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I would recommend only issuing a single MFA device. If you only issue 1, then the employee is forced to come to IT if/when they lose it to get a new one issued. IT will need to use their admin access to activate the new fob (and deactivate the old one), but at least you're assured that employees aren't losing them without telling anyone.

If you issue 2 you greatly increase the chances of MFA devices going missing without it being reported to IT since people will either A) use one of them and forget they even have the other and not keep track of it or B) lose one and just start using the other one and never bothering to report it to IT so they can invalidate the missing one.

Employees are VERY reluctant to report lost devices, even after being told there are no consequences or costs to them as long as they report it. I've seen employees get buddies to buzz them into the building for weeks before finally admitting to IT that they lost their access badge.

The main complication is if your company relies on outside software that doesn't have provisions for administrator oversight. For example, if you're using Google Apps, any admin can go in and replace a missing MFA device for an employee, but this isn't possible if you're using some other platforms (especially the free tiers).

I think you're greatly overestimating the influence IT departments have over purchasing decisions at large companies. Not only does management rarely consider their input, it's common for IT departments to simply be told "oh, by the way we just bought X, get it running."

Do NOT use Google Authenticator unless every account you use it for has an alternate MFA option (backup codes, etc) that you've confirmed work. It does not sync to your Google account and there is no way to back it up (even manually). The moment your phone gets stolen, breaks or dropped in a river, you will learn a very quick lesson about MFA backups/alternates.

Actually, I think you'd see wages reflect peoples' willingness to do a job. So for example, you'd probably see higher wages for a job cleaning up human feces than for a job driving a delivery truck. You'd also continue to see the current wage increase for jobs involving high risk (danger pay) or extended journeys such as ship captain, astronaut, long-haul trucking.

The amusing part of it is that small children are the most amenable to moving, it's not until they're a bit older and getting into school that moving becomes a real problem for them.

Children are expensive. If you can't currently afford to buy a house and decide to have a child, the chances of you gaining enough wealth to afford one in the 4 to 6 years before your child reaches school age is practically nonexistent.

This means having a child while renting basically pushes your home ownership plans back by probably about a decade.

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, destroyer of ors.

In the "USB-A/B" section, they're all labelled "Type-A", the 3rd and 4th should be labelled "Type B".

It's also missing - mini-b 4 wire (older phones, etc) - micro-b 4 wire (most electronics prior to type c) - micro-b 8 wire (mostly seen only found on external 2.5" HDDs)

There were also a bunch of other connectors (mini-a, mini-a/b, etc) but they are very rare.

Until daylight savings time ends and it's 1:30am twice. Time is hard.

Keep in mind that credits usually only list people that worked directly on the noticeable parts of a movie (actors, producers, graphics, audio, editing, cameras, marketing, hair/makeup, etc) but not those who work in the background to allow those people to do their work (IT, food services, electricians, janitors, truck drivers, crane operators, finance, hr, lawyers, etc).

This was mostly true until about 5 years ago. Over the past few years, housing prices have gone up substantially all the way through Abbotsford and started affecting Chilliwack.

People don't consider it a reason not to go on an interview because 95-99% of job postings don't include it because they know nobody else does and they can get away with it and applicants don't have a choice. If a reasonable number of postings included a salary range, omitting one would tank an ad's response rates and you'd see the trend change very quickly.

Of course the final salary is the last thing negotiated, I don't think anyone is going to argue against that point.

What job seekers are begging for is a salary range being included with the job posting. Not doing so just wastes everyone's time when the company low-balls after the 3rd interview and the interviewee walks out the door.

If you want a junior worker for a junior's salary, that's fine, there are plenty of juniors looking to get their foot in the door, but include a junior's salary range so you don't waste everyone's time interviewing someone who's never going to accept your junior offer.

If you want a senior for a junior's salary and think you'll get one by leaving the salary range blank, go pound sand.

Salary is the single most important thing to know about a position. If a job doesn't pay enough to cover my mortgage, I couldn't care less about the commute, the inclusive culture or how great their lunchroom is or even whether I'm qualified. It's a non-starter before I even read the description.

Having to write a cover letter, customize a resume and sit through multiple interviews just to find out if I can literally afford to work for you is not acceptable and the only reason companies get away with it is because all the other companies do it. This trend needs to die and it needs to die a decade ago.

Introvert here.

I gain no energy from interacting with others, ever. I may find certain group activities fun, but definitely do not gain energy from it. The only time I seek out others for an activity is when the solo or AI (ex: in a game) alternative just doesn't work as well.

Or consider an introvert who has been isolated from her closest friends for a month due to an illness. That person may test as an extrovert at the end of the month.

As an introvert who lives alone and took an extended break from work around the time the COVID lock-down started, I can tell you for certain that I would not have tested as an extrovert at any point.

I've been using vim user for about 10 years and a colemak user for probably 9 years. At first I remapped the hjkl keys to maintain the muscle memory for movement, but ended up going down the rabbit hole of remaps. Eventually I gave up and reverted to the default keybindings. At first it was weird, but after a month or so I got used to it.

I would definitely advise against remapping vim bindings. The first is because if you ever has to use vim on a non-colemak machine, figuring out the keys will be very painful. Secondly because vim has influenced a lot of other programs (man, less, gvim, etc) and most of them are much harder to rebind if they even support it at all.

