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> The issue isn't nights or weekends. The issue is: constant lack of organisation (i.e. everything is urgent and last minute), and not hiring enough staff. this seems to be the main issue. Most other industries which require night w
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but is investment banking really necessary work in that regard? in the end, it is just white collar office work at the end of the day.
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> During all this time, I never got the impression that IB work was important or interesting. He'd clamour to get his hands on spreadsheet ("model") work, but it never struck me as actually sensible. There were simply too
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very solid aswell. mind you even a basic srx is complete overkill for a home environment. it is very solid hardware with good support. I would however, not recommend getting one for home use unless your employer runs juniper and can get yo
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6y ago
how so? using OVH and their bare metal servers doesn't absolve you from doing your own due dilligence. As said earlier, their cloud service is unaffected.
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in most datacenters, the UPS's are stored in the same collum like structure as their generators. A Datacenter is divided into vertical columns, with eacht collum being powered by redundant power feeds, generator(s) and UPS's.
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6y ago
tot be fair. WebEx seemed to work just as fine as most of the alternatives.
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6y ago
Undercover[1] is a dutch series depicting a pretty common scenario. The south of the country supplies a majority of the world in xtc. [2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undercover_(2019_TV_series) [2] https:/&#
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what i always wonder about this massive income inequality in silicon valley is, where are the non high paying people living? you know, people who are not highly trained professionals with advanced degrees but who are still required to make
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in my experience this is detrimental for a company in the long term. It results in people who are in charge of taking leadership not actually leading the company and it shows everyone in the company taking risks is instant failure in their
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6y ago
> 1) access restrictions such that even malicious interns, and certainly careless interns can do little damage when the inevitable leak happens this should be something that is implemented in any organisation beyond a very small scale,
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> One of my best early-in-career lessons was that it takes maturity to own up to your mistakes (no matter how bone-headed), and it also takes good managers and a good company to foster an environment in which you can own up to them witho
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6y ago
i kind of agree with you their. but managing zone files when you have a couple of thousand of domains just becomes nearly impossible. also, lack of an api makes it even harder. personally I have been very happy with powerdns for a very long
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i have found BIND to be troublesome for running large(r) scale workloads. Also, dealing with zone files just gets annoying, especially compared to DNS servers that support database backends.
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what about the roman empire? or Carthage? both are seen as cool as well, but we have many historical accounts of their brutality.
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hard disk storage has been static in terms of drive size of the last couple of years. 12TB is roughly the maximum economic size you can get right now.
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an old coworker of mine used to see conflict as a good thing because it means people are invested in whatever is being discussed. I tend to agree with him.
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another example is a company which is highly specialised in making a certain thing. (for instance some kind of widget for a specific kind of industrial machine). usually demand is stable enough to keep the company healthy for a long time, b
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at my old job (roughly 60 people) the company just got regular lunch ingredients (usually some meats, cheese and just normal bread) for the entire company. culturally it was expected everyone had lunch in the common area from this stockpile
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the amount of firewall vendor's who drop this kind of PDU by default is astounding. I once spend a week troubleshooting a firewall at a customer's side who had a similair issue with zero-length tcp window PDU's. The firewalls
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Also, their networking troubleshooting inside linux is solid aswell. There are very few engineers who seem to understand the details of TCP, especially it's more obscure aspects.
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> When people walk across a bridge and it starts to sway, they start to lock step and then resonance, where each step reinforces the last kicks in and more and more energy causes sway, shear and what have you forces. It gets worse and wo
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Also, the massive rise in economic power of the rest of (western) world around that time. the US was the only major world power left standing after world war 2 without colossal damage, and rebuilding (western) europe took the better part of
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which is highly dangerous to the general stability of society. When economic policy results in massive finanicial instability for the common worker (thanks to hyperinflation and insane asset prices) it creates a power vacuum which can be fi
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which is weird when you think about it. Only showing succesfull and how happy you are is not a realistic view of life, and hiring candicates who are engaged in this behaviour should be a major red flag?
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Also, in my experience, learning english to do bussiness with other european who also learn english mainly for bussiness purposes gives a different kind of language then learning english for everyday use. see also "euro english"[0
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Also, video games tended to not be translated into dutch. Mainly because it is suchs a small language. Me and most of my peers learned most english from playing video games and watching movies and tv shows with subtitels, mostly because spo
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in the olden days, VPS providers worth their salt ran freebsd and had each tenant inside a jail. This was back in the early 2000's, and still seems to work rather well for the basic webhosting.
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from experience, i can tell you high end support far exceeds $20/h (think 3rd level network and systems support). $20/h is more in the 1st line territory.
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> In fact, the president of the EU, Charles Michel has already hinted at invoking Article 122 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, which could force vaccine-makers to share their patents In my opinion they should, This
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