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by int0x2e 4y ago
You may be assuming that the ones benefiting from automation are happy to live in a world where they are hated by almost everyone, and at best kept safe by using some private army. Imagine living in a world where "eat the rich" is
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by int0x2e 4y ago
On an emotional level, I certainly sympathize strongly with this idea. I can see how tech often helps widen the gap between the haves and have nots. At the same time, tech advancements have often improved humanity's standard of living
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by int0x2e 4y ago
The myth I heard was: Manager has 10 employees who are absolute rock-star engineers. They love their team, work great together, and deliver amazing results. This manager obviously doesn't want to hurt this awesome team or lose any memb
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by int0x2e 4y ago
That still sounds super low to me. I've got 23 vacation days + 5-15 holiday days (varies by year due to the holidays shifting around the schedule) per year, and we get a ton of medical leave if you need it. I rarely make use of my ful
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by int0x2e 4y ago
If you had a RPi setup and your SD card died, I would suggest one or more of the following: 1. Buy an endurance-oriented card (e.g.: Samsung Pro Endurance), and try to get a higher capacity card just for the added endurance. 2. Make sure to
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by int0x2e 4y ago
My personal take on smart home advice for techies: 1. If a device isn't open and managed locally, you're renting it. Some IoT companies will die off within a few years, so try to buy devices you can DIY or control locally. 2. Home
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by int0x2e 4y ago
I'm simplifying here, but it feels to me like you are making the assumption that FedEx is a mostly static business, whose IT needs should be all about minimizing the cost per IO or compute operation. In the real world, business needs
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by int0x2e 4y ago
I am not sure your utopia is quite as utopian as you think. I've been working on an internal service at a major tech company for a few years now. The project is awesome and super fun, the teams is great, etc. - but the overall size of
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by int0x2e 4y ago
The "big on purpose" crowd is used to long focal length lenses being super big and heavy, and therefore need a heavy body as a counterweight. I know some would consider this blasphemy, but the micro-four-thirds (m43) platform with
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by int0x2e 4y ago
Their impact on you or me may be negligible. If you were targeted by a determined adversary however - their impact can be total breakdown of your privacy. If I were a journalist / human rights / opposition activist, I would assume
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by int0x2e 4y ago
I agree - a used corporate small form factor PC from the likes of HP/Lenovo/Dell has tons of power for HA and can still be had for a next to nothing. They also sip power - under 10W at the wall at idle.
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by int0x2e 4y ago
My solution is similar - I read the release notes every month or so, and upgrade only if I am interested in some of the new features. I am willing to fix stuff if it breaks, and I have a backup config I can downgrade back if needed. I take
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by int0x2e 4y ago
I think we need to stop looking at the students and start looking at the system. The students are responding to incentives set out by their faculty. If you really want change, you must evaluate alternative incentives. Personally, I was
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by int0x2e 4y ago
Until tested in court, many, many things are patentable...
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I think they realized a few years back that HBO, Disney and the other major IP holders will be pulling out entirely and setting up their own streaming services, not because Netflix didn't give them a big enough cut of the pie, but simp
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by int0x2e 4y ago
I think all they want is to use modern, iterative development principles. It's fine to have the final 'yes' take the full lump sum and a 'no' being a real possibility. What they want is to be able to get multiple op
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by int0x2e 4y ago
Yes! Yes I would! I currently live about 4 miles away from a coal plant. I know it's giving us various health issues the slow way. I'd much rather live next door to a nuclear plant. Even if you falsely assume we'd have a Che
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by int0x2e 5y ago
Another interesting question (to me at least), is what if Sun had made Solaris open source about 10 years earlier. I think there's a chance what is now Linux (and potentially Android as well) would have adopted the Solaris kernel. The
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by int0x2e 5y ago
WFH is also doing an amazing job to help people who would otherwise be marginalized. In particular, I've seen how remote interviews help people that are wheelchair bound or have subtle issues with their eye-sight (that are only notice
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by int0x2e 5y ago
I don't think the person you're replying to assumed anything about preferences - people can still prefer to work from the office, and still not have working from the office generate >10% boost in productivity... I think many of
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by int0x2e 5y ago
Actually, the fact that memory safety bugs are more difficult to exploit seems to have increased the rate of vulnerabilities discovered and exploited, and the fact that these are now often higher-level bugs (think insecure feature design bu
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by int0x2e 5y ago
While it feels that way, in my experience, it is very easy to break into 10 poorly secured systems compared to just 1 properly secured and monitored one. Okta may have messed up here, and there's no doubt they're a large target, b
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by int0x2e 5y ago
When I first learned about OS internals I felt the save way. All the cool stuff has been done. All the good ideas were discovered many years ago. If only I was born 20 years earlier... But actually, there has been a lot of progress since th
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by int0x2e 5y ago
The supply of diverse talent can only be sourced from candidates with a diverse background. In that sense - they are the majority, not the minority.
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by int0x2e 5y ago
The issue with DSA is that some hiring managers will inevitably try to game the system. A friend once shared a strategy he saw at BigCorp - a hiring manager would fill the pipeline with 10 quality applicants, but if none of them matched th
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by int0x2e 5y ago
The US is an extremely violent place. On most violent crime categories, it ranks highest among developed nations.
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But it does play a part if the jurors lack critical context. If no one on the jury can understand how a victim of sexual assault could be frozen during an attack, they might fall into the trap of thinking things like "how could it hav
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by int0x2e 5y ago
This is well off the main thread here so please feel free to ignore my request, but as a loving parent of a 3 year-old girl, I worry about when/how do we explain to her what is and isn't okay for adults (and other kids) to do arou
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by int0x2e 5y ago
About 10 years ago, I worked on a large, multi team (multi-org really) project that was run using TOC (Theory Of Constraints). Put very very very simply, every team was told to give honest, buffer-less estimates for their primary work areas
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by int0x2e 5y ago
Your quote is better, but for people that have a hard time with that analogy, I like using the example of building a 4-story concrete/brick building - anyone can make a building stand strong by filling it with concrete / bricks. I

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