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imwillofficial··on 7.4 earthquake in Taiwan, 34km depth
I went through a 7.6 quake one time. It was wild.

I hope everyone stays safe.

imwillofficial··on Has Trust in the U.S. Intelligence Community Eroded?
Nice try CIA ;)
imwillofficial··on Amazon fined in Poland for dark pattern design tricks
I see digital sovereignty of various localities cracking down on big tech being one of the impending battlefields of the next decade.
imwillofficial··on Thoughts on Vision Pro
I spit my coffee out at this one hahahaahaha
imwillofficial··on The Pentagon's Silicon Valley Problem
The CIAs.
imwillofficial··on The Pentagon's Silicon Valley Problem
He doesn’t need to. We cited a well respected journalist in a well known publication.
imwillofficial··on NIST: Personal Identity Verification (PIV) of Federal Employees and Contractors
I won’t go into detail, but my experience was not the same, not even close.
imwillofficial··on NIST: Personal Identity Verification (PIV) of Federal Employees and Contractors
Having long a storied history in DoD contracting, this is not the case.

CAC login is for web only in most cases.

imwillofficial··on Oh shit, my app is successful and I didn't think about accessibility
I couldn't get past the over usage of a11y
imwillofficial··on Ice-free summers in Arctic possible within next decade, scientists say
I’ve been hearing this for… 20 years.
imwillofficial··on Every default macOS wallpaper
Things brings back so many great memories.

I got into computing just as OS X launched. I installed every version with great anticipation. A ritual with my Mac geek friends every year.

I feel we have lost that excitement in todays world.

imwillofficial··on How to Be Someone People Love to Talk to (2015)
Nobody loves talking to a genuinely morose person
imwillofficial··on How Condé Nast bought and destroyed Pitchfork
Add arstechnica to that list
imwillofficial··on Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to popular food brands
Literal slavery
imwillofficial··on Disney unveils the HoloTile floor
When did IGN become a ad riddled hell hole?
imwillofficial··on Daft Social: Anti-social social network for minimalists
I’m kinda feeling it
imwillofficial··on Why are we templating YAML? (2019)
You guys are missing the big reason.

Most devops folks are former sysadmins with no developer experience.

The tools needed to be able to be picked up quickly without too much pain.

This is why our devops tooling in popular usage is not as robust as developer tools.

Know your audience.

imwillofficial··on Apple sold an estimated 180K Vision Pro units during the first pre-order weekend
First Gen iPhone, iPod, iPad, Apple Watch, Mac Mini, iMac (all form factors) they were all amazing and had very few problems.
imwillofficial··on Xbox Will "Exit the Gaming Business" If Game Pass Doesn't Get Enough Subscribers
Whoa! Surprising
imwillofficial··on Red flag questions to ask in a Linux interview
"Apprehension toward containers is a red flag."

This is a garbage take. There are obvious security considerations that a firm may or may not be ready to take one that come with container use, much less organizational knowledge.

imwillofficial··on Ex-Kotaku staff go independent and launch Aftermath
Right. I don't know anything about gamergate. My comment is sole based on their low quality output.
imwillofficial··on Ex-Kotaku staff go independent and launch Aftermath
Ah, the folks from the worst example of journalistic integrity in the last 10 years spinning off to do the same thing?

I think I’ll pass.

imwillofficial··on Home schooling's rise from fringe to fastest-growing form of education
I was home schooled before it was cool. Set me up for success. Thanks mom.
imwillofficial··on I think GCP is better than AWS (2020)
This is a good point. But I'd like to dig deeper than that.

Google has demonstrated a culture of killing off services. https://www.thestack.technology/google-cloud-iot-core-retire...

Amazon, on the consumer side has many canceled products. On the AWS side they have demonstrated a commitment to keeping old services alive.

So on a surface level, your analysis holds up. But where Amazon has earned some goodwill by supporting even barely used services, Google has not.

Perhaps they will given time, as GCP is fairly new. But when you are talking tens of millions of dollars in spend, reputation matters.

imwillofficial··on I think GCP is better than AWS (2020)
You put a ton of effort into this post and it’s all consumer services.

We are talking about the Cloud.

imwillofficial··on I think GCP is better than AWS (2020)
This isn’t my experience.

Amazon supports most stuff roughly forever.

imwillofficial··on How companies like Amazon and JPMorgan spy on their staff
A FAANG recruiter is not in a position to know this information, and is likely a third party contractor themselves.
imwillofficial··on Leaked screenshot shows Amazon now tracking individual employee attendance
This tracking will not be done in Germany and several other nations
imwillofficial··on The SR-71 Blackbird Astro-Nav System worked by tracking the stars
How is that relevant?
imwillofficial··on Google, Meta, Amazon hiring low-paid H1B workers after US layoffs
Because it’s better long term for a company?

Short term thinking is why we are always on the knife’s edge of crisis.

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