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by michaelt 2mo ago
CISO: "We're going to invite random strangers from all around the globe to hack us, and pay them for their findings" CEO: "I'm not sure I like the idea of us inviting people to hack us - or paying a 'bounty&#x2
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by michaelt 2mo ago
Italy has progressive taxes on salary, with marginal rates from 23% to 43%. The latter on income above €50k And if you've got taxes like that on earned income - shouldn't people with unearned income pay just as much? If your tax o
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by michaelt 2mo ago
It's not just the transfer of cash. It's also complying with tax and employment laws in the country the hacker is in, to the satisfaction of your legal and finance teams. Sure, in western-style legal systems you can call them a
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by michaelt 2mo ago
> I had a couple of people/companies ask to buy it and a few more wanting to advertise in it. I'm sure it depends on the size of your readership, but in my experience these kind of offers are a drop in the bucket compared to
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by michaelt 2mo ago
Societies often try to address low-probability-high-cost risks. City fire departments, car seatbelts, motorbike and bicycle helmets, video doorbells/home CCTV, car steering wheel locks etc etc. The dangers are uncommon enough that the
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by michaelt 2mo ago
> The funny thing about data center concerns in Chicagoland, where I'm hearing it, is that data centers are better neighbors than almost any other commercial real estate. Data centres are better neighbours than a steelworks, or a
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by michaelt 2mo ago
> The amount they are spending on Gemini is probably shockingly low IDK, haven't Google been putting Gemini front and centre in pretty much all of their products? I'm seeing Gemini on my slide decks, Gemini on my e-mails, Gem
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by michaelt 2mo ago
The filter you want is named 'uBlock Origin' :)
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by michaelt 2mo ago
> I'm wondering what people expect these companies to do? Human moderators? They could just set the minimum ad spend at a level that makes moderation possible. Let's say it costs $15 to have a human spend 15 minutes checking
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by michaelt 2mo ago
IBM is also still going, believe it or not. 260k employees, 200 billion market cap, $67 billion revenue. I'm not sure what they do these days - it's about 20 years since I used an IBM Thinkpad to connect to an IBM pSeries.
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by michaelt 2mo ago
> Pilots were so used to "the plane won't make a mistake" that they were not aware Of course there have also been crashes where pilots wrongly dismissed sensor data. In the Kegworth air disaster [1] the pilots had se
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by michaelt 2mo ago
The Boeing MCAS stuff was a travesty, no doubt, and the 346 deaths in 2018-19 should not have happened. But did you know for 'General Aviation' (small planes flown for recreation and suchlike) there are around 300 deaths per year
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by michaelt 2mo ago
> So what is this conflict all about? Is there bigger geopolitical price tag attached to victory in Iran? Or US is just besieged by corruption to the extent campaign finding from Israel lobby as they say dictated much of the foreign pol
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by michaelt 2mo ago
Yes, the current standards did arise out of a lot of questionable behaviour. It's awfully tempting for a war photojournalist to pose the group of tearful women in front of the bombed-out building across town. Or for the celeb gossip re
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by michaelt 2mo ago
There were problems, but they were problems of a distinct and different kind. Back in the early 1990s you'd get Microsoft Office from the store, as a box containing 10 floppy disks. And they had to put a lot of effort into testing it
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by michaelt 2mo ago
> To be fair, the problems you describe existed before AI To an extent, I guess? But in the past if one wanted a diagram and didn't care about copyright they'd grab an image like https://i0.wp.com/www.engineer
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by michaelt 2mo ago
Some use of hero images by bloggers is a deliberate style choice, to emulate the norms of professional journalism. A lot of traditional news outlets have a style rule that every article must have an image. Look at https://www.b
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by michaelt 2mo ago
The most important thing to keep in mind, when considering AI images for helping to illustrate or explain the actual content, is that AI-generated images have a big trust problem. Take a look at the Google Image Search results for 'Eng
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by michaelt 2mo ago
Imagine a YAML parsing library that can cause an out-of-memory exception if you give it a YAML file greater than 3 megabytes. If you're an online service where untrusted users can submit arbitrary YAML, and an out-of-memory exception i
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by michaelt 2mo ago
SOC2 CC7.1 [1] requires a vulnerability scanner, findings tracked with tickets, assigned severities according to a documented risk-based system, severity-based SLAs for remediation, and that the SLAs mostly be complied with or have tracked
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by michaelt 2mo ago
Presumably they hope to provide richer data (i.e. photograph of the library) that OSM isn't interested in.
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by michaelt 2mo ago
It's bizarre, isn't it? I work in a warehouse, and if you type our address into Google Maps, it puts the maker right on our building. But they also label the building as a pub, two buildings down the street. I've submitted
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by michaelt 2mo ago
At least in my area, the price of the land is a huge fraction of the value of a house. Imagine a house-sized plot of land costs $250,000. That means a builder can offer buyers a $20,000 building for $270,000 or a $150,000 building for $400,
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by michaelt 3mo ago
In the UK market architects are kinda common. For a lot of building projects you need both pictures to send the government to get permission before you break ground; and also evidence of the structural calculations, and that the structural
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by michaelt 3mo ago
As the poster is saying "certain keys weren't detecting presses less than a month later" it's almost certainly a manufacturing defect, rather than a wear-out issue. Keychron say their mechanical switches last '50 mi
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by michaelt 3mo ago
> The worst thing about exceptions is that you can't tell from the type signature of a function whether it might throw one. In Java exceptions can be part of a method's declared type information, so handling is checked at com
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by michaelt 3mo ago
In the UK there's a standard(-ish) form [1] the seller competes, before contracts are exchanged. So if a seller wants to keep their smart doorbell, or their curtains, or to take all the plants from the garden - they can agree that, a
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by michaelt 3mo ago
> there may be periods where lots of people come to park at the same time. At least in my country, airports under-provision infrastructure and ask travellers to arrive 2-3 hours before their flights to make up for it. If a person has t
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by michaelt 3mo ago
> It seems like there’s not much throughput for something like this. I can’t see how this could handle a constant stream of people wanting to park their cars. Assume your car park is a grid of cars, 20 cars wide and 20 cars long, i.e.
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by michaelt 3mo ago
None of them push your buttons, huh?

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