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They didn't have any Sanderson on there? I'd classify Sanderson's Stormlight Archive books as the 4 best Fantasy books I've ever read. Although if you are thinking of jumping into Sanderson I'd recommend Mistborn for starters.

The problem isn't the idea of CASM, it's that what happens when they start scanning for "misinformation", or whatever else they want to come up with at that point.

It shouldn't need to be like that but it is the case.

It has nothing to do with the merits of the case itself the tactic a company like Google employs is to just file reams of paperwork, discovery, delays, motion for this and that and each of them have to be considered and discussed and pushes thibgs out at least another day or two. They then use this tactic to extend cases into years.

Although a lawyer will work for a certain cut of the reward they need to eat in the meantime and won't because the case isn't being completed, and isn't going to trial, plus it eats up an enormous amount of time and effort for the lawyer involved cutting into other potential cases.

Eventually you have to call it quits and Google wins because the case never went to trial because Googles legal army was able to delay everything by abusing the legal system.

In short as the PHB from Dilbert once said "we're using the law to keep justice away."

That's what's happening right now.

I took up IF a while back, and I wish my adherance was better but I have noticed once you get into the groove fasting days are fantastic, I do feel "lighter" and I have also realized that most of what I thought was "hunger" is "boredom" and most of my cravings are quite easily handled.

Really we should start teaching people the value of IF.

You're air superiority means nothing if you don't know who is the enemy and who is not. How can you tell if that truck is carrying boxes of ammo or boxes of clothes? Also you can't surveil everywhere and you cant track everything.

Furthermore airplanes can't hold ground they can clear it but that doesn't stop someone from hiding in a cave and coming back out.

Isn't that what the Frontend Ecosystem has been doing, but instead of 20 years it is more like 20 months?

Sounds similar to this blog post by the founder of SO

https://blog.codinghorror.com/separating-programming-sheep-f...

US here. I only managed to do it because of a loophole. My wife has the beetus, and with insurance we pay $40 a month, without insurance it is about $600 for a month, so stockpiling it is effectively impossible.

Luckily during her last pregnancy my wife was prescribed substantially more insulin than she'd previously need for a month because the pregnancy was messing up her blood sugar, it stopped once she had the baby, but we still have the same dosage right now, so we are accumulating a small amount. That being said, it was the only way we could figure out to do it.

You know I used to really freak out and have panic attacks about the possible world ending catastrophes from the collapse of the Eurozone to missing Soviet Smallpox.

I eventually realized I can't change anything about it my worrying about it doesn't do anything, and realistically there is nothing I can really do to prepare for the total collapse of civilization so I try and just have 2-3 months of food and water on hand, grow a garden, try and find a way to get solar and a diesel backup generator, try and stockpile medicine when I can, etc. My goal is just 2-3 months of each thing in case there was a natural disaster or I lost my job and I put the rest of it in the hands of God.

If civilizations burns to the ground then I'll do my best to survive while also doing my best to help other people. After all to quote Brandon Sanderson "Life before death, strength before weakness, journey before destination."I'll die one way or another, so why stress about all the ways that can happen, especially when I can't do anything about it. I just live my life the best I can and hope things work out.

> Same here, but Microsoft, having source code all the way to the client

That right there is the reason they are doing this. It's not about customers or what people want it's about keeping control of the whole stack, and the power that comes with that.

I had one project I was working on for a client where they thought they were super important and confidential (NVM they were neglecting all of the real security best practices). One of the things they decided is that as part of the project everyone would have to move a VDI solution in a different network and then everyone would have to do all their work from this network, in the name of security. The problem was I was only interacting with the cloud side of this project, working with the actual cloud public API, so everything I was working on was already public facing and didn't care about network concerns.

I ended up writing an email to the decision markers in the project outlining why "1) I didn't want a VDI 2) A VDI would take me forever to setup properly for my workflow anyway* 3) It would do nothing for the project's security to have me working on a VDI and 4) It would be a pain in the but trying to work on a VDI.

