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by jjav 2y ago
> Took down our entire emergency department as we were treating a heart attack. It makes my blood boil to be honest that there is no liability for what software has become. It's just not acceptable. Companies that produce software w
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by jjav 2y ago
> Frequent updates, in the old days, meant that a vendor had poor QA. I think that's probably still the case most of the time today, too. Back in the 80s and 90s if you had bad QA you'd ship very buggy software and customers ha
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by jjav 2y ago
> Nope, I have seen software like Crowdstrike, S1, Huntress and Defender E5 stop active ransomware attacks. Yes, occasionally they do. This is not an either-or situation. While they do catch and stop attacks, it is also true that crowdst
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by jjav 2y ago
> That doesn't work in the business they're in. They need to roll out definition updates quickly. Well clearly we have incontrovertible evidence now (if it was needed) that YOLO-pushing insufficiently tested updates to everyone
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by jjav 2y ago
> Not caring about the actual product will eventually kill a company. Eventually is a long time. Unfortunately for all of us ("us" being not just software engineers, but everyone impacted by this and similar lack of proper engi
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by jjav 2y ago
> all of the things your company should be doing and didn't Processes need to match the potential risk. If your company is doing some inconsequential social app or whatever, then sure, go ahead and move fast and break things if that
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by jjav 2y ago
> We’re definitely in a moment. I’ve seen a large shift away from discipline in the field. People don’t seem to care about professionalism or “good work”. Agreed. Thinking back to my experience at a company like Sun, every build was test
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by jjav 2y ago
Here's a true story about one instantiation of "security is our top priority". You be the judge on whether this is an extreme outlier or pretty much the norm. I was at one company where the PM blurted out (paraphrasing, but v
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by jjav 2y ago
> the corresponding electricity charges are also low (in many regions) Those of us lucky enough to have PG&E in California have a different calculation though. As of my latest bill they charge 88c/kWh and I heard they just appro
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by jjav 2y ago
> unencumbered by regulation There's the answer. A public utility is a natural monopoly. If given lack of regulation (or, wrong/weak regulation) it will of course seek to maximize profit at all cost, which means very little is
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by jjav 2y ago
> What the Bay Area has seen is nothing like actual hurricanes. In terms of wind speed, quite similar. A category 1 hurricane is only 74-95mph winds. This is pretty mild, as far as storms go. I've been through many, many category 1
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by jjav 2y ago
> customer support would cost far, far more than that That's not at all a given. Taking the example of $2 more per month, if the average customer needs a support call every two years, they could spend a whole hour on the phone with
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by jjav 2y ago
> providing customer support on a massive scale is hard This is a silly myth that these providers want to use as an excuse. Support has a lot of economy of scale so providing support to a huge user base is a lot cheaper per user than d
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by jjav 2y ago
> Already feels like they can work around that by having the "Don't wait on hold, we'll call you back when an agent is ready" feature. I tried this recently with an airline (AA). The next callback time was like 10 hou
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by jjav 2y ago
> Laws that have broad support are passed quickly. Laws that lack broad support are passed slowly or not at all. > That how lawmaking should work! Yes, agreed! However, there is another category of laws, those which have very broad su
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Security Deposit laws are changing on July 1, 2024 (California)(sf.gov)
3 points by jjav 2y ago|0 comments
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by jjav 2y ago
> I guess it's good that there's a new solution to this problem, but I wish it just wasn't a problem in the first place. Youtube created the problem and now have this tool to help the problem they created. Indeed, it would
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by jjav 2y ago
> Both of which are 3-2-1 backed up. Keep in mind that backups are a solution to a different problem than ECC. If a file is silently corrupted you could be backing up the corrupt file for years and by the time you discover the problem, i
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by jjav 2y ago
> It's OK for corporate systems, but complete overkill for personal setups. My personal files are ultimately a lot more important to me and much more irreplaceable than any files at work. I'd never run a NAS without ZFS and ECC
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Vulnerabilities in CocoaPods Open the Door to Supply Chain Attacks(evasec.io)
1 points by jjav 2y ago|0 comments
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by jjav 2y ago
> Aren't the consumer protection benefits greater with credit card? Yes, consumer protection regulations ( and benefits ) are better on credit cards (at least in the US, I don't know about other countries).
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by jjav 2y ago
> You can learn on the job why box scores have an order What if you just don't care? I'd be one, since I'd rather watch paint dry than watching baseball. Would you want to work all day five days a week on something you don
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by jjav 2y ago
> I’d pick the former. Agreed, actually. It does depend on the industry somewhat and sports is probably one where interest in the topic is more valuable than average. But for me I have to care about what the company does. I don't th
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by jjav 2y ago
> On property they own or property they have been granted permission to occupy. By definition, the homeless don't have that.
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by jjav 2y ago
> Prisoners cost ~ $40k a year annually in taxes. The racket is that many prisions are private for-profit companies. So this is a way to funnel taxpayer money into those corporations. Who in turn are friends and campaign contributors of
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by jjav 2y ago
> Nobody is talking about ripping up roads. Nobody? The post being replied to literally said: > roads though, which shouldn't exist in a dense city
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by jjav 2y ago
> Let's build Hyperdrive City, Nebraska, where you can rent an apartment on the 93rd floor of the mall for $200 a month What is the motivation for a developer to build a 100 story (or at least 93 I guess) skyscraper in some empty fi
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by jjav 2y ago
> I'm fairly confident that is due to the balance on my CCs varying when the score is calculated Yes. It feels wrong that the current balance of credit cards is considered debt. It should only be considered debt once (if) you start
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by jjav 2y ago
> routine loss of control is a better explanation Loss of control is not routine. It is something that should never ever happen.
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by jjav 2y ago
> Having no access to walkable areas, fresh food, education, safe water, or public amenities in general is not a dignified way to live for most people. These things are easily found outside of Manhattan (in my example, or whichever large

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