kchoudhu

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by kchoudhu 8y ago
In my cases, disk is cheap and I don't particularly care about utilization. The ability to wipe away errors whenever the need arises is priceless.
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by kchoudhu 8y ago
Export zvols from a central fileserver via iscsi, and install the exposed operating system on it. Snap the zvols on the fileserver. Unless your fileserver is compromised, there's no way the ransomeware can persist in your network.
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by kchoudhu 8y ago
No one from the business.
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by kchoudhu 8y ago
"All MIT men carry batteries for emergencies." Sounds about right. "One night, they ran into another group of pranksters from Brown University" Harvard, destined to be the butt of everyone's jokes.
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by kchoudhu 8y ago
A geek trying to get more bandwidth is the best worker.
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by kchoudhu 8y ago
How is it any worse than what we have now, though.
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by kchoudhu 8y ago
Because the reddit post gives useful context.
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by kchoudhu 8y ago
Yeah, interallied debt to the US was linked to German reparations which stopped in 1932 (I think?). The US wasn't fussed about it...so I'm not sure it was a default. The other one I can think of was the downgrade of the coupon on
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by kchoudhu 8y ago
When was the last time the US or the UK defaulted on their debt? The credit rating system is necessarily bayesian, and EM markets all have their most recent defaults within the models' event horizons.
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by kchoudhu 8y ago
Even in tech, 8 years is not a long time. When I said that there was SCCS in use at a major bank in 2010, the hope therefore was that the reader would think "that probably means that SCCS is in use elsewhere".
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by kchoudhu 8y ago
Can't argue with that.
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by kchoudhu 8y ago
I migrated the mortgage desk of a major investment bank off SCCS in 2010. These old tools are more common than the cool kids would have you believe.
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by kchoudhu 8y ago
All my pencils growing up were either red/black or yellow/black, depending on how hard they were. I miss Staedtler pencils.
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by kchoudhu 8y ago
We should all start a club defined by our forex market induced alcoholism.
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by kchoudhu 8y ago
You need a timestamp and a timeseries database of exchange rates so that you can go back in time and reconstruct your calculations at a latter date as well. Source: worked at a bank that implemented pretty much this.
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by kchoudhu 8y ago
That's not your fault, that's the pfSense's fault. File a bug.
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by kchoudhu 8y ago
Going out to Lake Meade isn't exactly reassuring these days, but the Vegas water district has made huge strides in reducing water consumption: the rebate program to get people to put in more natural foliage in their backyards has been
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by kchoudhu 8y ago
Vegas hiking is good in fall, winter and spring. The heat necessarily means that you limit yourself to indoor activities during the summer, and that's just fine by me!
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by kchoudhu 8y ago
Might have misused the phrase -- I was simply referring to how hot it gets during the summer.
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by kchoudhu 8y ago
It's fine. We have our industrial air conditioning units and swimming pools, and there is plenty to do indoors for the duration of the summer.
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by kchoudhu 8y ago
We took one whiff of California's tax and housing regime and bought a house in Las Vegas. So what if it's a charnel house for three months every year, the lack of state tax and reasonable housing prices make it worth it.
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by kchoudhu 8y ago
Hell, I'm a Muslim and I'd sign on to this CoC without hesitation.
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by kchoudhu 8y ago
The bank I was working at tried installing monitoring software on programmers' computers one day with no monitoring. I sent my MD an email saying I wouldn't be working that day because of it, and left. The software disappeared the
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by kchoudhu 8y ago
It's been wild living in the Middle East and watching this turn into a first rate shitstorm across the region, with the Saudis lining up allies to farcically yell "Fake news!" in the face of the evidence being dribbled out by
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by kchoudhu 8y ago
At least one T3 (or higher!) Lamba School graduate working at Google by 10/9/19? I'll take that action! (Email in profile, also on Twitter.)
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by kchoudhu 8y ago
Google Ventures invests in company that will churn out graduates that Google will never hire. Makes sense.
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by kchoudhu 8y ago
That is absolutely not the case if US intelligence agencies have told them to deny the allegations.
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by kchoudhu 8y ago
Not if they've been told not to.
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by kchoudhu 8y ago
I don't get people who have trouble with Pivot tables. Literally drag and drop things until you get what you need.
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by kchoudhu 8y ago
I tend to skip around videos. When it went from "exploit this glitch" to a graph of "registering p-q alignment", I knew I would have to slow down and watch the entire thing. Boy am I glad I did.

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