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sirmike_··on An incomplete list of skills senior engineers need, beyond coding
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sirmike_··on An incomplete list of skills senior engineers need, beyond coding
Feel it if you must but even this list is woefully incomplete if we are to strike the cynic's position! Not everyone is going to encounter all these in one role. Not even in a whole career.

A lot of these are super redundant in my opinion.

If you boil them down I bet a lot of these would be mirrored in one living ones life in general. Some of them can be taught but so much more is earned by grit and experience.

I am not pooping on this site at all ... just remember everything in the modern world is made by a human hand. Frail and limited and built on billions of failed attempts. Life is iterative and unpredictable. It is a journey after all. Cruel and wide, with beauty written large everywhere in plain site.

sirmike_··on The Silent Type: On (possibly) being Bob Dylan’s son
"Her hands tightened on the steering wheel. For the first time in all our talks on the subject, I sensed from her something more than reticence. The ambiguity of whether I was Dylan’s child was so much less important than the certainty that I was hers. I hadn’t seen that, and she was hurt. We drove the rest of the way in silence."
sirmike_··on Does Media Coverage Inspire Copy Cat Mass Shootings?
I am really surprised people have not buried your comment. It is too reasonable and well thought out for certain divisive political crowds.

I really wish the US would focus on an infrastructure bill already. In my opinion that would do more to tackle the root of crime -- inequity than the current push being called for. I feel something like that over time would have a much more positive impact on the lives of more Americans than anything else discussed in recent memory. And it is not so divisive as other big govt ideas.

sirmike_··on YouTube TV sharply increases monthly subscription to $64.99
Personally I might keep it at $65 if they had just value added youtube premium with it. I was hoping they would do this at some point as an option. But will most likely not happen.
sirmike_··on How do we cut down on emissions from steel, cement, and plastic?
No, just no. adding extra taxes will not do anything to solve the climate problem. It will only put first world countries at a disadvantage to 2nd and third world who will continue along using coal and other cheaper forms of energy.

Why would I pay more taxes just to have them come back to me? No. Just no!

sirmike_··on Attorney general: Americans should accept security risks of encryption backdoors
"fuck off", said the slightly above average, technically inclined American.
sirmike_··on Google Gmail purchase history can't be deleted
Yes but did they go in and perm delete the Trash label/folder? They still are alive for 30 days. Three weeks is inside that window.

>It also says you can delete this log by deleting the email, but three weeks after we deleted all email, the list is still there.

sirmike_··on WeChat is Watching: Living in China with the app that knows everything about me
> China's system is so complicated and so far from a heavy-handed police state.

No. China is not free. I am sorry you are fed up. But I bet millions of victims of Chinese oppression are in much dire condition and wish they could be fed up and not dead or disappeared. Xi Jinping is a dope. The amount of articulation of control China has over the its citizens is chilling. Defending China, Fuck the Chinese govt.

I can say that and face zero repercussions, publically. You cannot say that in China and expect to be ok. I hope the Chinese people rise up one day and figure out a better form of governance for themselves.

sirmike_··on E3: Microsoft’s next Xbox: 8K graphics, SSD storage, and ray-tracing for 2020
Maybe they mean some kind of software ram disk? Whatever it is it sounds like gold plated 90s marketing.

... fog lifts from stage

... a huge screen with flashing, strobing lights emerge with diffused 90s font writing ...

Some kinda music roars and the writing on screen is undiffused instantly revealing

“SOLID SATE DRIVE POWERED VIRTUAL RAM”

sirmike_··on Thoughts on macOS Package Managers
MacOS was not made for multi-users on one machine.
sirmike_··on Spotify to Apple: Time to Play Fair
Its been a super long time since I have looked into developing on the iOS side -- are there restrictions on Safari which would prevent Spotify from going to an all PWA type deployment for iOS and peacing out from the App Store? What would the API for Safari restrictions be to overcome? Thanks in advance.
sirmike_··on Goodbye Docker and Thanks for all the Fish
Agreed. I doubt docker is going to die anytime soon. They simply have a much bigger footprint than one distro family.
sirmike_··on $35,000 Tesla Model 3 Available Now
Interesting but after hearing the stories of waiting days and weeks for delivery and for service I think it is best to wait a year or two more to make sure they have all the kinks worked out.

The way they are selling these I would hope someone would be looking and clicking on that details button and really looking to make sure it is for them.

Does anyone have a good real world average for current wait times for delivery and service? Also wondering what these are for the flyover states (midwest) where I am at vs the coasts.

sirmike_··on ‘Dead Skunk’ Stench from Marijuana Farms Outrages Californians
I wonder if this is worse than living near a hog farm?
sirmike_··on Microsoft Pulling Even with Apple in Ranks of Biggest Companies
Sure, I personally like to be able open the device without having to look at it. It’s a security access feature I’ve come to be spoiled by. That’s all just my two cents. And I should have said any new iOS devices for me.
sirmike_··on Microsoft Pulling Even with Apple in Ranks of Biggest Companies
And touchid. Still sore about that. Maybe I am just too old but the iOS platform died for me as an option the day they yanked touchid out of the iOS ecosystem.

