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by spydum 11y ago
not sure if im just old hat, but it always cracks me up when i see security advice in a PDF. I know PDF readers might have improved their track record (actually, have they?), but to me they still give me chills like opening some random .doc
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by spydum 11y ago
i have been an avid watcher of Destin's material, and my girls (3 & 6) love to watch as well. if you haven't checked out his other stuff, it is pretty much all excellent and enlightening (its not ALL high speed magic -- for ex
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by spydum 11y ago
i work for a pretty large enterprisey-corp and this is very close what happened to us. Early 2000's we had a DR setup for a specific platform at a 3rd party hosting provider. Mid-2000's was major transition of infrastructure folks
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by spydum 11y ago
you have to wonder if there is some magnetism in people which draws them to polarizing topics (both to build polarizing arguments, and to engage in them). Maybe it's as simple as we are highly competitive, and in the absence of competi
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by spydum 11y ago
not very exciting, but I was relatively new to the company (9 months or so, surrounded by a bunch of veteran employees of 10+ years on average). i had been kicking ass, delivering real value, getting recognition/awards/etc, but sp
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by spydum 11y ago
some sort of consumerism-socialist arrangement? i suspect youd end up with lot of folks who realize they can sit back and do nothing and sustain themselves. the labor pool of low-income jobs dries up, employers have to raise wages to attrac
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by spydum 11y ago
The bright house acquisition is the saddest part. They had a very odd relationship with time warner to begin with (sort of like a remora). They have some of the best customer service, and are about to be gobbled up by some of the worst.
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by spydum 11y ago
what about the "war on drugs", which If I recall was 1990? Or the Cold war? How are these not the same as the war on terrorism (which gets some sort of recognition specially here, maybe just to make things look more dramatic)? Wa
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by spydum 11y ago
wait, what? How does custom tailored ads based on your usage patterns harm you? there is an awful lot of adtech hate because its easy to see how poorly implemented adtech can hinder performance, but i dont see how it is malicious in nature.
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by spydum 11y ago
it's not something that is easy to generate mathematically, so it's an illogical thing to solve for on a cpu, which wants to follow instructions. randomness shouldnt have a "rule" to follow, that ends up being pseudorand
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by spydum 11y ago
You aren't missing anything. This problem has been there in WP for a long time, and it makes staging/testing/migration setups a horrible pain (as others have suggested, lots of search & replace).
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by spydum 11y ago
pretty much any agreement by major companies comes with a wonderful disclaimer of something like this: We reserve the right to revise, amend, or modify this Agreement and any other policies and agreements at any time and in any manner. We m
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by spydum 11y ago
fully agree here.. and yes, why would you land a black hawk for a raid? that gives the target far too much ready time. you come in silent, you evac on the bird.
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by spydum 11y ago
this topic and the power8 have come up before.. i think it boils down to what companies have already invested in. if you have a strong AIX team already supporting power/ibm infrastructure, this is great. you have one of the fastest sys
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by spydum 11y ago
crazy how quickly that little thing moves. wonder if it was intended to be so close to shore?
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by spydum 11y ago
i tend to get to debug problems like this (usually in 3rd party code i dont know the internals of) pretty frequently.. my experience has been it tends to follow a curve..MOST of the time, the problem is simple and you can quickly dispatch i
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by spydum 11y ago
the problem here is the medical community (especially hospitals) are increasingly pressured to increase productivity to offset cost increases. one way is to automate some of the dreary stuff like monitoring of medical devices in a hospital
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by spydum 12y ago
nobody objects to that.. the thing is, it sounds as if they have some very cool technology (memristors) which could make other existing products significantly better, but are explicitly withholding because they want to force some paradigm s
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by spydum 12y ago
interesting, so essentially a giant memristor blob store which a bunch of compute nodes can simultaneously leverage? If the memristor promises are to be realized, TB if not PB levels of storage at >SSD speeds, accessed by many compute n
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by spydum 12y ago
> Experience something horrible. There is absolutely something transformative about being purified by fire (trials), which sorts helps sort out your priorities.
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by spydum 12y ago
the real beauty when you realize it, is your kid could be the one to change that pessimistic future. the responsibility is on you to instill the values and train them up to be your idealized future. because who else will do it??
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by spydum 12y ago
I am a bit creeped out at how well you are at spin..
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by spydum 12y ago
Lots of great stuff in here, this struck me: > It is already the case that for many of us when we make a decision about what book to read or what film to see or what restaurant to eat at, we don’t make a reasoned decision based on person
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by spydum 12y ago
I can't say i've looked at hadoop but this fear of jars seems.. Overkill? You can decompile jars. Look at any Java project which leverages 3rd party libraries.. It's not uncommon to have dozens of libraries sourced from the c
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by spydum 12y ago
10 years of bad luck doesn't sound so bad. Even in failure, you are blessed to work in one of the more fascinating industries to come along in 100 years. No doubt, most successful people I know are lucky, but those are not the people I
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by spydum 12y ago
i dont think they would decline immediately, peer pressure and societal norms still push popularity in their face. I'm just saying their divergence from the mainstream might happen much sooner, and continue into old(er) age, and not pl
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by spydum 12y ago
i suspect there is more to do with music discovery becoming more accessible today than it was 20 years ago. Nowadays you have online streaming of seemingly unlimited sources (soundcloud, spotify, pandora, etc). The only large-scale access t
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by spydum 12y ago
i fully agree with your point, and hope it's not getting lost on folks: figuring out what drives you requires a level of introspection (and revisiting-- it will likely not be static your entire life) that most people never do. introspe
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by spydum 12y ago
so if i understood, when you launch processes in a debugger, it will walk the list of functions and instantiate them.. this means you could craft a bit of cleverness to detect whether app was launched from a debugger with minimal overhead,

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