Splognosticus

> It is Bob’s job to get you signed with the company as cheaply as possible...

Strictly speaking, this is not necessarily the case (although it might be, but you probably won't make a career at such a company.)

Bob's job is to make the company money. If one guy is asking $300k, it doesn't necessarily follow that Bob could hire five guys working for $30k and come out way ahead.

It hasn’t been all that sudden—rather it’s been snowballing. You had stuff like the Clinton Body Bags clear back in the 90’s, Fox was hammering on the outrage button, sites like Breitbart took that to eleven, Trump took advantage of that to gin up even more outrage, subs like the_donald rewarded the readers with the most unhinged behavior. All the while, education and public trust in journalism were being eroded. Now here we are, where a guy blows away a cash register at a pizza joint because he thinks there is a child sex dungeon in their nonexistent basement.

Here I think is the difference between a book and a live person:

  The show’s producers say the program is meant as an educational tool to fight body shaming and encourage body positivity. And so first reluctantly, later enthusiastically, the children from the Orestad School in Copenhagen asked the adults questions like: “At what age did you grow hair on the lower part of your body?” “Do you consider removing your tattoos?” “Are you pleased with your private parts?”
  
  One of the adults, Martin, answered that he had never had “negative thoughts” about his private parts. Another adult, also named Martin, admitted that when he was young he had worried about size. “But the relationship with myself has changed over time,” he said.
  
  With serious looks on their faces, the children nodded.

You can't ask a book questions.

I've written quite a bit of Groovy code and IME that never changes. It's a very pragmatic and productive language, but whenever you run into some bug or weird edge case you'll rue the day James Strachan was born. :)

Which makes sense when you think about it for a moment. Being an expert Java developer doesn't make you good at--or necessarily even interested in becoming good at--legalese.

This is something I really like about the recent direction of JVM languages. It takes a bit for useful things to make their way into Java itself, but by the time they do they're well-shaken and we can see how they got used in practice.

It's dumbfounding how awful bank websites are at security. They started with the stupidest conceivable way to implement two-factor--a second clear-text password that is an answer to a very small number of secret questions. Then they limited the secret questions to things people could find out about you on Facebook, then on top of that added secret questions about esoteric crap like your father's mother's childhood neighbor's dog's name, secret questions that have answers that vary over time like your favorite song, secret questions that have ridiculous length or punctuation requirements, authentication by SMS, authentication by robocall, and on and on and on. The only thing they absolutely refuse to try is an actual friggin' two-factor app!

There's security theater, and then there's Punch and Judy security puppet shows.

This is an overly broad statement. Everywhere I've worked where I'm expected to be reachable by phone offered a stipend to pay for the service. And all of them were respectful of my personal time.

An abusive employer is going to make unreasonable demands of you, regardless of whether you use your personal phone for work.

You can also get the actual arcade boards and cartridges relatively easily. LGR posted a video on his NeoGeo setup a little while back if anybody's interested in going that route.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eqi30EJi3U&feature=emb_titl...

If we really need help from the Mafia in order to fix income inequality then we truly are screwed. :P

Indeed this would be the fourth time they successfully switched architectures. They went from m68k, to PPC, to x86. Apple is in a pretty unique position in that they make both their hardware and software ecosystem. It gives them a lot of flexibility that companies who just make generic Wintel systems lack.

> Beethoven: Sonata No 14 (aka Moonlight Sonata), 1st Movement

Speaking of, anyone who's never heard the whole thing owes it to themselves to give it a listen. The 3rd movement is off the chain.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Tr0otuiQuU

His Megalovania cover is great too.

https://youtu.be/1MJ2g7Eb0QE

If you like these you might also enjoy the Wintergatan Marble Machine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvUU8joBb1Q

That's true of everybody who's passed econ-101, of course.

There's a pretty substantial difference between immigration and conquest. The former in no way requires the latter.

Literally nobody is arguing that there ought to be no immigration laws at all. But obviously we can treat the families of natural born citizens better without completely letting the whole system fall to anarchy.

It's a shame really. I bet GP would never say something so cruel to OP's face, but somehow when it's just words on a screen folks lose all sense of empathy and civility.

Personally I just use Shift-Shift for practically everything. Saves me learning someone else's keymap or dealing with platform-specific bindings, and there are quite a few useful commands that aren't bound to keys anyway.

Huh, never realized that was a thing. Do the shortcuts in the menu show the QWERTY key or the Dvorak one? I'm curious how you learn the shortcuts if it still shows the QWERTY keys.

Fair point, but considering OpenBSD's goal is to be absolutely secure and NetBSD's goal is to "just work" on basically anything you want to run it on reconciling that would be at least as much work as just forking and then each project adopting useful things from the other as needed.

Or option 4a, where like me you have it but for whatever reason it bluescreens with an unhelpfully generic error on first boot.

Why not just actually use comments? If it's worth explaining to new developers it'll likely be useful later when you've simply forgotten why something is the way it is.

I'd count the OpenBSD split as a net positive though. They're now different projects with different goals, both worthy in their own respects.

I wear shirts with breast pockets and the part with the light extends past the top of them.

I use Siri to set alarms and timers since that's far and away more convenient than opening the app and switching to the right tab and futzing with the time dial.

If I've got my phone in my pocket and my hands full it's helpful to be able to tell Siri to turn the flashlight on.

Aside from that I don't think I've used it for much. I get the weather from the radio already, and don't care to search the web with a voice assistant. It'd be nice if she'd read me my text messages but she flatly refuses to do that.

Ah yeah he's got a fair few of that kind of video--basically one from each major era of PCs all the way back to the original XT. His whole channel is great. He's so enthusiastic about all of this retro hardware and software. Even though I've seen most of them a few times at least it's still my go-to for relaxing YouTube binges.

It's not Windows 95, but a while back LGR did try installing MS-DOS 6.22[1] on a modern gaming PC. Things got weird basically immediately but it did more or less work.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bS9hiSwL1KY

Another endorsement for Brother printers here. I actually just kind of default to their stuff at this point, because they invariably just do their job with no drama.

That must be what I was thinking of, thanks!