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by gaius 8y ago
You can always tell what people really believe when it’s their own money on the line. I hope those schools take note the next time a snake oil salesman comes calling!
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by gaius 8y ago
No just “these days”, the ATOS contract was awarded in 2008. The need for UBI is greater than ever.
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by gaius 8y ago
They used to publish their own newsletter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dabiq_(magazine)
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by gaius 8y ago
I would estimate at least 50%.
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by gaius 8y ago
Back in the day my editor of choice on classic MacOS was called Alpha, also extensible in Tcl. Can’t find any version of it for OSX. I’ll take this one for a spin later! But... sourceforge? Really?!
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by gaius 8y ago
No, the Ares interconnect is brutally fast but it fundamentally isn’t doing anything as complicated as that. It acts as both storage and networking between the nodes.
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by gaius 8y ago
on a Kubernetes managed service Using GKE I am horrified by how many times I have to type gcloud beta ...
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by gaius 8y ago
No, an XC40 runs a kernel on each node, the programming model is MPI, not SSI with NUMA. It runs a minimalist Linux distro called CLE. The nodes are surprisingly small, in terms of memory too, 64 or 128G. Physically they are beautiful to lo
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by gaius 8y ago
Compliant, with lots of “free” time...
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by gaius 8y ago
Agreed, sites like this only perpetuate the nonsense. The only way to win is not to play.
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by gaius 8y ago
don’t completely trust military organizations, because they tend to put duty before morality The rockets go up, who cares where they come down / That’s not my department says Werner von Braun
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by gaius 8y ago
I like Qubes but without Rutkowska at the helm, it’s future is uncertain
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by gaius 8y ago
Please, provide evidence to the contrary. Uhhh, this whole article is literally about Chrome exfiltrating personal data to Google... all the evidence is above.
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by gaius 8y ago
I’ve said it before: Chrome is a data collection app with a built-in web browser to keep you entertained while it does its real job.
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by gaius 8y ago
The value of a (good) certification is that Rumsfeld’s Law applies: you don’t know what you don’t know. Even if you never finish the programme you will at least pick up an idea of what you need to learn, the common vocabulary etc.
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by gaius 8y ago
My LinkedIn feed is full of barely competent - if I’m being generous - former cow-orkers becoming CISOs. Anyone who knows what they’re doing will certainly make a killing in this field. Good luck!
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by gaius 8y ago
what you can accomplish with an hour here and an hour there vs contiguous, high quality focused time Yes and no. Swap your FB time for MOOC time and I bet you can do a lot of worthwhile study in bite-size chunks. Or reading books or... an
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by gaius 8y ago
Another true story, at a different job I was once on the “disaster recovery” team but that implied there might be a disaster so we became the “business continuity team” but that implied there might be an interruption so we were finally rena
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by gaius 8y ago
a team with a specific, urgent, short-term objective holed up in a room together They were not this. They were Walter Mitty fantasists. That’s what happens when people take the “business is war” mindset too seriously. How about “the prior
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by gaius 8y ago
war analogies to talk about business. A previous job had the “tiger team” who would meet in the “war room”. But to the entire rest of the company they were mediocre middle-managers of a medium-sized IT department and everyone else called
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by gaius 8y ago
Don't give them any information you don't want them to have. They buy data direct from airlines and credit cards now.
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by gaius 8y ago
If you are a VC and one of your investments is doing this then next time why wouldn’t your investors cut out the middleman (i.e. you) and go straight to them?
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by gaius 8y ago
Good backdoors are indistinguishable from bugs, for plausible deniability
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by gaius 8y ago
This is a very weak argument, eyeballs do find backdoors Eventually, maybe. How many eyeballs and how long to find Heartbleed?
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by gaius 8y ago
CTEs can go a long way toward that, as can stored procs
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by gaius 8y ago
education also produces a negative externality. You're "harming" other people by becoming more employable than them You jest but this is mainstream thinking and has been for a good few years now. Tony Bliar and his policy o
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by gaius 8y ago
Time to dust off the old Xenix brand! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenix#History
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by gaius 8y ago
CMake is “common make” not “C make”, it can make anything, and package it with CPack, test with CTest and so on. It’s still being developed too.
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by gaius 8y ago
... and Debian 9 I’m no Luddite but the simple fact today if you want to reliably deploy and can’t or don’t want to ship a container, Python 2 is the reality.
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by gaius 8y ago
I’ll check it out, thanks for the tip!

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