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by secabeen 1y ago
We do do security by obscurity with our house keys; I don't label my house keys with my home address, while I do label my saved passwords with both the URL and my username. /shrug
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by secabeen 1y ago
Thank you. This is helpful, as this is the first example of an actual key export that I've seen. The tiering system is interesting, that could work too. On the flip-side, backup keys are not a solution for me in this instance. The m
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by secabeen 1y ago
Can you export the passkeys to an importable form that your heirs can use to get into your accounts if you have passed away? Something that's sealed in an envelope inside a fire safe, for example? Every vendor I see offering a solutio
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by secabeen 1y ago
> One of the stupidest takes about AI is that a partial hallucination or a single bug destroys the value of the tool. If a response is 90% of the way there and I have to fix the 10% of it that doesn't meet my expectations, then I st
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by secabeen 1y ago
I also really like in this approach that if there is a bug in a common library that I use, all I have to do is `apt full-upgrade` and restart my running processes, and I am protected. No rebuilding anything, or figuring out how to update so
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by secabeen 1y ago
ZFS remains an excellent filesystem for bulk storage on rust, but were I Apple at the time, I would probably want to focus on something built for the coming era of flash and NVMe storage. There are a number of axioms built into ZFS that co
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by secabeen 2y ago
There is no space bar on the on-screen keyboard on mobile, so it's not possible to type multiple words as well.
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by secabeen 2y ago
Yeah, there have been a number of companies that say they'll offer AI Photo Culling, but I have yet to find one that actually does it.
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by secabeen 2y ago
> There are also some hotels with kitchens. Usually they have 'Suites' in their name. I stay at one most holiday seasons, we go and visit my folks and want to have a place where my family can cook without taking over my parents
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by secabeen 2y ago
> Stop staying at chain hotels. There are plenty of hotels out there that are what you're looking for, and have an actual business to engage with in case of issues instead of some anonymous lister on AirBNB. That has not been my exp
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by secabeen 2y ago
> Why would I stay in a dirty Airbnb? Because of what I described above! In summary: * Desire to have an experience and living environment I can't get at home. * Desire to have living space beyond 2 beds and a bathroom crammed into
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by secabeen 2y ago
> In Europe most/all of the apartments I've stayed in are basically business apartments (more or less). It's like a long term rental apartment that in best case scenario someone is using as a savings/investment vehi
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by secabeen 2y ago
> If I were going to disrupt AirBNB, I'd offer hosts a better percentage with the requirement that the experience is standardized and high-quality. This is an interesting idea, but it puts the quality level way above what I want to
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by secabeen 2y ago
A large fraction of families traveling value the kitchens (leftovers, kid breakfasts, not having to eat restaurant food for every meal, when all the kids want is Kraft Mac&Cheese, etc.) and the common living spaces (kids go to bed early
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by secabeen 2y ago
I've seen NICE DCV be used for this too. Amazon bought them, so it's free if the server end is on AWS, but they will also sell you licenses for your own hardware too. It's essentially 4k60 video streaming where the video is
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by secabeen 2y ago
Yes, but it says "mostly from Americans", so I cut it in half, then halved again just to be conservative. The argument holds at 2% and 4% as well as it does at 1%.
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by secabeen 2y ago
It's a pretty ridiculous number, total US GDP is only $27T. That would mean scams are ~1% of the US economy, which is non-sensical.
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by secabeen 2y ago
Externally funded research also come with many compliance, reporting, and other requirements [1]. Administrative staff are the ones who handle these responsibilities. If funding agencies want fewer administrators, require less oversight.
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by secabeen 2y ago
To be clear, this is not margin, it's non-direct expenses. So the consulting partners probably take home half of that multiplier as profits, and the other half goes to pay for the paralegals, AR/AP, HR, IT, office lease, janitori
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by secabeen 2y ago
Generally, no, they don't bill at 0 savings. The rate is set on a per-institution basis. The rate setting process incorporates the documented economics of scale that that institution is achieving already. This is why schools have di
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by secabeen 2y ago
> Look at how much grant money a given university brings in annually and ask yourself if 30-60% of that number is being spent on overhead related to research. It’s not. Look at a consulting company or law firm. Most will charge you 2-3
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by secabeen 2y ago
> A $8M grant doesn’t cost a university any more than a $1M grant for university admin in terms of “indirect costs”. The fact that they think they’re entitled to several million of it to waste on things that shouldn’t be coming from taxp
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by secabeen 2y ago
Sadly, many of those arbitrary policies are set by ... The Federal Government! As an example, NIH just added a huge new cybersecurity requirement for a bunch of their datasets. Space, utilities and IT can be significant costs. There are a
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by secabeen 2y ago
> I just looked up Berkeley's rates now and they explicitly have an off-campus rate that is 25%, while the on-campus is 60%. Apparently the federal government was already capping off-campus at 25%! Off-campus is capped because the
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by secabeen 2y ago
When the government hires a consultant, the rate charged is usually 2-3x the salary of that consultant; 50% is well below the 100-200+% rates you see all the time in business.
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by secabeen 2y ago
Yes, but private foundations are only paying for the incremental cost of their funding, not the base cost. If you are flying a plane from LA to Chicago, the incremental cost of flying that plane on to Detroit is pretty low; a low overhead
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by secabeen 2y ago
> For example, California has 58 counties, but Kentucky has 120. That means that the "resolution" of the data in California is half as accurate as the data in Kentucky despite having ten times as many inhabitants and 4 times th
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by secabeen 2y ago
> The good accountants are typically somewhat expensive, but they're generally not charging the highest rates and only a small percentage of somewhat expensive accountants are good. This is an interesting observation that I see a l
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by secabeen 2y ago
Perhaps the answer to this lies in the incentives for VCs. The current dropbox strategy produces a sustainable, lifestyle business for its employees and customers. They are happy with a product that meets their needs. It's not what
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by secabeen 2y ago
The GOP is the party that says government doesn't work, and when put into power, they make it so.

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