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by foobiekr 4y ago
There are exceptional engineers in Bangalore, Chennai, … It’s just they are outnumbered 1000:1 by some of the worst engineers I’ve encountered. That set is hired entirely for low cost area-under-the-curve reasons. It’s sad because clearly t
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by foobiekr 4y ago
Is borg as operationally broken as k8s? Also, I would guess borg directly fits the google applications. k8s is not really a great match for many others.
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by foobiekr 4y ago
I don’t think there is any evidence at all that they meaningfully make fewer mistakes. In addition while humans make mistakes they will not casually make contradictory claims the way GPT* do. Basic self-contradictions of the sort even a thr
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by foobiekr 4y ago
What did they deliver? The other two posters perfectly describe the Accenture experience (terrible) so I am curious. My direct experience is that they send high quality technical architects to get the deal done and the moment that happens t
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by foobiekr 4y ago
Labor isn't really going to become scarce this century. Nigeria, etc.
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by foobiekr 4y ago
FDE doesn't matter at all since a running system is going to have the volume mounted. Secure boot also doesn't matter because the boot time root kits are a rarity and trojaned downloaded SW (npm, homebrew, etc. nearly completely u
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by foobiekr 4y ago
The US is targeted because it is large, generally wealthy (in the sense that a scammers will be willing to work for days to get an amount their victims will fall for), information about local communities is fully digitized and services (Wal
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by foobiekr 4y ago
If the talent at hand isn’t competent to build it, they aren’t competent to debug or support it.
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by foobiekr 4y ago
Perhaps they have Gell-Mann amnesia and a case of engineer’s disease.
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by foobiekr 4y ago
So you’re going to continue to host images that have severe remote code execution exploits? With no way for the person who posted them to ask people not to use them?
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by foobiekr 4y ago
I think you’re missing the point of my deliberately terse reply. All of the replies you are getting are trying to tell you that there’s no deep thinking involved. There’s no “hey I considered it and the comp overcame my concerns” etc. Most
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by foobiekr 4y ago
Exactly. When I was younger I was shocked to learn that during an LR companies would “over” cut in order to fund retention for critical people. You’re laying off 7%? This is a good time to free up some additional opex, so just add a few hea
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by foobiekr 4y ago
It’s been the money.
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by foobiekr 4y ago
Every time a layoff is discussed, people talk about how the A players are going to leave. Seemingly, people do not understand that the A players could have easily left the whole time but are taken care of - already - so they haven’t. It is
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by foobiekr 4y ago
This, 100%.
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by foobiekr 4y ago
That, the documented comments by short sellers for months about it being a trainwreck, the last minute bonuses and the dumping of stock on retail investors by insiders. It's like all of the tech misbehavior packaged neatly up into one
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by foobiekr 4y ago
This is true and basically deserved.
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by foobiekr 4y ago
The problem is that the valley culture wants it both ways. It is a largely libertarian, rules-breaking environment. They want to ignore laws and decry regulations while at the same time having the government step in and bail them out whenev
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by foobiekr 4y ago
Evil maid attacks for pin theft, stolen YubiKey and denial of service, etc. it depends on whether you’re one of the people who leaves their keys sitting on their desk.
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by foobiekr 4y ago
Yes, you can configure google that way. People mostly don’t, however. Yes, you can (and should) configure a pin. Now you have a DOS problem.
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by foobiekr 4y ago
I used to be very pro yubikey for a long time but have mostly concluded it doesn't really solve any of the problems people think it solves. It basically just provides a (1) a means to prove that you have access to a key, which isn&#x27
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by foobiekr 4y ago
poisonous to dogs more profound cooling effect than erythritol (which has some) more expensive really, really does not caramelize and cooks very differently gastrointestinal effects causes an insulin spike
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by foobiekr 4y ago
Teachers are people and so subject to bias, favoritism, and just plain malevolence. They also can be bribed.
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by foobiekr 4y ago
I had a similar experience in sixth grade. Completely insane. On the other hand, it taught me early how life actually works.
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by foobiekr 4y ago
Deferred compensation plans allow you to strategically create a low w2 income for awhile and are mostly available to high earners.
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by foobiekr 4y ago
You could snapshot the internal state of an Atari 2600 25x a day! Such a wealth of bytes.
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by foobiekr 4y ago
We can't have nice things because in the real world most EDA designs are pretty naive and it's painful to look at them. If your events are pure telemetry - samples of some data, some event that is standalone like a click, etc. - t
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by foobiekr 4y ago
Alternately, they change slowly, and they have to be right.
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by foobiekr 4y ago
I hear you, and I give the same advice. However, there are always things that you want to do that are time intensive, which is hard.
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by foobiekr 4y ago
Why not just use preshared keys in all VPNs like IPSEC? Because key exchange and key rotation is a huge problem.

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