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That's what happens when "cybersecurity" is taken over by the management consultant class.

> Unlimited PTO is a negative signal to me honestly, and would put me off a job.

This is exactly my experience. The last company I worked for with unlimited PTO did everything to prevent folks from using it.

It's one of many negative signals I look for. I interviewed at a firm once that was proud that their cafeteria offered "free breakfast, lunch, and dinner", which sounded great until you realized they expected all employees would be working there through breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

My code certainly blows up all the time.

I want podman to be a drop-in replacement, but it just isn’t there. I’ve wasted more time running down random errors I podman, so much so that I’ve switched back. Maybe in another year or two…

One of the big things keeping me from going down this road is the need to carry around a phone for 2FA purposes. Is there anything that can fill that gap?

> NIST is announcing that SHA-1 should be phased out by Dec. 31, 2030

Looks like it'll limp along for a while yet

It’s the insurance company’s problem. /s

When I go into the office, it's 90 minutes by commuter rail (with very limited service hours) plus another 30-45 on the subway (when it's not on fire), then another 15-20 minutes walking. Each way. I'm mentally wiped my the time I get in. Most of my job is WFH, and I'm only going in when I must be in the office.

I'm fortunate that I can shift some of my work time to my train time, but it's still a big chunk out of my day to just move around.

I’ve let my subscription to the Atlantic lapse. The writing quality and topic selection are closer to a second-tier college newspaper than a serious journalistic publication.

Most of their talented contributors are mostly gone, and the current crop of “cool kid” writers seem to just regurgitate what they are following on Twitter.

> In the US, spam is protected speech, but as always, no company is required to give anybody a platform.

Commercial speech in the US is not protected speech and may be subject to a host of government regulation [0]. The government has broad powers to regulate the time, place, and content of commercial speech in ways that it does not for ordinary speech.

[0] See https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/commercial_speech

I don't think solar panels or windmills are a trick, but I think OP was referring to "net zero" initiatives, which are not much more than accounting scams. Most carbon credits, if even verifiable, don't involve reductions but rather promises to not cut down existing forests for X years. Western countries are trying to do what they do best: buy their way out of a problem that takes actual effort.

> The last place I worked had 25,000 people on its main campus. Three gyms, three coffee shops, four cafeterias and more square footage than the pentagon.

I interviewed at a place like this, with all the in-site amenities. They were particularly proud of offering breakfast, lunch, and dinner every day to the staff. As I finished my last round of interviews, it became obvious that they offered this because they expected everyone to be there for breakfast, lunch, and dinner every day.

I did not accept the offer, and I have no regrets.

And highly susceptible to jamming.

It seems like it's just automating middle managers and gamifying the appearance of work.

I feel like the lack of an MFA alternative is what keeps me from dumping my smartphone entirely.

Or to train itself, to the worst possible outcomes: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/03/micro...

When we accept that people who's job title is "futurologist" are full of it.

Elixir was a gateway to Erlang for me. I hadn't heard of Erlang before I started writing in Elixir, but all the discussion of why Elixir was so great revolved around Erlang and the BEAM. This lead me to Joe's distributed systems thesis and really changed how I approach writing code.

The syntax takes a bit of getting used to, but I generally prefer the language. I haven't found anything that's a nice to work with for web app development in Erlang, though; I do think the tooling around Phoenix is nicely polished.

Congress, mostly.

> How has the military (US, or other) historically managed to recruit and retain their medical corps, or the Army Corps of Engineers? Has there just not been a situation in modern memory where there weren't doctors sufficient to keep the gears of war turning?

The problem I saw when I was in was that the retention problem was one of incentives. Enlisted folks who work on offensive cyber are sitting next to people who are making far more than they are for nearly the exact same job, minus the aspects of being a soldier (long hours, no OT, tasks outside your core job). Being a contractor just pays more for less, so they have little reason to stay in when the promise of a better life isn't quite what their recruiter told them.

The entire article had an odd vibe to it. Either the crime didn't actually happen, or it's just a distasteful example of turning the victims of a felony into a marketing opportunity.

Yes. Turns out, auditing the poor is low-hanging fruit, since the poor don't have the means to fight back.

https://www.propublica.org/article/irs-now-audits-poor-ameri...

My biggest concern is how you maintain directional control in a power loss scenario.

They are. It's called building goodwill.

The argument is not whether or not the theater owner can kick you out. The argument is whether the government can also criminalize the behavior.

It'll stick around. People still "drop a dime" on others, but payphones are largely a thing of the past and certainly aren't 10c anymore.