Podcasts........they're moving to podcasts. You don't have to worry about whether there is a local station that carries your show or whether the signal is good. The listeners can a) stream it or b) download it at home and listen to it on their commute.
What I like about listening / watching podcasts is that I can do that WHILE doing something else. I listen to over 130 podcasts (meaning I've heard every episode and catch the newest before the next episode comes out). I use it as background while doing other things (driving, exercise, even coding). Sure, I'm not absorbing 100% of the content, but I catch the main points and can recognize when the podcast requires a little more attention than I've been giving it.
Favorite podcast app: Pocketcast Audio speed: 2.5x Video speed: 2.0x
An abbreviated list of podcasts I listen to:
99% Invisible
Adam Ruins Everything
Anna Faris is Unqualified
AskPat
Beyond the Todo List
Chubby Wizard
Critical Hit
Cryptid Creatures
D&D Is For Nerds
Drunks & Dragons
Dungeon Master's Block
Dynamic Banter
TekThing
Eventual Millionaire
Film Riot
Grammar Girl
Hak5
Hero Movie Podcast
Heroes and Villains
Hidden Brain
How I Built This
Improve Photography
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Marketing Over Coffee
Money Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips
Myths and Legends
Amy Porterfield's Online Marketing Made Easy
Only Stupid Answers
Saturday Morning Rewind
Scam School
Side Hustle School
Skeptoid
Smart Passive Income TV
SourceFed
SourceFed Nerd
Steal The Show
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
Stuff You Missed In History Class
Stuff You Should Know
The Allusionist
The Art of Photography
The Cliff Ravenscraft Show
The Feed: The Official Libsyn Podcast
The Heroes, Villains and Sidekicks Show
The Math Dude Quick and Dirty Tips
The Memory Palace
The Philip DeFranco Show
The RPG Academy
Smart Passive Income
Twenty Thousand Hertz
Universe Today Video
Unsolved Murders: True Crime Stories
Welcome To Nightvale
Women of Marvel Podcast
Youpreneur FM
There are more, but I skipped the ones that don't update as regularly [I might purge some of them soon].
Apparently you're ok with the bazillion emails you get when your PM goes and makes edits to a story you're assigned to. I've gotten as many as 11 emails in the span of minutes. I *LOTHE* Jira and Confluence. There are plenty of tools that serve the same purpose and fit the way I work much better. I realize they are popular and are mostly capable in managing a project, but they really irk me in the fringes.....the places where people don't concentrate because it isn't seen as critical path to the application.
I wired my previous house, but it was a one-story and I could route the wires up the wall to the attic and back down to the router......but I don't have any clue how to do the same in my 2-story house. Otherwise, I'd wire it.
The idea of not hosting your own local copy is that if everyone uses a common source for the library, then the browser should already have that resource cached even if it's the first time you hit the page. For large enough libraries that the Google CDN (or another CDN) includes it, it's worth it.
Now, for obscure libraries, you're better off hosting your own so that you can control the version and not worry about the referenced script changing/moving/breaking stuff.
It could have been a wrapper around the default sort algorithm that made it easier to call.....something that was more aware of the applications data structures and how to interpret them so that the default sort algorithm would work properly. Many built in sort algorithms work on primitives and built in aggregates (array, list, etc.) but if the application has some other construct, you'd want to make that call as generic as possible so that you don't have to repeat that code everywhere.
Just because a dev calls it "sort" doesn't mean it actually implements the sort algorithm.
Or you could be right and the dev is a moron. Both are possible.
And yet....most people who's job is web programming assume that certificates are part of an admin's job. The classic "it worked fine on my dev box" (which usually doesn't have much in the way of security enabled) excuse will come up and the web dev will try to throw the problem over the wall.
Because even unlimited plans are limited......pick one and there's a cap (usually right around 22GB for some reason) where the speed will drop. If you hit that cap often enough, you'll be dropped from the carrier. It's in the fine print.
