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On a side note, he wouldn't be a friend for very long if I knew the tool didn't tip.

I'm almost positive that Freud did NOT think that "early-childhood sexual fantasies" were the basis of illness, but early-childhood trauma as the culprit, and I've come to believe that is almost surely the case, although I am sure no one cares about my insights on the issue.

Not only does this line up squarely with my own personal experience with addiction and other psychosis I have, but the lack of these issues in my children as well, who had a radically different early childhood then I and have no addiction issues whatsoever.

Case in point...I recently saw the documentary about the triplets that were separated at birth and given to 3 different socio-economic and emotionally-connected parents and who, by total accident, met at college and came to be national celebrities in the 70's and 80's.

One of the three eventually killed himself, due in part I'm sure to his much deeper addiction issues then that of his 2 siblings. The interesting part was that he was given to the "wealthy, but emotionally distant" family.

By far the most well balanced and successful of the 3 was the one given to the gregarious and emotionally-connected father, who showered the child with love and support throughout his whole life.

I could go on for 30 minutes discussing all the takeaways of this documentary, called Three Identical Strangers...it turns out the children where all part of an ethically-questionable experiment where, in my mind at least, the end results basically proves that 95% of the nature/nurture argument goes to the "nature" side.

It seems that all "nurture" can do is fuck you up and give you lifelong issues that are incredibly difficult to overcome.

I mean, I've always thought that Planck's constant defines the discreteness of time and, as it were, reality. Isn't it rather obvious that this is the case?

"Planck time"..the unimaginably small 5.39 × 10−44 s, is as fundamentally important to the fabric of the universe as it's much more well known "brother", the speed of light in a vacuum c.

Now, we are nowhere near able to measure that short a time frame...we are limited to around 10x-19 or so, but without a doubt time is discrete, we just are unable to get there yet.

Please...email me at lampdeveloperforhire@yahoo.com and I will HAPPILY let you see it all, because I've already researched it years ago when I didn't believe that was the whole story!

I am now ACTIVELY trying to get your attention to get this moving, as I feel you are challenging my integrity and this is very important to me.

DEAL...you know what...im tired of people here thinking im making things up...hmmm how do you want to start doing this.. I'm serious here...let's do this...how to best initiate what we need to get rolling?

Please...email me at lampdeveloperforhire@yahoo.com and I will HAPPILY let you see it all, because I've already researched it years ago when I didn't believe that was the whole story!

DEAL...you know what...im tired of people here thinking im making things up...hmmm how do you want to start doing this.. I'm serious here...let's do this...how to best initiate what we need to get rolling?

Please...email me at lampdeveloperforhire@yahoo.com and I will HAPPILY let you see it all, because I've already researched it years ago when I didn't believe that was the whole story!

DEAL...you know what...im tired of people here thinking im making things up...hmmm how do you want to start doing this..

I'm serious here...let's do this...how to best initiate what we need to get rolling?

Please...email me at lampdeveloperforhire@yahoo.com and I will HAPPILY let you see it all, because I've already researched it years ago when I didn't believe that was the whole story!

The deal was...the rave scene was really big in Central Florida in the mid 90's, and a Federal Task Force was sent to infiltrate the "scene" and start busting it up..my homeboy Mike was a hustler, pure and simple, and was always ready to make some money in the game.

There was a big outside event in the Ocala National Forest and Mikey was approached by someone who was asking about LSD (100 or 1000 hits I don't remember...probably 1000 now that I think about it)...Mike was like, as in character..."No not now, but I can tomorrow for sure.." and gave the agent his number.

The rest of the details for me are fuzzy at this point, but I do know he never got any drugs and he most DEFINITELY did 18 months cushy Fed Time with a "Conspiracy Against the United States of America" charge that you can STILL see with an inexpensive background check!!

Oh...i can't wait to see your reaction when you learn the facts of this case...in fact, how about a little side wager on it?

I had a friend once who did 18 months Federal time for just saying he could get 100 tabs of LSD at a forest rave in central Florida.

Not having it...not getting any...not even showing the undercover agent even one damn tab.

His charge ended up being "Conspiracy Against the United States" or something along those lines.

So I am pretty sure the US government will come up with some rather bogus charge against Assange, considering how he humiliated it.

Bingo. This is simply a political problem and nothing else. FUD and "not-in-my-backyard!" reigns supreme when it comes to the final approval process.

As things currently stand, no group of politicians could survive the political fallout of getting a reactor build in their district. How can anything get done if doing so buys you unemployment from the ultimate cushy job of being an elected representative?

