I wonder how many people could pass software interviews at the company they work for. How many could do it without studying and preparing for weeks? I doubt I could.
I work for an airline. Leadership is saying pretty much every day that employee layoffs aren't planned currently but they sound less and less confident about it every time they say it.
I had all of the notification options disabled in the app and I was still getting them. I even submitted a support request thinking it was maybe a bug but the response I got back was that it wasn't possible to disable the notifications I was getting.
I was an Audible subscriber for 5+ years until they started sending ads through push notifications with no way to disable them (media controls are done through the notification system on Android so I didn't want to disable them at the OS level). I canceled my subscription and told them why.
I had nothing but good experiences with the DMV when I lived in North Dakota. Walk in, no wait, cheerful employees, walk out ten minutes later with a renewed driver's license.
Minnesota is the complete opposite. Walk in, wait an hour, every employee hates their job, then wait a month for the new license to come in the mail.
I don't pay too close of attention to it, I'm fortunate enough that I don't have to watch my finances closely.
I try to keep as little in my checking account as possible. I have enough in a high yield savings account to probably last me a year. I max out my 401k. I have some money in six month treasury bills that gets reinvested whenever they mature. I have a recurring monthly transfer into a brokerage account that I put in a high dividend index fund. The only debt I carry is a mortgage that I overpay on. Anything leftover at the end of the month I throw into a Betterment account.
The password requirements at my job are, in my opinion, insane. It has to be a specified length (an exact number of characters, no more, no less), can't contain any 3+ character words found in a dictionary, and a few other requirements like at least one capital letter and at least one number. And it has to change every three months. So yes, when I have to change my password I end up changing a single character or digit and calling it a day.
Learning about various options strategies was really interesting to me. From just the basic building blocks of call and put options you can construct fairly complex strategies with varying risk profiles.
That doesn't really work in German as the pronoun "sie" changes meaning depending on context. It can mean "she": Sie ist kalt (she is cold). It can mean the plural "they": Sie sind kalt (they are cold). And it can be used for the formal "you": Kommen sie? (are you coming?)
I'll never buy another Sony console again after they removed the ability to run Linux on the PS3. It's one of the reasons I bought one and I used it a lot.
That's the future of all internet connected appliances. We're already seeing it with cars, at some point it will be affordable enough to include in TVs, fridges, ovens, anything that might want to phone home.
I'm not certain it's possible to be fired from the DMV. There was a story about a year ago about a woman at the CA DMV that was sleeping on the job four hours a day every day for years. She's still working there.
I wonder how long not connecting it to wifi will be a viable option. I wouldn't be surprised if many devices today still attempt to connect to open networks even if you decline to connect it to your home network. Once cell modems are embedded in everything the only option to prevent it from phoning home will be to physically disable the modem or put it in a Faraday cage.
>The problem I have with Stadia is that you need a monthly subscription and also need to pay full price for all games.
And I don't have any confidence in Stadia being around for the long term. If I buy a game on Steam I'm fairly confident I'll still be able to play it in a decade. If I bought a game on Stadia I wouldn't be confident in the service still existing two years from now.
Yep, I think mine was maybe $70 when I bought it six years ago. It works without fail when I boot it up once or twice a month, well worth the money for the lack of hassle.
I'm really excited about a true Linux, non-Android, phone, but how far are we from something that's actually usable? There's Pinephone and Librem 5 on the horizon, but any news about their release comes with a lot of caveats. "Early adopters and developers only, experimental software, use at your own risk," etc. I'll happily buy one once it can reliably be used to make and receive calls and text messages and browse the internet, but how far away is that?
Looks like a mistake on my part, I was probably playing around with another parameter and forgot to remove it completely. It runs fine with it there so I never noticed it but it isn't needed.
You can play around with the parameters to get the behavior you want (there are tons more than I don't use), I kept it pretty simple. In my case it checks the channel page for videos that are newer than 7 days (it runs daily but this gives me a buffer). If there are more than 10 videos newer than 7 days it only checks the first 10. It stores previously downloaded video information in downloaded.txt so it doesn't download duplicate videos, and outputs the video in the format videoName.ext.
Then throw that into a shell script along with any other channels you want and set up a cron job to run it as often as you'd like. You'll also probably want to put 'youtube-dl -U' into a cron job to keep it up to date, YouTube frequently changes things that breaks functionality of youtube-dl.
I don't even visit the YouTube site that often anymore. I've set up a script to use youtube-dl to download new videos from channels I like on a daily basis.
Politicians will, without a hint of irony, give a speech claiming that "assault weapons" are only useful for murdering crowds of people as quickly as possible, and then introduce legislation that bans them for everyone except the police.
It was the same with opting out of the backscatter scanners when they started rolling them out. They had signs up saying you could opt out and instead receive an "enhanced" pat down, but TSA would make a big deal about it. They'd shout "We have an opt out!", pull you aside, and you'd have to wait for someone to be available to pat you down (which was itself an unpleasant experience). The vast majority of people don't want to go through that and just accept the scanner.
These days I don't even know if it's still possible to opt out. I haven't seen a sign saying you can in ages.
Look for places that other people don't want to live. There are plenty of midwestern cities with senior developer jobs paying $100k+ and a low cost of living. My two bedroom condo 20 minutes from the downtown of a major metro area was $80k.
My first job out of college I worked through a contracting company. The pay was decent but I didn't get any of the benefits. The company I worked for got a lot of their revenue from the oil industry, and three years after I started oil took a huge hit and they laid off all of their contractors.
I had a rough few months where I didn't have much luck finding a new job, but in the end it worked out. I eventually got a full time position with better pay, better benefits, and I'm still there.