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by PaulAJ 2y ago
Anyone who doesn't understand what's so difficult should read this: https://wiki.c2.com/?WhyIsPayrollHard Its from a different domain, but it gives you a flavour of the headaches you encounter. These systems alway
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by PaulAJ 2y ago
Would this also be potentially a DoS amplifier? If you sent it the right spoof packets, would it return a lot of packets to the apparent origin?
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by PaulAJ 3y ago
The ONT's job is to translate from (typically) Ethernet to the optical fibre, and nothing else. In networking terms its "Level 1"; concerned only with moving bits from one end to the other. Most ISPs will provide an ONT which
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by PaulAJ 3y ago
I think I see what they mean. "Misconception" means something where you can point out "no, that's incorrect". But these people have more than just an error in their knowledge, they are fundamentally misconstruing th
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by PaulAJ 3y ago
Also missing from this are: * The time you spend managing and supervising, including desk-checking the stuff they send out, because it goes out under your name and you are only as good as your last job. * IT costs, and office space if the
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by PaulAJ 3y ago
How much maintenance does this take to keep its reflectivity? Does it get colonised by algae? If it needs to be scrubbed with bleach once a year, I can see that being an issue.
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by PaulAJ 3y ago
Has anyone pointed out that in the UK 999 is the emergency number (like 911 in the US). So "999 Request Denied" sounds like a public safety issue to someone who doesn't speak tech. Make it 998 if you must.
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by PaulAJ 3y ago
I use a Raspberry Pi, cheap USB webcam and https://raspberry-valley.azurewebsites.net/MotionEye-OS/ Motion Eye to watch out for intruding cats coming through the cat flap. Entirely open source, completely under my cont
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by PaulAJ 3y ago
During COVID the government tried skipping those procurement rules in the interests of expediency. The result was a huge corruption scandal.
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by PaulAJ 3y ago
Nothing specific, but I've seen some big systems from the inside, and I know the kind of thing that leads to failures: * Back in the 60s they got a big IBM computer to do some stuff. Then later on they needed to do other stuff. The old
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by PaulAJ 3y ago
Here: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/36/ad/9f/36ad9f245cf7b76cccd5...
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by PaulAJ 3y ago
One thing to remember: Small Claims Court (or whatever it is called where you live). Most jurisdictions have something like this: a light-weight court system without lawyers for low-value cases. Pay a minimal fee, like 10% of your claim, up
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by PaulAJ 4y ago
I keep a few £ in bitcoin stashed on it. If it ever disappears, I'll know.
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by PaulAJ 4y ago
SAP has a very clear idea of how it makes money. It makes money by selling to senior managers who don't have to use it, and have very little idea of the realities for people on the front line. So SAP have no incentive to produce a syst
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by PaulAJ 5y ago
Not necessarily. Kids with poor social skills get bullied.
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by PaulAJ 5y ago
Just to point out that Stross's blog is running off an elderly PC in his office, so no surprise that when it makes the front page on HN (twice in two days now) it gets slashdotted.
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by PaulAJ 5y ago
Up until 1990 that was a reasonable approximation to the truth. The USA certainly had its issues, but in a comparison between the USA and the USSR there was no question about who the relatively good guys were. Since the USSR collapsed, and
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by PaulAJ 5y ago
On secrets: you should be cycling all your secrets on a regular basis anyway. If you aren't, now might be a good time to start. In addition to the good advice here, you might want to check for anything potentially embarrassing, such as
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by PaulAJ 5y ago
Here in the UK stroads were pretty much eliminated everywhere during the 70s and 80s by building bypasses. A bypass is a road built in an arc around a town to divert through-traffic away from the town centre, leaving only the slow street tr
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by PaulAJ 5y ago
People sometimes secretly do bad things that are not actually illegal. When that happens the public need to know so that they can pressure politicians to change the law. That is what this is about. The scandal is not that Facebook broke the
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by PaulAJ 5y ago
Did anyone else find this headline confusing? To me a "dropped story" means that an editor decided not to publish it.
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by PaulAJ 5y ago
One of the difficulties of separating small-tribe economics from the rest of their social system is that the members of a small tribe don't think of it like that. If you live in that kind of society then you know personally the people
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by PaulAJ 5y ago
I checked that one out myself. Modern economics textbooks don't do that. That entire section seemed to be Graeber saying "Economists have been promoting a myth for the last two centuries, but here I graciously point out their erro
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by PaulAJ 5y ago
I've read "Debt: The First 5,000 Years". It is not a work of genius. It is a rambling incoherent mess. Graeber cherry-picks bits of real history, anecdotes and random myths, and shoehorns them into some kind of predefined nar
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by PaulAJ 5y ago
Just for anyone coming to this who, like me, assumed that "IBM Cheese Cutter" was a nickname for some 1970s bit of computer hardware that hung off the side of an S/360. This is a device for cutting big round "wheels&quot
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by PaulAJ 5y ago
Mainstream media clearly labelled their adverts (and BTW the BBC doesn't carry them at all). They also don't carry fake reviews. Fake reviews are the kind of thing that made money for Hacker X.
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by PaulAJ 5y ago
Not the same things AT ALL. Stories 1 and 3 are about one fantasist who managed to trick a bunch of regular news outlets. Story 2 is about a single flawed report from the BBC. You can sit back and complain that not enough checking is being
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by PaulAJ 5y ago
Monads are a unification of a bunch of computer stuff, including sequencing, IO, non-determinism, state, concurrency and exceptions. When I say "unification", I mean it in the sense that Newton's theory of gravity unified the
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by PaulAJ 5y ago
Presumably this is going to get interesting when they try to export hardware containing Arm-China items to the West. Arm will claim that it contains pirate IP, leading to seizures at the border.
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by PaulAJ 5y ago
A "pamphlet" with 636 pages!

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