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From 1990, these guys were so ahead of their time (yea, I know, institutional racism != IT infrastructure, but still...):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPNK0VspQ0M

Oh hell, software dev is so, so very overloaded with underskilled programmers with fragile egos. They come out of college knowing a little python and javascript and can't do jack shit for at least a year, and just come to a screeching halt with every tough issue they encounter. I'm a project manager box in an org-chart to help un-flatten the management hierarchy (I manage 20+), I am constantly having to re-assign tickets because they linger too long due to inexperience. Our review system is a joke and i have zero authority to fire, I'm supposed to "onramp" them, especially kids who just will never understand how to do this job (I give classes one week a month and they blow them off). I'm not in charge of hiring, if I was, half these kids (and I say "kids" because the 20 somethings are really immature compared to the mid-30 devs, but the latter ain't much more actualized) would have NEVER made it past the phone screen.

TL; DR - New college CS grads are mostly children who know very little and expect huge paychecks immediately because they watched Mr. Robot and maybe opened a browser on an RPi. Once.

Still better than Word 2017. ;) I mean, come on, it still screws up fonts on macOS and it's 30+ years old?!?

" It's easy to forget to handle one of these five cases."

/feels cold shiver wondering if i've every used read()/

Thanks for finding that! I forgot about the wayback machine. I also forgot that is what websites looked like in the late 90's. /r/blunderyearsforwebsites

agreed: my investment bank (real "real" money) finally started offering an authenticator (that adds random numbers to your password every login) two years ago.

i worked at a major semiconductor company in the late 1990's and to use their VPN from home you needed an authenticator fob. eventually this was replaced with a password, but hardware fobs (& parellel port dongles) have been around since at least the 80's. astonishing this has taken so long.

although i still have trouble understanding how to best protect myself against MYSELF. I'm just now getting my head around multiple yubikeys and subkeys in case i get locked out.

"If you look at the US for example for the first time in 30 years. They've been oil reserves. Oil they save for nation security to turn it into profit before it's worthless."

Huh? We've had reserves for practically a century:

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

I love this part:

"The USGS said its estimates are for “continuous unconventional oil,” meaning it’s spread throughout the Wolfcamp and Bone Spring formations rather than concentrated in one place. It said the reserves are “undiscovered,” meaning they have yet to be produced, and that they’re “technically recoverable” with current technologies."

Key phrases:

* continuous unconventional

* undiscovered

The first link, "Flo Control" (named after Flo the cat) was built in the late 1990's, and this link on MetaFilter (https://www.metafilter.com/15802/) is from 2002, but the host link appears to be dead.

The OP is kinda swatting a fly with a sledgehammer, but blindfolded, because the system would probably break if the door changed or someone moved something into the detection window. Problem with CNNs is training them to know what is NOT a valid condition, and that is VERY VERY HARD.

This kind of "blind overdesign" makes me sad.