marmot777

What do people think of openstack in terms of transference of knowledge and skills? I realize it’s not as scalable as the others.

Because I had to read this before falling asleep I had audio going out 2x so it sounds like a fifties cartoon.

A HN success story. This post makes my day.

A lot of writers do the exact same thing.

My son will be interested in this for sure.

Email is one of the last remaining things where your audience is directly yours and not part of a walled garden. So newsletters have made a come back.

Many top novelists, scientists, engineers, etc., have come up with ideas doing something other than work. We’ve all had ideas at odd times and contexts. Sometimes good and occasionally outstanding ideas or solutions.

I like that 5 step process. It gives one’s brain time and space to process and integrate.

It’s true that correlation isn’t causation but I think, in moderation, games do improve cognitive skills. If it becomes something the kid does all the time, then I think the lack of balance does more harm than good. Moderation is all things.

Starting at around 5 or 6, Minecraft is fantastic.

My son does always try to improve the game creating, I think they are called modules or something, for Minecraft and full on games for Roblox so that’s some educational value.

Okay, I don’t have to feel as guilty when my son spends too much time on Minecraft and Roblox.

Couldn’t they have cut other things besides security? If nothing else, it will undermine confidence. And worst case, they get compromised and ruined as they’ll immediately be blamed for dropping infosec and enabling this to happen.

Upwork would be a good place to look.

When I’ve writing about something, I do find that my comprehension levels up. Part of it is writing forces a systematic treatment of a topic, revealing knowledge gaps, or even that I’m flat out wrong about something.

That burst of intense focus on something does seem to stimulate the ability to make connections you hadn’t made before. I suspect part of this is because your unconscious mind is being flooded and gets to work making connections even when you’re taking a break.

Inertia sometimes. That is, I sometimes go days without any exercise. Also, while I like being alone there are times when it feels isolating.

Then other times I’m social and it feels more intense because I’m not used to it. I will say that while I always hesitate to do something social, I almost never regret it. It almost always works out way better than I imagined it would thinking I look something the cat dragged in.

Set up automatic backup to something like iCloud.

A relative of mine had all her photos and writings on an old Windows laptop with no backup. She got a Mac and I set things up to make sure that a devastating loss of items of great sentimental value aren’t likely to be lost.

She had the Mac for months without using it until I visited. Part of the problem was the neighbor who helped her set it up was under the misguided assumption that the password to get on the Mac had to be a “good” password which was written on a post it note. I had her change the password to a word and toss the post it. Anyone with physical access to the machine is going to see the post it. A simple password made it easy for her arthritic hands to access her Mac, removing the temptation to just keep using the old Windows laptop.

Simple things and an easy setup make all the difference.

Yes, even some top security experts use a notebook as their secondary password manager.

I thought the cure for writers block was to just write. It might not be good but just keep writing. There are many great writers who wrote every day no matter how they felt or how well they were writing that day. Action, apparently, tends to cure writer's block.

Ann Handley has some good insights on writer's block: https://annhandley.com/two-little-known-tools-to-help-you-ge...

For well a very well articulated argument for fungal intelligence, look up Paul Stamets, the mycologist on YouTube and elsewhere.

He's a serious scientist but he shows up in popular culture, too. For example, Lieutenant Commander Paul Stamets, a astromycologist serving on the USS Discover, was named after the real Paul Stamets.

I think the honorable thing would be for them to have a statement easily findable.

So many companies sweep this sort of things under the rug if it’s only customer data that’s been breached. If they can’t sweep they have a high priced PR agency do the communicating.

I do not trust companies who handle things this way.

That’s genius: Customizez Rolling based on musical tastes.

I will say that roll recipient feedback indicated that the “YouTube ads take away from the shock value.”

So maybe hosting your own videos is the way to go for the intrepid roller.

Noice!

I miss getting Rick Rolled.

Awesome!

Thank you for the description. It sounds like you’ve developed something really cool!

Wow, that’s extraordinary. Do you think it’d be fun for kids too?

I thought that it was because the billing system wasn’t accessible and that the gas itself wasn’t affected (the actual infrastructure). Yes, still very bad, but it seems there should be contingency plans for this sort of thing.

1. One primary source of gas for the Eastern sea board? Wtf?

2. The TSA overseas pipelines (lower standards and poor oversight) whereas electricity is regulated by the Dept of Energy? What the actual fucK? Nothing against then TSA but shouldn’t they focus on transportation security?

3. They didn’t have a director of cyber security and are now recruiting? If you’re running critical infrastructure shouldn’t you be putting a few dollars into this sort of thing already?

What a cluster fuck.

Borat does a shakedown.

Reminds me of the Queen’s Gambit where the protagonist plays chess on a hallucinated chess board projected on the ceiling.