I was told that my objections were valid and true but I needed to work on a VDI anyway. It was at that moment I stopped caring about the project.

I did end up winning in the end however as when I finally agreed to do it (not my money the company was setting on fire) they asked me to send a list of what I'd need my VDI to be setup like. So I sent them a list of everything I'd need to mimic my current working environment and what I was doing now, including a Linux OS (The VDI solution was Windows only) with X11 and i3 setup. A full Doom Emacs configuration, special developer libraries and tooling, and several other items. With a long list of alternatives I would need installed if my first choice wasn't available, with specific versions, etc.

I sent off that email and they said they'd set me up with the desktop environment I need and let me know when it was finished being created. I am still waiting for that email letting me know it is setup, and happily working from my real machine until it does become available.

The moral of the story is sometimes the easiest way to thrawt management incompetence is to throw it reams of useless busy work that it will be festering away on while you can get real work done.

This was of course the logical end of the cloud expansion. Why pay for users to have a beefy machine when all their apps live in the cloud anyway.

Also now it is so much easier to enforce policies prevent users from installing things they shouldn't, recover lost data, etc.

Of course it brings with it all the same issues. Hopefully we can figure out how to move back to private computing before they make all endpoints dumb terminals.

So I felt that way for a while then I realized the trick was configuring the Extension Shortcuts for Multi-Account Containers.

I use Ctrl+Alt+J to open up my first container, Ctrl+Alt+H for second container, etc. Once I did that it became very easy to open up a container seamlessly and I started getting more mileage out of containers.

As a disclaimer I also consider it a workflow failure if I have to leave the keyboard to reach for the mouse so YMMV.

I also have mapped CapsLock to Ctrl.

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Forgot to mention the containers I have are - Work - Work Test Users - Work Admin Accounts - Personal - School - Professional Social Media - Online Gaming

+1 on this. My life got a lot better and easier when I started using FF container extension. I can now have one container for my test accounts, another container for my prod, one for my DND gaming accounts, personal SocMedia. It's flipping great. I recommend anyone looking at this trying it out.

That's why I now run i3 for my daily driver with emacs.

Just my little data point but I moved into a sleepy little ID town that has a lot of people that have moved here from SoCal, and of the 5 people I asked "what brought all the way up to Idaho from California?" 4 of them commented on how expensive California was and the high cost of living. 3 of them also stated that they didn't like how things were happening in Cali.

Again small anecdotal data point but take it for what it is worth.

I'll throw in my 2 cents that I can confirm the anecdote. I just moved to a small town in Idaho because my wife was from there. We found our house because several new developments are going up.

As I've been chatting with some people at church* I was told that about 1/3 of the people that attend have moved to our little town in Idaho from Southern California in the past 2 years or so. That might not seem like much, but considering that this is small town in the middle of Idaho it seemed like a pretty big deal to me. It's especially interesting to see many people who have more traditional jobs, often revolving around construction or the cultivation of potatoes interacting with many of the white collar, MBA type Cali expats.

* Note: The church I attend is a world wide church and divides it's congregations based on geographic area, encouraging people to attend the service based on where they live. This point is made to forestall the correlation causation criticism, that would imply the church I attend is particularlye attractive to people that have recently moved in from SoCal,

EDIT: Just to clarify my wife and I did not move from Cali, we moved from Utah, because it was getting filled up with people from Cali, that resulted in prices for housing going up considerably.

So one question I've had for a while is if we are currently facing such a catastrophe with increased global heat why don't we go ahead and start conducting massive explosions to kick dust up into the air. When Krakatoa went off it caused global cooling throughout the entire world because of the amount of matter it introduced into the air so why don't we do the same right now at least as a stopgap measure if things are looking so dire?

I'm not trying to be argumentative I just don't understand why this is a bad idea?

I can actually by just sourcing a CSS file that has the color scheme defined and that can be changed as needed.

I can keep consistentancy by just having a JS library that has our components.

