planetjones

Been using the open source dbeaver for a while now. On the whole very impressed with it, so worth a look as a free alternative.

There’s a Symptoms graphic on that site attributed to the WHO. For sneezing and Coronavirus it says ‘no’.

Can the author of the website or someone else please provide a hyperlink to the original source of that graphic, so its authenticity can be validated.

Running was actually the cause of my herniated disc. Well probably weakened over the years by slouching forward at the computer and not building a strong core. But after recovering from one huge bout of back pain I started running again and a few days later I had sciatica and foot drop. I still have nerve damage.

Doing the McKenzie back exercises every morning for the past five years is the reason I’m able to still function I think.

I can’t say if the pain from sciatica caused by a disc herniation is the worst pain I will ever feel, but it would be hard to imagine worse.

I have been out of big bank IT for eight years now. Clearly I don’t miss it. For one programme we had to produce upfront estimates. Clearly anything we produced would be wildly inaccurate. But we tried. The IT director then cut the estimate in half and added another hundred people to it. Cue complete chaos and a massive delay. That was the calibre of senior management back then. I doubt it’s much better today.

Dropbox would really let you get to half a Petabyte ? I know it says as much space as your team needs, but wow. Do Dropbox start to charge per data stored when you take out an enterprise account ?

The article also says they shared screenshots of their calendars externally.

Exactly it was a crude and unsophisticated attack. I am pleased the ICO looked at the facts, not the spin and recognised the negligence of BA.

I would daily compare the file running on the website that I deployed matched the file on the server verbatim. I think this would have been enough with BA. Secondly I would run a daily test in production which verifies the requests the browser makes match those expected. This would only need doing on the pages which capture payment information. Neither solution is particularly difficult. BA clearly did nothing. Hence the negligence and huge fine.

Seems very just. BA clearly had no controls to understand the code running in production was the code they had deployed. I hope this serves as a wake up call to other companies who have a blatant negligence for infosec.

Google’s takeover of deja news and its formation into groups.google.com was always a mess, but it seems to have got even worse. Now it’s at the point I can’t access the article on iOS safari.

First it forced me to log on. Ok I did that. After which the redirects lost the deep link, so I reached a generic landing page. I tried going back but there were more redirects which made that difficult. I finally came back to HN and clicked the link again. Then a spinner came up but didn’t load. A few reloads later and I got a few characters but nothing useful.

What a mess.

I have never seen any case of a developer holding the project to ransom in order to fix a bug, as alluded to in the article.

That said the key point that those who are always firefighting and ‘saving the day’ do often get the recognition as opposed to the people who squat the bugs early, follow sane processes and test their own stuff well is true.

But the question is about tech companies (not outsourcing shops like in the top response I saw). And I think the answer is a simple no.

First time I went to Hiltl I loaded up the plate. Went to get it weighed. And the 45 Francer (45 USD) as I call it was up. It’s not the cheapest, but the buffet food is consistently good. And in my time in Zurich they have expanded rapidly (recently Bahnhofstrasse and Landstrasse). And I like the free water. Just watch you don’t load the plate too heavily!

I’m not really planning to download it unless there’s a DR event with my local set-up.

1 USD per month per TB. Finally a storage tier that allows me to back up my media collection for what’s almost loose change.

Cool! Something similar can be produced, like the slides Martin Kleppmann uses in his presentations e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2RJQELoM6Y

I didn't know if he was drawing them, or using a framework to create them. Anyone know what he uses ?

Why not a quick scan twice a day if all static content looking for ip addresses and domains against a whitelist of allowed domains? This would have found the issue same day.

I struggle a little to see how there is a single point of failure here (a fibre optic cable). I’d have thought the screens were powered by a device plugged into a LAN. Would be interested if anyone knows the architecture of such screens and why there is such a single point of failure in the whole airport.

Yep with performance like that it’s highly likely going to be a problem involving the persistent store of the application. The first instinct should have been to enable some tracing or logging to see where the time was being spent.

I don’t get it. What is the point of being able to push ledger entries to this service? It isn’t really SaaS, as you’d expect to get reporting and other stuff. Plus ledger entries are pretty critical for a business and often have some regulatory requirements, which I am not sure this service could fulfil.

I supported Musk after he released his e-mail correspondence showing the dive team had requested he continue work with his submarine. I also think Musk genuinely tried to help solve a problem; maybe not with the greatest requirements gathering (though Musk is adamant the submarine would be able to reach the cave and is planning to demonstrate this). Some of the attacks on Musk were terrible and unnecessary.

