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by hayst4ck 3y ago
Here is probably your best resource: https://ctftime.org/ Check out the "New writeups" section. Many teams will do CTF problem writeups. It's reasonable to sign up for a CTF solo and struggle with problems, t
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
This is not my personal belief, my personal belief is a lot more nuanced than this, but I do find this to be a very compelling argument against him: Snowden is a half-way martyr. He made the decision to die for a cause, and then backed ou
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
The apple device it seems most like is the iPad and likely iPad with sidecar. The presentation clearly showed that you could use the goggles to display your macbook screen, so in that sense, if you want a screen in 3d space, or maybe even m
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step 1: Throw shit against the wall step 2: See what sticks step 3: Amplify that messaging step 4: Exercise power through providing spectacle and influencing attention step 5: Pacify with spectacle or agitate differences throug
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
You might check out the google SRE handbook (you should probably read the whole thing because you're asking this question): https://sre.google/sre-book/service-level-objectives/ I would consider 1 of 3 approa
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
I think your heart is in the right place, but I also think you fail to see that might makes right. You can only win when those with liberal (in the social contract sense) beliefs have might, when liberals can credibly provide consequences f
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
Neutrality means supporting whoever has more power to dominate. Neutrality means support for injustice because the cost of enforcing justice is too high.
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
Liberalism is an ideology that contradictions are wrong. Conservatism is an ideology that authority is right. These are core axioms that define belief systems. This manifests itself as liberal spectrum people having to adjust their beliefs
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
Computing history is one that swings between centralization and decentralization. Before reddit there were decentralized forums. Reddit took the idea of forums and centralized it so multiple forums are now hosted on one site. Desire for thr
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
I have been using social media for as long as the internet was generally accessible. This is feedback from that perspective, and I hope it is seen as feedback despite the terse critical tone. - That landing page is obnoxious. Show me co
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
We separated the disk the operating system is on from the disk all of our data and other things are on, and then we formatted our OS drive and reinstalled it from scratch. Some fixes were done manually involving searching error codes on ano
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
Microsoft proper has a macbook clone (and I mean a laptop clearly meant to imitate a macbook as close as possible) with a keyboard and trackpad that felt substantial and appealing. I believe it was the "surface 5" or maybe the &qu
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
When you're talking about computer systems, it's pretty normal for a bit to represent an order of magnitude. Even the Wikipedia page makes reference to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_magnitude &
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
Look into exponential backoff with jitter. 15 second retry logic sounds like bad news.
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
> What happens when 1 million connections get disconnected and try to reconnect at the same time? I think the distributed system term for your problem is called the 'thundering herd problem,' so searches that involve that would
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
I have taken down an entire major website multiple times with both code and operations. It's harder to do for a product dev and it's harder to do in a mature infrastructure, but if you work in infra and you haven't caused a n
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
I imagine the government can: > In November, 2018, Microsoft announced that it is readying HoloLens for combat. The company won a $480 million military contract with the U.S. government to bring AR headset tech into the weapons repertoir
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
I would imagine most software developers could buy one. If it's better than a MacBook with a sidecar iPad I think I would consider it. It depends strongly on how much of a drop-in replacement it is for multi-screen. I think the weake
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
> It incentivizes the right people with the power and market participation to optimize for the right thing. But it doesn't. What incentivizes people in power right now is the AirBnB and TicketMaster fee schedules. That's why we
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
If you don't want to understand that's sad but fine. The video will explain why you're model is wrong if you watch it. > So, the best solution is to reduce their power. If Bezos can buy the cops, should we get rid of cops
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
The oligarchs were shown one of themselves in a cage and Putin said "half." I remember Preet Bharara talking a lot about the Magnitsky act and how it was also somewhat a response to that. Even the oligarchs were slaves and dealt w
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs Here is some classic internet for you (CCP Grey's: rules for rulers) that I think you would have trouble refuting while being consistent with your post.
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
1.08 in 100,000 cases of vaccine related myocarditis (VRM), 2.16 deaths per 1,000,000. Hard to take much meaning away from that without understanding the risk posed by not vaccinating. If vaccines can prevent long COVID or "post viral
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
> And unless you enjoy telling war stories about how your junior team member ran "flushdb" in production and caused your service traffic to stall, or how your engineering team spent a month tuning the Redis engine before Christ
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
More input implying more output is a poor model, because there is rule of law in the middle. input -> rule of law -> output is a more correct model. Maybe RuleOfLaw(Taxes) -> [Output distribution] is better. When rule of law is
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
Who enforces the wealth limit? If there is no tax, there can be no enforcement, no regulation, and no solving disputes by means other than who is most powerful. It's not the concern, it is one concern, but specifically in the context
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
How the government spends it is a massively less important consideration than preventing the rich from having it. Money is power, and too much power in too few hands is a real threat to national security and the integrity of a republic. I
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
Whether the wealthy "owe" taxes or not, I think it's important to consider that: If it gets easier to grow wealth the more you have, that will create power disparity with time, which eventually leads to an oligarchic society.
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
I don't work on security, but I have worked with security. The [lack of] operational maturity of security software and skills required to administrate it, particularly at scale, and particularly administration of the data stores are al
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
> recent "RCEs on Google engineer workstations is not a security issue" I'm interested in reading that if you have a link.

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