nicholasjarnold

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by nicholasjarnold 4y ago
Yep. It's a shame. I once (long ago :)) alerted our CTO to an ongoing attack in production after seeing some obviously attack-oriented requests coming in and hitting our gateway. It became a pretty high-visibility incident for about 20
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by nicholasjarnold 4y ago
confirmed. it's not changing. haven't lived there for a while, but it'll always be the Sears Tower if you ask me.
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by nicholasjarnold 4y ago
> Are lawyers at risk? There are a lot of sub-areas of expertise and practice that someone with a JD might choose to specialize in. I have some small personal experience in (technically) advising a failed/defunct startup that sought
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by nicholasjarnold 4y ago
> they forget that software development is a creative process Exactly. Very few executives have read Hackers & Painters [0], from what I've been able to anecdotally personally gather. Nobody (almost) should be fearful that low-c
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by nicholasjarnold 4y ago
I recall reading that some cars are now using TCP/IP for connecting some of their systems. A _super_ quick search on this topic yields some results speaking to this [0]. [0] - https://www.techrepublic.com/resource-libra
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by nicholasjarnold 4y ago
Yep, I can confirm this based on personal experience with a gynecologist telling my wife that at 35 the pregnancy is considered a "geriatric pregnancy" (apparently some docs now call it "AMA"...advanced maternal age). Th
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by nicholasjarnold 4y ago
> Another one is also that Docker is really not pleasant to install on Linux. I'm curious on which Linux did you encounter issues while installing Docker? I cannot comment on the (to me somewhat pointless) Docker Desktop GUI install
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by nicholasjarnold 4y ago
I come from the time when the first internet connection my house had was a 56k modem...just before cable modems/DOCSIS started rolling out in the midwest. These speeds are somewhat mind boggling to me. (Yeah, yeah, datacenter vs home,
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by nicholasjarnold 4y ago
This is just an opinion based on personal experience across multiple companies, but I think many of us can probably agree that companies (large, medium and small) seem to hire up a lot of people who provide tenuous value during the high tim
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by nicholasjarnold 4y ago
Yes, exactly. In the US the financial institutions and the credit reporting and collection agencies have used rather insidious language like "stolen identity" to describe the situation where fraud was perpetrated on one of those a
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by nicholasjarnold 4y ago
Agree. It speaks to some bias the OP has towards WFH-preferring people. I live in a major metro area close to the city center. I worked in a hybrid WFH environment prior to March of 2020 when COVID-19 started freaking people here out. I&#x2
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by nicholasjarnold 4y ago
Well, I guess in the purest possible sense you're correct. However, I'm currently working with a group using Terraform on GCP (GKE), and it's popular with them to use Secret Manager to manually create a secret in there (when
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by nicholasjarnold 4y ago
Well, yeah, because N95 masks are all about particulate filtration performance and not necessarily VOC neutralization. The terpenes in weed are volitile organic compounds, something which a different type of air filtration/purification
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by nicholasjarnold 4y ago
I agree completely here. This is terrible news from my perspective too. I use Signal for _all messaging_ (e2e secure or not) for the reasons that you mention. I've onboarded friends and family, too, ensuring them it should be set as th
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by nicholasjarnold 4y ago
> The announcement of the layoffs was theatre for Wall Street. I'm interpreting this as "the (publicly-traded) company used a layoff announcement to appease investors and show them that executive management is taking steps to e
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by nicholasjarnold 4y ago
Thank you! I'm going to check this out. A question about a comment you made elsewhere herein: > My caveat about this is some services will silently ignore you if you try to use a virtual number. It's more useful for IRL where y
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by nicholasjarnold 4y ago
Maybe you use it as part of a multi-layered approach to personal digital privacy. Without having hired a lawyer to dissect the TOS and Privacy Policy for Mozilla's new service here, I'm going to assume for the sake of argument tha
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by nicholasjarnold 4y ago
Same. Though for email there are good services like Fastmail (and likely many others) which already offer this and other benefits for a nominal subscription fee. I haven't implemented this idea yet, but what stops us from just buying T
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by nicholasjarnold 4y ago
I'm old enough to have purchased cassette tapes in the early MTV days...and found compact discs to be amazing little pieces of technology when they started to become mainstream. Fast forward to a time when I actually had the resources
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by nicholasjarnold 4y ago
Exactly this. Those of a certain age will remember the days when all media was physical media. People could purchase new, used or trade for a copy of this media. People had some amount of freedom regarding how they handle and/or distri
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by nicholasjarnold 4y ago
Yes, I have direct first-hand experience with the "presenting one thing in initial talks pre-signature, and getting something completely different later" with the "big consulting firms". We spoke with actual senior engin
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by nicholasjarnold 4y ago
This is so cool! I was just speaking to a non-technical family member about privacy concerns around using "OK Google" and the like. They responded inquiring about "private" alternatives, to which my answer was "I&#x
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by nicholasjarnold 4y ago
> They began as the embedded storage layer for some bigger thing. I immediately thought of Kafka's streaming query stuff when I read the headline (ksqlDB). I'm not sure if that's the origin story of RocksDB, but it's
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by nicholasjarnold 4y ago
Funny story from the early days of TheFaceBook, probably around 2005ish: I was a webmaster of a set of servers on a major university's network. I also had access (enough to run arbitrary programs that had pretty much full ingress/
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by nicholasjarnold 5y ago
Yes, I configure and manage all devices that connect to our home's network unless that device is only provisioned for access to a "guest" wireless network which is only routable to the public internet (no LAN access whatsoeve
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by nicholasjarnold 5y ago
"A datum is forever" - De Nerds circa 2022, inspired by a quip from one royaltjames of the same era I like this a lot more than the De Beers campaign popularized in the late 1940s[0]! [0]: https://www.theatlantic.com&#x
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by nicholasjarnold 5y ago
Another vote for this option being a viable, and dare I say good, one. In addition to the CalDAV, contacts and email you can use davx5[0] on Android to help with syncing to your (root-not-required) Android device. This setup has worked well
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by nicholasjarnold 5y ago
I read it like: Someone reads (skims?) that book, vaguely grasps the power of the concepts therein and then begins to treat everything like a nail that needs their hammer...failing to realize that many times and at many companies a simpler
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by nicholasjarnold 5y ago
How about this framing: It's part of a game that I've seen being played throughout my career in tech (software development). I am in no way advocating for that type of behavior. I'm merely pointing out that it exists, it seem
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by nicholasjarnold 5y ago
You bring up a good point...the overall pull downward that the phonies bring to our field. Businesses trust (software) engineering teams less. Perhaps overall industry pay rates are brought down, too, though I don't have personal exper

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