I know this is pure speculation but does anyone think they may bring it back if they can do it under the screen? Also waiting for them to add mouse support to ipad. I am convinced this will happen in a few years (prolly not tho).

sirmike_··on Police Barged into My Room While I Was Covering Fujian Chemical Spill
Uhhh! She had every right. Free will. No other reasons need to be given. I’m not debating with you I’m just shocked that you would posit such a silly statement “but I don't know why she rejected their offers so many times.”
sirmike_··on OpenZFS vs. Btrfs and other file systems (2017)
I also didn't think the canonical effort went anywhere? Maybe I'm wrong. Re:wsl You are correct thank you for the catch. I was missing a few key words.
sirmike_··on OpenZFS vs. Btrfs and other file systems (2017)
Opinions are good, bad and ugly. Sometimes all at once.

Thanks for letting us know one nerd's take on openzfs.

The only thing standing in zfs way (to 1st tier Linux support) is a company springing up and heading the charge. 75 percent sure this will happen eventually with ZoL at some point in a decade's time.

However, another point of measure is money. Synology is huge and seems to think btrfs is good enough for business. They compete with ixsystems directly. We could go all day and into 2020 with points and counter points. The licensing issue is weak but will eventually be moot with enough money and time behind the right project. I'm not in any position to judge that last point for sure just offering my IT pro/business take on it.

To be fair bsd-ish-ness has a role to play on the backend and is bullet proof and battle tested for the right mission. But the same can be said for Linux too. The last point I'll make is that today, I can run the Linux kernel from my msft windows 10 machine natively. No one here would have saw that in 2000. Does bsd, zfs have a similar anecdotal Hero Epic like this; where the enemy capitulated so thoroughly?

sirmike_··on New Zealand travellers refusing digital search now face $5k Customs fine
So have a travel flip phone or ship to US ahead of visit.
sirmike_··on Intelligent Tracking Prevention 2.0
All in favor of these changes. Employing the user to control what is theirs is always good. The only part i do not like (from the power user perspective) is the auto save passwords. Prolly a good thing for the avg end user tho.
sirmike_··on iOS 12 introduces new features to reduce interruptions and manage Screen Time
This is cool i guess. iOS Nanny. The best part I think is the notifications. Looks like the ultimate STFU setting for apps. Glares at Facebook, twitter and work email /s
sirmike_··on Void Linux project leader has disappeared
Is this the famous three is two, two is one and one is none?
sirmike_··on After Facebook scrutiny, is Google next?
No.
sirmike_··on Walmart in Early-Stage Acquisition Talks with Humana
archive.is version https://archive.fo/5g19p
sirmike_··on Guide to Slack import and export tools
Bear in mind my opinion is coming from the US ITOps perspective, outside of this my opinion may not travel as far pun intended re:the rest of the world.

There are a lot of out of touch concerns here in regards to privacy. I think this basically shows the diff between INDependent devs and employEE devs.

At any point in time a company who owns and pays for all IT related accounts and services can look, monitor, export disable, enable, delete, log or secure their systems as they need to either by compliance requirements, legal, policy or for any business or nonbusiness reason at anytime.

At the least you do not have a right to privacy to at the best limited privacy when communicating on a company provided communications platform.

Most companies worth their salt have this written down in their company handbook or manual etc. Most companies also have reasonable "you may use company systems for limited private exchanges"

This is even more true when the company has government or gov facing clients or does business in certain market sectors like Finance.

It is good to see the new kid on the block (Slack) is growing up and getting more focused on its core business clients: companies/b2b.

The same goes for company provided laptops, equipment.

I think it is also super important above all that the vast majority of people and companies enter into these things in good faith and reasonableness. We just do not live in a world where the honor system can be the only safeguard for these things. And of course with all things businessey -- the more money is riding on top of something -- the more important it is to be wise in regards to risk in and out of business matters.

sirmike_··on Airtable gets $52M in funding
Airtable is exactly what https://transpose.com/ Transpose could have been. But better. Been using it for just about everything you can think of. Did not know about the Blocks feature. Awesome. I got fairly good with Transpose until they closed up shop. Fieldbook and Airtable definitely can do things that Trello (cannot do tables) and Evernote (can do tables but very limited) cannot. There is a huge middle ground between Goog Spreadsheets and MSFT Excel. I hope they do not sell out to anyone. The day they do will be the end of their flexibility.
sirmike_··on Overly Broad CheckFreePay Terms and Conditions
highlighted portions which seem overly broad. Are these pretty standard in the industry? These are required to use certain core features of Simple Bank.
sirmike_··on TWiT is suing Twitter, alleging breach of contract and copyright infringement
Don't bother. his (simooo) opinion is no more valid than anyone else. Not coincidentally anyone can see Leo puts out original content for a very long time. From the beginning. No matter what I hope he always is able to keep doing it.
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