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by ecshafer 2y ago
Sort of, they changed it to a different username password that was the same on every box. So it wasn't easily findable from the internet but the same issue could have potentially happened again.
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by ecshafer 2y ago
Many many many years ago I worked at basically an MSP for telcos on the helpdesk. So customers would call their telco or isp for help and that would be routed to us. Anyways this one small isp with idk 10k customers had deployed their route
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by ecshafer 2y ago
I have seen a few rather large, production mongodb deployments. I don't understand how so many people chose it as their basis of their applications. There are a not-negligible amount of mongodb deployments I have seen that basically tr
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by ecshafer 2y ago
Once a year paradox releases a dlc. Its pretty reasonable. It only seems unreasonable if you jump in 15 years after.
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by ecshafer 2y ago
I am with you. I starting reading WoT in middle school, I think when about 8 or 9 books were out. I re-read that whole series multiple times in the last 20-25 years. The adaption is mind boggling, and the changes make absolutely no sense. T
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by ecshafer 2y ago
As a fan of the Wheel of Time and Lord of the Rings, this doesn't bode well.
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by ecshafer 2y ago
Have you spent a lot of time with children? My 2 year old went on a mental breakdown of a temper tantrum last night because she saw an apple on the tv, decided it meant she wanted an apple, and couldn't understand why she could not hav
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by ecshafer 2y ago
Luckily if these secrets are in Sharepoint, no one will be able to find them, so they are safe. The only discoverability I have seen work in Sharepoint, is the person who wrote something linking the document directly to a person in a pm.
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by ecshafer 2y ago
I don't really care about speed running, but I have played a ton of Diablo. That run is so obviously fake that I am astounded it was ever taken seriously. Getting that many stairs right next to each other in a row, then getting perfect
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by ecshafer 2y ago
Rust, which is a language I really enjoy, generates more social media outrage and religious wars than any other technical project I have been following for the past 20 years.
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by ecshafer 2y ago
I don't really know if this is a stupid idea or not, I don't really have hardware experience. But the older systems, say NES, SNES, Genesis etc are pretty simple systems. Patents also have a lifetime. Why aren't we getting re
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by ecshafer 2y ago
Vanguard's grand UI redesign was poorly done. At the time each team was responsible for some software product, and had a good ownership model. The issue imo was that the internal UI component library was poorly made and funded, and tha
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by ecshafer 2y ago
The first Hyperion book was great, Canterbury Tales in Space is a great concept and well done. The full series, I think Simmons couldn't really find a good satisfying ending.
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by ecshafer 2y ago
I can write a letter for propaganda purposes already. I can draw a picture of someone and say "This is the president doing a nefarious act!". They are confusing a tool possibly being used for a purpose as making the tool illegal a
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by ecshafer 2y ago
> Use AI to foster or advance deception. For example, the creation of deepfakes, chatbots, and voice clones that appear to represent people, events, and utterances that never existed or occurred would likely be deceptive.4 > Likewise,
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by ecshafer 2y ago
A Chinese company announcing this on Spring Festival eve, that is very surprising. The deep seek announcement must have put a fire under them. I am surprised anything is being done right now in these Chinese tech companies.
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by ecshafer 2y ago
I haven't thought about this much before, but I think it must be a myth. Going from the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_IBM wiki on the history of Wikipedia, there were "Computing machines" in t
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by ecshafer 2y ago
Do you think its a better place, or do the users think its a better place? Take political partisanship out of it. So its about a 30/30/40 breakdown between Trump/Harris/None. So 70% of people either Support or Don't
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by ecshafer 2y ago
> I live in a more rural community (moved from a big city). We have 5-6 small (~50k people) towns, all well connected. Everything happens on Facebook. I would like to move to a different platforms. Plus points for self-hosted, federated.
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by ecshafer 2y ago
A CTO of a startup might be coding day to day, making technology decisions, and have a team or two underneath them. In F500 or Corpro world, this is more like a engineering manager or tech lead. In most big companies a manager does zero cod
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by ecshafer 2y ago
They would be buying one of the largest amounts of user generated data in the world. Sounds good to train on.
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by ecshafer 2y ago
OP said he "Runs operations for an enterprise API". My guess is that they are running a team that manages an infrastructure platform which developers in their org target. My guess is that this involves a team which manages deploym
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by ecshafer 2y ago
I don't know if there is a somber write up. But from what I have heard from a lot of people, is that jobs designing and making say PCB boards and electronic circuits just don't exist. They are all in Shenzhen. Those American firms
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by ecshafer 2y ago
> Bullies are everywhere. One runs X. You deal with them. Elon Musk yells at people, I knew bullies in High school that would put people into the hospital. There is a big difference between being yelled at and getting hit with a baseball
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by ecshafer 2y ago
Everyone I know that was in EE falls into two camps basically: 1. Became web developers 2. Work in Defense or some other regulated industry that has protections from being outsourced to China
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by ecshafer 2y ago
I had numerous teachers that won local and regional teacher of the year awards that were, too put it bluntly, terrible at teaching. The actual pedagogical education that teachers receive is not good, and when you look at the rigor in their
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by ecshafer 2y ago
The lack of physical safety is caused by many things, and I doubt you can lay the blame on people complaining about wokeness. There are bullys, drug dealers, gangs, normal hormonal teenagers fighting, interpersonal drama, romance, poverty.
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by ecshafer 2y ago
I joke with my friends that one day I am going to get a job with Lockheed, Raytheon, etc. and be uncomfortably enthusiastic about the mission. Some sort of workplace live art project. However, I have luckily only worked at companies in my c
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by ecshafer 2y ago
The insanity, authoritarian impulse and incompetence of American University admins is very easy to believe for anyone who has interacted with them.
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by ecshafer 2y ago
This isn't an announcement of a project. This is more a statement of their philosophy and what they are doing. This is targeted towards people familiar with the project.

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