mr_overalls

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by mr_overalls 5y ago
We have a small IT department and are running on extremely limited funds. We literally had two unlicensed dev databases, and Oracle threatened to sue us for millions of dollars, unless we bought a subscription to their shitty cloud product.
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by mr_overalls 5y ago
I work for a government agency in a rather poor flyover state. We ran Oracle databases and a few other products for multiple decades, until Oracle conducted an audit and decided to shake us down for everything we were worth. We migrated awa
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by mr_overalls 5y ago
I find the comments in this article very accurate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15160149 > ORA is the elephant's graveyard of software. > Once something gets bought by them, you know it is done. Slowly, b
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by mr_overalls 5y ago
Buddhist philosophers would agree with you. See Yogacara and Madhyamaka schools, who both agree that the ordinary appearance of the world is akin to a magical illusion.
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by mr_overalls 5y ago
Right. R's killer feature is its ecosystem. I'm wondering if most statisticians or researchers deal with data big enough that massively better performance would be enough motivation to switch.
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by mr_overalls 5y ago
Julia seems like such a superior language compared to R. What would be required for it to supplant R for statistical work (or some subset of it)?
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by mr_overalls 5y ago
With the growing awareness that tech giants possess intimate knowledge of our preferences, activities, and lives - and use that influence to literally addict us to technology, sell us things, influence us politically - who the f*ck wants an
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by mr_overalls 5y ago
He kept claiming that DNC staffer Seth Rich was the source of the leaked DNC emailes (and not Russian military/GRU hackers) and that Rich had been killed as a result. He also released actual CIA hacking tools (Vault 7), which was a mon
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by mr_overalls 5y ago
I think it depends on your definition of constructive criticism. Assange breaking news of US coverups of war-zone crimes is useful, imho. Assange serving as a mouthpiece of Russian disinformation is not.
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by mr_overalls 5y ago
> It didn’t matter that there was nothing bad coming from China or Russia or Nigeria. All that mattered back then is that he had dirt on the US. Because liberals hate America, right? This sort of thinking from conservatives baffles me.
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by mr_overalls 5y ago
Probably the most important one: keeping the roof from leaking. Uncontrolled moisture incursion is one of the quickest ways to destroy any structure.
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by mr_overalls 5y ago
This article explores the concept in greater detail. The most common interpretation in a professional context is "half-assed job." Black mold in a room? Just paint over it. Cha bu duo. A pinch of this instead of a teaspo
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by mr_overalls 5y ago
That's just an astounding incidence rate. That kind of selective pressure makes the reason for the sickle cell mutation in hemoglobin more obvious. https://www.cdc.gov/malaria/about/biology/index.html &g
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by mr_overalls 5y ago
Meh, everybody is a 0.9X developer in many areas outside of their specialty. I'm a data engineer who specializes in security. I only need to generate a GUI or CRUD webapp once in a blue moon. So a stack that makes sane choices for me a
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Magnetohydrodynamic Drive(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by mr_overalls 6y ago|0 comments
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by mr_overalls 6y ago
> Why would you go all the way to Earth Perhaps we just happen to be on the route to somewhere more interesting? It's a pretty big assumption that we are the final destination for visiting alien craft.
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by mr_overalls 6y ago
Water is a poor medium for photons, but a great one for sound. That's why the US and other countries surveil the seas with linked arrays of underwater microphones, i.e. the Integrated Undersea Surveillance System (IUSS). https:/&
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by mr_overalls 6y ago
At least several years ago, the cracked John Deere firmware was done by Ukrainian hackers. This seems like a serious vulnerability for supply-side attacks. High-end tractors have been driving autonomously for years, with precise GPS, multip
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by mr_overalls 6y ago
A concordance rate of 40% actually points to a near-even split between heritable and non-heritable factors.
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Steve (atmospheric phenomenon)(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by mr_overalls 6y ago|0 comments
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by mr_overalls 6y ago
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/jan/13/google-ad...
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by mr_overalls 6y ago
At this time, it's becoming clear that the GOP establishment is in favor of de facto one-party rule. They are seeking to overturn the results of a democratic election, and many of them are encouraging voter disenfranchisement and even
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by mr_overalls 6y ago
I don't care if my personal information was leaked. I followed discussions, posted a comment or two like, "What evidence do you have for that?" There seemed to be tons of other accounts that did the same, along with accounts
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by mr_overalls 6y ago
> media told me I create a Parler account myself out of curiosity's sake. The platform had basically no moderation, and was rife with open calls to violence. It was absolutely serving as a recruitment & coordination site for dom
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by mr_overalls 6y ago
Come on, man. Are you 15? Hacking in the spirit of curiosity & experimentation shouldn't be illegal. Hacking to destroy computers, bankrupt companies, and dox journalists should certainly be.
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by mr_overalls 6y ago
This is victim-blaming. Security incidents, viewed generally, are the conjunction of two factors: threats and vulnerabilities. It is a massive over-generalization to view all cyber attacks through a lens that focuses only on one factor. Sur
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by mr_overalls 6y ago
It could be incredibly expensive to clean up. Remediation and recovery for most threats involves OS/app reinstallation, perhaps restoring from backups and images. However, if your threat is a sophisticated state actor based out of Russ
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by mr_overalls 6y ago
"Paradigm-breaking" and "kooky" are different. Pais's language is gibberish, refers to yet-unsupported effects named after himself, and betrays a lack of understanding of basic principles in the field he seeks to re
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by mr_overalls 6y ago
> but my opinion is that it is detrimental to public perception of risk. This would positively affect my perception of the plant's operators. They handled the crisis, and now are laying out the post-mortem for the public in a transp
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by mr_overalls 6y ago
Attribution is tricky, but nation-state actors have resources that no other threat type (organized crime, hacktivists, etc.) can muster: multiple 0-days, advanced tools, obviously deep field of programming talent, inside info about targeted

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