Because the player's computer needs to know where the enemy is in order to render them on the screen, create footstep sounds, calculate shadows, etc. As long as the player has ultimate (root, admin, etc) access on that computer, it will always be possible for a program running with elevated privileges to read that enemy position data from the game's memory and make the required mouse movements to point at it and left-click.

The only way to prevent this is to remove elevated access from the player's computer. This has been done with varying levels of success on consoles, but even then it's only a matter of time.

Huh, I've never gotten a prompt like that in Terminator.

I think you've touched on two separate issues. The first is with human interactions with the businesses (firefighters finding the building), the second is dealing with official paperwork and interactions (filing for the license, etc).

The former has various solutions depending on the situation (ex: numbered street addresses, logos, internationalized names, etc).

The later, and one the article is dealing with, is mostly solved by the fact that all business licenses (at least in BC) have a unique "business number" assigned by the city in which you acquire your license. Other than the initial data entry of the name and it being displayed reasonably on forms, any need to identify the business during an interaction can fall back to the business number if the representative does not know how to pronounce, spell or type the name. In fact, I suspect most government employees just type the business number in anyway because it's fast, easy and doesn't involve trying to spell whatever post-modern spelling they used to get an available domain name.

I'm guessing the system was built to handle extended (8-bit) ascii, which contains the accented French characters. Upgrading a system of this size (and potentially many other systems it needs to trade information with) to support UTF-8 would be a very large undertaking.

It should have been built to support UTF-8 in the first place and should be upgraded, but the time it will take to do that will not help this person. With any luck, it may help someone else in the future though.

keepassxc has extra options in the auto-type menu for "username", "username<enter>", "password" and "password<enter>" in addition to the normal "username<tab>password<enter>"

Agreed. For me CVE's serve 2 purposes. The first is to check if there are any known exploits in the currently-shipping version of a piece of software. The second is as a starting point in evaluating how the company, or community, responds to reports of exploits.

I'll take a problem from a company that published software with an embarrassingly bad security hole that thanked the reported and issued a fix immediately over a company with a hard to exploit security problem that ignored initial reports, threatened public reporters, denied its existence, and dragged their heals when the public demanded they fix it.

Canada is even worse, we can't decide which one to use so you never know what format it's in.

I was once sent paperwork to fill out that had dates requested in both MM/DD/YYYY and DD/MM/YYYY formats on different pages.

Whether JavaScript qualifies as a "proper embedded language" is up for debate, but nginx does support it for dynamic request handling. https://www.nginx.com/blog/introduction-nginscript/

Yep, and then when the insurer declines to cover an incident because the company neglected proper security, you do NOT want to be the person with "security" in their title.

Disclaimer: IANAL

If I run a service, I can add pretty much any requirements (barring anti-discrimination, accessibility laws, depending on your jurisdiction) I want for use of that service.

If I saw you can't use my service unless you do so while wearing a chicken hat and humming God Save the Queen, I have every right to do so and every right to kick you off if I discover you were wearing a turkey hat instead, because it's MY service. I may have a hard time enforcing such requirements, but nobody has a LEGALLY ENFORCEABLE RIGHT to use my service without my permission, no matter how dumb my requirements are to be granted that permission.

Note: The above obviously doesn't automatically apply to existing legally binding contracts such as with a paying customer, though in most cases either party is free to break the contact at any time assuming they are willing to pay the penalty specified in said contract.

In the VFX environments I've seen (100+ artists), most artist workstations and servers are Linux (usually RHEL or CentOS due to much higher rpm than deb support in the industry). Macs are common for editors (who use the Adobe suite to make timelines for dailies) and producers (because shiny), while Windows is mainly used by admin staff (accounting, hr, etc) because they use the same terrible accounting software as every other company out there (note: this may be less so now with the move to web based solutions).

While most hobby level video software is targeted at windows or Mac, the truly powerful stuff (houdini, maya, nuke, blender) are first class citizens on Linux. Currently one of the few artist programs that aren't available for Linux is the adobe suite which is mostly used by editors (for timelines) and photo editing (for promotional material) and most of that happens on Macs, usually in the editing department.

Something to keep in mind is that many VFX shops are kind of specialized and will work on very specific portions of a movie or TV show. For example, the company that owns the final product (Disney, Fox, MGM, etc) will pay company A to shoot the movie, then company A will send the footage for a 30 second scene to company B to rotoscope everything, then it gets sent to company C for VFX elements, then to company D for 3d conversion, then to company E for lighting and finally to company F for audio and final stitching. This is repeated (often with different companies A-F) for each scene since different scenes required different levels of expertise in different areas such as crowd generation, fire simulation, raindrop removal (yes, it's as painful as it sounds), background replacement, CG helicopters, etc. Because of this, the few steps that require windows are typically handled by 1 or 2 companies so the rest only need enough Mac/Windows machines for their local editors to stick timelines together for daily reviews.

An interesting side effect of the above is that almost every company you see in the credits of a movie had no idea what the dialog was because audio is one of the last things that gets added and completely bypasses 90% of the VFX houses involved.

Fine, but that in no way prevents them from releasing them simultaneously.

A quick note on some liquid fuel stoves/lanterns. If it gets sufficiently cold (-40 in my experience, different brands and seal materials may vary), the rubber seals on the pump can freeze to the point where they stop sealing completely and can't hold pressure.

Since it's a non-evaporating fuel (especially at -40), you won't lose fuel, but you have to warm the seals back up before they'll light.