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by kgilpin 8y ago
Yes, establishing that “secret 0” (the credential which grants access to all the others) is a tough problem. In some scenarios it’s possible to at least avoid introducing another vault-specific credential. For example if your workload is ru
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by kgilpin 8y ago
That totally works for me as well :-)
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by kgilpin 8y ago
I’m the parent of a teenager who has struggled with an unhealthy obsession with features like this. A kid who is 14 or 15 is able to intellectually understand how to use these game systems, but at the same time he or she is often lacking th
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by kgilpin 8y ago
I'm in agreement with other commenters here that "culture fit" usually feels like a euphemism for something else. I think what it's really about is explained here in the article: "A single toxic employee who is a ba
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by kgilpin 8y ago
Society has the right to change the rules on you. The system belongs to all of us.
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by kgilpin 8y ago
You are thinking of the Mars Climate Orbiter crash: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter#Cause_of_...
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by kgilpin 8y ago
Or used against you in a court of law.
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by kgilpin 8y ago
Well, he never accepted non-locality. And it turns out, quantum mechanics is indeed non-local.
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by kgilpin 8y ago
As far as I know, addition is something you define (an axiom) in order to construct the real (or other) numbers. https://sites.math.washington.edu/~hart/m524/realprop.pdf
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by kgilpin 8y ago
I mean that the airplane’s propulsion system is ultimately the power source behind those vortices, by forcing the wing through the stationary air.
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by kgilpin 8y ago
You’ll be interested to read about aspect ratio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspect_ratio_(aeronautics) As the ratio of the span to the chord increases, the ratio of lift to drag increases as well. The drag of an obj
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by kgilpin 8y ago
Celebrate bookings, revenue and customer successes! Celebrate teams who work well together. Don’t celebrate fund raising.
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by kgilpin 9y ago
It may or may not be the same. I will answer in the context of PostgreSQL which is the system I know the best. PostgreSQL allows you to create "copies" of the database using replication. A database which is replicating is always r
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by kgilpin 9y ago
If you are interested in a list of steps you can take to avoid this happening to your data, here are some suggestions. I don't believe that any single measure is sufficient. And I also believe that it's valid to balance the strict
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by kgilpin 9y ago
Hockey is more popular in Canada than baseball is in the USA!
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by kgilpin 9y ago
Don’t disappear from your parents. You have no idea how much it hurts them.
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by kgilpin 9y ago
They are not paying list price for App Engine.
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by kgilpin 9y ago
Autonomous vehicles will make it much safer to be a cyclist, a pedestrian, or a child near a road. These are some positive changes I am really looking forward to. Imagine knowing that if your child runs in the road, the cars will stop? Safe
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by kgilpin 9y ago
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (1), the most common jobs in the US are retail sales, cashier, food prep and serving, office clerk, registered nurse, customer service rep, waiter / waitress, laborer, secretary, janitor. It’
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by kgilpin 9y ago
Another stated reason is that SSH runs on TCP and running TCP apps on a TCP VPN is inefficient. It’s two layers of reliable delivery. It’s better to use UDP in the VPN which is what WireGuard does.
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by kgilpin 9y ago
In Weston Massachusetts there is a proposal to move the start of high school and middle school back to 8:45 for this reason. https://www.westonschools.org/blog/2017/10/23/proposed-chang...
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by kgilpin 9y ago
I’m hoping that, along the lines of the article, not only are conferences fading in relevance and popularity but business travel itself will start to become obsolete. Business travel is incredibly expensive and inefficient, it’s polluting,
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by kgilpin 9y ago
> military Although, the USA is about 90% energy independent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_energy_independe...
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by kgilpin 9y ago
It’s an intriguing subject for sure. What’s missing to me here is “Why start with CP/M”?
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by kgilpin 9y ago
IAM is also super hard to configure. I would like to see more sense of responsibility from AWS for these leaks rather than blaming the users. It’s bad usability.
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by kgilpin 9y ago
But presumably there was revenue.
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by kgilpin 9y ago
60,000 years ago, humans were just leaving Africa. So I would be impressed if 60,000 years from now, anyone remembers that Voyager is still out there!
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by kgilpin 9y ago
+1 The real money in the cloud business is in the Fortune 1000, not the small fry. 5 years ago it was only startups and Netflix using the cloud. Now the battle is on between AWS, Azure and Google to be the “new data center”.
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by kgilpin 9y ago
Helicopters are loud, expensive to operate and maintain, difficult to fly, slower than airplanes, and crash more often. But, they are much more flexible in terms of where they can land. This “point to point” aspect is what people really mea
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by kgilpin 9y ago
It’s easier to swing from one vine to the next vine, than to one 5 vines in front of you.

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