jfalcon

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by jfalcon 4y ago
Birth rate in the US has been in a decline for a while now - both in the US and globally. In the US, the last uptick was in 2021 but it's been dropping since 1983. It's already has caused China to reverse their one child per cou
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by jfalcon 4y ago
> But generally there is a feeling that we are hurtling towards catastrophe and everyone is trying to profit before it's too late. Personally, I feel that if we can get through this moment of transition without self-destruction of h
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by jfalcon 4y ago
It's not so much about the connection - it was there back then. It's the critical mass of people from all backgrounds communicating on platforms that allow consolidation of people's attention and the lowering of the bar tha
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by jfalcon 4y ago
Attention is the Cash Value of Time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRwNnHjAo3k
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by jfalcon 4y ago
True - one could say that removal of the dollar no longer being pinned to the value of gold could be a factor. But in reality all it's done is shift it to another asset like real estate.
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by jfalcon 4y ago
Only problem is that most politicians will tell you that their money is in a blind "trust". The real issue is deregulation of banking and the incentivization of how debt was repackaged into new "investment" vehicles alo
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by jfalcon 4y ago
I think you are stunting your growth and forgetting to live life. The world works on a Benjamin Button sort of deal where the best you will ever be physically is when you are the most financially destitute and vice versa. Thus your risk a
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by jfalcon 4y ago
I would say that was due to mostly shock and the brainwashing our parents gotten which delayed the wokeness as the hippies were quietly finding out about Cocaine and becoming Capitalists. Disco never died, it was just the precursor to EDM.
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by jfalcon 4y ago
Frankly, I would like to see better use of multiple desktops. The idea would be to link windows to a primary application - like browser tabs relating to what your working on in your IDE along with terminal screens, etc. Then swap around.
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by jfalcon 4y ago
I still call myself a "Systems Engineer" despite my role being usurped by HR and middle management into the 'new' hotness: "Site Reliability Engineer". Thanks to people doing DevOps burning out, it's like
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by jfalcon 4y ago
>It's unpopular from my standpoint because it "necessitates/assumes the trustworthyness of an external provider of compute service". It being considered a default implies you waive 4th Amendment protections. This is w
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by jfalcon 4y ago
I have a older logitech "speakerphone" microphone that I normally use for video calls and the like as people have commented that it sounds better than the mic that is built into the webcam. One of the nice things about it is that
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by jfalcon 4y ago
Notes for those pushing forward - the last working wayback machine snapshot before he FFR'ed the website and let the blue smoke out of his fight: http://web.archive.org/web/20211002154145/https://www
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by jfalcon 5y ago
I would take a moment to pause and consider the TLD if you're concerned with authorities taking over your domain. Various TLD (.com,.io,.pizza) have different polices regarding termination as well as different legal basis whether or n
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by jfalcon 5y ago
[qualifier: a parent grew up rural, strived for it while mid-life and retired rural + 8 years living in Alaska living both in Anchorage and Kenai.] I've lived in Seattle for over 20 years now. I left Alaska because there was no tech s
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by jfalcon 5y ago
At one time, the ISP SIXXS.net who was a early adopter of IPv6 offered a v6to4/v4to6 gateway that allowed for reaching either network. I suspect there will be a future need to proxy between the two networks - great opportunity for entr
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by jfalcon 5y ago
It's the hustle and the exposure. The more people know that someone like you exists and has "unique or special" skills or "is amazing and flexible to work with" then word of mouth will carry you a long way before y
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by jfalcon 5y ago
I dunno. I also see it as a red flag for a interviewee as a boss who is likely to tap my shizzle and make sure that the clock is being worked on their terms, not collectively. For instance, one interview I was having camera issues after me
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by jfalcon 5y ago
Good point. Once they're actually working contract, it's actually very easy to can them if they're not what they're supposed to represent. That said, if you have worked with peers and they all vouch for you, I wouldn&#x
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by jfalcon 5y ago
I agree. Google will often ask the "number of marbles in a jar" question to see if you can think in scales using abstract statistics in their interviews. Now if you suck at math but are just fine in logic and code writing, shoul
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by jfalcon 5y ago
This one is hard as I have a gut feeling that sometimes it does happen as I have an Anglo name but am Asian-American. However, if it does happen, it may also be a place or team I wouldn't want to work for. It's hard to explain bu
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by jfalcon 6y ago
heh. I was approached by a FB recruiter last week after taking some time off and having 20 years hopping off and on a couple FAANG + .gov and .aero to round things off. The morality issues of Social I don't believe is any more fucked
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by jfalcon 6y ago
The 1990's were big on passing a metric fuckton of laws impacting technology as that is when most of the people started getting "online" as it were. Wargames came out in 1984. It took about 2 years for there to be a law agai
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by jfalcon 6y ago
Well probably not so much the previous link... but this is an article that brings it all together from around that time: https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Popular-Communications... Page 14 for "H.R. 2369 and The AR
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by jfalcon 6y ago
Yeah. Let's put it this way: OKI900's and all that were around before 1992. And that phone was favoured because you could easily reprogram the ESN/NAM/MIN for cloning as well as turn it into a scanner by turning on it&
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by jfalcon 6y ago
I think the OP's write up misses one very important piece of the puzzle: Politics. Newt Gingrich who was Speaker of the House at the time got embroiled in an incident that was recorded from a cell phone conversation. https:/&#x
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by jfalcon 6y ago
Sounds on par for people who believe they're due reparations from China for being #first in Covid-19. This coming from a Trump voter in the 206. We don't condone anarchists who are the .001% of the 99.998 of the normal people in t
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by jfalcon 6y ago
I believe that tracking pixels are just tied to something like a URL with a UUID as part of the filename/pathing. When an email is opened, the browser within the email client is told to render and that then invokes a request against a
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by jfalcon 6y ago
I find that if you're truly passionate about what you regularly do, there will be times that you burn out. That's when you switch to doing something else, traveling or learning something tangentially. But eventually I then take s
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by jfalcon 6y ago
It would be great if management would encourage this all up and down the chain including to IC's at the ends. There are many who would want to contribute but usually end the conversation on deaf ears. Or a management chain that is bi

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