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I really enjoyed the "calling all hackers" article about how money moves around.

http://phrack.org/issues/71/17.html#article

I suggest you try to look for a new job. It doesn't cost you much (other than some time) and you can test if you think the grass is greener on the other side. Sometimes it is, and sometimes it isn't. It can give you a taste of the hiring market, which isn't very easy right now, and that can sometimes make you appreciate what you have. If you are taking interviews and everything sounds boring, maybe that will give you what you need to look at different careers and then start interviewing for those jobs?

So... move fast and break laws.

I've read the Extreme Privacy book, and it seems like a very condensed pocket book comparatively. The book has a lot more stories and anecdotes about his mistakes in the past.

I'm a happy user of login.gov for various things (IRS, SSA, etc). But I was surprised that there's also id.me, which is used many places for the same thing, as if there's another login.gov. I'm still not sure why there is two.

"It is a bad thing when one becomes two." - Hagakure

I don't know why she'd swallow a fly? Perhaps she'll die?

There's a few, but they are all pretty minor. It doesn't mix well with water (rash), so make sure to put it on right before you go to sleep. It can increase sun sensitivity of your skin, making it easier to have sun burn or additional sun damage, so again, put it on before bed. It can sometimes cause breakouts especially when you start using it, including a red bumpy rash. But after a few weeks, your skin typically adapts to it and the rash goes away.

The tricky part is there's all sorts of people that sell Retinol products but the amount of retinol is OTC. This isn't typically good enough, but you can go to your dermatologist to get a prescription strength that really works, and it's cheap.

I wonder if using something like Retinol, which is proven to improve skin and make it look tighter, younger, and get rid of blemishes, marks, and sun damage, could be paired with Ozempic to keep skin more healthy along with a good skin routine?

Only from farming things that honestly shouldn't be grown here. There's actually plenty for people to use / drink, which is a LOT lower than farming uses.

From the Arizona Department of Water:

Irrigated agriculture is the largest user of water in Arizona, consuming about 74 percent of the available water supply. In the past, this percentage was as high as 90 percent; reductions have been the result of both urbanization of agricultural lands and heavy investment by the irrigated agriculture industry in conservation measures both on-farm and in delivery systems.

https://www.azwater.gov/conservation/agriculture

Here I remember my first DEFCON (6) at the Plaza Hotel. Someone literally started a road flare on some higher floor, then sent the flare down to the casino level in the elevator, filling the floor with smoke.

I feel like the attendees these days are much less dangerous, but these searches seem ridiculous and over the top compared to any past year I can remember.

If you have remote start you can leave the AC on when you park, and then when you're walking through the parking lot you can have the car running and the AC on for a few minutes. It does honestly help in the Arrakis-like weather of Phoenix.

Yeah I mean this already exists in the human brain, for example we're more likely to be surprised by vision lower to the ground than in the sky. The reason? Snakes. And a lot of animals have a startle reaction to snakes as it's a common problem out there in the world.

Happy to live in Arizona for the lack of natural disasters, it's just a bit hotter.

I think you're right. It does seem like the models need exponentially larger datasets to get linear improvements, which are now in the realm of having to buy them from large social media companies. The next breakthrough will probably being doing something different rather than doing it slightly better.

For example, one of the food supply issues was the price of wheat after the invasion of Ukraine, which grows a lot of wheat. Futures shot through the roof.

> LLC’s can be required to name the beneficial owner.

Actually, they all are now required to register who the beneficial owners are for every LLC - https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy2015

One interesting thing, in Arizona to get a "Real ID" drivers license that you can use in for flights, they make you use a face scanning app that runs on your cell phone. So sometimes they're getting the face scan done before you even go to the airport. I wonder if they can scan it at the airport no matter what, and just compare you to previous face scans? Hard to tell when these things actually happen.

Steam on Linux is nice, and handles a lot more games than you think. I dual boot windows but rarely ever do so.

I like to watch people play new games on twitch, the new games are always a trend. Then you can see what it looks like, what the experience is, etc. And soon you'll find people with similar interests and that will be a good recommendation engine.

Yeah having a perspective that is so different from the lifeguard does make it really hard.

I wonder if robots can be kind of like the 3d video calling of the future. Imagine you make a real facetime call and your face is projected on the front of the robot. You could look around and have the camera move with you too. Maybe there could be other ways to show body language. This could be the newest kind of video calling and how that really evolved the telephone?

Just don't get the plate NULL, apparently that gets you a lot of trouble.

https://www.wired.com/story/null-license-plate-landed-one-ha...

Cops beating self driving car with batons will be the new Officespace printer scene. Also the cops should let all the air out of the tires and boot the car for good measure.

This seems like a strawman that isn't related to the individual case here. For Waymo the cars and the software are the same company. Even if they weren't, the car's owner can always blame the manufacturer of the car or any software running in it. That's why we have judges to figure out who's at fault.

Think about the case of stuck accelerators: the driver of the car could be blamed for hitting something, but they say in court that they did not have their foot on the gas. This gets checked out and pushed onto the manufacturer of the car. This is old hat and has a lot of legal precedent. This is why we have recalls for this kind of issue.

While the legal precedent may be a current grey area that doesn't mean it's impossible to give a citation to a driverless car. That is the beginning of getting the grey area into court where a judge can rule on things. Not giving a citation does nothing for anyone other than let Waymo get away from responsibility.

Not only that, but if Waymo got a citation because of the openness of our court system everyone could see how it turns out and what arguments the company is making.

"unable to issue citation to computer" is about the stupidest and laziest police response I have ever heard. I am beyond upset about this. It's obvious they could issue a citation and send it to the address on the registration of the car, which is certainly Waymo or a company that could forward it to Waymo.

If my parked car gets a ticket, they put it on the windshield. It's not some stupid response like "unable to issue citation to car with no one in it." Since the window was open, they could also tape it on the dash or put it on the driver's seat.

There is no reason why Waymo should not get a citation and be forced to appear in court to explain themselves, just like everyone else. That is why the courts exist. But lazy cops seem to prevent this from happening.

Can you provide some of this evidence? This is not what I see in my experience, I've learned a lot being remote! I know there's articles saying that people don't work as much, etc, or get promoted as much, but I've not seen something about learning new skills.

I feel that Office's trouble is always backward compatibility. Which makes sense.

The Xbox codebase was pretty good. We were doing enforced code reviews back in 2011-ish, which was a big thing at the time. There was also a good layer cake going on and a few good architects.

The worst codebase by far was Outlook for Mac. It had code going back to Entourage, and was never properly cleaned up.

When I worked there, you could take your family on a tour (if they were a US Citizen). There was no problem as long as people didn't touch anything on the factory floor. But things may have changed.

I've had to use helm and argocd in anger at work, and I feel like the real problem is not helm, nor argocd. They are tricky to learn but in general pretty straightforward once you get it.

What was really annoying was the constant moving and changing the yaml that kubernetes wanted. After you update your cluster and things stop working, it's really not about the layers on top, but it's about kubernetes and having to keep up with the new beta versions and also sunsetting other things.