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by gnfargbl 3y ago
There's some decent but counterintuitive advice in here, OP: have you tried applying to a job with a clearance requirement? That way your past gets (should get) evaluated within a defined decision making framework, instead of by a spoo
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
OP is doing "SecOps" which is incident response and security automation. The service includes him as a moving part.
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The challenge here is your choice of specialism. Security is fundamentally a trust-based business and the industry is pretty wary of anyone with a perceived black mark against them. The reasons for this are mainly liability ("if this g
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
York is a good example of how building high-ish speed railways that actually take people somewhere they want to go, leads to people using those railways. Look at the way the plots taper off to the north and south of York; this isn't ju
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
I had to phone my bank, which is one of the bigger players in the UK high street market, a couple of days ago. They're still encouraging me to enroll in their idiotic "my voice is my password" programme. At this stage in th
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
> This sounds too fantastical to be true. Use Firestick as RDP/VNC client, use mobile phone for internet, obtain keyboard from Amazon Shopping, remote into a VM, proceed as usual?
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
The logic here is that if an industry can only be made safe with strict PPE standards, but the market dynamics make it difficult to ensure compliance with those standards, then it is OK to ban the industry. That seems a pretty concerning st
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
The metaphor extends to cover your point! I doubt that the wifi installers were unaware of the existing design patterns, since the language is pretty clear. I think it more likely that they were working to a budget and a timescale, which le
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
We haven't had energy independence in Europe for decades. That risk is managed by hedging, and there's no reason we couldn't do the same with long-distance solar interconnects.
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Then why aren't those EU countries negotiating agreements with other less-well-off countries that are so blessed? Yes, that would require a cable. But it isn't rational to be in a situation where we believe we can build a fusion
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
Are nanny cams not a legitimate product? If they are a legitimate product, how do we tell the legitimate product from this (in your words) "crappy attempt at covering the seller's ass?" If they are a legitimate product and we
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
That link doesn't mention anything about it being a "bathroom spy camera". It was sold as a nanny cam which is really a legitimate, if slightly distasteful, function. There is an image of it shown with towels on the hook, but
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
I would like the rule of law to applies to all industries equally. I am mostly unconvinced by the special pleading of the technology industry. I am willing to be convinced, however!
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Suppose I have a fantastic idea for a company: I start importing BAIC Beijing BJ90s to Germany, then I glue a new star-in-a-circle badge onto them and sell them. Mercedes-Benz decides that I shouldn't do this, and gets a court injuncti
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
This article complains that using the extended GNU features (--ignore-case, set -o pipefail etc) makes scripts less portable. Fair enough. What it doesn't explain is why a Linux user should much care about portability. OpenBSD and Free
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
If he's doing less than 2,500 miles per year using the biofuel, that's not the case. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/biofuels-and-other-fuel-substitu...
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> In contrast to the original chat control proposal, the version of the EU Parliament wants that a new EU Child Protection Centre proactively searches publicly accessible parts of the internet for child sexual abuse material with automa
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
xxd
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I read it as a form of something almost approaching a call for eugenics: "The common man is such an idiot! If only the intelligentsia could be put in charge of the world, everything would be better." Your point about putting the
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
> This is due to the fact that the intelligence & character of the masses are incomparably lower than the intelligence and character of the few who produce some thing valuable for the community. If he wrote this again today, I wond
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
That's how it works with contractors in most large organisations. The other side of the coin is that they're usually rewarded better than employees are, on the basis that they can be fired at any time with no notice. In practice t
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
In the UK at least, full RCD protection for all domestic circuits was only mandated by the 18th edition of the wiring regs. They came into force in January 2019. Before that, it was typical to install split consumer units in which the socke
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
As a principle, sure, makes sense. But why choose a specific illustration where > The red phone was hopelessly jammed in the mechanism. and > The phone was eventually removed by the fire service when the plane landed.
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
This is an advertorial for AvSax fire containment bags. I don't mind that -- they seem like useful things to have around in general, and especially on an aircraft. However, I do have to wonder why the marketing team chose to promote th
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
Is it really profound, though? Or is it up there with live, laugh, love and life is a journey? If a concept like this is widely held to be profound on HN, then perhaps -- and I mean this as gently as possible -- that could be a sign tha
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
You have to wonder how much of that transaction is saving face? The warlord doesn't have to deal with the messy business of trying to shoot down jets belonging to a well-funded army; the military doesn't have to deal with the diff
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
My company spends maybe $4k/mo with GCP, and I have absolutely no idea who my "dedicated account rep" is. I did have someone contact me way back when, but after finding out we aren't VC funded they literally ghosted me
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
> Do people really think that if they restrict access to methods of suicide people will magically get better? Effective mental health treatment isn't a pill that you take and get better; it's an ongoing, and often very long,
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
The relevant sections of the Chrome IDN rules [1] seem to be detection of "mixed script confusables" and "whole script confusables". The character ķ (U+0137) is part of the Latin script [2], so I presume the string &quot
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
The sun is on 100% of the time. The only reason that renewables can't provide us with reliable power is because of our human political problems: we can't reliably cable up the always-sunny areas of the planet to the areas where pe

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