thelastknowngod

> I'd be very happy if some expert could tell me that this is completely worthless.

Is Dr. Larry Appel, director of the Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research at Johns Hopkins not an expert?

I'd genuinely like to see what moderate right leaning content is even available for consumption. The only thing anyone seems to talk about anymore is the grifters and lunatics.

Yeah discord and slack are the only places I recognize people anymore.

Reddit is a hellhole. I lived on Lemmy for a while and its really just as bad.. maybe worse because you have to deal with the insufferable open source hardliners.

For actual information, hacker news, rss feeds, podcasts, and medium posts are the only things I can stomach anymore.

I've been using zshmarks or bashmarks for years now. I couldn't get by without it at this point.

https://github.com/huyng/bashmarks

https://github.com/jocelynmallon/zshmarks

> I have a leetcode account but I can not force myself to solve puzzles in my free time after solving them all day long at work. And dare I say puzzles at work are more interesting, because they solve real people's problems.

The problems at work are also real, actual problems.

I have trouble with the coding section of the interviews but I do know how to write code. If the coding section of the interview was like "build me a ci pipeline for this app" or "find all the workloads in this cluster which need X attribute" or "design a terraform module to do Y" then I would pass with flying colors.

In the average SRE role, it has been my experience that there are very few situations where I would need to build out a perfect O(1) algorithm. Nothing I write is going to be so heavily used that this level of performance is something to be concerned with. These are the only code problems I really see when interviewing though.

Yeah you're not entitled to anything in the States. There are no employment contracts and you can be fired for any reason without notice. The only reason to give severance is to avoid bad publicity. There isn't any mandate that the company has to offer anything.

There really should be though especially when the company in question was able to afford $1 billion in stock buybacks just 2 years ago, and when the CEO has a $3 billion net worth, and when they are well known for not paying their suppliers (the artists) a fair price for the content they create.

I kinda feel like the comparison between an on-prem vs cloud. For the longest time, big, old companies clung onto their data center spaces. No new start-up would ever dream of that though. They would be cloud first from inception. It's probably going to be the same for new companies vs old ones.

My MKII Das Keyboard I bought in 2008 is still my daily driver.. It works flawlessly so why would I replace it?

In the same neighborhood, my daily headphones are the wired Beyerdynamic DT770 Pros I bought as a graduation gift to myself from high school.. That was 20 years ago. Again, not broken. Work great. Why do I need anything else?

Ok.

Probably ok for very small startups but it should be a priority to remove this for the first SRE hire.

I wonder how that would be calculated. My salary is comfortably into the six figures but my taxable income is below the $55k threshold.

I basically haven't used an apple product (outside of the ipod) since my powermac circa 2003. I got an iPad pretty much entirely for the pencil and Procreate. Both are wonderful but it's a horrible OS otherwise. I don't think I would ever get an iPhone given how inflexible everything feels in that ecosystem.

I thought I might be able to do some light development work on it.. No chance.

I don't even know why it has so much storage space. The file system is so poorly designed it's a pain in the ass to transfer anything to it.

I read Bloomberg and listen to their podcast as well. I am often in strong disagreement with the writers or guests being interviewed.

Al Jazeera's English broadcast is actually quite good for showing an outside, more neutral view of the world (unless the story relates to Qatar) too.

Could terraform be Zap Brannigan? Overly confident but often trips over its own feet?

Agreed.

The Russian central bank did not invade Ukraine but it provided a mechanism to pay for that invasion.

Her Patreon account may not have actively promoted disinformation but it provided a mechanism to pay for that disinformation.

Both needed their own versions of deplatforming for the same reason.

I read an analogy years ago about how stupid the logic behind most promotions in software are. Think about a sports team..

"That guy is our best player! He scores more points than anyone else in the team by far! Quick! Let's pull him out of the game and make him the coach!"

Why not keep him in the game and just look for someone who can be a good coach?

Anta is doing exactly this. With major labels refusing to use Xinjiang cotton, Anta has said they have no problem with it and are building an empire based on forced labor.

It's been a few years since I've seriously looked into some of these places so things may have changed or I am not remembering 100% correctly. Also, some countries listed below require a certain level of passive income as well but I'm not 100% sure which ones.

You can apply for residency in places like Mexico which require very little physical presence to maintain/renew a visa for the first few years. After 3 years (I think) you have to live there for the last 18 months before applying for citizenship.

