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superbrane··on ATM Hackers Have Picked Up Some Clever New Tricks
There is no surprise here. The ATM companies making the machines and their software are so old school and simply outdated in terms of cybersecurity.
superbrane··on Study: Low Carb Diet May Prevent, Reverse Age-Related Effects Within the Brain
I read some time ago about the Keto diet showing good results even in Alzheimer/dementia cases. Keto is not the same as low carb but it's close enough. Our molecular biology and internal chemical reactions are still areas of research in early phases. Just on a different topic, but in the same direction - last 10 years research discovered that immunity boosting has much better results in certain types of cancer than all the other non-surgery treatments (chemical or radiation).
superbrane··on Elon Musk’s plan to build one Starship a week and settle Mars
I hope he gets to solve the terraforming part of going to Mars, as well. Also, maybe he sets his eyes on colonizing the ocean space on Earth - lots of empty space in the water.
superbrane··on Samsung accidentally sends 'Find My Mobile' notifications to Galaxy phones
For sure someone at Samsung is now called "No. 1 Developer" :)
superbrane··on Becoming a high performing software developer working from your bedroom
4h daily commute is horrific. the alternatives to your solution would be to get another job, closer to home or move closer to the job...just saying.
superbrane··on Becoming a high performing software developer working from your bedroom
Here's another angle - not saying it's correct, just different. Why would you want to perfect working from your bedroom? It's ok to WFH for a while, but i would not recommend perfecting it long term. As a human being you should be looking to interact and socialize with other humans, in person, as well - this makes us better humans, more empathetic, more understanding to the needs and pains of others.
superbrane··on Thousands of workers jobs cut as former boss walks away with $62M
CEO was rewarded for increasing artificially the stock price, through stock buy backs. He did a good job at that and a bad job at managing an industrial company. That s how big companies start to fail, they lose sight of what matters.
superbrane··on YouTube moderators forced to sign statement acknowledging job can give them PTSD
This is just to protect the corporation from potential legal action. It s like a disclaimer on a police agent job that you might get shot when doing your job. Problem is when you don t care enough to take care of the ones who are affected by the stress.
superbrane··on TripAdvisor cuts hundreds of jobs after Google competition bites
1 more thought on this - Expedia and Booking are next on their menu...
superbrane··on TripAdvisor cuts hundreds of jobs after Google competition bites
This is what happens when you pay huge amounts of money on Google Ads and traffic. They notice that you must be quite profitable if you afford to pay so much, so they come for your market. It will happen more and more and the more you pay to Google the more you help them take you out of the market.
superbrane··on Boeing – what happens when financial engineering replaces real engineering
this is what happens when top management is compensated based on stock value and the bottom line. Instead of doing their job, top management practiced shares buy-backs as a way to increase share price. I think we'll get a new motto soon - if it's Boeing, I'm not going...
superbrane··on Airlines scour the world for scarce 737 Max simulators
Since the planes become more software dependent, the pilots should be trained on procedures to recognize/evaluate/react to software problems/glitches as well. The problems with the B-MAX were actually related to bad software (MCAS). There is probably some delay between how pilots are training and the importance of software in their job.
superbrane··on Airlines scour the world for scarce 737 Max simulators
Interesting that Boeing does no make the simulators directly but through partners. Having a delay in making the simulators might be because the makers of the simulators are having problems with the software replication from the real plane. Wonder what happens when the software on the simulators is in desync with the software on the real plane; or when software on the real plane has a bug that manifests only after 10 hour of continuous operation while the software on the simulator is continuously resetted for each new pilot. On the other hand, Boeing and the airlines should have provided more simulators if their new model is so different that it needs a dedicated simulator. One idea - Boeing should only sell new planes together with simulators - 1 simulator included for each x planes delivered.
superbrane··on Show HN: Google Sheets add-on to compare text, fuzzy-match, highlight duplicates
Congrats for launching a useful tool and already gathering a nice install base. Wonder how much of it is paid :)). Base plan looks a bit too restrictive - people can process 50 rows manually in xls -I suggest you offer more rows for the free plan, so you encourage adoption.
superbrane··on DigitalOcean is laying off staff
If this cutoffs are made for the sake of increasing profitability of an already profitable company, they are a bad sign in terms of management style and quality - it will affect morale, creativity and enthusiasm of remaining employees.
superbrane··on Hyundai and Uber Unveil Autonomous Pods, EVTOL Aircraft, & Hub Ecosystem at CES
It looks like it is more marketing than reality :). The keywords from their description "piloted initially and eventually autonomous"
superbrane··on Mistakes were made: ERP screwups
- Make sure business stakeholders have realistic expectations about deployment, data migration, cost of working in parallel if another system exists, etc - stay away from customizations when possible. Each ERP comes with its own way of doing things. It's sometimes best to adjust the business to the ERP than the other way around :)
superbrane··on The military is building long-range facial recognition that works in the dark
Curious if this will work. About 1 year ago I was reading about US military research looking for a portable/personnel use device capable to combine night vision and thermal vision in one vision set - don't think they managed to get a breakthrough with that. This face detection would work great if ported on such a device.
superbrane··on How to identify an immoral maze
in many corporations of this kind it's all about: - over-billing the customer (see Acc. and their legendary $20-30M site that was not working) - internal power plays between managers who want to show-off managing as much headcount as possible, as that is correlated with paycheck etc. etc.