As for flow no I can't because different situations and objectives require different workflows to force them all to be the same is the kind of thing that sounds like a good idea until it is clearly not.

But the funny thing about all of that is that everything listed above has to be done either way, and usually the UX guys will shove it off on engineering to implement so where is their value add....?

Counterpoint I work on a big boring business. I have two projects I am working on right now. One is a project that is interesting and I think will benefit the project.

The other is one that I find poorly considered and a waste of money and effort. I try to do both to the best of my ability, but for the second project it has been made clear to me that my opinion is not really appreciated and that my technical opinion is not valued this has hence killed my initiative and desire to go above and beyond or my desire to advocate for changes for the betterment of the project. Not because I am lazy or resentful I've just learned that attempting to do so on this project is a waste of time and effort and my energy would be better spent elsewhere.

I envy you if that is your experience. Almost all UX persons I have worked with have a degree in "Design" and are artsy type that tell me. "You can't make this blue it just doesn't vibe with the green we have."

Many of who use the argument "Apple/Google does it this way" I'm not saying your now right it's just been my experience that they aren't engineers or Computer Scientists.

People actually have created adversarial browser extension checkout AdNaseum (https://adnauseam.io/) which will click every single ad on a page, as well as acting as an adblocker that is based on ublock.

In addition the TrackMeNot (https://trackmenot.io/) extension will randomly create search requests in the background constantly generating useless noise.

If you combine them you get a wonderful situation where random searches are performed and then all the ads on the search result are clicked. I've currently clicked on 2210 ads today while just having it open in another tab on my browser.

Join the fight my friends.

I guess part of my question with spam lately is why can't we just go after the spammers? It seems to me that acting as a public nuisance would be enough for the government to take action.

It is a really inexpensive way to get a good degree. The one caveat is that they already have determined the classes and the courses you just choose what order you go through them in. For example I am currently getting my masters, and someone has posted how they managed to knock out the entire degree (8 semesters) in 2 months. (The disclaimer was he had worked in the field for close to 10 years in various positions, so everything in the degree was second nature)

I got my degree in 18 months, plus one semester of a local college prior. But yes if you've got the discipline and motivation you can get your entire degree in 6 months for about 4 grand.

It really is the way of the future in my mind.

The disconnect isn't that we require people to have state of the art impenetrable locks, we are requiring them merely to lock the door when they are out.

These standards that are out there aren't difficult to implement or put in place. For example if we look at PCI-DSS standards some of them include

1 - Changing default passwords

2 - Having a firewall

3 - Encrypting PCI information at rest

4 - Using encrypted communication channels for PCI (https).

This is just some of the standards and none of them are very hard, all of them are trivial to implement.

So sure it's a bad thing if you get robbed while out on errands, but you're going to get a whole lot less sympathy if it turns out you left the front door open with a sign that said, "I'm not home right now."

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To be clear I am not talking about SMB mom and pop shops necessarily in this comment, I am talking about the massive Fortune 1000 companies that are getting hit with this over and over again.

Check out Western Governors University. It is an accredited online university formed back in the 90's and I believe is non profit as well so it isn't like the University of Phoenix or those other scam schools.

They have a competency based model where if you can demonstrate competency by passing the test and/or completing the project you can be done with the class, whether that takes you 3 days or 3 months.

You also play a flat rate for the semester and complete as many classes as you want at a time.

I did it I loved it, I'd been in the field and was able to breeze through some of my courses while the ones I wasn't familiar with helped me.

They also have a lot of classes that the test is an industry cert, so it's a cheap way to get some certs under your belt as well.

The wonderful quote that appears halfway through supports your conclusion

"There are many theories about the connection between sensory processing and intelligence but my personal belief having lived it is"

Well you would be wrong. Inflation doesn't just happen because people are buying more things. Inflation occurs when more money is brought into the system but the amount of goods remains constant.

You mean that the taxpayers will cover the debt

Well it would result in deflation because $1,500,000,000 disappears from the economy overnight. This means that the money supply shrinks and that kicks of a deflationary cycle.