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by epc 3y ago
Current plan is for revenue to accrue to the MTA, a public benefit corporation owned by NY State.
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by epc 3y ago
The CVE is here: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-34362 Not sure what there is to discuss other than why are SQL injection attacks still a thing in 2023?
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by epc 3y ago
Absolutely a loss leader for Bloomberg. Whatever advertising they get is de minimis, I frequently see house ads for multiple hours when I have it on in the morning. It's subsidized by subscriptions to the terminal. I don't know
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by epc 3y ago
Doesn't generate the ratings necessary to pay for a worldwide news team (which CNN hasn't had for years).
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by epc 3y ago
No one could foresee treating labor as a disposable commodity item would have negative consequences. Who knew?
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by epc 3y ago
No. It's not any different than an insurance company realizing that the risk that a 1 in 500 year extreme weather event has dropped to a 1 in 100 year probability and adjusted insurance rates accordingly. Silicon Valley thought leader
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by epc 3y ago
Yeah. That ship has sailed. Too many companies have been too blithe about customer data in order to blitzscale that growth curve and make their investors jump for joy. The next decade is going to be a series of overreaching regulatory baseb
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by epc 3y ago
The doorman isn’t dumping a log of your comings and goings as well as who entered or exited with you into an unsecured s3 bucket in the cloud.
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by epc 3y ago
We are at greater threat of a nuclear exchange than at any time since October/November 1983.
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by epc 3y ago
Questions I ask to suss out red flags after a dozen+ experiences: - Who are the founders? - Who is the CEO? - Who runs the company? - Do the founders have any experience running a startup? - Who are the key investors? - Do the
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by epc 4y ago
Is that supposed to be a link to “The Internet Was an Economic Disappointment” https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/04/opinion/internet-economy.... ? The query string bit was truncated off.
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by epc 4y ago
On the web it’s under: "More" / "Settings and Support" / "Settings and Privacy" / "Security and Account Access" / "Security". This is on my account with 2FA set up but n
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by epc 4y ago
I’ve had a grandfathered in “business” account forever. It’s mostly useful to me as a research tool, both on potential hires for companies I’m advising, as well as on companies themselves. Every single recruiter contact I’ve received sinc
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by epc 4y ago
I gave up and forwarded my home phone to a voicemail service. Anyone who needs to reach us leaves voicemail. The dozens of daily automated phone calls just hang up.
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by epc 4y ago
When I move I now file a temporary COA and have the mail forwarded to a PO box. I never forward from one residence to another (too many boilerroom sales calls and scam attempts).
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by epc 4y ago
I think Rexx would have been a great scripting language for web sites but IIRC the interpreter on AIX was hobbled in some way (it was never practical for me to use it for www.ibm.com for example). I think there was a lot of anti–mainframe
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by epc 4y ago
Separately, Mike was a great mentor to me as I tried to figure out what it meant to “run” a corporate web.
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by epc 4y ago
Rexx was incredibly useful as a scripting language on the VM and MVS mainframe environments. It was a huge step up from the "EXEC" language. I wrote a gopher/http server in it circa 1992 (never saw the light of day outside of
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by epc 4y ago
Questions I'd ask: - what's the dog's daily routine? - what commands does the dog understand? - what will the dog do if the leash is dropped? - how does the dog react to: cats, squirrels, small dogs, larger dogs, bi
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by epc 4y ago
I have no direct experience, so you can ignore the rest of this if you want. What's the cost to development from “slowing down” due to integration/acceptance tests before deployment vs. stopping development entirely to go back and
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by epc 4y ago
I took a seven month sabbatical in 2001. Was totally burned out and it was the only way to take a break while nominally being employed (unpaid, but I was still on insurance among other minor benefits). I did not take any income, in theory
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by epc 4y ago
System/360 was the attempt by IBM to unify its existing computing systems (1401, 700 series, 7030, 1620, etc). All were "mainframes" by our current definition.
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by epc 4y ago
My mom used one in the 70s and 80s for accounting and billing in our local village. As I recall although they had multiple terminals to access it these were shared, you didn’t have a terminal on the desk. You’d pick the application you were
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by epc 4y ago
When I started at IBM in 1990 you could get your foot in the door with basic experience, i.e. a college degree could get you an entry level role in a software lab (you’d need a CS degree to get a programming role in such a lab). I worked w
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by epc 4y ago
I use 1Password with my elderly MIL but she finds it confusing. Even though she has been using computers for 30+ years and a Mac for 15+ years something about the process of clicking the 1P icon in the browser bar or going to 1Password to c
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by epc 4y ago
https://osxdaily.com/2021/10/30/dont-use-icloud-how-to-remov...
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by epc 4y ago
Twitter actively, intentionally, hamstrung third party clients. First in 2010 with the stupid “Twitter inflection point" and subsequent multiyear decay in the API, followed by enforcing a hard limit of 100k on application tokens (ie, y
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by epc 4y ago
I rely on a combination of 1Password and some offline SSDs. Key passwords/passphrases are in our shared safe. Nothing is perfect. While in theory, in the US at least, your executor should be able to gain access to whatever is necessa
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by epc 4y ago
She is a caucasian woman living on Central Park, she’s not going to get hassled about her immigration status (which, according to the article, is LPR).
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by epc 4y ago
There's a bit of a difference between having a process enacted by the government which requires registration and assessment of candidate draftees and a process (the US used a lottery) to select draftees, and just randomly grabbing peop

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