And they aren't "cheap" unless you're a single person making decent money or with few other bills to pay. Family plans save money vs a bunch of individual plans, but they still aren't cheap.
I typically run with two different "users" logged in to Chrome and I have each user on a different monitor. One user is for sites where I want to save credentials and the other is for sites I don't......harder for a site to use Facebook if it's running under a different Chrome session. Because I have two monitors, I've seen an attack similar to the one described in the article, but it was obvious because only one monitor got the "Operating System Error" message.
I used to have a USB to serial adapter......I never used it, so it go freecycled off to someone else, but I've also seen them for parallel ports and 3.5" floppy drives. The U means Universal.....let's use it as such. I don't need a new proprietary port on my laptop waiting for people to build modules for my laptop's manufacturer's port.
outside of win and fruit, a geek had to read and study
My second biggest gripe about Linux. I can't just install some flavor or another on my Mom's computer and give her an easy book. If I install it, I'll get tons of calls when she wants to accomplish something and I'll have to tell there ---- well, there are about 20 different ways to do it, but none of them are "mom-friendly".
My biggest gripe is that the world of Linux is so fractured because of all of the different opinions on the "right" way. Choosing between 20 different distros and 5 different window managers and 3 different package managers can make it really hard to pick the "best" option.
If that were true, Apple would have much higher shipped unit numbers. I'm starting to see mixed use --- certain people have Macs and certain people have PCs.
the loss of paid-for licenses with hardware failure
Any sufficiently large organization (such as a school district) should have better management of their licenses such that they aren't tied directly to a single piece of hardware. I know from experience (my wife was a teacher for many years) that the school districts don't usually have a good technology program, but that's because they don't pay well and the knowledgeable will likely be working in the private sector. But a hardware failure should NEVER be the reason you lose a license.
I would say cloud is best for smaller companies but as the company grows large enough and can afford to have specialized people, you bring it back on-prem. A small business can't afford to have a team of expensive engineers (network, storage, server, etc.) so you "outsource" that job to the cloud. Then, when the business is started, you can bring on those types. Large companies already have the experts and don't necessarily need the cloud.
I'd be interested in a description of the ideal configuration for a home network that includes IoT devices.
Should I have multiple routers so that I "nest" my networks. So have one network "right off the Internet" for less secure things such as IoT and then have a more secure network as a sub-network to the IoT network? So the IoT network can't see anything in the sub-network but is also protected by whatever firewall settings I decide to set?
Actually the problem of forcing initialization prior to knowing a value (at least in terms of actual data) is that you then no longer know the difference between "just a default" and "actually the same value as the default".
A possible scenario:
A woman becomes pregnant but has not yet had her child. The doctor wants to create a health record for that child for tracking purposes.
Now, the same doctor wants to run a report for everyone who has a birthday in January because it's time to mail them their annual birthday card. Oops....little Bobby Tables gets a birthday card even though he hasn't even been born yet.
So, you could add an additional boolean for every "nullable" field that tracks "is default".......or you could just use null like everyone else. Your code is basically the same:
if (isDefaultBirthday) {/* do something */ } vs if (Birthday == null) {/* do something */ }
Edge now has extensions (https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/extensions/). It's just a matter of NoScript providing the extension. [Ad-Block is there, but it'll be less useful very soon.]
The point was that if you're making $60k and then given the choice of train your replacement and continue to draw another month's worth of $60k plus some severance package to keep you on your feet for a few weeks so you can look for a job.........or walk and receive $0. It isn't that the fictional person couldn't live on $60k.....it's that the safety net only exists if you agree to train your replacement.
The USB device pretends to be an Ethernet adapter. Once the adapter is installed, the PC attempts to communicate with the network. The other portion of the box is running code that will automatically respond as if it's a domain controller so that Windows will attempt to authenticate using the existing credentials. This request includes the password hash. The software responds "thanks for the hash!". Unplug everything and go home to break the hash on your own time.
