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by eloff 4y ago
Why would it be? All careers with leverage seem to follow a Pareto distribution. It would surprise me if any sport, art, or creative endeavor was normally distributed.
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by eloff 4y ago
A very human thing is to say I don’t need to change and then rationalize it in some way. I think that’s what you’re doing here. Talking a pause before escalating with something hurtful could only be helpful, no matter if it’s “Less real” an
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by eloff 4y ago
I’d be better off in my relationships if I could master that technique.
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by eloff 4y ago
I think applying actual engineering wisdom to software in this case is a mistake. Nobody writes an automated test for a bug and then deletes it once the bug is fixed. You wrote the test in the first place so you get alerted when there is a
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by eloff 4y ago
This sounds like a Kafka novel. I can see why you left.
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by eloff 4y ago
Cryptocurrency is a useful proxy for people behaving badly. Maybe because it’s unregulated, maybe because it was such an easy target for grifters of all sorts.
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by eloff 4y ago
> Right. The author missed this as one of the major attack vectors that this aims to protect against. Did you read the article? He mentioned that right upfront.
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by eloff 4y ago
You don’t though. Your risk calculation is the same.
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by eloff 4y ago
Medical masks are not a symbol of anything. They’re a legitimate way to lower the risk of spreading germs from your own mouth and nose. They’re also marginally useful at keeping germs out. The fact that they got politicized in the USA is mo
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by eloff 4y ago
That’s an interesting attack vector. Bribe someone to replace the disk without wiping it, and be in a position to intercept it after that.
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by eloff 4y ago
The author is not talking about getting someone with physical access. He’s talking about bribing someone with software access to your disks, who can access the data, regardless of the encryption settings.
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by eloff 4y ago
The author is talking specifically about AWS. The odds that there is a mistake decommissioning the disk that leaves the data intact, times that somebody salvaged it from a landfill, times that they care about your data is basically zero. Wh
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by eloff 4y ago
I wouldn’t do that. You’d lose a lot people. As it is, take home assignments cost me a lot on the risk/reward scale.
194.
by eloff 4y ago
That’s a better deal than college :)
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by eloff 4y ago
AWS keys are ascii (hex encoded iirc), but they have so much entropy you could never guess it to reverse the hash.
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by eloff 4y ago
You're not going to crack a hash for an API key. Not even with MD5. Long random strings are the worst case scenario for trying to reverse a hash.
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by eloff 4y ago
I think what this means is AI assistance during interviews may be enough to fool the interviewer. This may finally put an end to remote leet code interviews. Companies with deep pockets and local companies will probably stick to the status
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by eloff 4y ago
Excess power would have to be very sporadic, too sporadic to offset fossil fuel generation - in which case it’s too sporadic to justify capital expenditure for electrolysis and hydrogen production. I just don’t see it.
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by eloff 4y ago
Exactly, which is nothing compared to how much water a human uses per day for other purposes. The volume is so small here.
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by eloff 4y ago
In Arabia and North Africa it makes more sense to use the solar to displace fossil fuel derived energy than to produce hydrogen - again if you want hydrogen and you’re burning fossil fuels for electricity it makes no sense to use the electr
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by eloff 4y ago
The volumes are tiny compared to desalination. Freshwater is worth much less than hydrogen.
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by eloff 4y ago
Yes, exactly this. These membranes will foul and need replacing. I don’t see why anyone would use this over freshwater. There’s plenty of freshwater available in many places. It literally runs into the ocean. You just don’t build one of the
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by eloff 4y ago
I doubt it, much less a problem than with desalination, volume wise.
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by eloff 4y ago
The sediment migration was part of what was being studied here, so maybe they will mitigate it somewhat. I’m not super optimistic given our mining record on land. Still the deep ocean is mostly a desert, and it’s massive, so I think we can
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by eloff 4y ago
Doesn’t surface mining also do that?
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by eloff 4y ago
I wasn't aware actually. I was under the mistaken impression that their progress has only been possible because they were using state of the art lasers. This could actually be possible then, and far sooner than magnetic containment fus
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by eloff 4y ago
That could be a feature. I'm making a joke, but it would be tempting sometimes when the program is correct but the borrow checker can't figure that out. The borrow checker and I don't get along all that well, even two years i
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by eloff 4y ago
Just going out on a limb here, but that's burnout. Take a break. Do things off the computer. Programming will call you back when you're ready. Or you'll find something new. Either way, take that break.
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by eloff 4y ago
Fascinating.
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by eloff 4y ago
What's alt data? I've never heard that term before.

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