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Re:Building rqlite 9.0: Cutting disk usage by half on Tuesday August 06, 2024 @09:42AM (#41170804)
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Everyone talks about inflation. We need a new term.
I was a young grad student more than a decade ago. When preparing for interviews, a common question we prepared for was : "What are your weaknesses"

I saw a lot of people confidently saying, "My only weakness is that I'm a workaholic". This was supposed to be a strength hidden as a weakness. Employers preferred new hires who were willing to devote themselves to work and had decided they were workaholic without having a single day of work experience.

"Workaholism is a trait" was drilled into us.

Re:Seems like DuckDuckGo is blocked in India on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @03:43AM (#23698902)
It's not
Re:Password expiration is dead, long live passwords on Monday June 03, 2019 @01:23AM (#20080590)
I would think anyone enforcing password expiration would make sure the password is sufficiently (subjective) different from current password. This should be simple to enforce by asking for current password when you are asking for new password. You can perform a text match before computing whatever hash you need to store.
This is why acquisitions such as IG and WhatsApp are crucial. If they purchase the next cool thing, they never really go out of fashion. FB has gone from throwing sheep at your friends to this. I don't think they are stopping anytime soon
Re:Real-time visualisation of sites tracking your behaviour on Thursday October 13, 2016 @02:23AM (#12698903)
The tool mentioned in the site - trackerblock - leads to AVG domain. Doesn't exactly portray confidence
Re:'IBM Is the World's Biggest Patent Troll' on Thursday May 05, 2016 @11:37AM (#11637029)
IBM has been at it for a long time. It has been notorious for earning through licensing of it's patents http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2012/01/11/ibms-formula-for-succes...