bumblehean

>and then you just sit there looking at the 3 dots indicating they're writing something.

I know it's not exactly your point, but I turned off the "X is typing..." indicator in Slack and it made my day to day life at work surprisingly better.

I do this occasionally. But it's because my company's security org has a ridiculous policy enforcing 0 CVE images for anything running on our infra (including internal CI images).

In some cases baking a dependency into an image is signing myself up for perpetual toil to keep the image CVE free.

This. We have (well, had) customers running in me-south-1 and once the first AZ went down we wanted to proactively move their data to other regions even just as cold backups. But our legal department slapped that down pretty quickly.

There are already numerous examples of law enforcement abusing data from Flock to track and stalk citizens who have done nothing wrong.

There are already numerous examples of Flock misidentifying citizens as suspects of crimes and them being arrested or otherwise harassed by law enforcement.

You can say that these are individual problems rather than systemic problems, but with the US' gradual descent towards authoritarianism and being a militarized police-state I do not see how this technology will be used to make a positive impact on the lives of everyday citizens (which IMO has been happening since the 80s at least before you just imply I don't like the current administration).

I am personally willing to incur a higher risk of being the victim of a crime if it means government/police/private companies/etc. are not able to violate my privacy every waking moment of my life.

This entire post seems like a strawman? What do Oakland or Skid Row have to do with people not wanting Flock cameras installed in their communities tracking all of their movements?

I don't care about Flock tracking petty criminals, I care about Flock tracking _me_.

I'm reminded of a book I read a few years ago, Notes from an Apocalypse by Mark O'Connell, which discusses (among other things) the phenomenon of "prepper" culture.

The cynical view would be that all of our politicians are already bought and paid for, and existing political establishments would block any "serious" candidates who support those sorts of policies.

Personally I think that's likely the case _today_, but who knows if that would hold if/when there comes a time when UBI becomes an economic necessity.

>Hours + Hours of reading and a lot of trial-and-error. The loop was so long and sooo slow.

But that's how you learn...

I think there's a large middle ground between relocating somewhere undesirable (or to a developing country) just to stretch your money as far possible vs "keeping up with the Joneses".

Even if your goal is financial independence, it's reasonable to not drastically decrease your existing standard of living just so you can retire _now_.

Many people across all income levels are really bad at dealing with personal finances and long-term financial planning.

> Are we discussing Steve Jobs in 1985?

Steve Jobs left because he lost a corporate power struggle. Sam Altman was fired because the board thought he was too fundamentally untrustworthy to remain as CEO (if we're to believe their statement ofc).

Different kinds of "controversy" IMO

Hugs going out to the teams at Instructure working to fix this. I've been through a similar Ransomware attack (national news stories, lots of customers dead in the water, etc.), and it's about as bad a situation you can wind up in.

It's going to depend on the type of team and environment you work in. Probably on how senior you are as well.

If your boss asks you for specific documents and expects a quick turnaround, and you regularly take 3 weeks or whatever to produce them, then yeah probably.

If your boss generally leaves you alone to find and solve problems on your own, then probably not.

Why wouldn't they?

>Is Azure really this unreliable? There are concrete numbers in this blog. For those who use Azure, does it match your external experience?

IME, yes.

I'm currently working as an SRE supporting a large environment across AWS, Azure, and GCP. In terms of issues or incidents we deal with that are directly caused by cloud provider problems, I'd estimate that 80-90% come from Azure. And we're _really_ not doing anything that complicated in terms of cloud infrastructure; just VMs, load balancers, some blob storage, some k8s clusters.

Stuff on Azure just breaks constantly, and when it does break it's very obvious that Azure:

1. Does not know when they're having problems (it can take weeks/months for Azure to admit they had an outage that impacted us)

2. Does not know why they had problems (RCAs we're given are basically just "something broke")

3. Does not care that they had problems

Everyone I work with who interacts with Azure at all absolutely loathes it.

AWS me-south-1 got hit (again) earlier today.

