ComradePhil

You can disable snap auto updates or control all aspects of auto updates, just like you can with apt.

Did you ask the company that rejected you what the reason was? Did they tell you that it was the programming task or did you just assume it was? It is very likely that you did well, but one of the other candidates was a better fit overall... or had previous fin-tech experience or was slightly more experience... or something similar.

You as a programmer aren't expected to know everything. If you encounter a company which expects you to know everything in a particular narrow area even though they know you have no prior experience in that exact area, you probably don't want to work with them anyway.

Just go to an interview, do your best and don't worry too much about it. You are either a good fit for them or you aren't... and there are either better candidates than you or there aren't. There's not much you can do about those factors.

They are when pharma does it.

The western media has been working extra hard to suppress Nazism in Ukraine: https://mobile.twitter.com/elaadeliahu/status/15179484439222...

Are you working with an IFS therapist or are you using Pete Gerlach's online self-help course? Has anyone had success with Pete Gerlach's course?

It literally cures mortality. https://youtu.be/C7EocA1hsCU

No, it's not bad judgement for a normal human being... or even for an okay security engineer.

"Open sourcing" the algorithm to a public platform will be very interesting... but even getting Twitter out of influence of foreign agents, whether they are bots [1], the 50 cent army [2] or powerful foreign state-level actors [3] will be a good start for Twitter.

[1] https://twitter.com/johnkrausphotos/status/15172153497243525...

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/05/1...

[3] https://twitter.com/Alwaleed_Talal/status/151461595698675712...

Anyone can be a "security engineer" on paper if they get the necessary training... but that doesn't give you the personality that you need for the job. The author does seem to have the personality to some extent... so he should be fine... but I don't think he'll ever be among the best because he did trust someone enough to have a child with them... and he took his child to a public park. That level of trust will seriously hinder his professional development as a security engineer.

If you measure competence as relative performance, a person cannot know how competent they are compared to others... because to do that correctly, they would not only have to know how much they know but also know how much other people know... preferably in relation to them.

This is not possible, so the self-assessment data will be random because it is a random guess... so it does not correlate to actual performance or anything else for that matter. Hence, DK effect has to be a result of faulty statistical analysis.

I believe we'd have completely different results if the question was framed differently: "how many do you believe you got right?". Then, more confident people, regardless of competence, would answer that they got more right and less confident people, again regardless of competence, would believe that they must have gotten more wrong than they did.

> mindlessly watching TV

Also childish.

> going to sports games

More teenagy than childish, but still just as bad.

One thing that has changed is the fact that most of the third party drivers is installed automatically when you install Windows and can also be updated as "optional updates" using Windows update itself... also with WSL, you can run a Linux instance which seamlessly integrates with Windows.

So, I think the time of the Windows desktop is already here.

Or ignore the PUA warning and install it anyway?

I'm with you here... but marketing by corporations really works. People really believe that the genius bar people are skilled people with all the technical know-how and training to solve every problem.

People don't know that in reality, Apple looks for candidates who can make customers feel that way... while being able to follow basic protocol. Look at the key qualifications required to apply to be a Genius [1]:

> Strong people skills and a knack for problem solving.

> Ability to maintain composure and customer focus while troubleshooting and solving technical issues.

> Ability to adhere to a schedule of customer appointments.

[1] https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/114438151/us-genius

They chose terrible timing to launch it.

They should have either done it while Trump was in office or whenever Democrats lose the election next time... because that's when their primary audience seems to seek comfort in their stories about how they are in the right and how the opposition are the bad guys.

In CNNs defense, they propably planned this with the expectation that Trump would win the second term.

I think Musk is seriously misled about the future of social media.

Twitter is where people go for posting stuff when sitting on a toilet. Even though it may seem like it is where all the newsmakers are at this point in history, imho it doesn't have much of a future.

Everyone else is better off posting Tiktok videos to communicate.

Tiktok (or something similar) is the future of social media where you can see not only what people are literally saying but also how they are saying it... tone of voice, facial expressions (if you wish to reveal it). Video conveys a lot more information in a short time than a block of text ever can... because a block of text has to be given emotional charge, even a hint of intent by the reader... which makes it open to interpretation in many many ways, most of which can be very misleading.

Younger generation is not going back to text based social media.

So, the fact that Russia has been against NATO expansion... and has consistently spoken and acted against it including in Georgia is "mostly bullshit"? Ok.

Because they can easily un-backdoor them?

Maybe it is true to some extent but the mechanism is different: maybe those who have low self-esteem work harder to be more competent than those who are comfortable with what they know.

> it has a decent CLI half baked in with a number of weird ass exceptions that punch you in the face regularly.

Tell me you haven't used WSL without telling me you haven't used WSL.

I found this which claims to block these attacks: https://www.gdatasoftware.com/antivirus-windows

> USB Keyboard Guard

> Protects you against manipulated USB devices that pretend to be keyboards, even though they look like USB sticks or external hard drives.

From the linked article:

> Kaspersky Endpoint Security's technology will not authorize any HIDs unless the user inputs a code using a HID already authorized to do so.

Windows has a MUCH superior cli these days because of WSL.

This is a well-known mode of attack and some anti-virus software have protections against it: https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/weaponized-usb-devices/26495/

I dedicated most part of a day to migrate most of the subscription to a new email. Iirc, it took me more than 8+ hours.

I can only imagine of one possibility and that is the software calculating the speeds incorrectly.

He discusses this in his recent TED interview: https://youtu.be/cdZZpaB2kDM

This is already done in sensible parts of the world to some extent where consumer electricity is priced differently from electricity for business purposes... but yes, a more fine grained control would lead to better prices for most users.

Takedowns. If certain videos are important to you, make copies and store in your local drives, make encrypted backups and store in the cloud.

Too many forces want to change history, gaslight the masses and disinform them.

For example, how long do you think this video will be around: https://youtu.be/jiBXmbkwiSw

Not for long, that's for sure.

Write a script to curl speedtest every minute and have fast internet speed all the time?