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by sideshowmel 5y ago
Non-existent? That's not what Victoria Nuland said: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvRpntmUIxs
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by sideshowmel 5y ago
Sounds like this guy is trying to plug his new book using sensationalism. This episode is widely known: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Matthew https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Russel_Wal
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by sideshowmel 5y ago
It's nice to know that I'm not the only one getting into esotericism :) Could it be the results of Terror management theory due to the pandemic? Who knows, but this website is awesome: https://www.eoht.info These are a
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by sideshowmel 5y ago
Critical theory and the midwits that promote it are back in style.
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by sideshowmel 5y ago
Did not know that male's were the only employees that "schmooze". You learn something everyday.
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by sideshowmel 6y ago
Don't be so sure :) Quantum computing is improving everyday, and new methods of defeating RSA are being researched: https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/232
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by sideshowmel 6y ago
True, but the packets in-flight can take different routes. If you have a machine on the switch, you know you've captured all the packets that were in-flight. This make it easier to break the encrypted packets. It's a choice--ever
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by sideshowmel 6y ago
Dumb switches will blast packets to all interfaces that are connected. If there's a machine on the switch that's in promiscuous mode, it can see all the packets on the local network (including the backups coming in from customers
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by sideshowmel 6y ago
Don't know if running a dumb switch connected to your ISP is the best infosec policy: https://blogs.cisco.com/manufacturing/the-top-5-reasons-to-a...
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by sideshowmel 7y ago
Debian GNU/kFreeBSD does the reverse. In my opinion, where Linux outshines FreeBSD is in hardware support.
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by sideshowmel 7y ago
Java? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Write_once,_run_anywhere
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by sideshowmel 7y ago
WeWork has always seemed like a Ponzi scheme to me. This reinforces my theory.
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by sideshowmel 7y ago
Max Ehrmann reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desiderata
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by sideshowmel 7y ago
I've been looking for something like this for a while. It's hard to break into FPGA design coming from a Software Engineering viewpoint, but I think it teaches how the machine REALLY works and can produce better Software develope
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by sideshowmel 7y ago
Legal! Vou começar a usar o Debian.
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by sideshowmel 7y ago
I'm in a similar situation, but I've been working from home the past 3 years and I'm starting to think I should go back to working in an office. Like myself, you're depressed--probably because you have a High IQ and can&
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by sideshowmel 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite
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by sideshowmel 7y ago
Not the first place I think of when planning a vacation. Would be nice to visit Saudi Aramco.
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by sideshowmel 7y ago
"The Spinner* sends you an innocent looking link. This link is sent to the target via text message. When the target presses the link, a cookie connected to the link attaches itself to the target’s phone." Is this legal? I never cl
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by sideshowmel 7y ago
I thought this post was about networking.
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by sideshowmel 7y ago
I can't believe I haven't seen this before!
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by sideshowmel 7y ago
What I wish wasn't taught is Calculus. I suspect many people are drawn away from Computer Science because of all the Math that's required. In my opinion, people can comprehend Discrete Mathematics without having to pass four or f
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by sideshowmel 7y ago
This is spot on--I especially liked "DevOps means the veteran admins had to check in their personal scripts, and everyone is expected to automate more things."
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by sideshowmel 7y ago
For me it was virtual memory and having a sparse memory layout. I remember thinking, htf did they come up with that?!?
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by sideshowmel 7y ago
Certbot is awesome! It really gives you no excuse not to provide https on your website.
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by sideshowmel 7y ago
In my opinion, it's infantile bro culture hazing and feelings of inferiority. Oh, you can't traverse a binary tree using Breadth-first search in aarch64 assembler? You obviously aren't qualified to work on our web applicati
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by sideshowmel 7y ago
Coding interviews have gotten out of control. Most of the people giving the coding interview couldn't pass it themselves. Even worse, the people who can pass these tests only do so by memorization--once they are hired, many are not c
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by sideshowmel 7y ago
https://www.amazon.com/Managing-Humans-Humorous-Software-Eng...
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by sideshowmel 7y ago
500k salary at Facebook? Sometimes I feel like the only person at a large tech company not making half a million a year.
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by sideshowmel 7y ago
Systemd AND .NET? Yikes.

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