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by dopylitty 2y ago
> But completely eliminating planned on-call rotations is not part of the goal. It certainly should be. You want your app supported 24x7 then pay for three shifts. If the government won’t make it a law then IT workers can make it a deman
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by dopylitty 2y ago
This only makes sense if emergencies are strictly defined. For instance "don't come to the office there's a bear inside" is an emergency. "the crud app you support fell over" is not an emergency. If the latter
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by dopylitty 2y ago
It would help if people stopped calling it "AI" and called it what it is which is enterprise document search, a thing that has existed forever and which these new tools are just poorly controllable version of. Would you enable a s
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by dopylitty 2y ago
In my experience calls rarely have a definite end. "Quick" calls often turn into 30 minutes or an hour of the colleague talking about things unrelated to the issue they wanted to discuss originally. In the office I've had peo
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by dopylitty 2y ago
Except they barely work for cars[0] and don’t work at all for pedestrians[1] 0: https://newsroom.aaa.com/2022/09/braking-bad-automatic-emerg... 1: https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a26469713&#
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by dopylitty 2y ago
>They are typically not the cause but a symptom of a failing company. This isn't true in most cases. PE has killed many profitable companies by taking deliberate steps which resulted in the companies directing their incomes to servi
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by dopylitty 2y ago
They aren't trying to run the businesses. They're trying to extract the value from the businesses. What happens to the business afterwards and what happens to the businesses customers in the process is not important because they&#
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by dopylitty 2y ago
I've been reading a book called "Plunder"[0] which covers private equity's impact on several sectors including eldercare, medical, housing, finance, and retail. It lays out how the PE firms' MO is to destroy compani
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by dopylitty 2y ago
This is a nice idea but the problem isn't the individuals in the system but the system itself. As long as shareholder value/profit is the only factor companies consider this is the end result you will get. Management is just makin
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by dopylitty 2y ago
Most of America could be considered a developing country. Only a few places in the Northeast and West Coasts along with isolated cities in the interior really qualify as modern when you look at metrics like good governance, maternal mortali
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by dopylitty 2y ago
Or don't use an OS at all. We need to think about minimizing the use of software in critical infrastructure. If that means less efficiency because you have to be near something to maintain it then so be it. That would be good for jobs
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by dopylitty 2y ago
Yes
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by dopylitty 2y ago
I read that curl recently added sigv4 for what that’s worth[0] 0: https://how.wtf/aws-sigv4-requests-with-curl.html
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by dopylitty 2y ago
This sounds a bit like someone just got ran over by a truck because the driver couldn’t see them so people ask why trucks are so big that they’re dangerous and the response is “you just don’t know how trucks work” rather than “yeah maybe dr
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by dopylitty 2y ago
Maybe if all the profit seeking entities were removed from healthcare that money could instead go to the development of useful offline systems. Maybe a handheld device for scanning in drugs or entering procedure information that stores the
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by dopylitty 2y ago
It was Windows in this case but nothing is stopping it from happening with any other widely used system that gets online updates. CrowdStrike has root on Linux/MacOS as well after all. The problem is relying on networked computers for
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by dopylitty 2y ago
Another vote for the book linked in the article. It gets into the history of how machines were introduced into the textile industry in England. Wealthy mill owners forced child laborers to run the machines while simultaneously making the ar
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by dopylitty 2y ago
Paul’s great but this is a little outdated. The variant in Colorado has both alpha-2,3 and alpha-2,6[0] 0: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07766-6
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A New Way to Look at Networking (2007) [video](youtube.com)
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by dopylitty 2y ago
That's one reason the in office vs remote debate is challenging. Working in person with others can be beneficial some times for collaboration and socialization but if it requires a dangerous and environmentally devastating car based
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by dopylitty 2y ago
I’d take it a step further. If a technology is impossible to secure it shouldn’t be used. Maybe it’s time to rethink all the parts of our lives we’ve handed over to software.
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by dopylitty 2y ago
Not only that they blew $8 billion/year on dividends that could've gone into the business or to employees instead of being extracted and given to people who have nothing to do with the business.
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by dopylitty 2y ago
It’s a little more complicated than that. I’ve run into many instances where a particular Action involves many different Resources. If you’re trying to do fine grained permissions you have to know every resource that might end up in the req
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by dopylitty 2y ago
The article seems to conflate sex and gender while the study is paywalled so I can't tell how they defined male and female. The study does seem specific to sex and doesn't mention gender at all in the abstract. Without those defin
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by dopylitty 2y ago
> the pool of available CPU/Memory resources is effectively unlimited. This isn't true. Every CPU you use is sitting in a physical server somewhere. Every server is sitting in a rack in a building that's sitting on land th
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by dopylitty 2y ago
Python's default REPL is godawful. It's also just not designed for the kind of console work that PowerShell excels at because you have to do things like managing file handles rather than just getting the file content and piping it
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by dopylitty 2y ago
> If you are a 50 year old Fortune500 that was cargo culted into "we must migrate to cloud", it turns out that lift-and-shift to VMs is hideously expensive. But also, re-architecting 50 years of internal software is also hideou
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by dopylitty 2y ago
I think you're looking for the Tailscale subnet router[0] 0: https://tailscale.com/kb/1019/subnets
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by dopylitty 2y ago
Sometimes it feels like the pursuit of digitization has actually made them less efficient and lower quality overall. Instead of just having a doctor providing medical care and a government giving them a check suddenly you have a thousand pr
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by dopylitty 2y ago
Does anyone really believe it's possible for regular enterprises and government agencies to improve computer security to the extent that it's impossible to be attacked? Event CISA was owned due to one of the many Ivanti bugs[0] Th

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