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by richbell 4y ago
In Canada the definition of "visible minority" is essentially anyone who isn't a white male. https://www.canada.ca/en/public-service-commission/jobs/serv...
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by richbell 4y ago
> You need money to staff people with security knowledge that constantly keeps product up to date with latest malicious signatures in all codebases. Of course; it's just funny to think about how much money gets spent detecting and f
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by richbell 4y ago
I didn't downvote you but I presume others did because the StackOverflow post I linked to essentially says the same thing.
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by richbell 4y ago
I think C also has the elusive "down to" operator. https://stackoverflow.com/a/1642035
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by richbell 4y ago
> So these bulk scanners exist, and the issue is a solved problem, but none of the "root" repos for the popular language stacks are using them? I could talk at length about this; unfortunately, I'm on my phone with a shott
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by richbell 4y ago
> Absolutely no extra work from meatbags is require Unfortunately this is rarely true in practice. There is always some degree of friction or error that ought to be managed; ignoring it is how shadow IT proliferates, e.g. a dev is tired
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by richbell 4y ago
> Add their cert to system store? That's the fun part: every technology and tool has its own bespoke way of handling certificates, and it often isn't as simple as adding a certificate to the system store.
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by richbell 4y ago
In the context of GP's comment bandwidth + proxies seems to have been their motivation. Not to mention that external package registries HATE how many large organizations hammer them with the exact same traffic every time a build is run
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by richbell 4y ago
> We run a Saas and someone wrote an email saying that our server was down, and when we'd expect it to be up. Not having had a notification, I double checked from a couple of geographic locations that our application was indeed up a
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by richbell 4y ago
JavaDocs are like the owner's manual included in a car: useful for many things, but if you need to figure out what route to take to get from point A to point B it probably won't help you.
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by richbell 4y ago
Nexus Repository (commonly referred to as just "Nexus", which is confusing because Sonatype has several products called "Nexus $name") is a local artifact repository. Running it locally allows you to cache artifacts from
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by richbell 4y ago
> What classifies this as an "overzealous" act of network configuration? There may be a subjectively legitimate reason the user's network was configured this way. Worked at a large FI. Our corporate firewall used to block
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by richbell 4y ago
Surely it's relevant to point out their long history of illegal surveillance and parallel construction? I'm not claiming that this was the case here, I just don't think the government deserves the benefit of the doubt.
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by richbell 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM
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by richbell 4y ago
Or, tangentially, atrazine. https://youtu.be/i5uSbp0YDhc
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by richbell 4y ago
A noble goal, though I'm skeptical that a gatekeeper of the current financial industry is who we want gatekeeping alternative platforms meant to escape their influence.
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by richbell 4y ago
> I can see both sides, but in general, a government that protects 'reasonable consumers' over the interests of businesses seems preferable. Agreed. People rallying against "big government" annoys me because they&#x27
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by richbell 4y ago
I looked you up after posting that, so I am willing to eat crow. ;) While I understand and agree with the larger thesis of your article, I feel like it sends the wrong message. I work at a large FI where it's common for applications
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by richbell 4y ago
I would hope the person responsible for creating shelf plans for the pharmacy has at least a cursory understanding of medicine.
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by richbell 4y ago
The burden of proof is on people claiming homeopathic medicine is beneficial. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. See also: https://youtu.be/L1ZbJRAyexM
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by richbell 4y ago
This isn't really a compelling counter because supplements are commonly criticized for not doing what they're purported to do. I would love for the FDA to enact more stringent regulation on supplements. That said, unlike homeopath
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by richbell 4y ago
> the products were too close to others" that seems like a bullshit case It's deceptive. If you're in a pharmacy and see a number of cold and flu medicine grouped together on one shelf, you'd be pretty pissed if you b
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by richbell 4y ago
> I find this rather obnoxious; if I wish to purchase a purely placebo homepathic remedy, let me. Sure, just don't put placebo homeopathic "medicine" in deceptive packaging beside actual medicine. Put it in a section calle
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by richbell 4y ago
It kind of does, even if mistakenly. People use "schizo" as a derogatory way to refer to schizophrenic and "schizoid" isn't a commonly used term; I have seen people use it this way.
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by richbell 4y ago
I also strongly disagree with his take on dependency pinning: > Solutions to this problem are running SCA combined with automatic updates at every build and hot patching in production. What is not a solution to this is dependency pinning
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by richbell 4y ago
I heavily disagree with this article as well. The author comes across as someone who was not in the war room of any large or security-concious company trying to determine whether they were vulnerable to Log4Shell. Anything is a significa
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by richbell 4y ago
> A hearing interpreter who interprets verbatim to a Deaf interpreter (a CDI, or certified Deaf interpreter) who then interprets to the Deaf recipient. This is a fantastic point. Learning about CDIs really helped me understand the chasm
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by richbell 4y ago
> That benefit is arguably nullified though when every press conference has them... Personally speaking though, I'm against using them in about 99.999% of situations that are not imminent life and death emergencies. The benefit is i
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by richbell 4y ago
> There are written equivalents for sign languages, although their use is controversial among some (but not all) Deaf people. Interesting, I haven't encountered any in my neck of the woods (albeit I am hearing and not really active
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by richbell 4y ago
> I’ve felt this same way about all these government press conferences that have a picture-in-picture of someone doing sign language translation. I genuinely don’t understand the point apart from virtue signaling. Why not just use live t

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