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Depends on the business you’re in. Sometimes an “environment” is a rack (or 2) of servers and that might be 100k-400k/rack before space & power & bandwidth.

Neat idea! Btw: Consider renaming your list of offensive terms “denylist” or similar.

I agree /lives/ aren’t directly at stake, but depending on what your business is, /livelihoods/ are. When you’re an entrepreneur and have a small team, each of them may have a fami…

SourceInsight[1] always had an interesting perspective on this. It seems popular with the low-level C++ crowd in particular. [1] https://www.sourceinsight.com/doc/v4/userguide/inde…

Maybe it’s still a hobby 10 years later?

> unless of course that anticipated disclosure date was decided together with the vendor Does anybody know if it was? How does Project Zero make these decisions? Do they consider t…

Genuinely curious: What’s the reasoning behind “unrestricting” this ahead of its 90 day window? (It’s tagged Deadline-90, Reported-2019-Apr-18 On Project Zero, so that’s July 18th?…

I’ve seen scripts get checked in and deployed just like you would a new service (code). Same Code Review process and same release pipeline. In this particular case, commands that w…

It would have helped some to keep this quiet. The Stasi would have still found out that he fled the republic as long as he entered in West Germany under his real name. His girlfrie…

The book “The Dictator’s Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is almost always Good Politics” explains this fairly well. It’s a great read, maybe a bit depressing. TLDR: it’s cheaper to pay …

[disclaimer: I haven’t been a people manager for too long, so take it with a grain of salt] I block off some time each day to do ‘something technical’. Sometimes it’s making someth…

Same here. Watching rockets land from orbit will maybe never get old. Awesome job to everyone at SpaceX! Godspeed for the rest of the mission!

Dr Seuss wrote a book using only 50 words, which went on to sell millions[1]. A great artist can produce great work without being constrained by the medium. That does not mean the …

I’ve been at my current company since 2005. I’ve changed disciplines twice, business groups (1000s of employees) three times, teams four+ times, roles at least three times (IC, Tec…