seventhtiger

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Information security analyst in oil and gas
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Comment · 25 days ago
No DLP concerns?
Comment · 1 month ago
Knives are freely sold at shops on every street.
Comment · 1 month ago
Can any human explain how they do 55+66 to the same standard?
Comment · 5 months ago
All enablers also enable mediocrity. That's not new. At least when the non-mediocre engineer has to work with someone, they can have a tireless responsive partner.

I find this varies by individual, but the AI taking care of so much boilerplate and rote work of coding, and taking the role of architect, test designer, and reviewer is a lot more productive for me. Check the code may take the same skill, but it's an order of magnitude less work.

Comment · 5 months ago
I'm not American or ever worked in the USA. It's not a judgement of human value. It's a judgement of work output.
Comment · 5 months ago
When you criticize AI, always remember that the alternative is the average employee. Today's models are pretty good.
Comment · 1 year ago
For example in the UK the police did a sting simply by wearing expensive watches, and caught 31 robbers in a 12 month period.

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-68003783

I agree that all the random factors you mentioned exist, and the proportion to random vs targeted theft would be an interesting debate, but there's solid evidence for significant targeted theft. The fencers tell the thieves what to look for.

Comment · 1 year ago
They actually do though. First thing to learn when swiping is what's worth swiping, and if no one will buy an iphone paper weight then it's not worth the risk.
Comment · 1 year ago
It's disabled geographically, not based on band compatibility or carrier or anything. Not sure about New Zealand because I heard it's not consistent.

It'd be 5G, VoLTE/Wifi, VPN, call screening, OTP autodelete, crash detection.

Comment · 1 year ago
Translated tweet text from Japanese gaming Youtuber Shinjisan:

"I checked out the reviews on Steam now that you can see them by country, and I noticed that for almost every game, the reviews from Japan were overwhelmingly negative compared to others. (China and Japan seem to be particularly harsh.)

However, when I read the content of the negative reviews, many of them were surprisingly reasonable. Upon digging into the reasons, it seems like people in Japan tend to leave negative reviews to voice complaints, but they don’t bother leaving positive reviews for games they enjoyed. In short, it just looks like harsh ratings due to a lack of positive reviews. (Giving a negative review to something you didn’t find fun isn’t necessarily a bad thing.)

Steam’s review ratings often impact game sales, and because of Japan’s harsh reviews, some developers apparently avoid Japanese localization during early access or initial release to avoid getting reviewed at that stage.

What I’m trying to say is, if you get into the habit of leaving a positive review—even just a short one—for games you enjoyed, game companies might be more inclined to support Japanese localization sooner or treat us more kindly (⋈◍>◡<◍)。♡. I’ll keep up my habit of leaving positive reviews for fun games whenever I remember to do so. Best regards."

Comment · 1 year ago
12 years later and still no availability in Middle East or Africa. Only available in 30-something countries. Google can't figure out retail, while upstart Chinese companies hit the global market immediately.

If you buy it in a country that's not officially supported you don't get 5G, most unique features, and of course no warranty, support, or repairs.

Comment · 1 year ago
You're probably right, but my point was more specific than general fitness means less sensitivity to temperature. I haven't experience that either.

I meant the specific many temperature shocks daily (hot to cold to coldest to ok to cold to hot) absolutely changed the way I feel temperature. I still knew it was hot but I wasn't uncomfortable at all.

Comment · 1 year ago
Something crazy I've experience is when I swam in an outdoors pool every morning early for a while. This involves several temperature shocks, like jumping into the shower (hot), then walking from the shower to the pool (cold), then jumping into the pool (very cold initially, then ok), then walking back to the shower then showering again. This whole routine happens over just 60 minutes.

Other than the overall health and wellness I got I normally associated with exercise, and improved breathing because of swimming, I felt immune to temperature discomfort! After a while, the routine itself didn't bother, nor walking 15 minutes from the parking lot to my office under 50C summer sun at noon. I could go out in winter in any clothes I want.

It was very noticable and very specific. Sensitivity to temperature itself may be a form of unfitness.

Comment · 1 year ago
For the same reason I'm against capital punishment. I don't trust the state with the due dilegence to have direct power over life and death. What happens when care is available but insurance figures assisted death is cheaper? The fact that someone could look at the healthcare system and say "give them the option to kill people" is wild. You can say whatever you want about criteria and process, then I want you to think of the million ways things go wrong when lofty goals are transformed into bureaucracy.

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