hereforphone

I'm changing my name to this

If someone somehow hacks your brokerage account and steals everything, you may be completely out of luck. The bank will consider it your fault, not theirs, unless it's a mass hack (multiple accounts). The law will probably agree with them, and you'll be out your savings.

You can get a lot better at it, if you want. Start slow and ramp up slow or you will end up with foot and leg issues. In a few years you'll be walking over mountains.

I came here for this

Do you? Contacts in Afghanistan are sharing videos of people being whipped / beaten in the streets. And it reportedly gets much worse. I haven't seen anything about this mentioned in Western media.

This is reminiscent of how war protests in my liberal city stopped suddenly as soon as Obama was elected, and never restarted though he bolstered troop levels (initiated surges). The war was never the main point.

Do you believe the media has relatively clear political convictions? The treatment of presidents and parties in the US changes drastically depending on who's in power. It's almost like a joke.

Allow women in Afghanistan to live under horrible conditions under an oppressive ultra-Islamic regime. Strange how everyone forgot about that one as soon as the yellow/blue flag became a meme.

No, you're absolutely right: Erlang is magnificent and superior.

The reason FreeBSD is not my daily driver is 1) limited video card support, and 2) limited steam/proton support. In other words, I game on my desktop machine, and play Windows games under Steam in Linux.

I have moved to using FreeBSD for my servers though, and am happy with it for the most part.

I shouldn't have to belong to a particular organization (especially a politically active one) in order to have a job in my field.

Does anyone outside of an airport still watch CNN?

Mortality risk remains 100%.

I've had good and bad ones. It's hit and miss. Good ones can change your life.

Plus free equipment donated by the USA. Plus no media coverage at all covering your atrocities because the media is aligned with those that pulled out, so everyone's going to focus elsewhere (Ukraine as an example).

I lived there for more than a year and a half. The things happening there now are terrible. But you don't know about it, because it's politically incorrect to discuss it right now. It's a massive tragedy.

I thought this would be about the email client.

Life's one of those things that you can't explain. As I've aged I've learned facts that I can't communicate to younger people. Presumably more of these will reveal themselves to me as I age more.

Bible. Exercise. Mechanical keyboard. James Allen books. Ignore politics. Throw away your TV. That's my cheatsheet.

Equity is delayed salary if the endeavor becomes profitable. So almost never.

On the list of ways to judge the quality of a society, people putting carts back where they belong is up there with using turn signals.

How long is your lifetime? Does it start with a 2 by any chance?

Buying or selling?

You may want to double-check the definition of 'incredibly poor'.

Erdoğan is a dictator propped up on Islamic sentiment and tradition. He is not a nationalist.

Does your contract include a clause that states you'll lose these options if you're fired?

Nice try

Those borders didn't exist at the time the "ancient civilization" was constructed. So what's the point?

Imagine listing Excel as part of your tech stack

Culture is just as important as salary. Not the stupid kid-bait like beer Fridays and ping pong tables, but the overall vibe.

No it's not. I wish it were. At my prior job the leadership, all the way to the top, made it uncomfortable for non-Indians to work there. They'd bring people over from India, hold the H1B over their heads, and work the crap out of them. They weren't happy from what I could tell, and most non-Indians left by the time I also did.

And from what I gather that's not an isolated incident.

Paywall

I'm in my 40s. I've had several really bad interviews, and a few good ones. My advice to you is to stand up and walk out when the interviewers become mocking, overly pedantic, or arrogant. Consider it a reflection of office culture.