However, he then sends this baseless tweet. And doubles down on it. It is juvenile, petty and disgraceful behavior. It would seem that everyone is deeply flawed in some way.

Many companies have a similar system where you have to renew contractors on a monthly basis. A similar thing happened at a company I was working for, where the manager was away on sick leave and the system didn’t copy anyone else in to the ever escalating emails. With no one confirming the contractor should stay the system kicked in. The contractor’s accounts were deleted, without him knowing anything about it. It wasted a few days to set everything back up again. Luckily security never got involved. The least such a system should do is contact the contractor directly before taking action, so they have a chance to involve a human.

Those dumb emails I am getting are not a problem, for me at least. Infact it’s a good opportunity to remove myself from some communications which are no longer relevant.

The biggest problem was the previous directive, which meant all EU websites display an intrusive message about cookies which needs a click to dismiss. That is the most dumb thing I encounter. And continue to encounter on a daily basis.

British Banks have been playing "fast and loose" with their IT systems for a long time now. TSB won't be the last time we see such a catastrophe. It is not the first in recent memory either.

"Fast and Loose" may mean rushing changes through with unrealistic timelines, outsourcing the software development or/and infrastructure management to the cheapest location possible, sacking onshore experts to save money, etc. The UK Government is fully complicit, as their support for RBS (owned by the Government themselves) during their ruthless cost-cutting showed.

Banks are of systemic importance. People suffer if they can't make payments on time or can't access money that's needed for something essential. But the systemic importance is not reflected in the legislation: we have a situation where Banks outsource their IT to Indian service companies and do their upmost to move the "heavy lifting" of software development to the cheapest location they can find, while the social networks and search engines are recruiting the top talent.

I suspect this is more to do with not wanting to handle or let others see the negative comments against wetherspoon e.g. about their Brexit stance or quality of their food. They are a notoriously difficult place to complain to and usually tell you to take up any complaints with the local manager. I found this out first hand when it was the branch manager himself who served me the worst scrambled eggs on toast I have ever seen! Head office was not interested.

Trade at wetherspoon will not be affected by moving off social media and, indeed, others will not see criticisms directed against Wetherspoon e.g. in replies to their social media messages.

Plus this is a good bit of advertising for them by coming off social media.

It’s not just Netflix. I am having the same problem. Someone has signed up to instagram, yahoo and others using a form of my mail address without the dots (the one I chose had the dots before I knew gmail didn’t care). I believe a lot of them are spam accounts. But what do I do. I don’t want to spend time trying to speak to a customer service rep for companies that don’t want to be contacted.

Instagram had a link at the bottom of the mail called ‘remove your email from this account’. I click it and it says it’s not a valid link...

I don’t want this from gmail. I want the address I signed up with. It should be simple. It’s hard to explain to others why the dots don’t matter.

Does anyone know how software updates are tested for such autonomous driving software ? Is there a possibility for this driver's video to be added to a regression suite and tested, or can they take the data from his car and build a regression test based on it ?

It would appear that a large part of the problem is the person's finances are in such bad order, they cannot afford to buy the diapers in bulk. Could the local church or community organisation not buy the nappies in the bulk and then sell them at the lowest item price possible ?

When in such poverty (and potentially from a less educated background) I know finding solutions is difficult. But this is where community should help. Having a baby is super expensive and super stressful, but there are some things which can help e.g. consider cloth diapers, encourage breastfeeding to avoid formula costs.

I don't know how much support someone like this gets. But I guess not enough.

Did you read the biography? This point is specifically addressed by the author and the author also refused Musk the control he wanted e.g. in terms of a right of reply to all points in the book. Some of the book is very vivid in its portrayal of Musk’a flaws and others’ opinions of him.

I used to be one of the people who poked fun at Musk and suggested people short Tesla stock (as the valuation is crazy compared to the production and penetration numbers).

But I am no longer that person. I read his biography (Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future) and this is a guy who genuinely wants to change things on a macro scale: opening up space, changing transportation. He is also a genuine risk taker, who will bet his own money and risk everything for something he believes in. I now root for Musk and his companies to succeed. I wouldn't take short positions on Tesla now.

Plus the deletion of the SpaceX and Tesla facebook pages, when told over Twitter they existed was pretty funny.

I know a lot of the comments are saying what a bad example. And how trivial it is. But it’s a clear illustration of Apple’s lack of attention to detail now. I dare say there was a time when Apple would never have published such an advert. Likewise there was a time they would never publish software with the embarrassing bugs we have seen through macOS and iOS.