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by jnwatson 4y ago
Availability is the A in the CIA triad. DR and resilience in general is part of security.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
“ When my Jewish grandparents came from Ukraine to the US in the 1930s they'd never even considered or been presented with the possibility of eating pork” I don’t understand how that could occur, since a great deal of pork is produced
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by jnwatson 4y ago
That ship has sailed a long time ago. Second Life was an early adopter, but games have been selling virtual goods for a long time. Not to mention NFTs.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
That’s a great point. My hearing is fine but I have some brain thing that make it hard to understand voices in a crowd. My hearing is tested to be plenty sensitive. A hearing aid would be great in party environments for me. My father and m
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by jnwatson 4y ago
One reason Ruby lost is the culture of monkey patching. The same facility exists in Python but is used much more sparing due to the mess it makes.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
Level 2 automation doesn't typically switch lanes. I'd wager 10-to-1 odds this was an active mistake by the driver. It is possible, however, that the car was in lane-following mode and got horribly confused (in which case, it is
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by jnwatson 4y ago
I’m 45 now and over half my leadership experience was before 20. You can run a fraternity, a marching band, a 800+ member charitable organization project before 20.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
You only have to do that for one ingredient. You make a spice/liquor concoction, put it in a random bottle, and you’re good.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
Digital signatures is the underlying technology of blockchain. And the most popular use of digital signatures? Application integrity and authenticity. Git is a perfect answer why blockchain is almost never the answer. It implements an imm
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by jnwatson 4y ago
You can store things that aren’t money on a blockchain. If you think a distributed mutually-distrustful ledger is useful but shouldn’t be used for money, the statement “we like blockchain but not Bitcoin” makes sense.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
Societies in which there are within 100x as many billionaires as poverty stricken don’t exist.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
That’s not how the median works. If we had as many in poverty as billionaires, we’d have a pretty good situation.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
It helps to understand the motivation why “Big tech” operates this way. Any time a company offers something free that is Turing complete, abuse occurs at incredible scale, scale that can only be opposed through automated means. The next le
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by jnwatson 4y ago
We have root on our own (personal) boxes, so we can essentially do what we want (within reason). There's a tremendous value in having a somewhat homogenous environment. We have our own package repo and .deb packages to access internal
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by jnwatson 4y ago
Short of a bigger plague than COVID or nuclear war, the static population numbers in developed countries will be dwarfed by population increases in the rest of the world.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
Yep. I’ve taken one ride on a Bird. As soon as I got up to full speed, my first thought was “I really should be wearing a helmet”.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
Right. The popularity of e-bikes is partially just regulatory. An e-bike can go 2-3 times faster than a Bird scooter, but it looks like a bicycle so it is legal to ride more places.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
For background, SIKE, an implementation of SIDH, was selected as a winner of the latest NIST quantum cryptography competition.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
Not really. I had to look up the addresses of 50 distant relatives for sending out a graduation announcement and it was almost trivial to find everyone (along with their past addresses and possible associates). It just isn’t on well-known
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by jnwatson 4y ago
Direct-sales startups live and die by their sales people. Taking promised money away from the folks that have the least allegiance and most capability to move on is a quick way to make every employee redundant.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
Another point to add is that these junkets are announced well in advance as performance incentives. To cancel such a trip would effectively be retroactively eliminating a bonus for top performers.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
The sales folks that went on the trip were most likely the ones that made their number. Except the sales executives of course.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
Your solution eliminates accountability to donors, but it also eliminates accountability to voters. Both houses essentially have this. It is called a voice vote.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
Come on. A decent engineer can pass the programming portion of FAANG interviews in 30-40 hours of study and they take at most 40% of the interview time. Source: I got offers from 3 FAANGs last year.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
Right now, pricing is the most transparent it has ever been among traditional dealers. For most new cars, you pay MSRP.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
Back last July, AWS couldn’t come close to what Meta or Google could offer when I was looking.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
It isn’t about giving advice. The advisor role is simply about saving face on both sides. Neither the company nor the founder want to admit they lost faith in the other party.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
This. I spent several years in sales and then dabbled in marketing. It is entirely possibly, even superior, to have a completely ethical sales process (at least in a technical market). In marketing, psychological manipulation is part and pa
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by jnwatson 4y ago
You can't purchase a home in Banff National Park (which includes the towns of Banff and Lake Louise) without having an active or planned business set to open in the town, having some other blood relation to someone living in the town,
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by jnwatson 4y ago
An interesting sociological question arises about how knowledge is passed down through generations. One could count the number of software engineering management tenets on one hand. One of them was detailed in a popular book almost a half

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