable in a language in the first place and then start complaining without understanding the design concepts that shaped its creation nor even agree the problems are even
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by devonkim 4y ago
Well this part of the whole liberal fantasies of decently well-meaning intent but absolutely the opposite results. In fact, because the people that came up with the agenda were wealthy themselves they had trouble imagining the full breadth
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by devonkim 4y ago
"Weakness" is a matter of dimensionalities and nuance and isn't a binary state of any sort. For example, many men with horrible self esteem issues make up for their inferiority complexes through exercise and then project onto
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by devonkim 4y ago
Years ago I read about what the purpose behind all these liberal arts programs in universities were meant for and it started to click that the intent was in good faith and not out of elitism or anything like that. The intent was to democrat
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by devonkim 4y ago
I think it really depends upon a number of factors but even pretty smart people can make stupid mistakes, especially when it comes to security in AWS. I’m familiar with several cases where engineers fired up old AMIs and got the instances c
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by devonkim 4y ago
Another approach is to only run credentials that are ephemeral, which is sort of what most SSO systems will do for cloud IAM. Instance profiles using IDMSv2 work as well, too. However some malware out there only needs a few seconds of dwell
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by devonkim 4y ago
Source code has issues with obfuscation methodologies that can defeat a lot of techniques. It’s why companies are trying to build more analysis down into the kernel such as via EBPF. For example, concatenating a series of strings and charac
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by devonkim 4y ago
Tunisia's natural resources and trade position on the global stage is not very clear and also matters because countries that also focus upon education that have whatever natural resources also include Iceland where many people emigrate
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by devonkim 4y ago
Most of the criticisms seem to be around BGP and network management. What I’m seeing here that also is important is that the change was applied to a DC where the route change didn’t trigger the defect. In essence, this is also due to a very
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by devonkim 4y ago
As an infrastructure engineer it is my job IMO to provide tooling, information, and services to reduce cognitive overhead for my peers and customers. For my job wouldn’t exist unless we had software to deliver in the first place. Utilizing
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by devonkim 4y ago
I understand this but there’s a huge gulf of nuance between expecting hand holding and keeping your head down while bad management expects great work output and results despite problems of their individual failures either.

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