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by billy99k 2y ago
Not just this, but your skills can degrade if you are working with the same systems for years at time. This happened to my cousin. He got laid off last year and couldn't find a job in tech. He now works in retail making 50% of his prev
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by billy99k 2y ago
I agree. In my friend group, I know dozens of people that came here legally and are now citizens. It's far from 'impossible'.
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Paper straws are terrible. There has to be a better alternative.
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by billy99k 2y ago
He's not a 'neutral' party: https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-fires-christopher-kr... Krebs also claimed there were no issues with the voting systems or networks, when there were glaring issues tha
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by billy99k 2y ago
"Well I would tend to believe the news organization that I know has reported accurate things in the past," Anonymous sources are now all accurate?
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by billy99k 2y ago
"Don't engage with the trolls, I'm surprised this one is marginally literate, probably a bot" Funny, I felt the same way about the majority of the people frothing at the mouth and posting nonsense about Musk and Trump. I
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by billy99k 2y ago
Beyond speculation, how do you even know this? Everything I've seen so far related to this jumps to wild conclusions about the data these employees can allegedly access with absolutely no proof of anything. It's almost the same as
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by billy99k 2y ago
"Also just having read access is still a problem when the read access is for PII and other sensitive information. You want a 19 year old kid who got fired from an internship for leaking sensitive information to have read access to all
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by billy99k 2y ago
We've only seen what the media has reported and from people that are getting fired (and hate Trump and Musk). We don't know what's actually going on from the inside. In my city, I've been seeing people posting on Facebo
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by billy99k 2y ago
Do you really want the direction of an entire company to be dictated by AI? You act as if the CEO does nothing , which isn't true. One of the main jobs is networking/maintaining relationships, which isn't something that can
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by billy99k 2y ago
"We need to stop expecting the same damn people who bought a four-bedroom home and a brand-new Cadillac convertible off of a $30,000-a-year salary to understand what it’s like to be working 40-plus hours a week with a master’s degree a
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by billy99k 2y ago
I've seen the exact opposite. Management at my company has been trying to shove AI into everything. They even said that this year we would be dropping all vendors that didn't have some for of AI in their workflow.
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"DeepSeek is the latest in a spate of breakthroughs from China to shock the U.S. It won’t be the last. The more the West refuses to tear down its own barriers to understanding China, the more it will be caught off guard in the future.&
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by billy99k 2y ago
I wonder what happened. I emailed them a over year ago about a vulnerability, and they never responded.
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I know of two: Craigslist and Plenty Of Fish.
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"The music industry already showed the answer; stop trying to hold on so tight with a winner-take-all model." They sure did. It ended up with more money in the pockets of the music industry, less for popular artists, and none for
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by billy99k 2y ago
backend development.
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The usual job sites like indeed.com. Even when I have enough work, I look a couple of times/day.
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by billy99k 2y ago
Greed and hype can be used as an asset. It's the reason why we are going to have continued, fast advancements in AI.
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"I've been in high tech for 30 years, and I've been laid off many times, most often from failed start ups. I _strongly_ disagree with a fully cynical response of working only to contract, leveraging job offers for raises, etc
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This is also why all of the auto union are against electric cars. Some person working in their garage will no longer be able to work on cars and get a job as a mechanic/technician and instead will need to have the experience of an engi
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by billy99k 2y ago
"The raids are taking place in deep blue cities in blue states. These are places that voted heavily against Trump." It's taking place in 'sanctuary cities' where the Mayors/government specifically said they wou
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by billy99k 2y ago
I think it depends on how you earn it. If it's a lotto scenario where you made millions of dollars by chance and you don't have an other passions in your life, you will probably end up miserable. I'm not rich, but I am comfor
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by billy99k 2y ago
Many years ago, I created a 'gold hack' for fun for a popular game when I was in highschool. I reverse-engineered the 'encrypted' (which was basic letter shifting) password stored for the account and my hack basically ju
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I really don't think this is an issue. All of our job descriptions get 1000 candidates in a week.
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"charter schools aren't cheaper either. They cherry pick students" The schools in my area have a lottery system. My daughter got in, but we ended up keeping her in public schools, which are still really good. This would have
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"Anytime Bill Gates comes up, I feel the need to remind people that he has spent billions in “philanthropy” to destroy the public school system. He is a his backer of charter schools." Many public schools are shit and I applaud hi
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by billy99k 2y ago
Years ago when I was single, I used sites like match.com and would only pay one month at a time when I saw someone interesting. I probably got responses 75% of the time, many dates over the years, and a couple of long-term girlfriends. I tr
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by billy99k 2y ago
Cybersecurity is not for beginners. There are almost no jobs for juniors anymore.
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by billy99k 2y ago
So Tik Tok is banned. How long do you think it will take to ban other Chinese social media sites if they become popular enough?

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