Firing someone for an honest mistake is a great way to make all of your employees afraid to push changes out of concern that they'll be next (although to be fair this was a pretty big mistake).

Things like this are usually a systemic failure rather than being 100% attribute to a single person.

>before I went to elite companies, where it is quite normal for people to live-and-breath software, at almost all hours.

Honest question: Do they actually _want_ to live-and-breathe software, or do they work in a highly competitive and highly compensated environment where doing that is implicitly required?

>It is true IF you live and work in the Bay Area, Seattle, and TLV - which represent the bulk of tech industry employment.

Is that actually true (the bulk of people in the tech industry are working in "big tech" or startups)?

I don't know if there's any hard data around this, but my understanding has been that people working for these types of companies are maybe a single digit percentage of all tech workers (if that).

People working for those companies are certainly the most vocal online, though, which maybe skews perception.

Same here. A local grocery store and several other local businesses got bought out and demolished so Amazon could build a new Fresh store.

I guess Amazon pulled out of the project halfway through, since for the last ~2 years there's been a half-finished building just sitting there completely abandoned in our town center.

This is why you shouldn't waste your money on expensive "consultants" like this guy.

We've had 100% success in reducing Dependabot noise by disabling it in our repos. Why should we pay this guy to configure it for us and still end up with Pull Requests being opened?

Aren't the shape/size/placement/etc. of human teeth fairly unique across different individuals? At least unique enough to use dental records to identify bodies.

I don't see if mentioned in TFA, but if new human teeth can be grown is it expected that the new ones will just grow in "correctly" to fit a person's mouth?

Sure I'll go suggest that to my C-suite lol

>The thing to do is to monitor your dependencies and their published vulnerabilities, and for critical vulnerabilities to assess whether your product is affect by it. Only then do you need to update that specific dependency right away.

The practical problem with this is that many large organizations have a security/infosec team that mandates a "zero CVE" posture for all software.

Where I work, if our infosec team's scanner detect a critical vulnerability in any software we use, we have 7 days to update it. If we miss that window we're "out of compliance" which triggers a whole process that no one wants to deal with.

The path of least resistance is to update everything as soon as updates are available. Consequences be damned.

"When Zork arrived, it didn’t just ask players to win; it asked them to imagine"

Literally the first sentence.

>Welcome to America where you must watch the kid every second until they turn 18

This must be a regional thing?

I live in New England and I always see kids out and about with no adults around supervising. Especially from 1-3PM on weekdays when school lets out. Maybe a side-effect of walkable infrastructure.

Interesting! I'll be sure to ask my doctor about those options

I really wish my body could tolerate stimulants.

I tried the major ones (Adderall, Ritalin, Vyvanse, Concerta, etc.). They all made dealing with ADHD significantly easier, but even at the lowest doses they turned me into an extremely anxious and irritable person. I had never experienced anything close to a panic attack or nervous breakdown in my 30+ years of being alive until I started taking stimulant medication.

I decided that living with untreated ADHD was the better alternative, so now I'm back to copious amounts of coffee to deal.

> You can get work done in 1/2 of the time it used to. Now you got 1/2 of the day to just mess around. Socialize or network.

This has never been the case in any company I've ever worked at. Even if you can finish your day's work in, say, 4 hours, you can't just dip out for the other 4 hours of the day.

Managers and teammates expect you to be available at the drop of a hat for meetings, incidents, random questions, "emergencies", etc.

Most jobs I've worked at eventually devolve into something like "Well, I've finished what I wanted to finish today. I could either stare at my monitor for the rest of the day waiting for something to happen, or I could go find some other work to do. Guess I'll go find some other work to do since that's slightly less miserable".

You also have to delicately "hide" the fact that you can finish your work significantly faster than expected. Otherwise the expectations of you change and you just get assigned more work to do.

> They provide a tagging system but it's only informative if someone spends several hours a month tracking down the stuff that didn't get tagged properly.

The way to deal with this is with an org-level Service Control Policy that enforces the tagging standards.

A resource doesn't have the right tags associated with it? It can't be created.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/organizations/latest/userguide/o...