mrmondo
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Comment · 7 years ago
Just recently I wrote a brief post about how the title of ‘DevOps Engineer’ (and similar) were irking me, especially when looking for new roles / opportunities. DevOps isn’t a job title - it’s a culture and making click-bate / hipster job titles isn’t helping recruiters or business gain the value or plug the gaps they need:
https://smcleod.net/tech/2019/08/08/camels-and-unicorns.html
Comment · 7 years ago
Hmm. Yeah just if it was like 30 (or even like 100) it’s not exactly overly valuable other than an initial indicator.
Comment · 7 years ago
Oh did I - whoops!
That quote doesn’t give the sample size (number of people studied and in each group) though?
Comment · 7 years ago
I’m not necessarily discounting the results however I found it odd that the primary source didn’t state the sample size (or maybe I missed it)?
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/oby.22518
Comment · 7 years ago
Would be interesting to see this on a more modern kernel, I believe this older LTS Ubuntu uses Kernel 4.15, I’m sure they’ve back ported some security fixes etc but it won’t be the same as running the current stable kernel (5.2.3), perhaps a test on the current stable Fedora release with Kernel-ml from Elrepo would be a more fair / up-to-date test.
Comment · 7 years ago
I was about to buy one as a spare, linux-only laptop, I was hoping they'd have 16GB-32GB RAM options (for a price of course), but they don't even have 8GB let alone 16/32... they seem to be stuck with 4GB!?
That's not going to be much good for browsing modern Javascript heavy websites and doing anything else at the same time let alone having a VM or a few apps running in the background.
I'm all for cheap laptops for kids to learn on, basic word processing and things but - this is going to struggle.
Comment · 7 years ago
Thanks, definitely keen on a macOS version, looks interesting I've played with Universe Sandbox which is great, but I'd love this level of detail on planetary bodies and procedural generation.
Comment · 7 years ago
dd if=/dev/data | tee >(dd of=/dev/glass1) | dd of=/dev/glass2
20:20 optical replication ;)
Comment · 7 years ago
“RAMBleed has been demonstrated on devices with DDR3 memory chips, and Rowhammer's bit flipping on DDR4 components. DDR4 supports a defensive technique called Targeted Row Refresh, but its efficacy is uncertain. "Given the closed-source nature by which TRR is implemented, it is difficult for the security community to evaluate its effectiveness," said Kwong. "While bit flips have been demonstrated on TRR before, the extent to which TRR mitigates RAMBleed remains an open question."
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/06/11/rambleed_rowhammer_...
Comment · 7 years ago
Tried to get the primary source for the study behind the graphs there, links through to a paywalled study - so I can’t find the sample size, methodologies used, how the study was controlled etc... I’m not disputing anything - I am however cautious of drawing conclusions from articles / posts without proper citations and primary source data. Paywalled study: https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Fa0035173
It is promising however that this blog as a section on logical fallacies, without going through more articles I can’t comment if they adhere to avoiding them or not, still - good to see.
Comment · 7 years ago
I’d be interested to see this same analysis with H.265 given that its the way forward and the standard on the for many devices and media.
Comment · 7 years ago
Yes it does, I ordered 4x high CRI LED bulbs from https://www.yujiintl.com/high-cri-led-lighting.html, I placed them around my teams working pod in cheap $10 desk lamps and they work a treat, very noticeable difference in our pod / cubical to the rest of the office.
Comment · 7 years ago
This (while perhaps not perfect) is massive for us, it’s going to be especially useful for Kibana authentication to add readonly and write users, something we’ve wanted for a long time but haven’t been able to afford as a non-profit, charitable organisation.
I know it’s not all 100% open source, but it’s better than a nginx reverse proxy hack or similar.
Thank you Elastic for continuing to create fantastic software.
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