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541.
by ghaff 7mo ago
For anyone who disagrees with this statement there’s been a lot of research done in the area.
542.
by ghaff 7mo ago
It’s been known since at least the 90s that it’s really hard to fully anonymize patient records. You can’t be certain but you can infer probabilities from very little information.
543.
by ghaff 7mo ago
In the US at least owning a residence is public record. It can be obfuscated with shell companies and things like that but most people don’t do.
544.
by ghaff 7mo ago
Mini-celebrities are probably far more likely to attract attention than a lot of “rich people.”
545.
by ghaff 7mo ago
And if you do have a big pile of money but are flying under the radar so far you sadly should have some investments in security. I thought people around here didn’t really believe in security through obscurity.
546.
by ghaff 7mo ago
How is it different from all the non-secret billionaires to say nothing of all the people with 100s of millions?
547.
by ghaff 7mo ago
Historically, people got a big book every year with the name and address of most people in it. You could get unlisted numbers but now everyone has a cellphone which just isn’t broadly published but because now many use it for everything it’
548.
by ghaff 7mo ago
In general use though slack has an even stronger connotation of e.g. slacking off and not doing anything useful with the time.
549.
by ghaff 7mo ago
Hadn’t been to a Kubecon in about a year as I’ve been tending to go to just the European ones. I definitely felt a much stronger this is real vibe at this event from people like Greg KH.
550.
by ghaff 7mo ago
I dare say that he has access to at least some libraries that a random person can’t just breeze into.
551.
by ghaff 7mo ago
Certainly the Magic Keyboard is way better than any alternatives I’ve seen. Have tried to give it a good shot but maybe just haven’t tried hard enough and default back to what I’m used to. When I get home need to ponder a bit more because
552.
by ghaff 7mo ago
I’ve been trying a bit of an experiment on my current trip and I’m still skeptical about iPad plus Magic Keyboard. Better than alternatives but still so-so. I think I’ll go back to my 10+ year old MacBook Pro but unless something really cha
553.
by ghaff 7mo ago
I was somewhat shocked a while back when a coworker told me that they offered their kid a laptop for school work and the kid apparently said : Thanks but I’ll stick with my phone.
554.
by ghaff 7mo ago
And dealing with a lot of that crap is more trouble than many of us want to be filling our days with. Micro-optimizations I might have done as a student I mostly don’t do today.
555.
by ghaff 7mo ago
In many places, garbage collection is done by competing private firms.
556.
by ghaff 7mo ago
At higher levels, I think impromptu calls/messages of a time-sensitive nature are probably more common. But, in general, phone calls out of the blue are less accepted than they were 10-20 years ago outside of a very close circle. And i
557.
by ghaff 7mo ago
Don’t come to many countries in Europe then.
558.
by ghaff 7mo ago
Arguably Linux wouldn’t have happened absent GNU although a lot of people I know argue that BSD would have eventually evolved to someplace like where Linux is today in spite of various legal and community factors holding it back.
559.
by ghaff 7mo ago
The bottom line is that a lot of software types assume the cathedral vs. bazaar refers to closed source vs. open source and they’re simply wrong.
560.
by ghaff 7mo ago
Exactly. I eventually bought one and then an other and chose a calling area that was most likely to correspond with people I might communicate with on trips and the like but it was backup/emergency use. Not something you used personall
561.
by ghaff 7mo ago
I can’t provide cites but I understand people have had issues flying into Denver.
562.
by ghaff 7mo ago
Although it’s also the case that people like me owned cell phones for quite a while but didn’t use them to any material degree especially for personal uses for a while.
563.
by ghaff 7mo ago
When I actually climbed one of the 6K meter peaks I had to get some special alpine insurance. Don’t remember the details. Was a long time ago.
564.
by ghaff 7mo ago
Namche (damn autocorrect) Bazaar which everyone in the Everest region passes through is a bit over 11K feet. 12-15K feet just isn’t that high in the scheme of things. Many peaks in the western US are in that range or more. Yes, minor headac
565.
by ghaff 7mo ago
IBM sold off XSeries, x86, to Lenovo years ago along with spinning off various other things that they considered commodity.
566.
by ghaff 7mo ago
So they had $30 billion in software revenue last year and $15 billion in infrastructure against $20 billion in consulting.
567.
by ghaff 7mo ago
Funnily enough the consumer impact of DRAM etc. costs came up in an unrelated interview I was doing at Kubecon last week. She also made the observation that a lot of these big companies are buying components to keep in reserve for data cent
568.
by ghaff 7mo ago
Is that such a silly notion?
569.
by ghaff 7mo ago
I wouldn’t. I have literally never bought WiFi on a flight in the course of probably hundreds of flights. Good opportunity to unplug.
570.
by ghaff 7mo ago
And in my case, if I actually had a summer BBQ which I probably will this summer I’ll drive 5 minutes to the local excellent ice cream stand and pick some up. Fun activity for kids though.

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