Pokepokalypse

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by Pokepokalypse 5y ago
what's funny is most land-locked countries in the world are desperately poor. With Switzerland, the opposite is true.
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by Pokepokalypse 5y ago
office365 support? That's about it.
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by Pokepokalypse 5y ago
The most marketable skills are going to be in logistics, or procurement. Then - the corps (corporations) come looking for you.
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by Pokepokalypse 5y ago
correct. >'the org' will NOT protect me. So why would you put org before you? This kind of thinking. . . would you set off on a horseback ride and NOT feed your horse?
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by Pokepokalypse 5y ago
I 100% agree with every part of this. If you ever find yourself in an organization that is full of "rockstar" or cowboy coders, it's often easier to get out and find something better, than it is to fix that broken culture. &g
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by Pokepokalypse 5y ago
That all resonates strongly with me. I've had two employers where this skill was highly valued. (I even had a boss at one, who did his diagrams in effing MS EXCEL - not pretty, but often simple and effective). Most people wouldn't
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by Pokepokalypse 5y ago
I refer to my resume as "a graveyard of obsolete technologies"
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by Pokepokalypse 5y ago
yeah, but the plan is: lay them off once they start having kids, and hire new 25-year olds. source: 25+ years experience in this industry.
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by Pokepokalypse 5y ago
believe it or not, this is a WHOLE WORLD problem. A "western country" can not "conveniently" cut their carbon emissions, and still buy shit manufactured overseas, and pretend everything is hunkey-dorey.
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by Pokepokalypse 5y ago
also; From any bookmarked page, I want to be able to delete the bookmark, without having to go into bookmark manager, figure out which folder it's in and delete it. When I've read the page, I don't need the bookmark anymore.
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by Pokepokalypse 5y ago
literally got turned down to purchase property in a manufactured home park yesterday; because they have a "minimum credit score 670" rule for occupants. (My credit score is >750; but the unit was going to be occupied by my daug
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by Pokepokalypse 5y ago
That's not science being influenced. That's our legal and court systems being influenced by junk science funded by shitty corporate actors. Actual science is what they're trying to drown-out. And yes, big-money can influence
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by Pokepokalypse 5y ago
Highly passive-aggressive. I like it.
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by Pokepokalypse 5y ago
and then there's "syntactic sugar"
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by Pokepokalypse 5y ago
sounds like the 737MAX. . .
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by Pokepokalypse 5y ago
This is where the strangler pattern can turn around and strangle you. At my last job, we hired a new team to transition our stack to a new architecture. They built it, and SOME components of the legacy stack DID get replaced and deprecated.
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by Pokepokalypse 5y ago
I've seen the downside of this. And it's having to have an oncall staff of DBA's hand-grooming fragile databases and running deduplication processes that sometimes get so far behind that it's a mathematical impossibility
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by Pokepokalypse 5y ago
I don't tend to hold "rock-solid businessmen" in high regard either.
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by Pokepokalypse 5y ago
NIST also says: if your scanner finds a vulnerability, it's up to you to VALIDATE that it's not a false-positive. False-positives abound on these scanners.
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by Pokepokalypse 5y ago
The way housing supply seems to be a major driver here, has me pretty well convinced that the only way out of this, eventually, is a stable population growth. (ie. restrictions on reproduction). (Not like China - but this implies apocalypti
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by Pokepokalypse 5y ago
> Japan is still one of the safest and politically the stablest places to live on this godforsaken planet. Unfortunately, racism in Japan is rampant. If racism wasn't a problem, then immigration wouldn't be seen as a problem ei
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by Pokepokalypse 5y ago
The data and financial instruments available to investors is a completely different universe than what they had in the 1940's. It's very unlikely that history will repeat itself.
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by Pokepokalypse 5y ago
I agree with this, but if you merely throw money at the economy without resolving supply chain issues, (which is the case we have now) - we get inflation. Because it's more money chasing after fewer (available) goods. The previous US a
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by Pokepokalypse 5y ago
>We hate boring maintenance and love to launches cars into space. “Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.” ― Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus
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by Pokepokalypse 5y ago
Spy satellites launch from Vandenberg due to the favorable azimuth for high-inclination orbits.
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by Pokepokalypse 5y ago
In my case; I found a job that was specified as "100% remote, even after COVID" - so I'm not super-concerned about that. Yes, employers lie, and in 1 year or so, they could easily come back and tell me I'm fired because
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by Pokepokalypse 5y ago
Technical debt is what happens when an accountant is doing an engineer's job.
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by Pokepokalypse 5y ago
I thought that was normal, what everyone saw. Aren't they called something like "phosgenes"?
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by Pokepokalypse 5y ago
I suspect that (knowing how paranoid delusions work as I observe in my daughter - and also, how I process anxiety); that the anxiety is often triggered as a physiological reaction, a hormonal signal that physically jacks up your heart-rate,
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by Pokepokalypse 5y ago
That sounds right. My daughter was diagnosed with bipolar, and sometimes when she is 'manic', she has psychotic, paranoid delusions. She was the one who noticed it and decided that it was "wrong", and went to seek treat

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