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by pards 2y ago
Yep. This is like arguing that the best way to prevent school shootings is to give teachers guns. I don't think AI would have done a better job convincing CrowdStrike's leadership team that a staged rollout strategy is worth the c
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by pards 2y ago
OP here. By "full compliance is low", I meant that people will still come into the office sometimes but not at the frequency mandated by management. For example, management says 3 days/week and people come in 1 day/week,
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Ask HN: Has anyone been fired for ignoring in-office mandates?
47 points by pards 2y ago|100 comments
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by pards 2y ago
Got it. Many thanks!
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by pards 2y ago
I would appreciate an invitation to lobste.rs, too. My email is in my profile.
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by pards 2y ago
WaterScrumFall™ Funding process, requirements, planning: Waterfall Development: Scrum Manual testing, change approval boards, release management: Waterfall Waterfall on the outside, scrum in the middle
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NPM account takeover using expired domains (2023)(blog.illustria.io)
1 points by pards 2y ago|1 comments
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The Ellipsis Is Widening the Gap Between Millennials and Boomers(purewow.com)
5 points by pards 2y ago|5 comments
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by pards 2y ago
Except he said: > new leather sofas of the “not flat-packed sawdust and glue” variety quickly get into five figures five figures >= $10,000, not $5,000
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by pards 2y ago
Imagine all the nefarious use-cases of these "face search" sites. There are several sites that are available to the public [0] for a fee that allow anyone to upload a photo and search for information related to the person in the p
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Clearview AI is now in public defenders' hands (2022)(nytimes.com)
1 points by pards 2y ago|2 comments
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by pards 2y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20240514004005/https://www.nytim...
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by pards 2y ago
The prices are in Australian dollars 1 USD = 1.5 AUD 1 AUD = 0.67 USD Converting the price of Nissan Leaf to USD would be about $34,163 which is close to the prices listed on the Nissan website [0] [0]: https://www.nissanusa.com&
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by pards 2y ago
I thought this was a cool idea so I tried to add a mailbox with an emoji username to my protonmail account - no bueno. Invalid username. Boo!
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by pards 2y ago
Utah's "Gobblers Knob" [0] takes the cake on this one [0] https://maps.app.goo.gl/PzYTNtwaPBzQk84S6
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by pards 3y ago
> You are not buying from a supplier, you are a raccoon digging through dumpsters for free code. That implies that the FOSS code is garbage which we all know it is not. > I am more than happy to become a supplier[...] which means you
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by pards 3y ago
> forbid MS from bundling these two at all, so that you have to pay separately for Teams, and that price is no different than if you subscribe to Office or not Agreed. As it stands, Teams will still be much cheaper than Slack so it'
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by pards 3y ago
I love that you built this and wrote about it. We need more whimsy in our lives. Thank you.
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by pards 3y ago
> if a single week of overtime will help you meet a critical deadline In my experience, every unit of overtime is followed by a larger unit of "undertime" where the team (usually subconsciously) goes through a period of low pro
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by pards 3y ago
> The biggest risk to an evolving system is that you become bogged down by experts from a world that no longer exists. I see that a lot at large financial institutions. Their architecture teams are often comprised of lifers that have nev
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by pards 3y ago
Nitpick: Epstein's book is called "Range: _Why_ Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World", not "Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World" [0]: https://a.co/d/g0y80gW
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by pards 3y ago
This wouldn't fly on work computers at most large enterprises where the USB ports are locked down. Inserting any USB storage violates security policy and triggers security alerts, if the USB port works at all.
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by pards 3y ago
I was working on a trading system at a bank that didn't have automated deployments so we relied on the Ops team to manually release code to production on our behalf. Release plans had to be documented in MS Word with step-by-step instr
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by pards 3y ago
The Toronto Public Library got hit with ransomware, but they obviously can't afford to pay. It's awful. TPL is one of the best library networks in North America, providing a vast array of valuable services to the people of Toronto
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by pards 3y ago
> My kids get regular doses of “No limits!” and “You can be whatever you want!” in school, and I resent it because it simply isn’t true. You cannot actually be whatever you want. That’s harmful, sentimental garbage. Fact is, the real wor
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by pards 3y ago
Or to help us understand that mission-critical MS Excel 5.0 spreadsheet? We need to retire that Windows 95 machine under John's desk.
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by pards 3y ago
This doesn't account for homeowners that regularly report fake accidents on their streets to prevent Waze from directing traffic through their neighbourhood.
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by pards 3y ago
> Data brokers are defined in the bill as businesses that we don’t have a direct relationship with — and likely have never even heard of — that scrape and collect our personal information from various offline and online sources, and then
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by pards 3y ago
> The polyester T-shirts smelled significantly less pleasant and more intense, compared to the cotton T-shirts. This is consistent with my experience. I stopped buying expensive exercise clothing many years ago because they only last a s
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by pards 3y ago
https://craigpardey.com I write sporadically about programming, technology, methodology, and team structures.

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