But are rents higher than the mortgage + insurance + maintenance + lack of liquidity + the potential home value changes.
If the expectations is that the home value are dropping, the math seems pretty simple.
But in a different financial environment, maybe a few years from now, your expectations might be different and the math works out differently
Yes, in Netherlands, rents are higher than mortgage + insurance + maintenance + taxes - tax breaks. That's why everyone wants a house.
A bit odd that you talk about liquidity. The house itself isn't liquid, but you finance it so you don't need a huge liquidity up front. Also, rents paid are no longer liquid to you either.
A mortgage ends one day. Rents do not.
House prices increase 20% year on year in Amsterdam. Even during the 2008 financial crisis did they barely drop in value.
tl;dr; Take the online courses for Cloud Security is the best bang for your buck IMO.
As a Security Engineer that works on network/devops stuff at a modern Saas company.
I think 90% of what I do is Cloud DevOps with a focus on Security. That could mean: making frameworks to make security easier, or advise other teams on how to secure their pieces of infra, or identifying insecure configs and pushing to get those fixed.
The other 10% is understanding security risks and what designs/implementations of the infra are good/bad. Pen-testing might help with the later skill, but at ~10% it's a surprisingly small factor.
I would like to echo the points made by other posts, that there are a lot of different fields of security.
Pentesting is one field, Application security is another, there's also compliance, red-team, IT-security, threat hunting, etc. The list goes on, and there are a lot of different skills you could build, certifications you could get, and areas to specialize in (or distract you from your specialization)
It does sound as if you enjoy the InfraSec/SecDevOps parts of the problem. So learning more about AWS/GCP Security in detail is probably the best way to improve your skill set in the area.
I'm excited for the public launch of e2e encryption in the Android default Messages app. This would provide encrypted messages to a huge audience, everyone already on Android.
Signal has stated that they will not support RCS (possibly that they can't due to technical limitations).
Slow, unresponsiveness, and worst of all lagged resizing caused my biggest daily annoyances in Jira.
Several times a week, I click a task, and just want to click the link to an associated epic, or something. But that link keeps dipping and dodging my mouse.
I joined another team which used Asana, and it's much better, although certain things can still be slow.
The current vaccine is a new technology, which codifies the spike protein in mRNA. SAR-COV-2 works by using their spike protein to attach to your body's ACE2 receptors, This new vaccine time is targeting something that is invariant and integral to SAR-COV viruses (the spike protein which gives it entrance) and almost certainly covers the new variant
I already have the antibodies (from June), so it seems I won't need that vaccine. Right?
Or in other words, my antibodies would almost certainly cover the new variant.
One small correction,
TSCM 5nm still uses finFet
Samsungs 3nm is being testing with GAAFET and has it slated for 2021. TSMCs roadmap also has it but for 2022, and intel at 2025
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As someone who has never needed to write device drivers, this is pretty interesting toy example.
I was a bit confused when it got to the part about
> detach (unbind) the kernel driver
Does this mean there is a default kernel driver on the interface and we must detach it first to make it available?
> Does this mean there is a default kernel driver on the interface and we must detach it
Yes. Sometimes, and most prominently: A lot of cheap gizmos register themselves as "HID" (human interface devices) which is a class normally reserved for keyboards and mice. Windows, Linux, OSX, ... have default drivers, and the HID protocols implements a channel for arbitrary data to be passed to/from the device (/dev/hidraw* in Linux). In turn it allows people to talk to the "USB rocket launcher" providing a simple executable application, without needing to register a driver.
If you want to talk to the usb device using libusb (or the python bindings) you have to unbind this generic driver. You can either do it from within libusb, or for example, in the sys filesystem.
For a USB ethernet adapter (which I happen to have laying around):
$ cd /sys/bus/usb/drivers/ax88179_178a
$ ls
(...)
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Mar 20 20:33 2-1.1:1.0 -> ../../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.1/2-1.1:1.0
(...)
...so it's bound to device 2-1.1:1.0 ...
$ sudo sh -c "echo 2-1.1:1.0 >unbind"
...ethernet interface is now gone, I can, theoretically, now talk to the device using libusb.
Another example: Some programming cables for microcontroller development (similar to, e.g. the Arduino stuff) might have use a standard USB-to-Serial bridge chip. But as you have to talk to it in a non-standard way you'd have to unbind the default usb-to-serial kernel module and talk directly to the usb device.
Correct, in this case it's the most common type of USB device/driver, the HID driver. Many devices will present themselves as HID Devices initially and even communicate over the HID protocol since it is one of the few USB classes that doesn't require a special driver to be written for windows to recognize it (other classes such as a serial device require at least an INF to be installed in order for windows to load the correct driver).
Furthermore, I think, HID is the only standard device class that can work on Low-Speed USB (1.5 Mbit/s) which allows only a control and an interrupt endpoint.
Every other class (including serial ports) will need at least Full-Speed USB (12 MBit) increasing the cost of the USB Rocket Launcher by 10¢ ;-).
Although level.fyi is probably biased to high earners who post their salaries and has less data for non-engineers.