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sirmike_··on The GPU Banana Stand
So? Who cares. Just because he is a thinking and breathing human being with a pulse and a different view than you. How many times have you made the front page of a prolific website? That’s like me telling the world — you, based off one comment sampling that you are stuck up and one dimensional …. Which we both know isn’t true, right? Benefit of the doubt.
sirmike_··on How to Stop Procrastinating on Your Goals by Using the “Seinfeld Strategy”
Nah, that's optimizing practice. Eventually you roll into whatever because it's old hat. Would you tell BB King playing every day he was optimizing for nothing?

Haha. You can and will hit a bad streak, it's inevitable. There is value in doing the thing.

Pretty soon all that practice adds up. YMMV. But like the article said it's gotta be action.

What is doesn't say is this is a way to build small wins. It only takes a small chain to create momentum.

sirmike_··on Guns, Privacy, and Crime
An armed society is a polite society. -- RAH
sirmike_··on Department of Justice announces new policy for charging cases under the CFAA
Sounds like a good way to get your cheeks clapped by the Feds. Only believe it if it had the weight of law for something like this. No way would a person want to wing it with a DoJ "promise". Lol. C'mon man.
sirmike_··on Keycloak: Open-Source Identity and Access Management
Have used and brought keycloak into many companies over the years as a solution. Steep learning curve a little. But it essentially works as designed either as the IDP (rare in my exp) or as a IAM broker more common.

Big companies need it because their hands are tied to old and inflexible vendor's APIs. However they can with some effort craft a branded and modern UI/UX. Backend works with just about anything old Auth related whilst supporting a newer modern Auth schemes.

I am surprised IBM has not made RHEL ruin it yet.

To say IBM is a slightly better steward of their open source efforts than Oracle never leaves one with much comfort.

sirmike_··on IQ Test Made by Mensa Norway
I am Schrodinger's dummy. I am Schrodinger's smarty.
sirmike_··on IQ Test Made by Mensa Norway
Yes. I answered all within the time frame. I still had 14 minutes and change on the clock.
sirmike_··on IQ Test Made by Mensa Norway
What does this mean? I didn't even get a score.

"Your IQ lies outside the area that the test is able to measure. We are hoping to extend this area as soon as we have gathered more data."

sirmike_··on Why Jony Ive left Apple to the ‘accountants’
Sure the iPad has its down sides. But it also does complicated things dummy easy. Example tossing a pixelated/blurred box onto a video. That's ridiculously complicated on windows and requires a hell of a steep learning curve. No problem if you have the time. But a blocker if time is and your video editing skillsets are short.
sirmike_··on Home lab beginners guide (2021)
I have to respectfully push back here. "hw/sw" garage is the perfect way to describe it. All of this takes place at one's home. There is no arbiter, but the individual over what is in or out to one's time at home.

Distinction springs from the person themselves.

I think ClumsyPilot's way to put it was just fine.

sirmike_··on Podman Desktop Companion GUI – Parity on All Major Operating Systems
https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/podman-windows-wsl

https://dev.to/mrstardom/how-to-run-podman-on-windows-subsys...

https://dev.to/thangchung/start-podman-on-wsl2-in-4-steps-3j...

sirmike_··on The Impervious Browser: Your Portal to the P2P Internet
I am not clear or see the obvious problem this would solve?

Could someone help me understand the user story/user case for the problem this solves today for a user?

I honestly have a hard time with these p2p/decentrialized/ blockchain/*xyzcoin items. After you have seen one, they all kinda cast the same shadow.

sirmike_··on We analyzed 100K technical interviews to see where the best performers work
Honestly the only thing I see out of this is that Dropbox is a huge paying customer of this service.
sirmike_··on API-0.core.keybaseapi.com has expired certificate
https://wire.com/en/ is what i have used for years. YMMV.
sirmike_··on Russia opens criminal investigation of Meta over death calls on Facebook
Oh is that so? It will be interesting to see if I end up in FB jail over this one. The kinder way to say this is "May the people of Russia remove the blots of tyranny staining their flag." Also the classic one person's freedom fighter is another's terrorist.
sirmike_··on Show HN: My Book Bulletproof TLS and PKI (Second Edition) Is Out
Just purchased thanks!
sirmike_··on Putin holds a major soft power weapon, help weaken it with gas and oil rationing
No thank you.
sirmike_··on Show HN: SlikSafe – A decentralized, end-to-end encrypted alternative to Dropbox
Thats cool but I am not paying with some digital coin. But good for people who don't have that hang up.
sirmike_··on Did IBM Just Preview the Future of Caches?
Anand hasnt had Anand for a very long time you are right to point out.

We had it really good when he was in charge. In depth technical dives from a curious position. https://imgur.com/a/MFAypUc

I believe Phronix is still good. https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=home

ArsTechnica has waned and waxed over time. But they have always been solid-enough for me. They have always been up to defend the individual in technology policy and how trends in law enforcement deceptively catches up. They can get squirrelly with the climate view once in a while. BUT even if you disagree with them -- you can bet if you sincerely read their content they stance is well grounded.

As a stable and long term aggregator for open source and similar news and articles I have been very happy with lxer. http://lxer.com/

sirmike_··on Surveilance bill rushed through Australian parliament in 24 hours
>There are other defenses, historically.

