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by int0x2e 4y ago
Why hasn't anyone made that crypto currency yet?
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by int0x2e 4y ago
We also used to write code in low-level languages, and system designs were simpler compared to our current approach of writing a lot of stuff in JS and using Electron everywhere, having a huge dependency tree and in general - optimizing for
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by int0x2e 4y ago
Having worked in a Solaris shop for a while, I still wonder what could have been if Solaris made the decision to open-source about 5-10 years earlier than they did. I think Solaris would have been such a better base for the Linux ecosystem
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by int0x2e 4y ago
That's insightful, but I still think the assumption that the CISO has to go when the company gets compromised is a bit issue. Instead of security being a team effort, with the goal being making the hard choices together, finding the c
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by int0x2e 4y ago
This is a very common case, sadly. But this is due to people failing to use MVPs correctly. Instead of being a tool for the sole purpose of rapid learning and iteration, it is used to falsely accelerate delivery. When done well, you build a
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by int0x2e 4y ago
As the old quote goes - "if you are typing "AES" into your code at any point, and you are not a world-renowned crypto expert - you will get this wrong, guaranteed". There are so few cases of people who are not seasoned c
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by int0x2e 4y ago
I strongly urge people to try something like Application Insights. It's not dirt cheap, but not that expensive, and lets you collect anything you'd want and query your telemetry/logs retroactively extremely flexibly. It'
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by int0x2e 4y ago
You're totally right, but we both know someone is going to build this into some tool tomorrow, and it will mostly work. I think we might actually need legislators to step in to say that any use of ML would require review prior to use i
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by int0x2e 4y ago
I think this is a neat idea in theory, but for any long term value to be gained, a military power would need to practice generating at least medium-scale sorties many times to know if this strategy was really viable, and specifically, since
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by int0x2e 4y ago
Specifically, this could be amazing to map out non-public comms, radar and AA systems. This could provide the sort of information you'd want for a future military conflict. I hope I'm completely wrong about this.
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by int0x2e 4y ago
One story that stuck with me - at FB (at least in the past), there was no travel budget, and no list of sanctioned hotel chains. Any employee could travel as often and as expensively as needed with only their immediate manager's sign-o
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by int0x2e 4y ago
Time to share one of my favorite talks (and speakers) ever - "Debugging Under Fire: Keep your Head when Systems have Lost their Mind" (Bryan Cantrill, GOTO 2017) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30jNsCVLpAE
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by int0x2e 4y ago
Extremely well put. Any time a business decides on a metric / decision criteria, they introduce a strong incentive for their employees and managers to act accordingly. For some reason, leaders rarely seem to think hard enough about the
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by int0x2e 4y ago
I get your point, and I do think it's great for many people that we don't lose this outright, but I will offer an alternative view - Where I live, there always were a lot of people who don't report their income fully, which
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by int0x2e 4y ago
It's interesting, because I took a pay cut to join this startup. I had grown tired of not being challenged and not learning as much anymore, and I definitely got tired of the corporate politics and endless bureaucracy. Don't get m
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by int0x2e 4y ago
I love your thinking, but sadly most large corporates seem to suffer from very slow and very bad deciding making processes. Some examples from the tech giant I called home for 5+ years until I recently quit: 1. When the pandemic hit, mangem
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by int0x2e 4y ago
Microsoft is surprisingly hard to kill. They do a little of everything, and internally act much less like one company and more like a conglomerate. This means there is more politics than needed, but also that the company can survive some pr
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by int0x2e 4y ago
I'm far from a Tesla fan myself, but one thing I found really cool are claims by friends who worked with Tesla is that they have a huge lead on mainstream car makers thanks to the fact they design and make a huge part of the cars and &
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by int0x2e 4y ago
I love tinkering with hardware, but I always make a mental note to myself and say that building it will often cost 2-3 times what I thought it would, and that I'm actually paying for learning and having fun along the way, not the final
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by int0x2e 4y ago
I suspect there's a hidden trap here due to survivorship bias - those of us who were lucky enough to see hugely successful products/services that got some of these decisions spot-on in the beginning, see how wonderful it can be wh
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by int0x2e 4y ago
At a past company, we (incorrectly) assumed we'd always have to support an on-prem deployment capability, so we decided to build our own virtual appliance (assuming we'll do actual hardware one day). That appliance cluster had to
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by int0x2e 4y ago
A former boss used to use the term OFE - Opportunity For Excellence :-)
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by int0x2e 4y ago
Hosting something yourself does not make it magically more secure. Even if you hire a small team of really smart people, they'd have to work pretty hard to do as good of a job as the many 100s working on security at GitHub...
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by int0x2e 4y ago
When your product basically is security, that's not really a compromise you get to make...
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by int0x2e 4y ago
Most people are constantly dehydrated. The fact lots of people drink sugary drinks makes it even worse. As someone dealing with a 3rd round of kidney stones - please stay hydrated! You don't want this pain, trust me...
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by int0x2e 4y ago
Please, please, please stay hidrated! As a person on their 3rd round of kidney stones - please drink more water!
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by int0x2e 4y ago
There's a major difference between the data-plane (the lanes where frames go from the signal source to the display) and the control-plane (the command and control channel that is bidirectional and used to discover a peer and negotiate
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by int0x2e 4y ago
This is almost accurate. You can slightly increase your chances if you say "I will defect, but will take care of your family and give you half my income forever. If you also defect, we will both go to prison and you will be worse off&q
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by int0x2e 4y ago
It seems like there are plenty of people essentially thinking something along the lines of: "I know this is a useless asset that only an idiot would think has real value, but I will get in and unload it on a bigger idiot before the cra
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by int0x2e 4y ago
I am very far from being a billionaire, but as soon as I made it to upper-middle-class, I realized that the hedonistic treadmill would never end, even if I was a billionaire. It's a never ending fantasy world where everyone looks up an

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