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by rhexs 9y ago
I've found that tech companies have harder interview loops for infosec than in software engineering. For software engineering, know your college algorithms and you'll have a decent shot. For infosec, the hiring bar is entirely ran
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Decent paying, yes, but very rare compared to standard software engineering jobs. A lot are in defense. Top companies have a few on hire but unless you're the best of the best, it's tough to match the salary you can get as a stand
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by rhexs 9y ago
I looked into the hemp based extract a while back and the conclusion I drew was that it was up for debate whether or not it was legal. Proponents cited a bunch of laws regarding industrial hemp while the DEA seemed to have another position
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by rhexs 9y ago
I really love my QNAP device, but the software stack is so amazingly complex it sort of scares me how many vulnerabilities might be lurking. Hopefully the QNAP security team is full of decent folks. For reference, I have a QNAP j3455 device
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by rhexs 9y ago
This service appears to do nothing else aside from automatically generating a resignation letter. Did I miss a value-add here? This just seems like a media campaign instead of anything useful.
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by rhexs 9y ago
Anyone who works in intelligence is evil and should leave and find a career in the private sector, but I won't hire them because they're evil and previously worked in intelligence! Thankfully resume sorting is effectively already
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by rhexs 9y ago
So he brandished a weapon when his life wasn't in danger? Isn't that illegal?
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I think my original statement came off a bit harsh. For more context, I'm a C programmer who managed to avoid C++ and templating for...too long. Rust just has a lot of new (to me) ideas that will probably take a bit longer for me to gr
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by rhexs 9y ago
How's the O'Reilly book so far? I made it through the second edition of the rust book but found it a bit lacking as a novice. I think a second time through the Rust book after writing a few programs will be really useful, but I wo
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Thank you. Been looking to dive further into rust but needed some challenges. Unfortunately leetcode doesn't support it. :(
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Because they probably paid some contractor to design it and requesting this as an update would be expensive. Most likely some director doesn't think it's worth the money. Furthermore, the security team / one random guy who is
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Defense has career progressions? Is this for management? From what I've seen engineers are treated like cattle and hired and fired for the whims of every project.
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Employers can afford to be ageist when they can employ from a virtually unlimited international market. But of course the "talent isn't just there" and we need more H1Bs.
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A better question is, what issues didn't I face? Unlocking randomly wouldn't work, the display driver was crashing when using firefox/chrome consistently, battery life was abysmal, device would bluescreen, etc. From what I un
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Well, I bought the Surface Book 1 and returned it after a month of it barely working. So no, not really.
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Inevitably the markets will crash, new articles will come out detailing the "death of index funds" after five plus years of low or negative returns, capital will flow out due to the new index fund "retirement crisis", an
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by rhexs 9y ago
FYI the average defense contractor engineer isn't paid nearly that much (as compared to true private industry) and puts in quite a bit of free OT. Senior/PM salaries may get that high in DC but I don't think that is anywhere
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by rhexs 9y ago
Goodness, it takes only several days to reverse engineer a driver and stack now? Wow. I know the project zero guys are good, but damn.
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Thank you. I suspected as much, but great to hear that as well. I'll work on some CTF problems.
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And it went out for delivery again today. Once more, the package had a delivery exception as apparently Amazon Logistics can still not find the apartment after I spent the time to have my account updated with instructions. Ordered Wednesday
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by rhexs 9y ago
I got my first package from Amazon Logistics shipped yesterday. Wasn't delivered because Bing maps apparently didn't have my apartment on it. Spent 45 minutes on the phone helping an Amazon employee add the building to their inter
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by rhexs 9y ago
I too have an issue with soft contact lenses not providing great vision due to astigmatism. I tried getting sclerals fitted but had to return them due to the optometrist having trouble fitting them. The vision was crystal clear though -- sh
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by rhexs 9y ago
Does anyone know a good introduction to angr? I looked for one a while back and found most of the tutorials rather cryptic.
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Working on it.
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I decided I wanted to get verbally assaulted by engineering teams I was reporting findings to day in and day out. Who would have thought, I managed to make a career out of it! (ps, if you do go down this route, try to find a job at a compan
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That's where my uncertainty comes from. I did the allergy immunotherapy for a few years, asked the Doc if they did anything like that for food allergies, and got the no, it doesn't work answer.
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Does anyone know the history of why allergists assumed this just wouldn't work for decades? I'm assuming they initially tried this at the dawn of the allergist specialization but gave up due to bad practices / deaths? I only
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Always cracks me up thinking about how much the press talks about cybersecurity being in demand then looking at the actual IOT and embedded cybersecurity market. Everyone should be very, very scared about infrastructure/medical securit
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If you aren't making enough money to save in Mountain View, perhaps consider relocating to anywhere else in the country? I'm guessing you have some other budgeting issues?
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You can afford to live there? I was looking at 1 br apartments in Cambridge and it was pretty darn close to SF Bay. Interviewers I was talking to said they commuted in 45 minutes just so they could own a house.

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