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"Have an impact in the world" is a canned answer. I seriously doubt a large percentage of candidates really care, its just not appropriate (unfortunately) to say we're here for the money.

Typically Terraform takes longer to get something working than mindlessly clicking through the console. In my experience those mindless clickthrough things end up sticking around for years even when they weren't intended to.

Wordpress is probably the elephant in the room.

Presumably the folks behind this would know that he was being transferred to Germany. I wonder why they would not have prevented it through some bureaucracy? Is it common for critically ill Russians to be transferred to Germany? Just seems like something that would have to go through a lot of channels to get done, but I have no experience in healthcare.

I was investigating unions over the holidays and saw that these types of things are specific to companies which didn't make sense to me. I'm not familiar with unions in general, but the ones I hear about most in the trades seem to be exterior to any specific company.

Making unions specific to a company rather than a profession seems less useful...or are trade unions specific to their companies as well?

I don't believe its possible to get macOS (or atleast wasn't) onto an AMI in anyway.

No. It uses oauth and scopes for stuff like playlists and activity.

Usually I'm looking for something specific and question whether books will be much help. Eg., I have some salsa, sausage and lentils what can I turn them into type searches.

I think the issue is the filter is based on the specific algorithms and not that problem solving ability.

There seems to be more emphasis on "the candidate knew to use bubble sort" or something stupid like that instead of "I observed this candidate reason through the problem and I don't really care that they didn't know a canned algorithm".

As someone who cooks a lot, recipes are the worst. As the author points out, it is the obviousness of what the recipe writers are doing that makes it so annoying. I have to acknowledge that I am at least somewhat to blame for this (albeit miniscule in the scale of things) as instead of seeking out concise recipe sites I opt to google in the first place.

I don't know how much we know about the brain but I think inputs could be electrically simulated. Regardless, I'm not so sure "consciousness" depends on inputs as much. The assumption is its consciousness would be similar to our own but an organism that was created in a lab might feel entirely different such that we can't really compare what it would be like to just take our brain and put it in a jar.

I believe there is some phenomena related to the way people born blind visualize or think about things, but I only vaguely remember reading about such things.

I know this is kind of a joke but when I'm doing system admin related things it is basically my OS GUI. Instead of using any of my regular shells like cmd/PS/WSL/Cygwin I use vscode remote to a local Linux VM and do everything using the shell and editor within my VM home directory.

Not having read any legal literature around or really understanding the DMCA, how can they not make a distinction between things with legitimate uses and not? How do torrent clients stand up to that?

Lumber and building materials for remodeling like my bathroom (shower and closet doors stuff like that), topsoil and grass seed/sod for redoing my yard. 2000lbs of lava rock most recently. A new water heater when mine went out. Taking loads to the town dump during spring cleaning. There is always something here to do. Not to mention the times I've been in the store looking at a new TV, lawn mower or anything else that I would like to take home immediately (I realize that delivery exists but the convenience is what a truck provides). I've also had times where I've gone to pick such things up and the local truck rentals were out which is super frustrating.

I also don't currently own a truck, but a small sedan so all of these recent things I had to wait/pay for delivery, borrow a truck, or depend on rentals so I'm familiar with "truckless" lifestyle and can say I would prefer at the least a beater truck for these tasks, at which point trading my current car would come out equal to a standard truck in that scenario.

I think your oversimplifying the appeal of a Hummer to only be had by some stereotype you have. I would purchase one of these as I have always liked the way the Hummer looks. I don't care for its association with the military or anything else. I'm not "flamboyantly liberal" and pretty center on a lot of things. It is just a nice looking car, simple as that. I also find the Tesla truck appealing as a homeowner I need something with ample cargo area to get various things for my home. It isn't that its electric that draws me, it wouldn't be that it was an ICE that would draw me either. Its just nice looking and featureful.

Columbus Day :)

He seems really insistent on not being ID'd for buses or trains, but its a requirement for flying which has a whole section. Is there something going on with buses and trains that are under more scrutiny? Also, if he can get around the ID with fake names via buses and trains why would he even accept flying?

Isn't that only with non-cash accounts?

Nowadays no one's plans work out exactly the way they planned.

You can ignorantly (and hypocritically) call avoiding super-spreading schools in the midst of a pandemic an extremist position all you want, but you are overvaluing 6 months of "productivity" and completely avoiding continued remote learning.

How does delaying your school career 1 semester cause death?

What debt? School debt? Are you talking about college? If you aren't attending school at all then you aren't adding to the debt (in most cases with Federal loans). If its online then you are still on track so I don't see your point.

I would prefer every student to be held back 1 semester from graduating high school than 1 more dead (if that were a possibility, but you get the point).

I don't even understand how its possible to prefer sending kids back over one semester. Of course I think the bigger issue is its just parents that want kids out of the house for a multitude of reasons including getting back to their own work.

I've been thinking about this in regard to AWS. The encryption at rest for most things is completely transparent so the only thing your really protected against is someone walking into a data center and grabbing your drive somehow. Or improperly disposed drives. Maybe some kind of hypervisor or SAN exploit but I don't know much about that.

AWS seems to have turned part of the cloud operating model they are supposed to be responsible for back onto the user and no one questions it.

I'm one of those people that leave it open. I think I instinctively just avoid clicking on any pop up/over on a page.

That being said, I am curious what happens if you don't click "accept" on those ones. I'm assuming you're implicitly accepting by not leaving?

The combination of being played on a real world map and covertly growing/spreading reminds me of Plague Inc. I wonder if any inspiration came from this.

The author describes Terraform and CloudFormation as "imperative". This doesn't seem correct to me, although you can force a sort of imperative flow by manually defining your dependencies in a specific order. I have only a little experience with Ansible but I would say that is the only major imperative-ish IaC (at least the way I used it) aside from bash scripts or working with SDK's directly.

I recently started a CISSP course and discovered this. I was so excited to finally be getting into security and the next thing I know I'm 3 hours into recordings about pointless jargon and control taxonomies. I know there is a place for the latter at least, but it isn't something I want to do everyday.

What kind of things are you doing in Retool for ops?

I don't believe it is available yet.

> Google Cloud VMware Engine is expected to be generally available to customers this quarter in the North Virginia (us-east4) and Los Angeles (us-west2) regions.

> We plan for the service to be available globally in eight additional regions—London, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Sydney, Montréal, São Paulo, Singapore, and Netherlands—in the second half of the calendar year.

Your data center contract is running out at the end of the month and you need to get somewhere else yesterday.

I believe a few years is 20 years though. I haven't thought of patents from this perspective but 20 years is still a long time (and large chunk of your working years) to benefit from something.