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I lived there for 35 years.

Her Majesty Laurie only bestows a few CCWs to a handful of business people and her buddies. People can apply for CCWs all they want, but she'll never issue them willingly. She's a bureaucrat and a crook keeping the populace defenseless and maintaining LE job security.

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I taught myself for a long time before breezing through a reputable EE/CS program. I always did both software dev and sysadmin. I worked up at numerous big-name shops and universities in multiple fields, starting at 15.5 yo. (I should've lied about my age at 15 to get an IBM Almaden dark matter paid internship job offer, but I was too honest.) I worked on a nuclear reactor simulator, industrial embedded navigation systems, biomedical informatics, HPC, app virtualization startup with a guest driver, email startup, numerous web/internet companies, and sales engineering and consulting.

The most important part is to never get lazy by always keeping skills current, never accepting something is impossible and roll up sleeves to dig deep. Do what other people won't, i.e., confirm/refute root causes with evidence rather than shrugging.

I'm an SRE/SRM in the mid six-figures range, but I've had some experiences like anyone else.

I love it when they give you "homework" that they just forget about. They asked me about numerous technologies, and I went to explain them, but wasn't given a chance. The CTO poo-pooed my résumé like it was difficult to read. He must've felt threatened and so sabotage my shot. They ushered me out the door almost like throwing me out by security; so incredibly rude. I didn't get the job obviously but they later asked me to interview again but I told them to "fuck right off." No, you don't get a second chance to unprofessionally dis me, and I won't work with or for such narcissistic slave-drivers. I didn't care about my rep in this instance because they're clowns who would never amount to anything. Don't be unprofessional, even if someone else is.

A few weeks later, I got a $10k/week consulting contract for a funded startup already in acquihire talks.

Don't settle for BS or bend-over backwards for jerks because it will just get worse. It's not worth your mental health.

Sensory deprivation. It works.

Basically, reduce all forms of stimulus and let your mind space-out without any intention.

Yes. Separation between church and state (and wealth and mass media and journalism and politics)

Civil marriage and some wills should be replaced with a property and next of kin registered document. This way, any number and type of people can formally-declare what they want to do with property and health, financial, and total power of attorney. Insurance companies and other service products can then determine who is eligible to share benefits based on if someone is listed as a partner or beneficiary, or not. No more titles, relations, or mandates about who is what or how into two boxes: just beneficiaries and partners.

A couple have a kid? No problem.

Two women want to get hitched? Easy.

Three dudes want to live polyamorously and be "married?" Cool. (Obviously, can't let 30 people in a commune share the benefits of one worker.)

A dude and a trans girl? Fine.

The same document solves some problems of inheritance too when it can obviate the need for executors in simple estates.

Telling people who they can love, share their lives with, and depend on goes against individual freedoms.

Hello ad blocker my old friend

I've come to enable you again

Because an ad softly shouting

Left its seeds while I was watching

And the headache, that was planted in my brain... still remains

Within the sound of content

In restless dreams of unskippable ads I walked alone.

Narrow windows of portrait mode

Neath the halo of dark mode

I turned my brightness to the cold and damp

When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon ad

That split the night

And touched the sound, of content.

Yes. Two things might be conflated: innate attribute (ie, biological gender) and awareness (ie, type of cancer). A mother's day#, aunt's day, or a men's day seems to subtly poke at how a group is taken for granted; that doesn't mean they need a day or special help.

I get every PR means can help as part of a holistic strategy for awareness.

# Maybe mostly commercial inventions.

I agree in general. Special days for a group seems like a subtle dig rather than genuine gratitude. Plus, aren't there underdog groups like homeless, speech disfluent, ADD, sex workers, struggling immigrants, seriously depressed, bipolar, schizophrenics, absolutely banished sex offenders who can't get housing or work, and dyslexics who need more awareness?

International Journalist's Remembrance Day

World Toilet Day

International Men's Day

Citizen's Day

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minor_secular_observan...

