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by torqueTorrent 7y ago
Supposedly they're having a feces epidemic in San Fran lately. ianad, but it seems like that could promote plague resurgence?
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by torqueTorrent 7y ago
On one hand, there are some things that are simply too complex to attempt implementation with bash a script. otoh, there are many things that could or even ideally should be kept simple such that a bash script is the best practice, most sim
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by torqueTorrent 7y ago
It can be useful to keep it simple and try to stay exclusively with HTML-latest + ES-latest + CSS and avoiding external JS libraries as much as possible. Using the latest versions of just the basics (HTML, ES, CSS) can help minimize what o
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by torqueTorrent 7y ago
In my experience, this is a new development in the software industry. In the past, the software industry was far more constrained when it comes to talent acquisition. I vividly recall an old-guard software CEO in the mid 1990s lamenting the
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by torqueTorrent 7y ago
>> Hire local poeople and treat them as if you need them. Wow! What a concept! alas, that'll never work.
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by torqueTorrent 7y ago
>> training staff not to plug random USB devices... Nothing like some high-consequences IRL training! Perhaps curricula for the Inspector Clouseau police academy?
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by torqueTorrent 7y ago
When you're holding a hammer, everything looks like a nail!
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by torqueTorrent 7y ago
That doesn't sound exploitable by stalkers whatsoever! </sarc>
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by torqueTorrent 7y ago
Two-thousand zero zero, party over oops, out of time.
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by torqueTorrent 7y ago
>> don’t understand why anyone has trouble leaving I also find it puzzling. Then again, as with cults or other bottom feeding fads and the increasingly ubiquitous, various and sundry addictive mires and dark patterns, to avoid the tr
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by torqueTorrent 7y ago
No worries, I reckoned that a misunderstanding must have occurred! Still, I couldn't resist a vision not unlike the penultimate and electrifying golf scene with Bill Murray & the bishop in Caddyshack.
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by torqueTorrent 7y ago
hmm your comment makes it sound as if I had said that my professor recommended reckless abandon such that we should climb the tower in swimwear during a heavy rain after cranking the tranmitter to maximum?
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by torqueTorrent 7y ago
In school, we used to learn about the RF service technicians returning with stories of dead birds and other such phantasmagoria in and around the sweet spots of the feedhorn, antenna, transmission line, transmitter or other such sensitive a
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by torqueTorrent 7y ago
Shouldn't people be having fun with or trolling these always-listening systems by speaking gibberish, in tongues or reciting custom sea shanties that reenact purely fictional accounts of high crimes on the open seas?
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by torqueTorrent 7y ago
Alas, the 21st century provides the opportunity to address the growing scourge of using sounds or combinations of letters that communicate meaning without being divisible into smaller units capable of independent use.
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by torqueTorrent 7y ago
They were moving so fast that they broke things, badly!
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by torqueTorrent 7y ago
> ...way over used where they aren't needed... Bingo! Engineers love to change things like Scotty said, but they also blather on about if it aint broke, dont fix it?
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by torqueTorrent 7y ago
"When you're holding a hammer, everything looks like a nail." There is a tendency for mgmt to sign up engineers to a vision quest with pre-established non-negotiable requirements whereby the customer expects what would be tan
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by torqueTorrent 7y ago
TFA said they wanted to account for parking spaces where people had vacated their parking space before their paid time was up. That would be like McDonalds digging through the trash to account for the uneaten food. I wonder where this kind
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by torqueTorrent 7y ago
Even after Tim Cook said none of his best people have the obsolete degrees everyone covets, the focus and priorities of software interviews is perpetually: "please tell me your LinkedIn profile?" or "what was your college deg
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by torqueTorrent 7y ago
That gum you like is going to come back in style.
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by torqueTorrent 7y ago
> ...a zero-planning world now... JIT is for more than just compilers these days!
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by torqueTorrent 7y ago
I'd buy that for a dollar!
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by torqueTorrent 7y ago
The discoveries through big-data analysis and visualizations can be endlessly counter-intuitive, mindblowingly unpredictable but also dynamic and powerful, even visceral when you have massively voluminous data that can be fed into systems l
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by torqueTorrent 7y ago
The endgame vulnerability of a dating app containing PII including STD infection status, falling victim to insurmountable abuse or gaming via automation, AI or ML could rapidly or stealthily generate fast spreading health epidemics with ext
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by torqueTorrent 7y ago
> This has to be the worse piece of advice.... I agree. The attitudes at the top of the pyramid are such that they require those at the bottom to be the docile, nice guy who adheres to the golden rule, morality and humility while those a
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by torqueTorrent 7y ago
In my career I've experienced alot of engineers that had a desire to shy away from command line or command prompt tools, shell, CMD.exe, batch, scripting, cron and related 'traditional' automation, in favor of GUI, IDE, html,
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by torqueTorrent 7y ago
Perhaps this could be thoroughly tested by performing high-pressure hydraulic fracking in very close proximity to gas pipelines.
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by torqueTorrent 8y ago
I agree wholeheartedly and routinely run concurrent intensive smoke tests on real-world HW as well as smoke tests on finely-modeled virtualized environments. Even with the best modeling and virtualization, a true and thorough, 100% 1:1 appr
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by torqueTorrent 8y ago
It used to be that part of the unwritten contract of the 'Golden Rule' in our culture was a recognition that adults have access to things that are dangerous or that could deprive each other of life, liberty, property etc, and that

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