The OS isn't running any software from the device, the device is just taking advantage of the default behavior (authenticate to the new network).
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Podcasts........they're moving to podcasts. You don't have to worry about whether there is a local station that carries your show or whether the signal is good. The listeners can a) stream it or b) download it at home and listen to it on their commute.
What I like about listening / watching podcasts is that I can do that WHILE doing something else. I listen to over 130 podcasts (meaning I've heard every episode and catch the newest before the next episode comes out). I use it as background while doing other things (driving, exercise, even coding). Sure, I'm not absorbing 100% of the content, but I catch the main points and can recognize when the podcast requires a little more attention than I've been giving it.
Favorite podcast app: Pocketcast
Audio speed: 2.5x
Video speed: 2.0x
An abbreviated list of podcasts I listen to:
There are more, but I skipped the ones that don't update as regularly [I might purge some of them soon].
Even if they bought Sony TV/Movie and turned around and sold everything except the Marvel properties, I'd be fine with that purchase.
Unfortunately, I'm a consultant and the barbarian Jira admin is with my client, so that investment wouldn't endear me with my boss......
Apparently you're ok with the bazillion emails you get when your PM goes and makes edits to a story you're assigned to. I've gotten as many as 11 emails in the span of minutes. I *LOTHE* Jira and Confluence. There are plenty of tools that serve the same purpose and fit the way I work much better. I realize they are popular and are mostly capable in managing a project, but they really irk me in the fringes.....the places where people don't concentrate because it isn't seen as critical path to the application.
If they work in India, they aren't H1Bs. It's a true offshoring effort. H1B only applies to workers brought over to the states to replace you.
I wired my previous house, but it was a one-story and I could route the wires up the wall to the attic and back down to the router......but I don't have any clue how to do the same in my 2-story house. Otherwise, I'd wire it.
The idea of not hosting your own local copy is that if everyone uses a common source for the library, then the browser should already have that resource cached even if it's the first time you hit the page. For large enough libraries that the Google CDN (or another CDN) includes it, it's worth it.
https://developers.google.com/...
https://www.asp.net/ajax/cdn
https://www.keycdn.com/support...
Now, for obscure libraries, you're better off hosting your own so that you can control the version and not worry about the referenced script changing/moving/breaking stuff.
OR........
It could have been a wrapper around the default sort algorithm that made it easier to call.....something that was more aware of the applications data structures and how to interpret them so that the default sort algorithm would work properly. Many built in sort algorithms work on primitives and built in aggregates (array, list, etc.) but if the application has some other construct, you'd want to make that call as generic as possible so that you don't have to repeat that code everywhere.
Just because a dev calls it "sort" doesn't mean it actually implements the sort algorithm.
Or you could be right and the dev is a moron. Both are possible.
That's actually my back-up retirement plan. Commit some mild crime that would lead to a decently long stay in a minimum-security country-club prison.
And yet....most people who's job is web programming assume that certificates are part of an admin's job. The classic "it worked fine on my dev box" (which usually doesn't have much in the way of security enabled) excuse will come up and the web dev will try to throw the problem over the wall.
Because even unlimited plans are limited......pick one and there's a cap (usually right around 22GB for some reason) where the speed will drop. If you hit that cap often enough, you'll be dropped from the carrier. It's in the fine print.
And they aren't "cheap" unless you're a single person making decent money or with few other bills to pay. Family plans save money vs a bunch of individual plans, but they still aren't cheap.
I typically run with two different "users" logged in to Chrome and I have each user on a different monitor. One user is for sites where I want to save credentials and the other is for sites I don't......harder for a site to use Facebook if it's running under a different Chrome session. Because I have two monitors, I've seen an attack similar to the one described in the article, but it was obvious because only one monitor got the "Operating System Error" message.
