t0mbstone

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by t0mbstone 5y ago
I have been working my whole life. I have been working professionally as a web developer and software engineer since I was 13 years old. I am 37 years old with 24 years of professional experience. During that entire time, there were only a
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Depression and mental issues have a huge amount of stigma here in the USA. If I told my employer I wanted time off because I was depressed, there is an almost zero chance that I would get any meaningful support other than being allowed to u
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Was, and still am, if I'm being honest.
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I wasn't trying to be snarky, even though I realize now it must have come off that way. I understand full well what depression is, as I have struggled with it for years. I genuinely wish I could take 4 months worth of paid sick leave l
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I'm actually depressed, and have been for years. Working remotely in a room by myself for the last year hasn't helped. I haven't had a real vacation (more than a week or so of time off) in years. I have less than 2 weeks wort
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> Your connection is only really encrypted up until the CloudFlare servers, after that the connection can simply be clear text. The connection is encrypted between the browser and CloudFlare, and between CloudFlare and the website if the
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Driving is statistically FAR more dangerous than flying though. Think about it, you are hurtling along a highway at 70 mph in a car with numerous components that are aging and can break catastrophically. All it takes is a tire blow-out and
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I always find it interesting how people travel and sit in cafes to people watch, but they never do that in their own home towns. I would be willing to bet if you took a week off work and just went around relaxing at cafes in your home city,
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Everyone talks about how awesome Warren Buffet is, but nobody talks about how the vast majority of his fortune was acquired from owning Coca-Cola, selling sugar water to the masses, fueling the diabetes and obesity epidemic.
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https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=8+trillion+%2F+328+mil...
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https://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/michael-santoli/gold-not-ant...
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I still think an awesome use case would be a public blockchain for tracking inventions and patents. You could have a searchable index of inventions that anyone could add onto, and every article would be hashed and the signature recorded on
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I didn't interpret it as a shallow dismissal. I interpreted it as a genuine inquiry and a challenge, as in, "Uh... you say your product is the first product to solve these problems, but git version control ALSO solves those proble
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The pitch deck is shiny and all, but you still haven't explained what blockchain has to do with any of it?
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Pendulums don't just swing to the center and stay there. It can take a bit of back and forth before the middle ground is reached.
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HTTPS is definitely useful for preserving the integrity of data between the server and the end user. To be clear, I'm very pro-SSL and have used LetsEncrypt for years on all my domains. I was just taking issue with the notion that some
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No, it doesn't. SSL doesn't magically secure your servers, especially not if all you are doing is serving static HTML content and images. All HTTPS really does is encrypt the HTTP traffic while it is in transit. The main reason th
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This rambling article talks about the earl of sandwich and the origins of soda and some early food processing methods for things like chocolate. The article doesn't say anything meaningful or interesting about how processed foods actua
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I still don't believe the FBI actually seized the bitcoin. We have zero proof of anything. We are just supposed to take the FBI on their word? There is a huge motivation for them to lie about seizing the BTC, in an effort to discourage
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Looks blocky and uncomfortable to hold. Has a black and white screen with no backlight. Can't play Nintendo ROMS. Is a subscription service... The marketing is flashy, but I have zero interest in this product.
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The reason why this story doesn't make sense is because it's most likely a lie. Think about it for a second. If they wanted to discourage copycat criminals, the easiest way to do it would be to claim they seized the crypto, right?
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Yeah... That's very suspicious, not gonna lie.
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Oh, don't get me wrong. I have done my fair share of "leet" and toy code interview problems over the years, and for a while I even used them when I was interviewing and hiring other devs myself. But then I had some personal e
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In my 20+ year career as a web developer and software engineer, I have never ONCE had to merge two sorted arrays as part of my job. If you asked me that question in a whiteboard interview without access to my favorite IDE, a REPL, or google
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Oh, trust me, I’ve been saying Bitcoin is fundamentally broken since day one. That doesn’t mean all crypto coins are scams though. There are a number of stable coins that are in development that look really interesting, but a lot of them su
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Why isn't the original simple payment use case not compelling enough? Why does currency have to ALSO do all this other stuff? Why can't it just be... money? My dream for crypto is to one day have a safe place to put my money where
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Yes, I agree that people should definitely educate themselves and watch out for scams. While it is true that there are certainly a ton of pump and dump schemes and outright scams in the crypto space, I don't think it's fair to jus
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If this is how companies are going to operate, then employees will no longer be able to give the customary two weeks notice to their prior employer when switching jobs. Instead, employees will accept their new job offer and then simply quit
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BRB selling myself into slavery via NFT
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Yeah, at a certain point, it probably makes sense to have a giant library of universal assets like rocks and grass and trees. There's no reason for each outdoor game to keep reinventing the universe.

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