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Whinner··on I quit drinking for a year
The author had 2-3 drinks per week, that really doesn’t sound like “drinking”. Maybe I’m the one who should give it up.
Whinner··on Steam Machine
Steam Box 2 will be out before GTA VI
Whinner··on Steam Machine
I also bit the bullet and did a bazzite install and am blown away how seamless it has been for what I need. All the games I like run on Steam. Even Diablo 4 runs through the Blizzard launcher which does take some work to get installed, but nothing you can't find in a youtube video.

No issues using the system as my daily driver for personal things. I have dual monitors, one oriented vertically and one 144hz. All works great! I'd recommend it to anyone

Whinner··on Why Your Best Engineers Are Interviewing Elsewhere, CodeGood
Do people really give candid feedback in skip levels? Your skip obviously doesn't trust your boss if they are having them. Are you really going to bad mouth your boss? They have the most direct control over your career at the present company.
Whinner··on New attacks are diluting secure enclave defenses from Nvidia, AMD, and Intel
From the article, "The low-cost, low-complexity attack works by placing a small piece of hardware between a single physical memory chip and the motherboard slot it plugs into. It also requires the attacker to compromise the operating system kernel". "Low-complexity" requires physical access and an OS compromise? What the hell would high complexity be?
Whinner··on Tariffs result in 10% laptop price hike in U.S. says Acer CEO
Only for the Thelio desktops and Launch keyboards
Whinner··on Tenement Farming and Cloud HSMs
Can you trust the security camera isn’t breached and not showing a false stream?
Whinner··on AWS takedown notice to third-party Re:Invent session trackers
I don't understand why AWS events have such terrible scheduling tools. I attended one in NYC and all I wanted was a calendar of all events so I could see what was going on when. Seems like such a simple request, but it's not offered. What benefit does the complexity of the existing system give to Amazon?
Whinner··on Whistleblower alleges Booz Allen was overcharging U.S. taxpayers for losses
"Alleges"? That's not the title of the article. They were caught and agreed to pay a fine. Although they were able to not admit any wrongdoing.
Whinner··on Baltimore sues Hyundai, Kia over spike in car thefts
I don't think you realize how easy it is to steal these cars. Look up a few videos. You rip off the plastic on the steering column, pry out the ignition cylinder and then use the A end of a usb cable to turn the exposed nub to start the car. Under 30 seconds. While there are other issues going on, this is gross negligence on Kia/Hyundai to not use an immobilizer.
Whinner··on .zip is now available as a TLD
so is un.zip
Whinner··on Microsoft's Software Is Malware
SSMS is become unbearable to open. It's insane how long it takes. Not even to connect, just to get the dialogue box to select an instance to connect to.
Whinner··on Why are so many young men single and sexless?
You had some pretty shitty sex, if looks are the only criteria.
Whinner··on Why are so many young men single and sexless?
Older men who are not in gen z.
Whinner··on PC CPU Shipments See Steepest Decline in 30 Years
$1000 as the floor? Maybe if you’re talking 4K gaming but that’s the very high end.

Intel arc a750 are under $300 and are decent cards for 1080 and do well in 1440. Dx9 support has greatly increased since release.

Going up a little in price, amds 6650 amd 6750 are 3-400.

6800xt are under $600.

Whinner··on We need a lot more electricians
As a counter point, I paid about $1600 in 2019 in northern NJ to have my circuit breaker panel replaced and my service upgraded from 100 to 200.
Whinner··on Tesla used car price bubble pops, weighs on new car demand
I wonder which will come out first, the Roadster or the Cyber truck
Whinner··on The Google Pixel 6a highlights the problem with the U.S. phone market
I’m guessing USB-A port
Whinner··on The case against CS master’s degrees
They also have an ms of cybersecurity. Depending on the track you take, it can end up being 9/10 the same classes needed for the CS degree.

I’m currently enrolled and will say the networking is the best part. I’ve found a group of about 50 people in a private slack scattered all over the world. We all bounce things off each other.

Whinner··on NLAW anti-tank launcher unboxing and instructions video
I was too excited and posted the same thing after you. My nephew started the program this year and is liking it so far.
Whinner··on NLAW anti-tank launcher unboxing and instructions video
not sure if they have any courses specific to munitions, but RIT is one of the few schools that has a dedicated Packaging Science degree. My nephew started this year. He was turned onto it during a campus tour. He, and the rest of us, had never heard of such a degree before. I think a lot of other schools would have a class or two in an ME program.

https://www.rit.edu/study/packaging-science-bs

Whinner··on Google says iMessage is too powerful
Even Antarctica?
Whinner··on USC pushed a $115k online degree – graduates got low salaries, huge debts
There is no distinction on the diploma
Whinner··on USC pushed a $115k online degree – graduates got low salaries, huge debts
I'm in the Cybersecurity, Information Security Track. My undergrad was Business Administration. It's been a struggle trying to learn things as I go but so far no issues. I personally feel the MS in CS would be more valuable, but I never thought I would have been accepted into the program. I was accepted into the first semester of the MS in Cyber MS. If I had known that I would be successful, I would have applied to the CS degree years ago.
Whinner··on USC pushed a $115k online degree – graduates got low salaries, huge debts
They also started an online MS in Cybersecurity in 2019. Three different tracks. The policy track only needs 1 CS'ish class. The Information Security track students would probably be better off just going for the MS in CS instead. A lot of students start in the Information Security track but switch over to Policy once they take the intro to info security class. All the classes in the Info Sec track are the same as the CS degree except they cost more. The energy/power track students don't seem to really exist. I'm done with 7/10 classes.
Whinner··on The Great Master’s-Degree Swindle
If you're really going to do it, look into Georgia Tech's online MS in CS. The program is 100% online and is under $10k for all classes.
Whinner··on Why is the Google Cloud UI so slow?
Try doing a screenshare in Slack. You can't, you have to connect a voicecall before you can share your screen.

Now do it in Teams. You can share your screen without completing a voicecall.

Whinner··on Trump fires CEO of TVA over replacing US tech workers with H1B workers
According to the article linked, Trump wants the new CEO to make less than $500k/year. Yet, according to this article from 2019, the CFO, COO, general council & chief nuclear officer are all making well over that. Who the hell is going to take the CEO job? https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/local/story/2019/nov/15/...
Whinner··on One-third of New York’s small businesses may be gone forever
I agree that it's going to get worse. There is a mass exodus out of NYC. I live in northern NJ and lots of my town commutes to NYC. Anecdotally, most of the people I know who worked in NYC are not going back anytime soon. There are bidding wars for smallish houses where a 350k house gets 20 bids and goes for 10% over asking price. People are trying to get out of the city by stay close to at least see how things shake out. One neighbor is talking of moving to a low cost state in the middle of the country as their NYC office is not reopening, but they are all working remotely. Salary arbitrage.
Whinner··on Thinking of a Cybersecurity Career?
I’m in Georgia Techs online MS in cybersecurity program and have argued these points a few times. Most of the cybersecurity classes are just CS classes. I think it was just a money grab to repackage their existing CS degree into a more marketable package.

I’ve argued that we should have some type of network and OS hardening classes. There is a required network security And secure computer communication class but they are much more about programming vs implementation. The counter arguments I get are that what I’m suggesting is more aligned with a vendor cert. But a lot of cyber security is doing the hardening of os and proper user access.

A lot of the cyber students end up switching to the policy track instead of the information security track. They are admitting students with almost no prior CS experience. They get away with only having to take an intro to cyber security CS class. Their remaining classes are all management classes marginally related to security.

I’m going to use this article to backup my arguments that there is more to cybersecurity than programming.

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