I don't believe any identity group needs a day because can come across as trite and patronizing. Golden Rule, gratitude, and go forth.

BTW, Whatever happened to DARPA's EXACTO?

I had to buy brakleen, candle wax, candle dye, distilled water, ethylene glycol, dish soap, food coloring, and a capping machine to fix mine. What a PITA. Old lava lamps bought off eBay. I should've just hit the refresh button and waited.

Documentation is all well and good, but also having people who can solve domain problems rather than just describe them ought to be a priority among many to have a mix in the organization. Less capable people can document what someone more skilled solved if they're not great communicators (I knew several people exactly like this). Having all documenters doesn't necessarily allow tackling hard problems but could risk reducing the bar to who can communicate in-lieu of doing hard things. There is a finite supply of hard problem solvers and even fewer far who can communicate well. It may or may not be cheaper to hire one who can't communicate and a technical writer or junior staffer rather than an all-in-one unicorn who can do everything.

Pretty soon, Apple will tell you what the name of your app will be and what it should be about. Oh and nothing older than X years will be allowed to run. Tighten the screws until users repurchase hardware. Take that, hackintoshes and virtualized desktops. Verboten!

Extremely dangerous idea down the rabbit hole towards annihilation of open society. Reprehensible, but not imminently-dangerous, speech must be allowed because that is, unfortunately, the price (tradeoff) of an open and free society. Otherwise, it becomes a more closed, fascist society with thoughtpolicing and political correctness enforced by law by the fashions of those with power. F that!

Speaking of being gaslit, is everyone who applies to the Triplebyte told they received "among the highest score ever?" I know I'm adequately good but not a poet-ninja-pirate of software dev. So, it seemed like obvious BS that added to the red flags that led me to ignore them in-spite of potential $180k-ish opportunities because I just didn't trust them.

The timeless advice of Warren Buffett "no matter how good it seems now, you can never get a good deal with a shark."

The MIC will find a way to make a flying car/moon rocket that fires Hellfires and a gatling railgun. Let's call it a multi-program total cost of $40 terabucks that could've given every American a nice home (household assets are $130T but this counts both impoverished and wealthy persons) and UBI; but no: self-serving, subsidized wealth transfer to the Cheney's and the Erik Prince's comes first.

Argh! Package dependency hell of the second kind: mandatory requirements. It could be A Good Thing™ parts are being rewritten in Rust, but the costs, performance, and modularity of maintaining vs. ditching cairo needs to be weighed. Having two SVG rendering engines would have advantages (choices) and disadvantages (compatibility, security, code bloat).

This seems like another signal of an overall trend. Post-sj, Cupertino seems to be getting progressively laxer about testing, quality, usability, and overall excellence in software and hardware. It's a shame. :'(

I don't think there's a one-sized-fits-all solution without something custom and extremely expensive ($15k+). Maybe a Lenovo T480 for most purposes and a dedicated second screen for color correctness? I had a Dell Studio XPS 1645 with an RGBLED screen with an insane gamut. It begs the question: Why aren't such screens widely available?

I was underweight and borderline anemic through early 20's and it didn't make a difference, but still huffed and puffed. I could do low intensity things like cycling for 10 hours a day, no problem, but jogging, swimming, or running would make my descending aorta vibrate my lower abdomen and maintain a typical hr around 120-140 bpm (resting bp was 100/50, now resting hr is 115 with bp 125/80). Trying to discontinue propranolol for endogenous? tachycardia with hypertension.

I'm in the process of losing 40 lbs (17%, cut) and then rebuilding muscle mass.

Politics is a realm the average person has no power in, yet many adhere to tribal, cargo cult fashions and canards that divide-and-conquer people into atomized groups of one. Is that political or apolitical? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Throw politics out the window and get behind policies individually.

librsvg ?

Consumer-oriented novelty obsession (new == better + secure) and code churn "job security." If something works and is quality for what it does, it works. Does "ls" really need to be perpetually maintained with minor, inconsequential refactorings if it already works perfectly?

