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> The UAV will reportedly support hypersonic armaments such as Lockheed Martin’s High Speed Strike Weapon (HSSW), making the SR-72 a potent tool for delivering precision strikes against agile or otherwise hard-to-reach targets.

Let the Taliban and other ne'er do wells beware: your stand-ups are not safe.

> Walmart’s vaccination mandate, for example, doesn’t cover the company’s most vulnerable employees: workers at its stores and warehouses. The retailer, the biggest private employer in the United States, announced mandatory inoculation for employees at its headquarters and for managers who travel domestically.

Office workers come into contact with executives. Pretty simple.

Truck driver. Anecdata:

Ironically, even truck stops are short of some items, both food and supplies like styrofoam coffee cups. "Whaddya mean you don't have any large cups?"

They're also short of staff.

I was at a truck stop in South Carolina during the colonial pipeline ransomware mess, had no gas or diesel. All I stopped for was coffee. "Whaddya mean there's no large cups?"

I changed companies a month ago, for a $10k/year raise and a $2500 signing bonus. Lunch money for SV, but significant to a truck driver.

My company pays for SiriusXM in the truck. I think it's a special trucking deal, because if I listen to a news channel I hear commercials to switch trucking companies all day long. And for diesel additives.

Billboards across the country to "Drive for us!" The bit about there being fewer trucks on the road is surprising to me. Depending on where and when, there can often be nowhere to legally park, and you end up overnighting on an offramp, or a Walmart if they haven't prohibited trucks and RVs. Walmart isn't the RV haven that they used to be. If you see a truck, or more than one, parked on an off ramp mid to late morning, there's a good chance they were there since when they legally had to shut down 10 hours before.

I'd like to see truck parking in any infrastructure bill. It's maddening to be chased off an on ramp by law enforcement. This is just some of the pressure that tends to cause truckers to flip the fuckit bit.

I've never been interesting enough to have gone through that many interviews.

I suspect that these companies have structural problems that inhibit their decision making. Possibly also personal problems.

I also suspect that if they can't say yes after a third interview then the candidate is non-judgmentally not a good fit, by demonstration. Both parties should consider that.

So, piecework, and you're paid for your risk if the company likes it according to some metric, and constrained by how well the company is able to monetize the work.

Since health insurance is tied to employment for most people in the states, it's hard to see the downside. For the company.

Aside: I can imagine specific people from my past selling this model. It's slightly nauseating when I cast it that way.

20 mg citalopram (celexa) 1 per day. I never want to go back; that was a dark, dark place. If I stop taking it for a few days (lazy and forgetful) my inner monologue gets dark and obsessive.

Since someone else mentioned it, 150mcg levothyroxine, 1 per day. My thyroid was removed.

> From The Epoch Times:

Not disputing any facts in this article, but man, The Epoch Times? Much better outlets of record than that.

Answer, not having read the article: you risk falling over if you lose your career.

I sat next to a guy quite awhile back, in a qa role. Cygwin was part of the environment. I "grew up" on Unix, so I'd show him stuff.

As an excellent qa person, he would write everything down, and do that thing, that way, in that situation. Repeatability.

I gradually convinced him, no, it's a composable language. Look, you can put this thing that you know together with this other thing that you know, and get these new and useful results.

And the lights went on.

Some of the best sw developers I've known have been mechanical, civil and chemical engineers by degree.

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My very rough and subjective measure for if a site is throwing me to the wolves: If loading ads burdens my cpu, connection, and my brain's blood vessel carrying capacity, then that site is selling me out.

I pay to subscribe to the NYT. Once in awhile, like with a new laptop, I'll visit without blocking. After an indecent interval, I turn blocking back on.

I never minded advertisements in print. I read them, or I didn't.

Thought it was going to boot itself up on the inserted stick.

> I think he should be free to do something reckless if it’s only his life at stake.

It's never only the one guy. There's rescue people and equipment, taking their time from other rescue work and possibly putting their lives in danger. And tax dollars.

At Me, my employer is my most important resource.

Mission: To maximize my employer's perception of the necessity of my employment.

Vision: To foster business and community conditions that allow Me to thrive.

Tangent: Hold on a second ...

Is my brain subject to this kind of thing, and is it making similar errors? Or is my thought mechanics on a single "thought" so multi-streamed that these errors are negligible?

Will Facebook ads now be the answer to our prayers?

> When it’s driven from the bottom up and supported from above, it can work wonders.

When driven from the bottom up by competent people with the product foremost in mind, good results can be had with any development practices, from Agile to The Three Sea Shells.

This could be an opportunity to build containers in the Midwest, ship ag in them, and negotiate free shipping paid for by releasing or renting the container.

Alternatively, the threat or actuality of women drafted and killed (as opposed to volunteers) could have an effect similar to MAD: people might be so put off by that, that there would be more friction to sending troops.

You enable a certain amount of profit for your employer, regardless of what you do with your pay. Regardless of how much rent or mortgage you pay, and regardless of where you pay it.

Possible minor exception being employment tax?

The beauty of being a victim is that you can't lose. The attack is real, and you're a victim. Or the stack is false, and you're a victim of that. You accept no responsibility either way.

> “Why are we building houses if we don’t have enough water?” said Wade Woolstenhulme, the mayor, ... “The right thing to do to protect people who are already here is to restrict people coming in.”

I guess I'd be more impressed if they started ejecting people who are already there, LIFO, until residents needs are matched by resources.

Wearing out the bodies and dignity of Amazon floor workers.

Death penalty. Used to be for it, now I'm not.

Limitless power corrupts without limit.

Here's one part of it:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_for_Worldwide_Interb...

Besides that article's subject, it has enough links to keep you busy for months. Be sure to read the "Security" section.

"Banking" is a huge subject. If you really want to learn (part of) it, best would be to find an area that interests you, and work in it. That's one of the best parts of programming, it's not really about programming, it's about the industries that use it.

As for "key words," I think better is to follow links, and soak in any keywords that gradually come from what you find that's interesting.

I know this is unfair and untrue, and I am ignorant in the history of programming languages, and ignorant in the history of bank infrastructure, but ...

My actual first thought was that this was a language designed by someone who didn't know that programming languages exist.

My second actual thought, after reading over my first actual thought, was that it could be a language designed by someone who decided to take that programming languages assignment from back in school and this time do it right.

I just can't stop reading this ...

> [Is two+ months good advice?]

For for not uncommon problems probably. You might want to factor in whether your new health insurance has kicked in.

For something egregiously heinous (according to some definition), don't feel bad about leaving before then.

I left one job after six months. During that time there were three CFO's. The fedgov raided the business and seized the owner's race car, on display in the lobby.

Those were not the reasons I quit.

The Edward Tufte books from his course.

https://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/courses