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New comment by _e in "Cruel optimism and lazy pessimism"

_e — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 17:12:59 +0000

Group fitness classes are great because someone else tells you what to do so there is less to think about when you go.

New comment by _e in "Rethinking Hierarchy in the Workplace (2017)"

_e — Wed, 29 Jun 2022 17:01:44 +0000

You make some great points. The arbitrary entitlement is an important and vital step in the growth of an organization. Not every basketball fan should play or work for a NBA team. There has to be some sort of gatekeeping otherwise a bad hire or misplaced promotion could become a cancer that kills from within.

New comment by _e in "Rethinking Hierarchy in the Workplace (2017)"

_e — Wed, 29 Jun 2022 16:19:42 +0000

Where can I learn more about your "rule of 8"?

New comment by _e in "Ask HN: What do you wish you had done/known in your 30s?"

_e — Wed, 23 Mar 2022 21:13:54 +0000

If you are going to the gym then have a plan for what you want to accomplish otherwise you are just wandering around.

New comment by _e in "No one cared about my spreadsheets"

_e — Wed, 16 Feb 2022 23:54:12 +0000

The author posted his spreadsheets at http://www.bcaplan.com/returns.htm

New comment by _e in "Phrack Issue 70"

_e — Tue, 05 Oct 2021 14:39:04 +0000

The following two links have a nice collection of old & new zines:

https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/tags/magazine

http://www.textfiles.com/magazines/

New comment by _e in "I bricked then recovered my reMarkable 2"

_e — Mon, 27 Sep 2021 20:49:26 +0000

For the curious... An overview of the Blue/Green deployment model:

https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/devops/what-is-blue-green-d...

New comment by _e in "I bricked then recovered my reMarkable 2"

_e — Mon, 27 Sep 2021 18:29:35 +0000

Thank you for the fast response and, also, for putting this onto my radar. For anyone else who is curious, Yocto/OpenEmbedded is used to create custom linux distributions for embedded devices:

https://www.yoctoproject.org/members/openembedded/

https://www.yoctoproject.org/software-overview/

New comment by _e in "I bricked then recovered my reMarkable 2"

_e — Mon, 27 Sep 2021 18:03:00 +0000

Does remarkable use a fork of ChromiumOS? ChromiumOS uses the BOOT-A and BOOT-B partitions for upgrades and it reverts to the previously used boot partition if the OS fails to successfully boot[0].

[0] https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/chromiumos-design-docs/...

New comment by _e in "Mēris botnet, climbing to the record"

_e — Thu, 09 Sep 2021 16:54:00 +0000

Great explanation... For anyone interested, the following jupyter notebook explains three different ways to process HTTP requests: serial requests (the baseline), pipelined requests and parallel requests with multiple connections (and without threads).

https://gist.github.com/coady/f9e1be438ba8551dabad

New comment by _e in "Mēris botnet, climbing to the record"

_e — Thu, 09 Sep 2021 16:39:46 +0000

Introducing javascript into the mix will not make the botnet more difficult to detect. Headless browsers have their own fingerprints which allow defenders to identify them from legitimate traffic. You can spoof the features that headless browsers don't have but that will always be a cat and mouse game.

New comment by _e in "Stopping FTP support in Firefox 90"

_e — Tue, 20 Jul 2021 18:14:54 +0000

Yes, good point. Gopher is internet browsing too but is Firefox the best way to experience FTP and Gopher? How many different protocols should Firefox support? Firefox does not have the same resources as Google so focusing on what Firefox is known to do best such as HTTP and its supporting protocols, like WebSocket, really well looks like a good strategy.

New comment by _e in "MIT OpenCourseWare"

_e — Fri, 09 Jul 2021 17:09:08 +0000

Coursera's Learning to Learn class by Barbara Oakley and her book "Mind for Numbers" [0] really changed my life. Can you point to specific courses and or books, from MIT's OpenCourseWare, that helped you become a confident learner?

[0] https://barbaraoakley.com/books/a-mind-for-numbers/

New comment by _e in "Stripe Atlas: the first five years and 20k startups"

_e — Thu, 01 Jul 2021 17:58:21 +0000

Good legal documentation is an insurance policy. You never want to use it but it is vital when something happens and you have to refer to it.

New comment by _e in "Whistleblower thought he would get a big payout, but got nothing and went broke"

_e — Thu, 01 Jul 2021 17:42:50 +0000

Even if the loan was taken out under a LLC, lenders would require a personal guarantee for a new and unproven venture.

New comment by _e in "Mimicking a device is becoming almost impossible"

_e — Mon, 28 Jun 2021 19:44:48 +0000

On Android, people have reverse engineered the youtube app to eliminate ads -- https://vancedapp.com/

New comment by _e in "Servers as they should be – shipping early 2022"

_e — Fri, 28 May 2021 14:11:14 +0000

I agree... what I think they meant to say is something along the lines of software defaults are already optimized to maximize and take advantage of the hardware's abilities so work is completed faster. The 'with the software baked in' should be changed to reflect the value proposition that Oxide is alluding to.

New comment by _e in "Feeling like a pariah, even when you’re not"

_e — Mon, 17 May 2021 17:37:56 +0000

You are describing the Socratic Method[0]. It is a great way to discover the blind spots in your reasoning and enhance your worldview. Unfortunately, there are people who feel extremely threatened by the process.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socratic_method

New comment by _e in "Feeling like a pariah, even when you’re not"

_e — Mon, 17 May 2021 15:36:29 +0000

This is why it is so important to have the courage to get up and leave. If one has been successfully sidelined then, yes, they will become an actual pariah because they feel like they have to explain everything that they do and will continue to do so because they feel like no one is acknowledging them. This is part of the gaslighters trap.

It should not be a surprise that there are some who might feel threatened by people who want to challenge the status quo in search of the truth or constantly push their mental and physical limits.

New comment by _e in "Kelly Criterion"

_e — Fri, 16 Apr 2021 17:38:21 +0000

And when you are done with that, I highly suggest reading Edward Thorp's autobiography "Man for all markets" where he employs the Kelly Criterion in adventure after adventure. He not only developed the first card counting system for blackjack but he also created the first wearable computer to beat roulette (with Claude Shannon).