rficcaglia

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by rficcaglia 6y ago
It's more that there is a market price for SOC2 that auditors can charge, and they are adding $20-25K to the price tag, so they need the auditors to subsidize that. At least when I talked to these firms, you could not bring your own au
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by rficcaglia 6y ago
ok will do - I will also post an actual (sanitized) Type 2 IRL so we can dispel the mystery and the need for experts. It's all straightforward stuff. But give me 24 hours since my family is giving me cross looks at spending more time
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by rficcaglia 6y ago
$50K is too high, unless you had a lot of actual process gaps to fill initially and are counting staff time in that. Also expertise isn't really that important - honestly the auditors are often (not always) minimally trained and often
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by rficcaglia 6y ago
The policy docs are just filler. Auditors never look at them in any detail. They look for last revised date and last review date. Have bought $150 bundle online and submitted as-is without even replacing a single parameter and audit went f
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by rficcaglia 6y ago
Definitely paying too much @ $40K/$30K. Audit firms will cut their costs - don't take their first offer, it's a negotiation. Renegotiated down every year...they will want to reduce churn. Also, there are open source version
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by rficcaglia 7y ago
I agree here. Second freezer and lots of space for storage is a must. Not for tiny apartments. A suburban phenomenon mostly.
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by rficcaglia 7y ago
from what I see, and do, people just go there early AM 5 min before it opens. Avoids the folks who flock around the free handouts at lunchtime. Parking is easy. But you can’t wait even 1/2 hour past opening. Get in right as it opens.
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by rficcaglia 7y ago
Ditto for fish in Hawaii. We tried both a local “fresh off the boat” market and Costco on the same trip and Costco was definitely higher quality for local caught fish. Same for salmon and halibut in Anchorage, Alaska.
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by rficcaglia 7y ago
I dunno about majority internal vs shoplifting but I saw a Kroger internal report once that ~2% revenues lost annually to “loss”. It was not broken down by category, but it was the preface to a 4 hour presentation on employee loss preventi
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by rficcaglia 7y ago
Agree. They also move items around. So you can’t just zoom to the one item you need, you have to go hunt.
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by rficcaglia 7y ago
Get a second/dedicated freezer. Juice the limes; mince the onions in a cuisinart. Freeze in 1-4 cup restaurant style containers you can get at any restaurant supply store. We also bbq 3 racks of ribs, 4 whole chickens, 2 3-pack chicken
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by rficcaglia 7y ago
Totally worth the money :) https://youtu.be/c3Cq0sy4TBs
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by rficcaglia 7y ago
I remember first day doing some work as consultant with JPL for Cassini and a sim finished just before lunch and my collaborator says “huh, that’s interesting, the bug we have been reproducing for the last week suddenly disappeared! Case cl
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by rficcaglia 7y ago
Typically the os would only have access to the encrypted pin, then use special secure enclave instructions to compute inside the enclave (basically special encrypted memory inside the processor). Ie the plaintext pin would never leave the e
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by rficcaglia 7y ago
I don't think it matters what anyone thinks. The reality will hit the poor hardest. Those of us who ignore the root causes, continue the same behaviors and expect different results, and look for some magical solution are culpable. I s
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by rficcaglia 7y ago
IMO, looking for a high tech solution to a low tech problem is a dead end (possibly in the literal sense!) This is a human behavior problem. Consume less; ie growth at all costs is not a long term strategy for the planet. Don't define
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by rficcaglia 7y ago
The initial reaction is to TL;DR as weak passwords and no MFA but I am equally/more concerned that the policy granted to vendors allows them to access more data than they really need, or the data they must have access could be better d
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by rficcaglia 7y ago
I suspect this is a botthat posts scraped papers from arxiv based on submission history, and no original comments, though happy to be proven wrong and retract if the submitter responds.
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by rficcaglia 7y ago
to clarify, not anecdotal to me having primary sources, but yes anecdotal to those reading my anecdote.
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by rficcaglia 7y ago
> This is the crux of the matter: In taking the model seriously (even "literally"), BS evaluates it on points in feature space that may never occur in practice, and may not even be realizable. Is it April 1?
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by rficcaglia 7y ago
For me, I had to turn this on its head. Define the habits and healthy routine you want and build the lifestyle around it. I was on a crash course for 15 years as a tech exec. 90+ hours work per week, travel, etc. not by compulsion or finan
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by rficcaglia 7y ago
> VCs want you to lie to them so they can sell your idea to investors. Probably not “lie” but engineer the truth optimistically.
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by rficcaglia 7y ago
And some speculation. I see first hand a lot of high end apartments bought that sit vacant. Maybe the owners live in Asia or EU 9 months of the year, I dunno. But in some of the swanky towers downtown there are entire floors with at most on
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by rficcaglia 7y ago
Not necessarily- but it takes financial savvy and raising capital and a lot of hard work...sorta like building a tech startup. In fact, I had this conversation this week randomly with 2 different groups of former tech execs...they are leavi
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by rficcaglia 7y ago
It happens but on a very small scale. Very niche fabs for stuff that isn’t at mass market scale.
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by rficcaglia 7y ago
It’s embarrassingly bad. Potholes everywhere, poor transit options, no police, no resources for homeless....I could go on.
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by rficcaglia 7y ago
I see a lot of building in downtown RWC and San Carlos. Maybe won’t be the center, but definitely a significant uptick.
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by rficcaglia 7y ago
This is why we will never have consensus on remediation climate change. It’s not just individual anarchists but whole governments who will adopt this “me or not you” attitude.
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by rficcaglia 7y ago
Low taxes. Edit: not anecdotal. I personally know 3 execs from Scandinavian countries who tell me this is why they moved here. Also health care. They travel back to EU for routine stuff, but when they need elective procedures or advanced tr
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by rficcaglia 7y ago
I ran a restaurant in college and had to become a certified food manager (a step up from the line food handler). So while I won’t prentend to have all the data, it was clear that simple processes prevent 99.99% of food borne illness, and no

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