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Sadly, humans would remain the weakest link (in terms of PWNing defenses).

Barrier to entry/market penetration meets the 10+ year amortization schedules of six/seven/eight figure machinery.

One suggestion: Give it time. Many (myself included) are “slow boils”. Probably every manager I’ve ever had was kicking themselves for hiring me 6 months in, but past the 12 month mark and things have turned a corner. Anecdotal for sure, but every previous manager I’ve had continues to randomly ping me about job openings.

My years on this blue ball have repeatedly taught me that technical solutions meant to "correct" human interpersonal problems don't usually work out how they're intended. They initially _work_, but humans rebel against them and the problem ends up compounded. Reminds me of traffic cameras.

Indeed, SWEs often glaze over Ops, Analyst, and PM roles, but those usually (broadly-speaking) have a lower qualifications bar than SWE, and pay much, much better than McDonalds. Plus it gets you in the door somewhere to start hacking on some pain points, transfer laterally to SWE, etc etc.

This doubly bears repeating: within the grace period for COBRA enrollment (for me, it was 60 days, but check with your (former) employer's HR ppl; they will still talk to you regardless of your now-non-employee status), you can even break your arm, get care, and still retroactively enroll in COBRA as long as you're within the grace period.

And that is OK, as long as you recognize your position of extreme privilege there.

How often is your fast food order 100% correct?

If they are accurate for ~80% of the questions, they will be as accurate as any 1st or 2nd line help desk.

By inferior, do you mean you’ve switched to a different “brand”? Or to a generic from a “label”, or..?

I got this message this morning as well.

Dropbox, like gmail, has been a service I've used for (feels like) 10+ years, and it's served me well enough to both PAY FOR IT, and ignore the warts (nagging me to use it for pics, passwords, constantly turning on 'online-only' mode when I explicitly disable it, etc).

Frankly, until today, it has just WORKED. To the point where half-a-dozen Mac apps sync configs to it.

Forcing a unilateral interruption to all their customer's workflows like this, while work-around-able, feels like the right time to re-evaluate keeping it at all.

Golang does this with hashmaps, it deliberately randomizes the keys’ order so that you can never depend on it. People hated it for a few months, but now it’s just another known idiom.

Ah, no wonder there's no common daily uses of it yet.

Can you elaborate more on your process, and the venue/focus of the writing?

I recommend considering unusual "investments" like solar panelling your roof: if it costs you $25k outright, but saves you $150/mo 4eva, that's a 7% ROI, better than a lot of more risky investments. Then if you convert your HVAC to be electric-only, your vehicle(s) to electric-only, etc, the effect is additive.

What an absolutely asinine situation. Attention all companies: don’t be at all surprised when your employees give fewer and fewer shits about you, your goals, and loyalty to any of it.

SFO is commonly a shorthand for San Francisco, LA for Los Angeles, SD for San Diego.

That’s the secret. More employers would benefit from recognizing it.

This is the first example I’ve seen of truly what distributed automation can do. Once the “network” reaches a critical mass of participation (think of early Facebook), it becomes exponentially more valuable.

This is the true promise of things like autonomous vehicles too. They’re not just to free up your driving time; once there are enough of them, it unlocks the whole next tier of promise: emergency vehicle access gets way better, whole categories of deaths get reduced, parking lots reclaimed, etc.

Very interesting to see all these CEOs delivering very similar messages to their employees with VERY different tones (Shopify, Klarna).

Definitely making some notes for future employment choices.

Anyone who wishes for a civil war has never seen war, full stop.

Don't Look Up ;)

The one I have used is https://github.com/anchore/syft

With no sources, and only a second-hand anecdote, I’ve heard that fasting from anywhere between 3-7 days can have some crazy effects on sleep (apparently you have tons of energy at odd times, ketones, etc etc). Anyway, might be worth a shot in the dark if nothing else seems to work for you during those spats, maybe try a bit of a fast and see if it provides a helpful shock to the sleep system?

“Prove you had a miscarriage“ Shudders

Sounds a lot like “if she floats she’s a witch”

This. Both sides of the political spectrum are somewhat correct in their "arguments", but for the wrong reasons. Gas and water (re: the water issues rampant throughout the southwest USA) are two heavily subsidized utilities that the public hasn't been able to either a) feel the impact of, nor b) understand the true extend of the subsidization. Thus when supply-side issues overwhelm the subsidies, they are mad.

To believe that there is a single, easily-distillable "reason" to a very complex, country-wide (or wider) economic concern, should be an indicator to re-examine one's own depth of understanding on said issue.

Nope. Barriers to entry in the market (securing capital for initial expenditures, rising rents, rising malpractice liabilities) will make providers take positions at the PE-owned practices. Monopolization works in both directions.

Unfortunately the public within the states that benefit most from federal spending are constantly told the opposite by their leaders. Similar situation with water rights, and several other tragedies of the commons.

This is an outstanding suggestion. Rife for abuse, but no more abuse than anything else.