runamok

MPK? https://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/MPK

Yeah, that blew my mind. I mean the Vatican is essentially a country but where does that money come from?

I am positive faang engineers are very sharp but would they be "expert at the latest technologies"? E.g. an engineer at Google likely has a whole host of bespoke systems vs. a mixture of vendor and open source solutions the rest of companies tend to use. E.g. Borg vs. Kubernetes and the like.

I agree with you but I'd imagine new tech like chatgpt won't interject in a user's interactions with facebook and instagram as it does with google where I ask my AI for something vs. search for it in google.

Switzerland actually DOES fine you more if you have the money and break the law. https://www.hotcars.com/heres-why-a-dude-in-sweden-received-...

Traffic fines are often considered regressive because a rich person can laugh at a few hundred dollars whereas a poor person suddenly can't afford rent.

So yeah, perhaps some fines should scale to ones means, otherwise it won't deter bad behavior.

Barrel adjusters near the controls are a thing though not all bikes have them.

Example: https://www.amazon.com/Jagwire-Inline-Indexed-Tension-Adjust...

Nope. Most Microsoft apps don't support this standard. I think for teams you have to add alt or something or other. I think this is macs only. Cmd shift opt v https://businesstechplanet.com/how-to-paste-without-formatti...

Word has some ribbon bullshit: https://www.howtogeek.com/679956/how-to-paste-text-without-f...

They do touch on the security aspect but there is a whole lotta attack surface to worry about.

Fta: Microsoft made a particular point of outlining its efforts to ensure the new Adobe PDF tool is secure. Miscreants will use malware-infused PDFs to muscle their way into enterprise networks, so Microsoft's Edge Vulnerability Research team was involved in the process of bringing the Adobe engine to Edge.

That includes adding security features to the PDF stack such as PartitionAlloc a secure heap implementation developed on Chromium and already used in Edge, according to Gareth Evans, principal security research lead at Microsoft.

"PartitionAlloc is designed in such a way as to keep objects of different types separate from each other with minimal intervention from the developer," Evans wrote.

The package also includes mitigations such as Intel's Control Flow Enforcement Technology to protect against the hijacking of control-flow transfer instructions, a technology that complements Microsoft's Control Flow Guard. Fuzzing – automatic testing for vulnerabilities – is another security feature included with the new Edge PDF stack.

In addition, Edge's Acrobat engine will be included in the software vendor's bug bounty program to incentivize developers to find and report flaws. And there have been quite a few flaws in Adobe's PDF code.

Seriously. That was exactly my response. Sure, LastPass I'll be right over.

I need to get off my arse and rotate my most valuable passwords.

They somehow replicated the intranet site so I'd call that somewhat sophisticated. That kind of feels like they had insider knowledge.

> As in most phishing campaigns, the attacker sent out plausible-sounding prompts pointing employees to a website that cloned the behavior of our intranet gateway, in an attempt to steal credentials and second-factor tokens.

Every child is attached to a minimum of 1 adult on average. And they are very unlikely to be particularly adept at not acquiring whatever bug is going around let alone something as infectious as covid. So to me that was always the point. One infected kid leads to all kids being infected which leads to all parents getting infected, etc.

The R naught number was very high event for the early strains: https://abcnews.go.com/Health/r0-covid-19-virus-key-metric-o...

See ticketmaster and live nation or T-Mobile and sprint. The anti-monopoly folks seem asleep at the wheel to me.

Does anyone understand why Meta is up 23% today? Did the cuts show an impact in Q4? I'd have assumed the initial cost of the severance would be significant. https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/META?p=META&.tsrc=fin-srch

I have heard about companies doing this in times of economic downturns to prevent layoffs. If that was the cause and it was communicated as such and temporary I'd be willing.

Example: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/toyota-staf...

tl;dr: Oracle now is going to charge you *per employee*, NOT per employee actually using Oracle Java SE (employee = full-time and part-time employees and agents, consultants, and contractors). Frankly I don't even know how that's legal but based on how many lawyers Oracle has, assume it is.

IMO at this point every LastPass user should:

1. Check their password iterations to evaluate how urgent the rest of these steps are: https://support.lastpass.com/help/how-do-i-change-my-passwor...

2. If iterations are 100100 and your password is not a dictionary word (or quite short) you are probably ok but...

3. I'd still identify any high value passwords like email, financial, cryptocurrency, etc. and rotate them.

I am guessing the iterations are stored in the vault so would point out the low hanging fruit to the hackers.

All the other things LP is doing doesn't really matter since the customer vaults are already exfiltrated and do not use any sort of MFA offline.

Well said. From my LinkedIn feed anecdata the Google layoffs seemed especially capricious. People that had been there 5+ to 10+ years. Seems likely tied to high comp though I saw recent hires as well. AFAIK no managers were consulted either.

In one way that's good vs. some of the CEOs that publicly said "these folks are the fat and we're trimming it" which is especially cruel.

> scratch their lootbox itch *for free*

Possibly relevant? https://exercism.org/blog/freeing-our-maintainers

> If you can date/marry someone in construction/architecture, and let them supervise, it helps.

That might result in much more than the 60 to 70% premium they are willing to pay! ;-)

I know what you are saying but from what I understand the network costs per user are pretty negligible. I think its more that if a show is not a hit and does not become a big draw for users Netflix will nix it especially because the way most deals are done subsequent seasons cost them much more than the first.

I have read the above in the past but can't find a good source at present as I am on mobile so apologies.

1. I don't think there would be an intention to move folks from MX to the bay area, Austin, etc. so not sure why you mentioned that.

2. I think having folks "near shore" makes it far easier to train, mentor, manage, etc. when there is a lot of overlap in time zones. When I had a team in India that was THE major challenge. The speed of iteration was abysmal.

3. I may be wrong but I have some nephews by marriage getting STEM degrees in Tijuana (TJ) and salaries for a new mechanical engineer hire are terrible IIUC. Per https://www.salary.com/research/mx-salary/benchmark/mechanic... average annual salary is 324,000 MX Pesos which is < $17000 USD. Software is similar: https://www.salary.com/research/mx-salary/benchmark/mechanic... . And TJ has a higher cost of living than other cities in MX and thus salaries due to proximity to the US. It will take years for supply to meet demand but I can see Mexico and South America being good sources of talent in the future. To me it's just a marketing, education and pipeline problem.

The first tip off this was not in the US was the word "pension" which has long gone the way of the dodo bird in the US.

The 30% (or whatever it is) cut in the app store?

Thank you for this.

The job of the C-suite is accurate forecasting which is why they make 400x what the line worker does in large companies. Obviously they don't have a crystal ball but if scaled up the company hugely during a black swan event like covid and assumed that was the new normal I'd be personally ashamed and would either resign or give back my salary for a year+ to keep most of those employees and find a function for them. Perhaps via retraining, perhaps with instituting optional pay cuts to let people work 4 days a week, etc.

If the massive debt is at 1 or 2% interest they could essentially bank a fairly small portion of it to service that interest. When instead debt is at 7+% it's a whole other story. You better be building something that will shake loose enough profit to service the debt.

The worst is when they accept your long password only to truncate it silently so the password doesn't work when you use it to login.

I'm a big fan of games like The Witness. https://store.steampowered.com/app/210970/The_Witness/

I don't know that it makes you smarter but it's full of puzzles and brain teasers.

Free until 1/12. https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/kerbal-space-program

For "non-exempt" the general rate for overtime is "time and a half" aka 1.5 times your hourly rate. Holidays were usually double.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-and-a-half