If something has bugs or lacks features, then it needs maintenance. "Maintenance" for pushing out versions to fulfill expectations of "maintained" is pointless.

I've never been able to run a mile without stopping or under 10 minutes. I've had my heart cath'd and stress tested, nothing wrong there.

Would the intensity of HIIT and endurance of cross-country cardio be useful for significantly increasing aerobic capacity to get to running a mile continuously?

I think you're right. The issue is, due to the power law distribution of talent, the sample size of such roles (and personalities, i.e., how many Python BDFL's are there?) is incredibly small, so it makes precise assessments difficult and the variance increases wildly since there aren't very good comparables.

I think he could command nearly $10 megabucks, give half of it away to charities, grants, scholarships, social ventures, and underserved areas to promote STEM college prep, and still have more money that one ostensibly average, middle-class person would know how to invest (real estate on the near periphery of burgeoning urban sprawl areas). Microsoft is a cash cow and is willing to invest in a solid, deep bench to stay competitive, especially in an apparent transition to either EEE or adopt OSS.

Agreed. VBA makes by fingers and eyes ooze gangrenous pus.

Any guess on what a major FOSS dev grosses? It has to be at least $700k. $1.5m/yr? $3m?

About $200k/yr+, it's a good idea to find a lawyer or similar talent agent to workout the compensation package because they have the skills and can get away with things a hire cannot. I've done this before, it saved time, and ended up with a better package.

I was also going to say, don't fall into test question traps and err on the side of modesty or simulating poverty. What you do for a living is a proxy for wealth and prestige, so it's typically better to not respond directly regardless of situation because it pigeonholes a dude where they don't want to be: a nobody, a title, a braggart, too easy/has no options, or a meal ticket. The game is a battlefield full of landmines. It is what it is.

I hope I can feel your pain. I just moved to Austin without GF(s)/FWBs, a friend network, or any social media other than anon posting here and there. I am noticing the females here are more receptive per attractiveness and cool factor compared to the relative to the west coast, but not as much as outlying college towns nearby, and that's okay. I'm looking for more than getting eye f'd "lucky" by a Texas Tech or State cheerleader, unless she's also a microbiology postdoc, reads Vonnegut or Nabokov, or welds reclaimed metal art installations. I can't, and never could, stand party people who do nothing by float down the river of time without delving into anything substantially.

Don't get married unless being together for a long time (10 years plus), require it for legal reasons, and not without a prenup.

Don't let anyone move anything in without a palnup. See also: Bill Maher.

Never see a girl without a condom, and always take it with you.

The tests are, much like a close friend:

1. Would you die for them?

2. Would you kill for them?

3. Do you trust them with your life?

4. Are you better together than apart? (Are they much more beneficial to you than a liability?)

5. After the 3 year mark, do you still miss them the most of anyone? Must get past New Relationship Energy (NRE) to see if there's more than infatuation holding things together.

6. Hopefully, they're within a standard deviation or two of intelligence and have some common interests, but these can be learned and explored together with open-mindedness and willingness to try the unfamiliar.

7. Develop your skills and lifestyle. People who do the bare minimum to satisfy the label of a database administrator and expect to land a supermodel astronaut are woefully unrealistic. For example, I've been restoring a mid 80's VW camper soup-to-nuts except for major bodywork and upholstery fabrication, getting into paramotoring, and looking at dance studios for ballroom dance with the goals of Viennese waltz, dusting-off Argentine tango, and salsa. And I cook like a m'f'cker, which is probably why I need to lose 40 lbs. / 22 kg. of nasty-ass cutaneous fat, cut calories/do IF/up protein, and hit the gym like corona is going to close it forever. :)

Unfortunately, like hiring or investing, there doesn't seem to be a scalable way of pairing people or due-diligencing them thoroughly enough to lead to trust and compatibility. It seems only with focused filtering and meeting say many hundreds people (as the calibration phase of the optimal search strategy algorithm) that there would be enough worthy opportunities to pursue.

->> Ask lots of questions and listen.