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by purpleblue 3y ago
I recently met someone who worked at a pretty senior level on self-driving cars at one of the main companies pursuing it. After working there a couple of years he decided it's never going to happen to he switched to another company doi
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by purpleblue 3y ago
People change their careers on average 7 times. Don't be married to IT if you're miserable, try to find something you enjoy while being paid at it.
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by purpleblue 3y ago
There's nothing easier than hooking up 2 computers via ethernet to an isolated hub, and then watching the traffic go back and forth. There's no additional stuff to filter, you can just look at the packets which match exactly what
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by purpleblue 3y ago
If you don't know anything about networking, how on earth are you going to learn about what port-mirroring is? You start off small, and work your way up from foundations. Hubs can be bought on eBay for cheap, and who cares if it's
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by purpleblue 3y ago
#1 is buy yourself a hub, NOT a switch. Consider understanding the difference between a hub vs a switch an important part of your initial networking education. Then learn how to sniff traffic, using things like WireShark, etc. You will lear
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by purpleblue 3y ago
I didn't live here during the 60s or 70s so I didn't want to talk about that time period, but I know for a fact a ton of people got very rich during the 80s and afterwards.
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by purpleblue 3y ago
You're completely wrong and I don't think you live in Silicon Valley. If you do, you must have only been here for a short period of time. I've been in Silicon Valley for 30+ years and the first company I worked for, the admin
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by purpleblue 3y ago
False. People were getting rich in Silicon Valley for decades. I'm not sure which "boom era" you're talking about but it's been attracting talent and money since the 80s.
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by purpleblue 3y ago
Unless workers can become fabulously rich because a company they joined becomes multi-billion dollars, it will never be an answer to Silicon Valley. The ability to become fabulously wealthy is the reason why Silicon Valley is currently unma
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by purpleblue 3y ago
If pilots have a privacy problem with it, then put the onus on pilots to not forget to turn off the recording. If they forget, they should be held accountable, ie lose their piloting license. Otherwise, they can't have it both ways, sa
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by purpleblue 3y ago
Have multiple cameras on every airplane and record absolutely everything so that pilots and passengers both have skin in the game. We are relying on individual phone cams to record events which is stupid. We are in an age where this kind of
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Fan-Revived City of Heroes MMO Given Official License to Continue(kotaku.com)
3 points by purpleblue 3y ago|0 comments
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by purpleblue 3y ago
This is 100% not how the stock market works. As soon as the volume increases, people will jump on the trade. Also companies have an obligation to report once they have accumulated a certain percentage of a company.
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by purpleblue 3y ago
Articles like this are not worthwhile, because there's no real definition of what "good" or "great" are, except that great is better than good. So in that sense, someone who is good very often is "more good&quo
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by purpleblue 3y ago
Delta Dental is one of the worst dental insurance companies out there. I hope it goes bankrupt. They have cut benefits so much that most dentists I know have dropped them completely and refuse to take them. It has caused a bunch of headache
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by purpleblue 3y ago
Criminalizing drug addiction is wrong, but letting drug addicts proliferate and live in squalor with no consequences is even worse. The pendulum has swung so far to the left, and now everyone is suffering. It really makes me wonder what the
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Norman Lear: TV's Greatest American(nytimes.com)
2 points by purpleblue 3y ago|0 comments
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by purpleblue 3y ago
I have a 2012 Honda Fit that they will need to pry off my cold dead hands. It's my favorite car of all time, it's everything that I want from a car. Except possibly a larger gas tank.
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by purpleblue 3y ago
Ahhh, so I guess this really was just a shakedown after all, like some banana republic despot. Color me stupid for thinking that the US cared about law and order and not about making money through the justice system.
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by purpleblue 3y ago
Create a small program, and iterate, iterate, iterate. I took the entire pandemic off from programming, and when I had to go back to find a job, I needed to level up quickly to be able to pass programming interviews. I wrote a program to st
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by purpleblue 3y ago
I do not believe BlackRock. The invest in funds that purchase homes. If they make a statement saying that none of their funds is invested in funds that purchase homes, then that's a different thing. But that's not what they said.
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by purpleblue 3y ago
There must be something else going on. I can't believe Microsoft would be so stupid as to copy people's passwords. Is this a mistake of some sort? How would something like that get approved?
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by purpleblue 3y ago
Piracy has been going on since the beginning of time and it has never stopped, and never will stop. It will always find a way. A little bit of piracy actually was proven to help copyright holders, so it will never go away.
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by purpleblue 3y ago
Yes, I'm dropping Netflix and HBO this month and going back to piracy. They made a mistake and got too greedy and make a subscription I barely paid attention to something that got too expensive and now I will cancel. The price hikes fr
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by purpleblue 3y ago
Can't all the social media companies put comments through a sentiment analyzer before they post, and determine if the poster is writing something anti-social? "Get back in the kitchen" should easily be analyzable through sent
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by purpleblue 3y ago
What Waze needs is a proper zoom function, especially on Apple Carplay. Waze is almost unusable in that its auto-zoom doesn't work properly, and I'm forced to switch to manual zoom, which also doesn't work when I want to see
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by purpleblue 3y ago
You have no idea what you're talking about, so please stop talking with such confidence. Netflix has always paid top of the market. They haven't dropped their salaries. Period, end of sentence.
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by purpleblue 3y ago
Every one of these comments so far are from people that have no idea how much Netflix pays. $600k-700k for a Senior Software Engineer at Netflix is about expected. Also keep in mind, they pay all cash, so this isn't a "Total Compe
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by purpleblue 3y ago
Your employer has the right to tell you how long you can take vacation for. But she is lying when she says that it's convention to not take longer than 2 weeks off consecutively.
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by purpleblue 3y ago
This is the dangers of a too-powerful bureaucracy. It's obvious that having the SSN as a single point of failure is exceedingly stupid, but our government bureaucrats refuse to do anything about it. You can't even request a new SS

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