tauwauwau (u/tauwauwau)

tauwauwau commented on AI note takers are flooding Zoom calls as workers opt to skip meetings washingtonpost.com/techno... · Posted by u/tysone

dangus · 2 months ago

The truth is that people who talk like that aren’t management material.

“I noped out of the management track” = “nobody was considering me for the management track”

tauwauwau · 2 months ago

I pray for souls who are considered to be management material.

tauwauwau commented on Mastercard DNS error went unnoticed for years krebsonsecurity.com/2025/... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

billyhoffman · 8 months ago

Beyond just IPs, there is a giant class of "DNS record pointing to X shared cloud resource that organization no longer controls" issues. The bigger the company, the more widespread the problem. These resource names get released back into a common pool that anyone can register.

Think:

* CNAME pointing to an S3 bucket, and the S3 bucket gets released

* CNAME pointing to Azure Website/WebApp Instance

* A record to an non-elastic IP, and the box gets rebooted

* DNS name using a Route53 name server that no longer part of the org's AWS account

* CNAME pointing to a Heroku/Shopify/GitHub pages account and the account gets deleted/deactivated freely up those names for registration

* MX record pointing to old transaction email provider start up that dies, and someone else registers that domain name...

Why does that happen?

* Decentralization of IT means people spinning up infrastructure not knowing what they are doing

* Great a spinning up infra, but when decomissioning they forget about DNS

* Lots of subsidiaries, lots of brands, different groups, operating in different geographies. All this makes it difficult to discover and enforce proper policies

* Geo-specific websites/apps (Think of all the country-specific websites Coke runs)

* Using some 3rd party vendor and never telling security about it (Marketing spinning up some landing pages on some fly-by-night martech provider or wordpress host, and never turning them off)

I am the Field CTO at a venture backed Israeli cyber security company in this space. I was literally talking to a major computer part company yesterday about the dozen or so Indonesian gambling websites that are "running" on their domain names using their pagerank and links. This is a weekly conversation

tauwauwau · 8 months ago

Relevant, dangling cloud resources.

DEF CON 32 - Secrets & Shadows: Leveraging Big Data for Vulnerability Discovery - Bill Demirkapi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KXgcWuv-Ug&t=288s

tauwauwau commented on Meta announces 5% cuts in preparation for 'intense year' cnbc.com/2025/01/14/meta-... · Posted by u/drchiu

hnthrowaway6543 · 8 months ago

> Is your hiring process so flawed that you just accept that you screwed up hiring 5 percent of your people?

if you only messed up 5% of your hires you'd be a goddamn genius and every company in the world would want to put you in charge of their hiring process

the "standard" is more like 20% of hires end up being bad hires

tauwauwau · 8 months ago

Other than agreeing with "spacemadness", I wanted to point out a small correction. Original argument was about 5% of total employees, not only new hires.

tauwauwau commented on My company has banned the use of Jetbrains IDEs internally old.reddit.com/r/Experien... · Posted by u/Mainsail

toprerules · 10 months ago

I've seen so many editors come and go, and yet I've been using Vim for the past 20 years and have never had a problem. As stupid as it sounds, if I could give one piece of advice to any entry level SWE, it would be to learn Vim or Emacs and just stick with it for your whole career.

tauwauwau · 10 months ago

I don't even know what to say to this other than that you are right that it does sound stupid and it is stupid. A software developer should not be afraid of learning software, learning new things is fundamental in our work. Comparing an IDE with basic editor like vi, really, that may have worked out for you since you started 20 years ago when that worked, but it should not be the advice today.

tauwauwau commented on Selling 'Ghost in the Shell' animationobsessive.substa... · Posted by u/zdw

nurettin · a year ago

Is there any reason FOTN isn't in there?

tauwauwau · a year ago

I'm not sure I'm familiar with that one.

tauwauwau commented on Selling 'Ghost in the Shell' animationobsessive.substa... · Posted by u/zdw

latentsea · a year ago

Started watching GTO and so far 3 episodes in it's about him lusting after 16 year olds?

tauwauwau · a year ago

There are some questionable parts of this anime as it's old and a lot of anime from that time is like that, however, it's one of those anime that got what being a hero is about. Only one that I can think of in recent times is My Hero Academia. If that doesn't sway you to watch it, I think Gigguk included Onizuka as one of the top 20 most badass characters in anime a few years ago.

tauwauwau commented on Selling 'Ghost in the Shell' animationobsessive.substa... · Posted by u/zdw

nanna · a year ago

I feel like I haven't seen an anime in years that's been in the same league as Akira or the great Miyazakis (Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, Totoro). Yes i'd be brutal and include Miyazakis following works in that list, from Howls Moving Castle to The Boy and the Heron. Ive seen lots of incredible animation, sure, but nothing like the cinematic depth.