Chile is the opposite in where you must spend the first 18 months in the country but after that you only really need to be there once a year.

Other countries have generous tourist visas like Turkey. If you rent an apartment for one year in Turkey (anywhere, for any price) you can get a 1 year tourist visa.

Wikipedia has a list of all countries visa policies as well. You could find out about where you are allowed to stay for longer than 90 days somewhere by searching for "visa policy of $COUNTRY".

Then there are places offering visas for remote workers but requires you to live there for at least 6 months of the year (making you a tax resident of that country). This includes places like Portugal, Estonia, Georgia, and the UAE.

I believe in Georgia and the UAE they will not charge income tax for the first year as well but I may be wrong.

If you have deeper pockets there are Golden Visa programs for places like Portugal, Greece, Malta, Cyprus (might be wrong on this one), New Zealand, Georgia, Montenegro, and many Caribbean nations.

Lastly, most every country in the world has some sort of business owners or startup visa. If you're entrepeneurially minded and have sufficient startup capital, you can get a visa pretty much anywhere in the world.

EDIT: I use travelingmailbox.com for snail mail and OpenPhone to maintain US-based communication for whatever reason.

Pre-covid I bounced but also set myself up to have relatively stable home bases. This includes resident visas in countries that do not require me to spend a lot of time in those specific countries and international real estate.

At the moment I am mostly stationary but I still have projects and/or goals in at least 4 different countries.

I left the US ~5 years ago after getting a fully remote position. I'd probably quit if they ever told me I had to come back. I miss family and old friends of course but I can't deny that I live a significantly better life now. It's one of the best decisions I've ever made.

Local to wherever your customers and/or employer are. They can use their normal process for expenditure or payroll or whatever in their accounting software to pay him.

Being understanding to the fact that the CDC is made up of people who are fallible, dealing with an entirely new situation for our species, that information is more often unknown than known, and that changes will be required as the situation evolves is what it means to be a mature, rational adult.

They are doing the best they can in an incredibly difficult time and correcting course when necessary. Grow up.

Agreed. Partially completed might be nice if you're tracking someone else's work (subordinates) but for my own, I would need at least one more item saying where I left off or why I didn't finish in one sitting.

I'm sure this works for Adam making god knows what at ILM though.. its just not for me in a software dev environment.

I think there is a significant amount of companies (and a substantial portion of the government) in the US that operates on a philosophy like "How much can we extract from people before there is any push back?" It is a nation entirely built on micro transactions.. I am sitting in an airport right now. Baggage carts are free to use. The last time I flew in the US it was a $5 fee. Why? Because it's just enough to extract value from us but not enough for anyone to complain in a significant way.

I don't think that companies are deliberately trying to be awful to workers. They are just using the standard American model.. "How much can we get away with?"

The country is in desperate need of widespread unionization efforts.

For what it's worth, I work for a very well known, high growth company. Many others seem to have a problem with work/life balance based on feedback I hear through the grapevine. My team experiences very little of that though. We are well staffed, globally distributed so on call rotations always match our waking time zones, there are loose deadlines at most, and we are given the benefit of the doubt if something takes longer than originally expected to complete. I refuse to answer slack or emails after 5pm (even if I'm on call) and take vacation whenever I want with little approval needed beyond making sure an on call shift is covered.

For all the hate silicon valley-type companies get, I honestly love the spot I'm in. I think it has more to do with team structure and management trusting you enough not to micromanage. Hard to verify that as a job seeker though.

Arylic boards

https://www.arylic.com/collections/diy-audio

> Sure it does — because it’s thru your network

I can buy an Arylic board for 1/10th the price of a Sonos speaker. It functions in exactly the same way and doesn't collect my data. The information Sonos collects is not necessary.

I have worked on Netflix's servers first hand. After seeing how large of a presence they have in their current CDNs, I can say that they have a hell of a lot of work ahead of them for that to become viable. They are enormous.

My last two jobs both used Mediawiki in different capacities. The current company is moving from Mediawiki to Mindtouch. It is similar to Mediawiki but more geared towards corporate environments. The editor is completely wysiwyg as well.. no more markup which is great for the non-geeks in the company.

You should check out Collusion: http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/collusion-who-is-tracking-you/

Then install TrackerBlock: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/trackerblock/