oasisbob

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by oasisbob 3y ago
I've become convinced that most migrations are absolute losers in terms of opportunity costs. Even if done skillfully with valid rationale, they don't show any value until you come out the other side successfully.
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There's no formal definition of "lift and shift", certainly nothing that would dictate specific virtualization strategies. I've always read it as being roughly analogous to "like for like," and dependent on the
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by oasisbob 3y ago
"Lift and shift" isn't just an Azure-specific phrase. Many people use it pejoratively, and point to it as an anti-pattern, and something to avoid. Similar terminology is "forklift"... been hearing that one for well
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by oasisbob 3y ago
It is absurd, and it violates the mandatory timely notification laws which are in place in many states, including Washington. Umpqua bank was also affected by MoveIt by way of one of their fintech vendors (FIS), they didn't even bother
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by oasisbob 3y ago
I remember being excited once upon a time when Google acquired Deja News. Will be really disappointed if the archive falls into an even worse state of disrepair.
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by oasisbob 3y ago
> and the entire value of the drug is in the measurements. I'm not sure this is true. While modern Adderall has a closely controlled mixture of multiple enantiomers, it hasn't always been this way. Medicine historically didn&#x
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by oasisbob 3y ago
Most psychologists would be much more interested in person X's behavior, rather than their brain.
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Yeah, I agree. Even knowing that parallel construction exists, it's still pretty shocking to see it used in practice. eg I'm aware of a case here in Seattle where the Seattle PD coordinated with the feds to use a Stingray in the a
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by oasisbob 3y ago
Oftentimes a simulation will involve "overpowering the sun". You're not doing the lighting in the dark, you're adding light to an existing scene to simulate the sun being where you want it to be. Day for night shooting i
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by oasisbob 3y ago
Absolutely not. Most routers on the internet are not doing connection tracking. But that's not my point - most cases where things /are/ keeping state need to worry about keeping state on UDP-oriented protocols as well.
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by oasisbob 3y ago
Internet routers at large are not doing connection tracking. If a device is dropping the ball on connection tracking, it's almost certainly in your own network. Your ISP may have carrier-grade NAT. The content provider network probably
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by oasisbob 3y ago
Great point. Are you familiar with McLuhan's media tetrad? The hypothetical status quo is a wonderful example of retrieval. Every new technology should be expected to have the effect of reemphasizing something previously obsolete.
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> Isn't basically all water outside hard water? No, many surface water sources are soft. eg, Seattle and Portland municipal water supplies are both drawn from rivers in local watersheds, and have no appreciable mineral content.
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by oasisbob 3y ago
> Imagine you upgrade the "read_reactor" tool, and your usage in your "control_reactor" becomes invalid As others have noted, that's an error which shouldn't go to stdout. But help text is not an error. It&#
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by oasisbob 3y ago
This feels like an easy one. Not quite the same, but I really dislike programs which log status updates and more fundamental output to the same place. IIRC, ffmpeg is like this with everything going to stderr, making metadata parsing more d
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by oasisbob 3y ago
https://labs.ripe.net/author/franz/pollution-in-18/
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Hope the RCA highlighted the risks of having a critical network server share the L2 segment with all its clients.
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Classic scaling hack. There's a talk from someone at a high-volume adult entertainment site which used this trick too - can't remember which one. As told, the caching functionality in a key service had an artificial 10ms delay add
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by oasisbob 3y ago
Could be worse! Seattle.gov started serving with HSTS `includeSubDomains; preload` over a month ago, broke all sorts of subdomains, and are still picking up the pieces. City council ordinances and resolutions are hosted at http:/&#x2F
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by oasisbob 3y ago
Discovery Park in Seattle is built within an old Army base dating back to 1920 or so. While exploring some hidden corners I ran into a metal detectorist, and we got to talking about other fun places in the park. His best tip for finding the
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by oasisbob 3y ago
Until Dodd-Frank, the rules for discounts on cash transactions imposed by Visa and Mastercard by merchants were much more stringent. Many retailers had their hands tied, whether or not they wanted to provide a cash discount or credit card s
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by oasisbob 3y ago
In the US, your debit card and credit card are protected by the same dispute rules under Regulation E.
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> Like with many things the goal may be bipartisan, but how to get there will not be Why not the existing EPA Superfund program? Discovering pollution from industry decades after the contamination took place isn't a new problem.
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by oasisbob 3y ago
"Fluorine" is also the terminology used for covalently bonded Fl moieties, not just difluorine, the gas. Fluoride is the ion, but if you want to get pedantic, you're not adding the ion to toothpaste and drinking water - you&#
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Will it read all the manufacturer-specific clusters needed to confirm odometer fraud on this model of vehicle? I use my $20 eBay OBD2 all the time on my Mk4 Jetta to confirm faults. However, even with such an old car with decent support, th
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The value of having reliable vehicles probably outweighs the possible savings due to reactive deferred maintenance.
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> name dropping that doesn't have anything to do with the subject matter This is a good point. However, it's probably worth pointing out that in the past few decades -- at least here in the PNW -- carbon fiber availability to t
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by oasisbob 3y ago
That's exactly why SHA1 was deprecated in TLS certs. https://security.googleblog.com/2015/12/an-update-on-sha-1-c... Even OCSP was affected: https://cabforum.org/2022/01/26/ball
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Or, the private key could leak. Or, the cert could have been issued by an authority which issued the cert despite compliance problems. Web PKI is different than code signing, but if you look at the discussions within the CAB forum, there ar
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by oasisbob 3y ago
> This one is in a salt mine as the salt helps keep the moisture out of the air As an aside, various salts are useful as humidity regulating agents due to their deliquescence characteristics. Different salts and brine solutions can be us

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