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They won't be snagging professionals with this, and in this specific case I think that's fine.

I expect most of the people who'd fall for it are young or immature people, trying to get back at someone who beat them in a game or argued with them on social media. For whatever reason many of these folks see DDoSing, sending death threats and even swatting as "pranks" instead of crimes. A friendly reminder that doing this stuff can get them in serious trouble could nip that behavior in the bud before something tragic happens.

Credit Suisse is facing liquidity issues and tarnished credibility after a rash of scandals and screwups, see https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/spies-lies-chairman... for a summary. From your link it looks like their finance reporting in recent years is now under question as well. It doesn't look related to what happened at SVB or Silvergate.

My first PC was a Micron. I don't remember the specs at this point but the machine was fast, every component in it was well-chosen and standard, and the case was roomy and easy enough to get into that I was still using it long after swapping out all of the original components.

The best thing about Micron, though, was the support. Micron had no Level 1 "techs" reading replies from a script on staff, no annoying phone trees to navigate, and no obnoxiously long hold times. You'd just call and within a few rings be speaking directly to a Level 2 or 3 tech who knew both hardware and Windows troubleshooting and treated you as a peer. Discovering how aggressively awful support from most tech companies is after working with Micron was disheartening.

And there's no gotcha there, Google's always been open that retrieval fees are the tradeoff for Coldline being otherwise so cheap. Nearline is the better option for data you'll access more once a quarter.

I like fast sedans and find the Giulia to be one of the few really attractive cars sold these days, so when the high-end Quadrifoglio version came to the States I put my misgivings about Alfas aside long enough to strongly consider one as my last ICE car. I came to my senses after at least two of the prominent reviews at release described going through multiple vehicles as their initial review cars died. Car and Driver's 40,000-Mile Wrap-Up of their experience with the car (https://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/a23145269/alfa-romeo-gi...) said the QF "broke their heart" and lists a litany of issues, with the car out of commission for 80 days out of the 14 months they spent with it. They did say the car's an absolute blast to drive when it actually works, at least.

There aren't many reasonable use cases for sending a fax these days but this is definitely one.

It would be like middle school with on-call rotations.

Plenty of great word or number games only cost a couple of bucks to buy or remove ads on forever and have no other IAPs. Half of my family is obsessed with Wordsmyth at the moment. Most mobile action games are stuffed with dark patterns these days, but there are plenty of great ports with only one-time charges. Rockstar's ported Max Payne and most of their great PS2-era games: GTA III, Vice City, San Andreas, Bully, Max Payne, etc.

That's exactly it:

https://bootstrapmade.com/demo/Flattern/

Bootstrap is just a front-end web framework and there's nothing inherently wrong with using a nice-looking Bootstrap template to get a decent site up fast. Real companies doing that make sure to swap in their own contact info, though. Every search result with the Adam street non-address is for something shady.

Lately I've seen less recruiter pitches from Amazon and more personalized messages from managers there about specific roles on their teams, which is a new wrinkle. I doubt that those people would add hours of recruiting to their weekly workload unless the standard candidate pipeline was really running dry.

> Also, the video, at least to me, makes the person doing the tutorial to be seen as "more authoritative" than through text, even if you can tell the person talking has little experience with microcontrollers (or whatever, if you have experience in the field).

And with the dislike count gone we've lost the only way to tell at a glance if a tutorial is worth spending time on. Good luck finding a thoughtful critique in the comments.

I've bought multiple products in a category on Amazon, from different Chinese brands, using separate resellers, and received items that were identical aside from the labels even when the product descriptions and price points were wildly different. It's like AliExpress without the low prices.

>I’ve seen un-configured, un-updated, EoL Cisco equipment.

I was in a server room a couple of years ago that looked like a Cisco museum, with some of the kit dating back to the early 2000s. When I mentioned that running a business on gear that had been EoL'd for a decade+ wasn't quite up to security best practices my contact shrugged and said they wouldn't be updating any of it in any case since they'd long since lost all of their access passwords.

To clarify I meant "more reasonable" in terms of getting the number of painkillers I actually needed to comfortably heal from my surgery. I don't find them habit-forming, fortunately, and agree that the anti-narcotic backlash is making life miserable for chronic pain sufferers.

It was interesting seeing this play out as a patient, as I had the same injury and surgery last year as I'd had during the height of the epidemic but was prescribed only 20% of the pain meds I'd received the first time. The second prescription was a lot more reasonable, to be honest, but I did have to fight with my insurance company as they wanted me to revisit the pharmacy every few days instead of giving me my full prescription at once. That was a little impracticable when I was on crutches.

I learned early in my career to never give an executive a completion date or time estimate I hadn't thought long and hard about and had full confidence in. They won't remember any of the contingencies you tacked onto your estimate or the additional features they insisted on adding to the project after you talked, but they'll never forget when you said it would be done. It's far better to annoy them in the short term by saying what you'll need to provide an accurate time frame than it is to guestimate something that will bite you later.

According to a study by Cybereason, which sells endpoint protection software.

Dysfunction is manna for consultants.

In one of my first jobs out of school clients at the large shipping company we were consulting to would regularly ask us for information other employees at that company had provided us. It struck me as odd, so I asked my manager about it. He explained that our work involved two departments at the company whose directors hated each other and wouldn't let their teams work together. Their employees used us as intermediaries to share info critical to doing their jobs without getting in trouble for it.

Later in my career I was brought in by tech teams to recommend solutions that they'd already thoroughly researched and settled on, but didn't have the internal clout to get approved. Once the external expert OK'd it they'd get the budget and headcount they'd been asking for.

Of course Facebook's fight is self-serving, and of course they'll spin that fight in whatever way will gain them the most public sympathy for it. Anyone even casually familiar with the company would have expected them to try to stop Apple's changes outright rather than agreeing to any kind of compromise that might impact their bottom line. The only surprise here is that people who work for the company have been surprised at its response.

I can't think of a better description of their EKS launch than "half-assed product introduced with great fanfare when the lack of an alternative to GKE was a disadvantage for customer acquisition." EKS had much improved when I last played with it around a year ago, though.

Retail companies like Walmart are driving more movement than you'd expect since they aren't only moving their own compute from AWS, they're requiring their own tech partners and vendors to provide them non-AWS-based alternatives as well. I've been on several migration/training projects for companies with large retail customers since they hadn't had time to build the sort of GCP or Azure expertise yet that they had around AWS.

In college I worked as a phone dispatcher for a company that had a slick homegrown system for managing accounts, billing and dispatching. It was faster, fuller-featured and more intuitive than the commercial systems I'd seen at the time.

When the dev swung by the office one day I chatted with him and was surprised to learnt that he'd gotten his start coding in prison as well. He hadn't used computers at all before being incarcerated, but got hooked in his first class when he typed something at the command line and got an error in response. He muttered something like "I'll show you, stupid machine" and committed then and there to getting the device to do what he wanted it to. Ten years later he had a successful business building and maintaining systems like the one I was using for small businesses all over the area.

Absolutely, I just used Deadline for writing and light diagramming. As a bonus I actually liked Win2k, it was stable and didn't get in my way. The only thing it was missing was font smoothing.

I used to have an old Windows 2000 laptop without onboard WiFi that I called "Deadline" and used for the same purpose. If you have work you can do without connectivity for extended stretches I recommend it.