Also, no one, not even the most ardent supporters, really wants a reactor built anywhere near them or their kids playgrounds. The anti-nuke-power crowd has just done too good a job on the older generation to ever hope things can change for them.

Let's hope the Millennials can do a better job getting these things built.

I know there is currently in the air a zeitgeist against declaring it, but I still maintain that almost noteworthy humankind achievements happened like this, or in very small teams of highly aligned individuals.

Now of course, he is standing on the shoulders of giants, so to speak, but hasn't he become very close to a giant himself now?

It is almost always true that your daily behavior speaks your deepest beliefs, and to put something like this together as quickly as the OP did...well, awesome work OP maybe now you can work on flying cars :)

I've actually found many of the comments rather useful over the years, and although I'm not crazy on how old and random they often are, I find them at least worth a quick look.

That is an almost impossible stat to believe.

My last contract I worked developing a biometric system to extract a consistent "headshot" from all the various mugshots from arrest records in the US, and I worked with the Kairos system to extract pixel coordinate data from the images.

The API calls gave me a lot more then just pixel information, and one of the data points was skin color and it was correct like 98% of the time.

Now, of course, it's possible that posed mugshots deliver a much more consistent image quality then surveillance cams would, but 33% seems suspiciously high to me.

Yes, but surely that is miles away from a system that automatically recognizes and then logs that info to a database. right?

In your case, the landlord does indeed have a very hard to search record of your comings and goings, in mine it's an up to the second report.

Even if the guy was really good?

I personally think a well-executed acoustic guitar singalong can add a lot of real joy to any group experience.

I've played in rock bands since I was 15 (I'm north of 50 now), and I've been on stage in front of a thousand people and I've played to killer mosh pits and all that, but my best memories of all those years were the after-parties where it was just me and my bassist with acoustics and a room full of drunk people singing along to the Eagles or Sublime or maybe even Weezer...

Now, it helps to have a professional level acoustic guitar and, of course, a professional lead singer to hide everyone's mistakes, but it can be a magical, cathartic experience when the room all sings at the top of their lungs...

Great memories.

I mean, with all the money the US currently spends on military budgets, I can't for the life of me figure out why it is so hard to find the 50-100mil or so (estimated) it would cost for a few orbital IR telescopes and just deal with this problem once and for all.

A Pegasus XL rocket can lift 976 pounds (443 kilograms) into low-Earth orbit for about $13.5 million...put two "budget" telescopes on one launch and get to work.

I'm betting probably not...but it's a "feel good" write up and who can't use a little motivational fantasy once in a while?

So how does this study capture individuals like, say, myself who apparently industry has deemed "unemployable" due to past legal (all-substance related) "transgressions" but is desperate to work in the industry where he has a 25 year history?

I deal daily, now that I am mid-50's, with deep bone-on-bone pain due to a badly torn ACL in high school, and have found that light-dose opioid treatment keeps my QOL at a reasonable level and let's me live a pretty normal life.

Getting access to these medications is now basically impossible without a huge financial and emotional investment thru "normal" channels.

Have any of you ever felt the shame one feels when a 26yo pharmacist looks at you with semi-disguised disgust because you asked him to fill a opioid prescription? Or even worse, tell you that they are "out" of the medication and suggests you go to the other side of town to fill it?

And let's not mention the incredible hassle and expense of trying to get said prescription nowadays...you can't even mention the word opiate during your examination without risking being kicked out of the office or something of the like.

Does taking 30mg of a crappy synthetic opioid twice a day to relieve me of chronic pain really make me an unhireable junkie piece of shit? YES! shouts back society on a daily basis.

Because that is where we are nowadays...BTW, I work my ass off while on medication because it allows me to concentrate on my software and not on the never ending aching throb in my knee.

I've tried Tramadol and many other pain relief concoctions to various degrees of success, but I just don't understand why I have to live with the trade off when what works for me works so much better then anything else.

So I choose to buy my opiates on the street...the natural type thank-you-very-much, and my life is much more pleasant, besides the fact no one will hire me due to my past, then it would otherwise be.

Probably, and I do hate being the cynic in the room, it's due to the huge salaries and interesting, specific use-case work that NN-based AI is generating these days.

Ahhh 1992....the year I discovered QNX and Mosaic.

This post brings back so many memories...Novell! the first damn network system that was ever worth a shit on a IBM PC-compatible. Installing that software finally put and end to the nightmare of "sneaker-netting" all my office PCs.

