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by donalhunt 3y ago
Some autistic people are gestalt language processors so they think and use words / sentences in a different manner to the general population.
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by donalhunt 3y ago
"Made in Ireland." Any more information about the team behind this?
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by donalhunt 3y ago
OpenStreetMap editors are just as passionate as Wikipedia editors. :)
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by donalhunt 3y ago
I hope no-one takes this seriously with something as lazy as this: > Create an IAM user with AdministratorAccess and export the access key as environment variables.
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by donalhunt 3y ago
The OpenStreetMap community decided to go the discourse route after a review of requirements and options available. See https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Community_forum Talk about discourse for OpenStreetMap: https
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by donalhunt 3y ago
Falsehoods programmers believe about time https://gist.github.com/timvisee/fcda9bbdff88d45cc9061606b4b... And more complete list: https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood?tab=readme-ov...
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by donalhunt 3y ago
Had a very similar experience with a bank few years ago. I filed an official complaint because it was not possible to verify the caller was authentic. Can you guess what happened next? Yep... The complaints team cold called me and requested
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by donalhunt 3y ago
Some small pieces of the bridge still exist. See https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/medieval-london-bridge My son and I made a point of visiting it when we were in London last year. Was a tad disappointing to see it s
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by donalhunt 3y ago
It's a common misconception that the OpenStreetMap project provides free map tile resources for use by others. The focus of the project is the map data. https://operations.osmfoundation.org/policies/tiles/
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by donalhunt 3y ago
Had a very similar experience when I requested a Private Enterprise Number (PEN) in the early 00s. I was doing some experimentation with LDAP, mailman and identity based encryption and needed some OIDs to support my undergraduate project wo
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by donalhunt 3y ago
The way this was communicated to me in the past was "don't say/write anything using company resources that you don't want to see on the front of <insert major news publisher>". All communications on employer-o
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by donalhunt 3y ago
There's "implementations" that allows them to satisfy the requirement and then there are usable implementations. User experience is not great in some cases.
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by donalhunt 3y ago
https://www.eirgrid.ie/industry/interconnection Realtime information of imports /exports: https://www.eirgrid.ie/grid/real-time-system-information
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by donalhunt 3y ago
The source of the maps is OpenStreetMap. These maps just expose the data contained in OpenStreetMap to highlight infrastructure components/ connections. So any of the OpenStreetMap editors can be used to contribute.
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by donalhunt 3y ago
I've seen memes where SREs complain they have just become YAML engineers. :(
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by donalhunt 3y ago
GDPR has a provision to correct information stored by organisations. It may get interesting once they believe you are dead though because GDPR only applies to living people. :/
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by donalhunt 3y ago
Have also seen cases where this extends the contract period for the customer because a change was made to the account. /grimmace
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by donalhunt 3y ago
This. I see this as purely an attempt to influence AWS in lowering the barriers of migrating between clouds. But also makes sense for those who want the option to test the waters with no downside.
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by donalhunt 3y ago
When dealing with incidents where there is no clear root cause, it's often advisable to implement guard rails to reduce the likelihood and/or impact of a repeat occurrence. As a result, this seems like a sane change.
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by donalhunt 3y ago
Eurostar has had airport-style security for long time (maybe always?). Definitely 10+ years anyway.
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by donalhunt 3y ago
Did Prague to Brussels in one day (~ 12 hours) in 2010 and everything just worked. One connection in Frankfurt airport (it has a train station) and it was cheaper than flying. Will need to check how I bought the ticket but do know it was bo
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by donalhunt 3y ago
Funnily, the same approach is often used for acoustic / noise issues. Add music / other sources of sound to try and mask the acoustics issue (unsuccessfully).
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by donalhunt 3y ago
I suspect that we will see that from more companies going forward… My current employer has stopped paying bonuses in stock. I think this is related to the cost of such programs when interest rates are higher and a focus on managing the stoc
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by donalhunt 3y ago
The "Apple" approach? At least with apple it usually means new stuff is coming…
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by donalhunt 3y ago
One would hope that there would be consequences for the directors/owners of The Blockchain Group. In many countries, this would put a flag against the individuals and/or have implications for other companies they are connected to.
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by donalhunt 3y ago
Non-profits suffer the same fate where they get credits but have to pay rack rate with no discounts. As a result, running a simple WordPress website uses most of the credits.
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by donalhunt 3y ago
> Ops feels like the world is on fire because the world is always on fire This gave me a chuckle. :)
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by donalhunt 3y ago
I believe that is indeed a good guide for when it makes sense to have a SRE team supporting a service or product (with the caveat that the number probably isn't $1MM). There are also good patterns for ensuring you actually have adequat
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by donalhunt 3y ago
https://github.com/onlurking/awesome-infosec
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by donalhunt 3y ago
DARPA are funding the Robust Optical Clock Network (ROCkN) program, which aims to create optical atomic clocks with low size, weight, and power (SWaP) that yield timing accuracy and holdover better than GPS atomic clocks and can be used out

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