goatinaboat
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Comment · 5 years ago
It is also the number one factor in Covid mortality, once you discount old age which is non-discretionary.
Comment · 5 years ago
they only had 13 employees and now they have something like 500
They are not all engineers. I’ll bet most are account managers looking after big advertising spenders.
Comment · 5 years ago
The one sort of surveillance schools need is live webcams so parents can monitor lesson content
Comment · 5 years ago
I am sure there are Windows NT machines still in service. I think my Dad has one in his basement. Should Windows forever support NT?
If they were offering an online service, then yes. These devices were compromised by WD’s online file sharing tool.
Comment · 5 years ago
I would agree if't s a non-EoL products. This, not so much.
A company should not be permitted to just declare something “EoL” if it is still in widespread usage. They made it, they support it as long as any customer still has it.
Comment · 5 years ago
When I containerized MongoDB, Docker helpfully inserted an allow rule into iptables, opening up MongoDB to the world.
This is crazy. Your network should have been on a private IP address space behind a firewall running static NAT exposing only ports 80 and 443 on a routable IP address. This is network architecture 101.
Comment · 5 years ago
It is such an obvious development, if not to replace so to complement. But perhaps there are challenges around it that are not obvious?
You might be surprised how scant and expensive bandwidth becomes once you are out of sight of land
Comment · 5 years ago
AFAIK, the "defund the police" chant was supposed to be in response to American police forces buying army vehicles and gear. That is not a thing in Canada
In the UK they scream “don’t shoot” at unarmed police, whom they call “Feds”. It’s surreal, like they don’t even know what country they’re in.
Comment · 5 years ago
The reason it cannot be discussed is because the us president decided to politicize the issue front and center. That inevitably forces the heavy hand censorship
Flip that around: hundreds of thousands died because it was more important for the media to attack Trump than to report truthfully. We weren’t even supposed to discuss HCQ for example, because Trump suggested it, despite all the mountains of scientific evidence about its effectiveness.
Comment · 5 years ago
low-intelligence people
mainly from the college educated
What would you call going $200,000 into debt for a non-STEM degree?
College education is no sign of intelligence, it’s often the opposite.
Comment · 5 years ago
Probe, probe, probe, that’s all they ever do. But they know and Facebook knows that no action will ever be taken
Comment · 5 years ago
That doesn't sound like an unbiased removal of politics from the workplace to me. I think I would be out of the door, too.
Why, do you "assume bad intent" and "make unsubstantiated accusations"? Do you want to, or do you want to work with people that do? I don't think anyone who quits because those "behaviours are not tolerated" will be missed by their former colleagues.
Comment · 5 years ago
This is the only instance relating to offensive social media I've ever heard of where someone got reassigned and not fired
Yes it's very strange isn't it, I wonder what the reason could be
Comment · 5 years ago
I always thought Microsoft would be a natural buyer given the tech stack and Microsoft's support for developers.
The heyday of SO is long over and all the serious Q+A takes place on GitHub, which MS already owns.