I used to have a USB to serial adapter......I never used it, so it go freecycled off to someone else, but I've also seen them for parallel ports and 3.5" floppy drives. The U means Universal.....let's use it as such. I don't need a new proprietary port on my laptop waiting for people to build modules for my laptop's manufacturer's port.
outside of win and fruit, a geek had to read and study
My second biggest gripe about Linux. I can't just install some flavor or another on my Mom's computer and give her an easy book. If I install it, I'll get tons of calls when she wants to accomplish something and I'll have to tell there ---- well, there are about 20 different ways to do it, but none of them are "mom-friendly".
My biggest gripe is that the world of Linux is so fractured because of all of the different opinions on the "right" way. Choosing between 20 different distros and 5 different window managers and 3 different package managers can make it really hard to pick the "best" option.
If that were true, Apple would have much higher shipped unit numbers. I'm starting to see mixed use --- certain people have Macs and certain people have PCs.
the loss of paid-for licenses with hardware failure
Any sufficiently large organization (such as a school district) should have better management of their licenses such that they aren't tied directly to a single piece of hardware. I know from experience (my wife was a teacher for many years) that the school districts don't usually have a good technology program, but that's because they don't pay well and the knowledgeable will likely be working in the private sector. But a hardware failure should NEVER be the reason you lose a license.
They'd probably make you go through all of your digits. There are only 10, so that "brute force" (pun intended) approach wouldn't take very long.
Not always true. Otherwise the Gawker sale would never have gone through. You can buy whatever parts you want and that the owner will sell.
I would say cloud is best for smaller companies but as the company grows large enough and can afford to have specialized people, you bring it back on-prem. A small business can't afford to have a team of expensive engineers (network, storage, server, etc.) so you "outsource" that job to the cloud. Then, when the business is started, you can bring on those types. Large companies already have the experts and don't necessarily need the cloud.
I'd be interested in a description of the ideal configuration for a home network that includes IoT devices.
Should I have multiple routers so that I "nest" my networks. So have one network "right off the Internet" for less secure things such as IoT and then have a more secure network as a sub-network to the IoT network? So the IoT network can't see anything in the sub-network but is also protected by whatever firewall settings I decide to set?
Actually the problem of forcing initialization prior to knowing a value (at least in terms of actual data) is that you then no longer know the difference between "just a default" and "actually the same value as the default".
A possible scenario:
A woman becomes pregnant but has not yet had her child. The doctor wants to create a health record for that child for tracking purposes.
Baby.Name = {empty string}
Baby.Birthday = {1900/01/01}
The same doctor also happens to be the doctor for the oldest man in the world.
OldMan.Name = {Mathusala Jones}
OldMan.Birthday = {1900/01/01}
Now, the same doctor wants to run a report for everyone who has a birthday in January because it's time to mail them their annual birthday card. Oops....little Bobby Tables gets a birthday card even though he hasn't even been born yet.
So, you could add an additional boolean for every "nullable" field that tracks "is default".......or you could just use null like everyone else. Your code is basically the same:
if (isDefaultBirthday) { /* do something */ } /* do something */ }
vs
if (Birthday == null) {
Edge now has extensions (https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/extensions/). It's just a matter of NoScript providing the extension. [Ad-Block is there, but it'll be less useful very soon.]
The point was that if you're making $60k and then given the choice of train your replacement and continue to draw another month's worth of $60k plus some severance package to keep you on your feet for a few weeks so you can look for a job.........or walk and receive $0. It isn't that the fictional person couldn't live on $60k.....it's that the safety net only exists if you agree to train your replacement.
The USB device pretends to be an Ethernet adapter. Once the adapter is installed, the PC attempts to communicate with the network. The other portion of the box is running code that will automatically respond as if it's a domain controller so that Windows will attempt to authenticate using the existing credentials. This request includes the password hash. The software responds "thanks for the hash!". Unplug everything and go home to break the hash on your own time.
The OS isn't running any software from the device, the device is just taking advantage of the default behavior (authenticate to the new network).