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by jdwithit 3y ago
I am going to choose to believe this
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by jdwithit 3y ago
It's honestly super impressive that it's never leaked. All it takes is one engineer getting drunk and spouting off. In much higher stakes, a soldier in Massachusetts is about to go to jail for a long time for leaking national secu
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by jdwithit 3y ago
James' posts are always a treat. It's so rare to encounter such plain, straightforward content from someone with a title and responsibilities like his. Without layers of marketing sugar over everything. Dude just wants to post abo
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by jdwithit 3y ago
This is a good point. Remember the time he revealed highly classified spy satellite capabilities by posting an extremely detailed photo of an Iranian nuclear site ON TWITTER [0]? He cannot help himself if there's a chance to show off.
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by jdwithit 3y ago
It's pretty obvious what to make of it. The guy is an attention seeking nut, and it's a huge waste of time.
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by jdwithit 3y ago
Definitely sympathize, you are not alone. I have a wife and two young kids. I love her but for a long time my wife just did not consider me as "at work" when I was working remotely. She had zero qualms about coming into our home o
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by jdwithit 3y ago
They aren't as funny and elaborate as they once were, but yeah, they still do post something every year. In the early days of WoW they used to publish really good fake patch notes that were right on the line of credibility with a coupl
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by jdwithit 3y ago
> Stanford requires a president “whose leadership is not hampered by such discussions.” You'll notice he doesn't say "I regret my actions and the harm I caused". Just a vague allusion to "such discussions".
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by jdwithit 3y ago
He mentions ChatGPT in passing but you could write a whole separate article about that. These bogus review companies are going to be able to pump out so many more reviews, of higher quality, with access to LLM-generated content. This proble
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by jdwithit 3y ago
No, it's just old preexisting patches. In their FAQ and even on the front page they say continuing to run these operating systems is a terrible idea as they are highly vulnerable even after patching.
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by jdwithit 3y ago
Same, I had to facepalm when the logo loaded indicating the correct name heh.
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by jdwithit 3y ago
I couldn't bring myself to finish Return either. Which is a huge bummer, since the first couple games are near the very top of my list of favorite and most (personally) influential games ever. But the nostalgia tour and nonstop callbac
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by jdwithit 3y ago
Mods merged 2 or 3 posts into this one, there were several dupes
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by jdwithit 3y ago
I just checked "For You" for the first time and the top story was about one celebrity commenting on another's ass. And then a bunch of clickbait headlines designed to make people share them on social media and get mad. Think
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by jdwithit 3y ago
I check the fantasy football sub from time to time and the hive mind is definitely a factor there. If you post an opinion that goes against the grain, you're likely to get aggressively dogpiled with downvotes and called a moron in the
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by jdwithit 3y ago
This is absolutely true, there is zero consistency in titles, levels, or their meaning across companies. I've been doing more or less the same stuff (if you zoom out enough) for more than 15 years. In that time I've been a System
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by jdwithit 3y ago
The latency one hits hard, as someone approaching this from the other side who came up through Ops and learned software development over time. So much software I've had to support was written with the assumption of flawless network con
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by jdwithit 3y ago
I know it's a different company, but after SpaceX's most recent launch spewed debris 10+ miles, I wouldn't be thrilled about being in close proximity to a Blue Origin launch site.
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by jdwithit 3y ago
I've seen interviews with musicians where they're asked a relatively simple question about the key a song is in or what's going on in a given riff from a music theory perspective, and the response is like "I don't e
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by jdwithit 3y ago
I vaguely remember trying to install Gentoo back in the early 2000s. It took more than 24 hours and eventually failed with an inscrutable C compilation failure in some random package. That was quite the eye opening experience. Certainly gav
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by jdwithit 3y ago
Or sales. The startup I used to work at, absolutely everyone in sales had some kind of Director or higher title regardless of seniority or role. I guess the theory being you're more likely to take a call from the Senior Executive Direc
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by jdwithit 3y ago
Eggdrop IRC bot, there's a blast from the past. I bet he has some incredible stories of his own from early Internet days. Thanks for Redis and all your other contributions.
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by jdwithit 3y ago
Yeah they are utter garbage. For years you had to use Java 6 with absolutely every modern security measure turned off in both the JVM runtime itself and your browser to access Dell DRACs. Accept expired certs, run unsigned code, I'm
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by jdwithit 3y ago
I suspect Mozilla is large enough that they can do more than one thing at once. Some finance and legal people spending time on an acquisition is not the reason they haven't integrated gnome-keyring.
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by jdwithit 4y ago
This reminds me of the time in college a friend brought over a bottle of hot sauce (I want to say it was called Mustard Gas? This was ages ago). He would NOT SHUT UP about how amazingly hot it was and how you had to be real careful to only
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by jdwithit 4y ago
The Neil deGrasse Tyson episode was phenomenal. The way he was able to give insightful answers despite growing more and more uncomfortable was really impressive.
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by jdwithit 4y ago
I also got a copy of VB (I think VB4) as a teenager and it was a perfect stepping stone into GUI programming. I had been writing DOS games in QBASIC for years, and some basic (heh) C/C++. But the leap to writing Windows apps in C++ was
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by jdwithit 4y ago
The cross training point is absolutely crucial. I've managed or worked on multiple Ops teams where one person was the "network expert" or the "kubernetes expert" or whatever. If that person left the company for any
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by jdwithit 4y ago
It's wild how often these "this was my first development job of any kind" stories crop up in the gaming industry. This seems like a deeply technical project requiring expertise in some very niche areas. Yet Sony trusted this
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by jdwithit 4y ago
That is wonderful for your friends, but I don't know what they have to do with this individual you have never met. My uncle has lived with MS for almost 50 years and is in the final stages of life unfortunately, which I guess gives me

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