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by scarface_74 1y ago
You mean generalizing population groups by saying they are no better or worse than the general population? WITCH companies are not hiring the best or the brightest. Their entire value play is contracting out mediocre developers at mediocre
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by scarface_74 1y ago
How many H1B workers do the WITCH companies employ? They are definitely competing with the “middle class”.
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by scarface_74 1y ago
If I wanted to know everything about my first computer - an Apple //e - i needed two books. I needed Apple’s official Applesoft Basic manual and another book I checked out from the library about programming in 65C02 assembly on
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by scarface_74 1y ago
That’s completely different. One of my good friends is a bartender. But his passion is his music. He’s practicing with friends, performing in front of people, etc. It is a social event - not sitting at a computer all day. For years I wa
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by scarface_74 1y ago
Did you ever use the Turbo series IDEs or whatever that IBM Java based IDE was? Visual Studio was quite good in 1999.
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by scarface_74 1y ago
I was on Usenet in the various comp.* groups in the mid 90s. Dejanews could be used to search news groups then.
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by scarface_74 1y ago
It’s heartbreaking for a 22 year old to want to enjoy life outside of computers?
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by scarface_74 1y ago
How is that different then long lived code bases where various developers with varying skill levels have modified it?
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by scarface_74 1y ago
In an up market it’s going to be worse. HR is still going to hold the line on raises and not keep up with the market. I’m old too - 51. But I consistently tell young people to chase money. Target BigTech or adjacent companies, “grind leet
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by scarface_74 1y ago
I know more about AWS, but GCP from what I read is similar, best practice is that you have a web page that you authenticate to via SSO and get temporary access keys that you assign to environment variables. The SDK automatically knows how
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by scarface_74 1y ago
So exactly how would you suggest using a YubiKey in a script that runs automatically and is meant to run unsupervised? Wouldn’t it be logical that Google knew about zero trust? The problem wasn’t the API Key, the problem was that the pos
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by scarface_74 1y ago
There was no such thing as a “free tier” on AWS before July of this year. There were some services that allowed free usage either for the first $x months or free up to a certain amount every month indefinitely. Now there is an actual free
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by scarface_74 1y ago
You learned the wrong lesson. You should never specify API keys anywhere in your code or env files for GCP or AWS. https://cloud.google.com/docs/authentication/application-def... You still risk checking in your e
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by scarface_74 1y ago
> If there's a community that has been breaking the law on a massive scale, there should be more shame associated with that lawbreaking than there is shame associated with enforcing the law. How are you going to have a functional
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by scarface_74 1y ago
Well not to bury the lede, a Fox News host just said that homeless people should be killed last week… > It amazes me how quickly people forgot that we had 8 years of Obama. That was a lot more recent than racial segregation. You mean t
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by scarface_74 1y ago
The presidential debates were the most watched tv last year beating out football. Trump was in office for four years. No matter how filtered the news is, people knew exactly who Trump was.
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by scarface_74 1y ago
You didn’t need “sources of information”. Trump was in office for four years before he was re-elected. It’s copium to think that people aré ignorant when in actuality, they are actively hostile to minorities, non straight, the college ed
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by scarface_74 1y ago
I was with you until you said cane sugar vs corn syrup. What do you think the actual benefits or drawbacks of one over the other is?
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by scarface_74 1y ago
Where we set our eyes don’t matter. The US electorate has shown we care more about “owning the libs”, “anti-woke” and what bathroom people use than our own health and welfare. Absolutely no one who voted for this mess went in blind.
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by scarface_74 1y ago
You call 60 years of racial segregation that affected an entire race of people in several states “cherry picking”? It’s a huge difference between “a few people being racist” and laws enforcing segregation and laws against interracial marria
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by scarface_74 1y ago
We were talking about “polarization”. Not the fact that he was elected. Was social media to blame in 2008 for the “divisiveness”? Right now the Supreme Court said that ICE could target people based on the color of their skin and it’s big
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by scarface_74 1y ago
I use to believe that too until someone rightfully reminded me of all of the ugly solutions I’ve used over the years to deploy to VMs. Then I became a big believer in always containerizing.
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by scarface_74 1y ago
Exactly when did we make progress? In 2008 - before social media really took off how much of the population was a yelling that a Black man wasn’t a “real American” and was a “secret Muslim”? Before then we had the “Willie Horton ads”. Not
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by scarface_74 1y ago
And there wasn’t a history of genocide of other before then? Hitler in Germany and the mass murder in Tulsa in 1921 didn’t need social media. History has shown people don’t need a reason to hate and commit violence against others.
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by scarface_74 1y ago
So there wasn’t enough fuel in the fire when marauding Klansmen were hanging Black people? It was the current President of the US that led a charge that a Black man running for President wasn’t a “real American” and was a secret Muslim try
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by scarface_74 1y ago
I really hate the narrative that social media has increased polarization knowing that my still living parents grew up in the Jim Crow south where they were literally separated from society because of the color of their skin. The country has
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by scarface_74 1y ago
I love when people say that “I live in East MiddleOfNowhere Nebraska with no kids and I can save half for my retirement”.
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by scarface_74 1y ago
Private equity makes up less than 1% of pensions https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/11/private-equity-wants-a-large...
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by scarface_74 1y ago
You think someone making just over $175K (the current social security taxable maximum amount) is able to save enough to ensure a comfortable retirement?
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by scarface_74 1y ago
It very much is. The more you put in the more you get out. From a financial accounting standpoint, the money you put in goes in a “trust fund” that is constantly borrowed against. It was never suppose to be that way. Social Security tax

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