Posts by Glen 1 965 publicly visible posts • joined 17 Jun 2009
Seems like you could do similar stuff with an ESP32 and an accelerometer for a fraction of the cost.
You don't need the GPS when a) you know where you're posting it b) the battery life can be measured in days. (More than enough to reach destination)
Also: if you're just sniffing WiFi for de-auths and recording the handshake, you can extend battery life further by only using 2G/Edge. You'd probably need 4G/LTE to spoof a full grown internet connection.
"That does NOT mean you can do it without a highly skilled cloudops engineer plus a couple of less senior guys. There is a bare minimum of human effort required.
But middle management read about "zero administration" deployments, and decided that means that at most you need an intern."
There is a whole spectrum in between, the end result of which might not be distinguishable until something goes wrong.
The first hit for a devops engineer job in my area pays 55K. That would be massive overkill for, say, a webshop punting *almost* custom wordpress sites.
While IT is thought of as a cost centre, manglement will mangle.
If only there were a way to attract younger people to work here, y'know, after they've grown up somewhere else so we've not had to pay for their education.
They'd arrive, get a job, and be *immediately* profitable from a tax point of view. Shazam! The boomers are more easily provided for, unless there's a vote or summat to make the UK less attractive to migrants... In that case it might end up being the other way around...
Old people paid for the pensions of those who were claiming when *they* were working. More people working, fewer people claiming.
As that changes with the aging population and fewer people around to pay for it, either the current workers will pay more, the pensioners will get less, or a mixture of the two.
It has already started with increasing of the state pension age... TV licences... WASPI women...
"I am going to have to work for the rest of my life to pay for it all."
Twas ever thus.
We only finished paying the US for Lend Lease in 2006.
Going cap in hand to the IMF in the 70's
The 2008 bail-out.
The big ticket item coming up however, is the millennials having to pay for the baby boomers pensions.
With the baby boomers being currently the richest generation, and birthrates declining, how do you think *that* will turn out?
The place of origin matters less than you'd think.
Examples:
The number of nations working on the Manhattan project
The origin of the Jet engine
Von Braun's contribution to Apollo
Bletchley Park improved upon Polish work
SSEM Stored Program Computer in Manchester
Linux
Wind the clock back further and we are all just apes learning to hit each other with sticks.
Depends on how you define network. A switch is simultaneously part of the network, and one of the targeted computing systems plugged in at either end.
In many (most?) contexts, the network 'begins' at whatever pipe you have to the internet. From that point in, there is at least the *possibility* of some control.
and how do people gain experience and expertise in solving these already solved problems?
Compare, if you will the Saturn V and the SLS.
Not having all those corner cases and regulatory requirements documented is a failure of a) the first team b) manglement for not insisting on it. and c) subsequent teams for not keeping the docs up to date.
Not *following* said docs, now *that* is the fault of the newer team. If the docs don't exist, then we just have to learn the hard way.
Your career was always your own problem.
Look at the (permie) job ads, companies want to hire people who can already do the job. If they can already do the job, how is working for that company a step up?
You either have a Peter principal type winging it (and either sinks or swims ), or it's the same job for better pay because it's closer to London - where all (UK) roads lead.
For those arriving from the future:
https://www.xkcd.com/2173/ is the comic from the day the article was published.
As in, chuckfarley posted a permalink to *todays* comic, which might cause some confusion when it's no longer today.
"It's the working hard to enable others to also have a sufficiency is the bit that usually fails."
Capitalism at its purest is effectively a return to serfdom. Socialism (distinct from communism) at its purest depends on a perfect arbiter.
Everything else is just deciding where on the spectrum you feel you are. Would you be happy if police only answered calls from the 'insured'? If every road was a toll road? Universal healthcare? Higher education payed for from general taxation? You mark your X and make your choice.
"militant remainer who either wants the EU or to be cut off from that big bad scary world"
We would not be cut off, merely negotiating from a massively weakened position.
"It amuses me that racists and xenophobes dont have the support of leavers but of the extreme remainers"
Citation needed
Since when was Tommy Robinson an extreme remainer? Or were you referring to the far right MEPs who have seen what Brexit is doing to our country and want no part of it?
"They are getting desperate in their negotiating/begging"
Talk about alternative facts!
The EU saying repeatedly they're not going to renegotiate (and sticking to it) and the UK having to *ask" for extension after extension tells you where the desperation lies.
The only thing the EU is desperate to do is protect the four freedoms.
They were not digging *at* pascal, but at people who are not familiar with pascal.
"Too many code typists are so full of themselves, gleefully exercising their buzzing-with-excitement brains all day, never realizing that they forgot to take any formal training on subjects such as Algorithm Design or Data Structures."
I take the point about lack of broadness in people's knowledge, but let's face it, when was the last time a web dev needed to know big O notation? Sorting algorithms beyond data_structure.sort()?
All the interesting problems have either been solved or are being worked on by Real Programmers™ . All the nuances are hidden behind library function calls. There is money to be made in the harder maths side of things, but thats called 'data science' or 'research'.
The jobbing programmer making yet another CRUD app might well the know the bullshit interview question on how to swap 2 variables without using a third, but have the common sense never to use it.
You see it a lot of the Real Programmers™ bullshit in books and academic papers where the maths is the point, not the actual implementation (which is all a programmer will care about). The arena where single letter variable names - with superscripts and subscripts - are considered essential. The sheer unreadability of it seems targeted to exclude rather than educate.
Example:
What is the sum total of the contents of an array?
Not-Code™:
For each element of array, add contents to running total.
Maths speak:
Sigma something something McSquiggle
TL;DR Theres a difference between the 'if all you have is a hammer' saying and not hiring someone because they don't know web assembly when the job spec is for angular.
"They think Pascal is a unit of air pressure"
It is.
Slightly more seriously, an obsolete language rarely used in anger this century is not on my list of demands from employees. Sure, Pascal was the Python of it's day, but that day was 30 years ago.
The anticipated retort is "It's not about the language, it's about learning/understanding blah blah" to which I reply:
Then why the dig about Pascal if it's not about the language?
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