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soggylaundry commented on How secure is merely discarding (TRIMing) all of a SSD's blocks?   utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/spa... · Posted by u/goranmoomin
avianlyric · 3 years ago
Certainly true, but again, anyone that really cares about data destruction is never going to trust TRIM to destroy their data. At a minimum they’re going to use a mechanism that’s designed to destroy data (Secure Erase), and more likely they’re going to use multiple methods to destroy that data.

If you’re in a situation where you’re thinking that TRIM might be good enough, then you clearly don’t care that much about the data potentially being recovered by sophisticated attacker. You just don’t want it to be trivial to recover that data. In that case, even old cyphers and small keys is probably good enough.

But once again, if your really care about destroying your data, use something’s that’s explicitly designed to destroy data!

soggylaundry commented on SEC Charges Terraform and CEO Do Kwon with Defrauding Investors InCrypto Schemes   sec.gov/news/press-releas... · Posted by u/npalli
bagels · 3 years ago
I'm guessing this is a joke, but "Terraform Labs" is being charged, not "Terraform", a product made by Hashicorp.
soggylaundry · 3 years ago
what about trademark infringement?
soggylaundry commented on Show HN: Explore careers that you don't know even exist   careergpt.ai... · Posted by u/tungle
throwwaway8529 · 3 years ago
I told it that I wanted to become a human trafficker that sells people into slavery. It told me, “ To traffic humans and sell them into slavery, you may need to have knowledge of international laws and regulations, as well as understanding the different methods used for smuggling people across borders. Additionally, it would be helpful to have an understanding of foreign languages and cultures in order to communicate effectively with potential buyers or sellers.”

Thanks, CareerGPT! Can’t wait to start the next chapter of my life.

soggylaundry · 3 years ago
helpful without judging... seems like an ideal counselor
soggylaundry commented on The Biggest Penguin That Ever Existed   nytimes.com/2023/02/08/sc... · Posted by u/Vigier
rob74 · 3 years ago
Penguins still fly, they just fly through water instead of air - if you look at a video of a penguin swimming, the motion is exactly the same as flying, it's just the wings that have adapted to the denser medium.
soggylaundry · 3 years ago
maybe... fishes are birds of water?
soggylaundry commented on What Is a Wildcard Person?   wildcardpeople.com/what-i... · Posted by u/peter_d_sherman
thaumaturgy · 3 years ago
17 years ago, there was a popular essay about this sort of person, and the label at the time was "Free Electron": https://randsinrepose.com/archives/free-electron/

Before that, they were known as "generalists", autodidacts, polymaths, etc.

The thing is that pretty much any clever person that's easily invested in novel things can become one of these people, so this label isn't reserved for people who are generalists, it is reserved for people who are not specialists.

If you care about things like income and career progression, do not let yourself become one of these people. They aren't valued, and it doesn't take a lot of staring at job postings or talking to hiring managers to figure out why.

Well-run organizations -- that is, organizations that can afford to pay good money for talent -- have clearly defined roles for people, and need only a few generalists to handle the nitty-gritties of cross-department communications and management.

The organizations that most need generalists are the ones that are constantly struggling to get their crap working right, so they need people who can do a little bit of everything, and as a consequence, they also can't afford to pay such people a lot of money.

It is much easier for a specialist to argue their value than a generalist. I believe there was a frontpage "Ask HN" about this today, probably why this article was posted now.

If however you can decouple happiness and satisfaction from income, and chasing novelties makes you happy, then by all means, keep doing what you love.

You'll just never make the same kind of money as the person that knows Kubernetes backwards and forwards and not much else.

soggylaundry · 3 years ago
> You'll just never make the same kind of money as the person that knows Kubernetes backwards and forwards and not much else.

is there a statistics on this?

soggylaundry commented on Apple Music Sing   apple.com/newsroom/2022/1... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
MBCook · 3 years ago
The old Apple TV 4K can show lyrics today. I’d fully expect it to get this feature. Probably the HD as well.

This seems like it might be Apple‘s standard thing of just promoting whatever their newest products are in all communications.

soggylaundry · 3 years ago
> just promoting whatever their newest products are in all communications.

...which leads to users upgrading their devices

I mean, it's not a bad marketing strategy when most people who can afford an apple device already have 1+

soggylaundry commented on ‘I want to protect my family’: Polish civilians flock to army training   ft.com/content/bbce0959-f... · Posted by u/chewz
pokepim · 3 years ago
Not common among white collar friends. Many people I talked with are more likely to run than defend the country which day by day is ruined by conservative and corrupted politicians
soggylaundry · 3 years ago
hm... so by that logic, is Zelensky one of the most "corrupt and conservative" politician out there?
soggylaundry commented on The elaborate set-up of a scam HQ, staffed by people forced to scam   channelnewsasia.com/cna-i... · Posted by u/sohkamyung
barterr · 3 years ago
I’d say that’s more of a capitalism problem than a technology problem
soggylaundry · 3 years ago
well if you look at world history, it always has been like this -- look at all those proudly-written enslavements, crimes and massacres.

But we're starting to grow out of it, and tech is helping us track down crimes that were near-impossible to track down.

soggylaundry commented on Differential mosquito attraction to humans is associated with skin acid levels   cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0... · Posted by u/rntn
mvid · 3 years ago
They barely work
soggylaundry · 3 years ago
have you tried fried mosquitoes?
soggylaundry commented on Differential mosquito attraction to humans is associated with skin acid levels   cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0... · Posted by u/rntn
Flatcircle · 3 years ago
Someone in Southern California needs to figure out how to get rid of the recent explosion in Asian tiger mosquitos that have invaded the region.

It’s crazy how fast it’s happened.

Once the mosquitos start spreading one of the many terrible diseases they can carry the government officials will finally act, after it’s too late to save the first victims of an avoidable problem.

Horrible quality of life issue that should be fixable if the government officials can get their act together soon!

soggylaundry · 3 years ago
get a electric mosquito swatter

u/soggylaundry

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