Indeed. Revolution, rebellion. None of these *have* to be violent per se. The Pax French have handled massive changes in gov without armed conflict in the 20th Century (not counting WWII and Nazis occupation.) It will be very interesting to see how well their democracy will counter this.

sirmike_··on Apple can read your iMessages (even though they’re E2E encrypted)
In the early days when iCloud was new it corrupted my decade long (at that point in time) bookmarks.

I was devastated. I never recovered them all. But it taught me a lesson.

Apple in the cloud brings nothing good to the user if you trust them.

Since then I have never and will never use iCloud for anything important. I can see iCloud has become a vector for no privacy over the years.

sirmike_··on To save California, sacrifice single-family zoning
Bluster is what you say!

OK then I am sure you would be ok with zoning being changed to allow for a nuclear power plant in your neighborhood whenever someone(s) with big piles of cash comes through. Yeah, no thanks mate.

Where I live the last heads of our county council, where openly corrupt with sweetheart deals handed out to local construction and developer companies. The one before last ended up in jail thanks to the feds investigating these type crimes. This is in the US no less. No way buddy. The public has a right to decide who can built what where and for what purpose.

Yes there should be defining discrimination which rightly limits a free for all when it comes to zoning.

How naïve are you?

sirmike_··on To save California, sacrifice single-family zoning
Seems like this would create a whole host of problems which restrictive zoning solves.

In other words we already learned that lesson and people generally do not like unappealing entities being right next door. It allows the public an extra check on something not appropriate.

Why does California not have a wider range of political ideas to solve their problems?

It appears Cali is chasing its tail by their brand and experiment in democracy when they try to "solve" their glaring issues.

Credit where due -- many times other states have benefited from California being so big and mandated certain safety laws. But like the famous saying many citizens of the Golden State will soon be able to answer the question for Newsom (uberkind-liberal-idiot-when-it-suits): What have you done for me lately?

sirmike_··on Thoughts On Lisp And Racket (2019)
"but nobody ever said that JavaScript made them smarter, or that they learned a lot using anything by Microsoft."

Simply not true. Scores and scores of IT people came up on Microsoft. For many it was the door to a technology career.

As one's career evolves it becomes easier to pick what you want to work on.

sirmike_··on Culdesac Tempe: The first car-free neighborhood built from scratch in the US
Hard pass for me. But in 25 years maybe as an option.
sirmike_··on Employers bow to tech workers in hottest job market since the dot-com era
Why are you saying crazy self-fulfilling prophesies? Do you hate money?

Take the leap into something you WANT. Skills, Sschmills! You can learn can't you? Life means learning new stuff all the time. Learning never takes a time out.

The military was a bastion of learned lessons for me. One key takeaway: You are your own best advocate. Everything in an interview or negotiation related to you springs from that viewpoint. That's one of the most basic you will repeat infinitely. Use it boldly, not arrogantly.

sirmike_··on Employers bow to tech workers in hottest job market since the dot-com era
This is very, very true. I refuse to do coding based interviews. I'm flexible on certain homework. Hell will freeze over before I have to sit through a multi-hour panel and coding session. Like for free? Hit the bricks. Who can just take 4-6 hours out of your normal work day to swing into something like that? Not even germane to my role.

The fastest way to avoid companies like that is to set boundaries on what you will do and will not do. Good recruiters LISTEN and respect this. I do not want my time wasted and likewise for the recruiters and companies I am talking too.

sirmike_··on A backlash against gender ideology is starting in universities
This is it. Wrap it up. Shows over. This is all that a parent needs. Fin. -30-
sirmike_··on A backlash against gender ideology is starting in universities
Parents make mistakes all the time. It’s a milestone of parenting. A child is a child and knows nothing. Not even themselves up to a certain age. But that’s how we are all born. Not knowing anything, until we do. Then we all make a shit ton of mistakes and learn some more. Whether a child is this or that has to be ALWAYS balanced against the back drop of their best interests.

It’s one thing to be supportive and empathetic. It’s another thing to bow down to worship your child and let them run the show.

The trans issue has risen to a point where society must face it and figure out the bigger questions of how can we accommodate them and yet balance and find natural limits. We are so fucking far away from that point. And we will get there eventually.

I agree with the parent comment saying the trans issue is way over sampled and is or has become some kinda trend. It just is. Clearly their child showcases the main point of children know nothing when the child mis-understands what true transphobia is versus a childlike ignorance of parroting a concept they just heard about. Why is that? Well it never changes from generation to generation. If you have kids at some point they learn about attention and how to use it.

It’s kinda like personal preferences. Is it transphobic to say you are only attracted to the opposite sex and would never date or consider a trans person in a romantic relationship? Nope. But it’s a sure fired way to keep eyeballs on the screen and people in their rigid political groups.

Like this parent (although I will be more brutal) I could give two shits if they felt they were a trex or were a girl or a boy. I don’t care. What matters is that I raise a kind hearted, compassionate human being who understands the world is not your friend. And can find their grit and true will when they need it. There’s book loads more to this but boiled down I’m doing my best to not raise an inconsiderate asshole. Because they must be held to account and told when they are in fact acting like an inconsiderate asshole.

sirmike_··on Launch HN: Explo (YC W20) – Customer-facing dashboards and reports
Would it be possible to put it in print where we could find it without iteration over the same query on a third party news aggregation website which is likely to never be found by anyone who could benefit from your services?
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