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by greyhair 5y ago
Or Boeing.
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by greyhair 5y ago
I know someone that works in federal systems in a secure area, and you cannot take anything into the secure facility other than your physical being and the clothes you are wearing. Not even a wind up Timex watch. They have lockers outside t
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by greyhair 5y ago
There is no honor among thieves.
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by greyhair 5y ago
Easy. Restitution or jail. And I mean, jail until restitution is complete. If you laundered the money to hide it, and only retained 50% of the value in that transaction, that is your your problem. You knew what you were doing and you messed
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by greyhair 5y ago
64 and still crafting in C and assembly. Occasionally doing hardware design/specification work. I studiously avoided the management path my forty year career. The constant technology change is what has held my interest. A career in tel
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by greyhair 5y ago
I met my wife while at a club watching a local band when I was 35 years old. At that point in my life I had about $50K in my 401K, but only about $5K in savings. The two of us didn't accrue $500k in savings until I was 55. I'll be
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by greyhair 5y ago
I was in a Bell Labs facility that had notoriously bad power. We occupied the building before the second main feed had been fully approved by the state and run to the building. Our main computer lab had a serial UPS that was online 100% of
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by greyhair 5y ago
My father always said, if you find something, and it isn't yours, it belongs to someone else. There are actual laws in the US that if you find money, you are supposed to report it to the authorities, and if no one reports losing the mo
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by greyhair 5y ago
Nice philosophical expressions here, but I'll give you two, short takes. My wife and I happily lived together before marriage, and discovered that there are a number of legal advantages to just getting a civil marriage that are doable
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by greyhair 5y ago
I had an old phone that failed, I couldn't wipe it, so I pried it open, yanked the battery, and went after it with a hammer. I have done the same with old or failed hard drives for decades. The difference being, I didn't want thes
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by greyhair 5y ago
As a child of the late 1960s, early 1970s, that was a messed up time. After the assassinations and riots of the late 60s, Kent State, Watergate, the end of the Vietnam war, people were done. The drugs just flowed. I was frequently a design
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by greyhair 5y ago
Ads on the logon screen? Or the start menu? I don't get those on my personal 'home' installs, 'pro' installs, or the enterprise laptop from my employer. Did your machine get hacked?
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by greyhair 5y ago
I have used LibreOffice, and it makes me cringe. Has it vastly improved the UI in the last three years? That was the last time I installed it, tried using it for three weeks, then uninstalled it. It was like a bad acid trip version of the 1
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by greyhair 5y ago
My son did exactly that with all his 'specialized' pieces. The way he repurposed those in his own designs used to crack me up, and he was doing that when he was only eight or ten years old. The imagination didn't fixate on wh
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by greyhair 5y ago
When my son was really interested in Lego, he built each kit exactly once, admired it for a couple days, then immediately took it back apart, and put all the pieces into one giant bin. After that, he was always building stuff from his own i
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by greyhair 5y ago
Back in the mid 1970s I had a friend that worked at Kodak on the molds for Instamatic cameras. His job was to build up the wear areas in the molds so that they could be re-machined. I cannot recall the exact process, but it was some form of
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by greyhair 5y ago
Agree on all points. As a registered Windows Insider, I had Windows Phone 10 installed at beta, and as much as I liked the UI and behavior of the original Windows Phone, Windows Phone 10 was even better. I held onto that phone until the bit
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by greyhair 5y ago
From what I have been reading lately, web3 will fix all of this. \s
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by greyhair 5y ago
both the leading global advocate for Internet freedom and the leading violator of privacy on the Internet Freedom and privacy are orthogonal. You can have Freedom without privacy.
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by greyhair 5y ago
I have worked in technology as an engineer for thirty seven years. Over that time I have worked with a number of genuinely intelligent people, way smarter than me. Some of them were an absolute joy to work with, and some of them were horror
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by greyhair 5y ago
I wonder what the RF emissions are like on that case. Genuinely curious, if someone gets one, that has access to the proper test gear, could you look for RF spurs emitted from that chassis? Some combos of circuit boards, in the wrong enclos
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by greyhair 5y ago
My golden skill at my last job was asking questions. My director, who was a peer at a prior startup, knew this about me, and dragged me into meetings where my core interest was only peripherally related. I often spent time in the meeting wi
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by greyhair 5y ago
This article in the NYTimes was an excellent follow on to the Pandora Papers. The question is, will anyone actually do anything about it? I predict a temporary spasm of anger and shouting followed by the typical malaise. The only thing rich
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by greyhair 5y ago
I always tell people that software development, as a career, is like being in college forever. You have to be in the learning mindset your whole career. Part of that learning, is learning technology, and part of that learning, is learning p
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by greyhair 5y ago
So my resume concentrates on the last five years, with the prior 30+ being mere bullet items, in the event you want to ask. You are correct that no one really cares about what you have done outside the last five years.
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by greyhair 5y ago
In my mid sixties and I am getting as many head hunter hits as I have ever had. Everybody knows my age, I don't hide it. Thirty seven years as an active engineer, consciously avoided moving into management because I know I would not be
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by greyhair 5y ago
From the linked article itself, I can attest to the constant push to move up into 'leadership' roles, particularly in some companies. I have stayed and worked as an engineer for 37 years. I have been 'team lead' a half d
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by greyhair 5y ago
The problem is all down to the cost of moderation, nothing else. Maintaining YouTube profitability. Troll farms are spamming all of social media with misinformation, and that makes it hard to filter out the actual rational voices in the dis
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by greyhair 5y ago
Because you actually use the letters C h i n and a in your post and his replies do not.
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by greyhair 5y ago
Are you in the diplomatic corps? Are you certain that US, Australia, and Japan are not communicating to China? Not all diplomatic exchanges are made public. For example, it is clear that the US is currently talking with the Taliban leadersh

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