OS/2 failure! Who would have thought that shit-DOS would withstand the challenge of such a superior (see QNX!) and deep-pocketed competitor? What were we all smoking back then??

Jobs and NeXT!...man did I covet one of those ridiculous priced machines, but with no market penetration and my company focused on cheap compatible hardware, it made no sense to develop with it.

Linux!...see QNX!

I could go on and on...it's rather amazing...without me knowing it I've become my own history book.

Just what I didn't need to see this morning.

I am literally living in the streets, freezing my ass off and hungry, looking for any kind of programming work for the past month, and now I have to see some AI bot generating more inexpensive shit code that I am sure some manager will convince themselves might get them that final career promotion by lowering their labor costs to near zero.

WTG, geniuses, for developing AI that before you know will have all of us living in the streets and hungry...

I'll save you a spot.

Wealth has buffered individuals from the unpleasantness of life for time immemorial. It's kind of the point when you think about it.

Right...at this point, skewering sites that build auto-generated sites would have been way more fun and interesting.

I'm no expert on frontend techstacks, but I thought Vue was an application development framework, not what-looks-here like a jQuery replacement for DOM validations and manipulation?

As far as I can see, it is basically doing almost exactly what jQuery does in Bootstrap...can someone perhaps set me straight with this?

"Before you leave, please know: I’m hedged either way. LOP and Racket have been an incred­i­ble force mul­ti­plier on my pro­gram­ming pro­duc­tiv­ity"

Well, wouldn't we expect that the author of a particular programming language to be mad productive in it because, you know, they designed all the mental models and assumptions that are baked into it?

You would never once stumble on syntactic ambuigity because, to you, there is no ambuigity...or perhaps there is but you slyly added that bit just to fuck with programmers heads...or who knows the reason.

I'm just postulating that for an author to boast about their productivity with the language they designed is somewhat self-serving.

"A demo fusor can and has been made in a bell jar with crude vacuum gear and kluded-up power supply. Most such systems are assembled by younger school age children (mostly boys save for one pair of girls). The demo fusor often serves as a science fair project in the 10th to 12th grades of high school. The better examples have won regional science fairs and a couple of national events! "[0]

[0] http://www.fusor.net/board/viewtopic.php?t=2674

I actually worked for a company where they didn't allow me to have a bathroom break during working hours while I was remoting...such is life as a 53yo developer trying to make any kind of living in this industry.

In fact, I had to log X keystrokes and Y LOC every hour in order to be paid for that hour...talk about being a factory worker.

Without a doubt it's age discrimination...you've hit the nail on the head. Also, God help you if you have followed a non-traditional career path where you decide at points in your life that you wanted a break from it all.

I, too, in 1988, fresh out of my BS in CP with no family or life experiences and a strong desire to code day and night would have sailed past the technical side of these often ridiculous interviews for jobs I could literally do in my sleep now.

But now, at 53, not only has Father Time fucked with my ability to sight memorize (something I took totally for granted in my younger years) without even trying, I find it almost impossible to hide my frustration at the ridiculousness of the very idea that I would be unable to do the work required of me for the job...

"Ok..we really need someone to fix X and Y on this website, and it would be just great if they could reconfigure Z on the server..." "Well, sure...I first saw X and Y-like issues back in the mid-90s in a networked client-server environment and I did X(x) and Y(x) to fix it, and again saw it in the mid-00s under the LAMP-stack and again fixed it doing X'(x) and Y'(x)...and the server issue is something I've seen over and over again during my 30y+ career..I am 100% certain I can solve these relatively simple issues for you guys..." "Oh...yeah ok...so can you whiteboard a bubblesort in Javascript for us? You have 15 minutes." "???"

...and of course I don't get a callback. Do people think I'm lying about all my experience on my resume or what exactly?

It's at the level of life and death for me right now, to be honest. I've been shooting out resume after resume for the past month, and nothing good is happening.

All I know for certain is...if the real issue was truly about finding someone who can do the job and fix the problems, there is no way in hell I'd still be looking now.

"Technical Recruiting is Broken" is very click-baity IMO, as the "is broken" bon mot has become rather popular and reveals absolutely nothing about what the article is about.

This is what I am currently doing...plus, since everyone loves a "deal", I charge a slightly higher hourly rate then give away "one hour FREE" because we all know that FREE is the most powerful word in marketing.

Basically, I figure out what I would be happy with for 5 hours for work and then give them 4 hours plus one FREE hour for that amount.

This has the added benefit of nudging my hourly rate higher, since I always have a hard time raising my rates.