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He actually brings up a good point later in the article, that this sounds like Microsoft's old mantra:

Embrace, Extend, Extinguish

Password reuse and 2FA enforcement.

Although, we at HN are the shining tier of amazingness (/s), most people will use the same password across as many accounts as they can, or use some dirivation of the password.

The bigger issue is that plenty of people don't enable 2FA onto their emails as it's never really suggested by the providers, some just don't support it, and the fear of getting locked out of something so central.

It's better than SMS 2nd Factor though.

To everyone hoping to avoid the problem, make sure you disable automatic updates if you are still on 12.1.1 or earlier.

Settings > General > Software Updates > Automatic Updates

Can I get an ELI5 summary?

I've got one at work, will try it out later today.

Some projects that use emojis, actually use them with meaning. https://gitmoji.carloscuesta.me

Very similar thing at our office. Considering the scale of which we run things, any outage could be a potential loss of millions _every minute_.

Sure, we use support tickets with vendors for small things. Console button bugging out, etc. But for large incidents, every vendor has a representative within an hour driving distance and will be called into a room with our engineers to fix the problem. This kind of outage, with zero communication, means the dropping of a contract.

Communication is critical for trust, especially if we're running a business off it.

NVIDIA does publish a graphics driver stack for macOS, it's not as great as the Radeon stack, but still performs admirably.

Except the point where the evil monopoly buys the patents and keeps refreshing the patent pool, thus locking things like H.264 away forever.

This'll be fun to dissect.

> Walmart has spent a shit ton of money on their analytics systems including open source and Teradata.

This is true! More specifically, we're using Teradata and Hadoop.

> They have agreements with various cell companies for geo-fenced info.

First that I've hear of it. If we actually did have this, it would be a major invasion of privacy. There was a pilot to be able to track expensive inventory (Like TVs) around the store to prevent theft, but it was shutdown due to privacy concerns.

> Yet the results are mediocre and Amazon is kicking their ass with strategy.

Go look at our year-over-year for e-commerce and you'll see that we're actually doing very well.

> They have no loyalty program (Sam's has membership) to provide compelling packaged deals to shoppers, they have their Every Day Low Price pretense but check Neighborhood Market prices that vary wildly from super-center prices especially for grocery.

This is where it gets interesting. Most of the variation you'll see is taxes from zone to zone. As well as logistical challenges for certain locations. Given actual places, I could get a breakdown of costs, but alas.

> In reality, WMT is a quasi-monopoly that is dying under its own obesity - it needs to split up. eCommerce at $16B is a joke considering it doesnt make any profit and has take billions in overpriced investment.

Do you watch out our financial calls?

> The management, especially in tech, barely see projects through and has lately removed several long-time employees for "fresh blood". Add turnover in SV and other places, it is chaos.

Management is terrible, I'll agree to that. But HR isn't ageist, and we have thousands of associates that are > 25 year tenure with Walmart and hundreds of those over 35 year tenure.

Turnover in SV is because we meet the bare minimum to compete in the market, not because of management, otherwise you'd see the similar numbers to our offices in Reston, Virginia.

Thanks!

Because our internal infrastructure is a steaming pile of s*. Probably. I don't use it, so I can't particularly comment.

Not really, many of the stores are $1M+, so a $100 purchase of groceries could just be considered an outlier. The bigger changes you'll find is when word of mouth spreads about a specific product. Ex. If Tide came out with a new version of the pods, sales will be slow (assuming no advertising) for the first few weeks, but it acts more like an exponential curve if the product catches on.

Good! The Dark pattern for the store layout is working :P

Friend referred me.

Data Sharing Agreements: None that I know of. That bit is a little out of my range.

Facial Recognition: Very, Very Little. Only in one store at the moment, and it's designed for Asset Protection and tracking a thief around the store.

As for tracking MAC addresses, we track Enterprise devices that associates use, but not customers.

That 460TB of data has grown exponentially with the data brought in from stores, and from our growing e-com side over in Sunnyvale.

If I had to place a number, it's well over the ExB barrier.

Hey guys! WM Associate here. Let me know if you have questions about our data storage practices (or anything else).

I'm wanting to shed some light on our practices, as we aren't as sketch as most believe.

Throw-away account for obvious reasosns.