What am I missing? What should an old fart who's becoming convinced things were better in the old days put myself infront of?

tauwauwau · a year ago

Here's a list of some old and new ones, that an old fart might enjoy

Monster (Chasing a serial killer)

Ergo Proxy (Can't describe it)

Samurai 7 (Sci-fi variant off 7 samurai)

Last Exile (Post appocapltic world with lots of flying machines)

Kino's Journey

Mushishi

Time of Eve

Gargantia

Baccano

Durarara

Psycho Pass

Arslan Senki

Sunaboju (Desert Punk)

Witch Hunter Robin

Hunter x Hunter (old not new)

Texnolyze

Darker than Black

Black Lagoon

Great Teach Onizuka (One of the old and best)

Gintama (Comedy, It's at the level One Piece and Naruto disgusing as Comedy, you have to get past 30 episodes)

Kabaneri of Iron Fortress (Just for animation quality)

Beck (Music career)

Golden Kamui

Terror in Resonance

Ping Pong Animation (Don't let the animation fool you, it's one of the best stories)

Area 88 (Story ends abruptly, watch at your own risk)

Ashita no Joe (Old anime, boxing genre)

Valkyria Chronicles (War story)

Scissor Seven (Comedy, Chinese, assassin, in a strange world)

Shura no Toki (Martial arts, 3 generations)

A Record of Mortal's Journey to Immortality (Chinese cultivation genre, 3D good animation, faithful adaptation of one of the good novels in this genre)

Swallowed Star (Chinese cultivation genre Sci-fi variant, great 3D animation)

tauwauwau commented on Tell HN: You can't search your WhatsApp without exposing yourself to metaAI · Posted by u/nothrowaways

puttycat · a year ago

Explain? Ref?

tauwauwau · a year ago

Whatsapp shows a search box now at the top of the app. Placeholder text in it says "Ask MetaAI or search". Previously search meant search in Whatsapp contacts or chat history, however now since the MetaAI is also taking input from same text box, we are sending our search strings to MetaAI, even though they might be for local search.

tauwauwau commented on Automated Unit Test Improvement Using Large Language Models at Meta arxiv.org/abs/2402.09171... · Posted by u/mfiguiere

oneshtein · 2 years ago

Is it hard to write ONE test case for ALL getters and setters using reflection?

tauwauwau · 2 years ago

I had to do it in one project. It's not trivial, but also not too difficult. Getters were easy, setters required different types of values. After handling various date type values for setters it worked fine. Occasionally I would see an exception for fields generated by APIs like Lombok, which needed to be excluded from my setter list.

I didn't like that I had tobdo it, but it was easier than getting several approvals to get Sonar rules changed.

tauwauwau commented on Why the US is one of only a few countries with no paid time off vox.com/policy-and-politi... · Posted by u/thunderbong

ghastmaster · 2 years ago

The article does not answer the question(implied) it poses in the title. There is barely an attempt to answer the question. It is a bait and switch.

> Lonnie Golden, a labor economist at Penn State, said in survey after survey, American workers tend to say that making more money is a higher priority than having access to more paid time off

This is close to answering the question, however, it does not address why there is no national PTO law. It explains why workers do not take time off.

> Beyond that, Golden said, there’s always been an American discomfort with leisure and time off, and a cultural bias to display our commitment to work as a sign of status.

This is closer. As with the first example, this is just explaining why individuals choose not to take time off.

The answer is the USA is reluctant to put mandates on employers that would interfere with free association of entities due to our founding being largely influenced by the idea that individuals should be free to make contracts between others. The federal government is also limited in the constitution to only regulating interstate commerce. There are of course many examples where the federal government has ignored this thanks mostly to Wickard v. Filburn (1948).

Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn

tauwauwau · 2 years ago

Its discussed in a recent Planet Money podcast

https://www.npr.org/2023/08/17/1194467863/europe-vacation-ho...