hyperdimension

It's so easy to slip through the cracks in the system, so to speak. A sudden medical bill or car problems, for instance. I realized on my drive to work today that my car is the only thing keeping me from poverty. Luckily, I have tools in the back and would probably be able to fix it myself. :) Also, once you're in it, you're in it, and it's a strong cycle. You don't always have the luxury of things we often take for granted like having a nice outfit to wear, reliable transportation to an interview, and finally not even having a mailing address if you even end up getting a job offer.

It's like the places that offer a free shower and "nice" outfit (for an interview) to homeless people. Sometimes all it takes is that little boost to get (to be sure, the right person with the right attitude) someone back on their feet.

I've luckily never been in that situation, but I can empathize and understand how a completely ordinary person could quickly end up there.

Positive freedom is a right to do something. (e.g. free speech) Negative freedom is a right to be free of something (e.g. violence)

Actually, it just occurred to me that free speech could be categorized as both: positive freedom to engage in speech and negative freedom to be free of government-based silence of that speech. Interesting.

Edit: I guess this is saying the same thing as 'User23 with so many words; "privileges and immunities" are probably better terms to use.

  yes 'y' | dd of=response bs=1 count=1
  yes 'e' | dd of=response bs=1 count=1 seek=1
  yes 's' | dd of=response bs=1 count=1 seek=2

EDIT: the idea of tunneling USB-C ports over Bluetooth (like the wireless USB standard that I never quite saw take off) just occurred to me while writing this comment. What fresh hell.

Ugh, that just serves to remind me of the unholy, demented shapes I've seen (Fortune 500) companies are able to mangle SharePoint into. Customizability is usually a nice quality in general, but certainly not without any cost.

Well, he can't yet, since it's still a going concern!

https://www.muckrock.com/foi/

It helps you with the process of FOIA requests, and if/when granted, hosts the responses online publicly.

The boss of my first internship at Cisco majored in Geology.

This phrasing reminded me of a comment I favorited a while ago, so I went through my favorited comments and found it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5847789

"It took thousands of years of human civilisation before we got relatively benign governments. Power structures are not inherently benign; they must constantly be pressured to prevent malignant people using them to leverage their actions. A non-authoritarian government is an historical anomaly. It's a ball balanced on top of a hill, pushed there by the deaths of millions, and kept there by the vigilance of those who care.

Please start caring."

I watched it just out of curiosity, and now I can at least claim to know another useless skill now.

https://keyauth.win

False. First, your reply is disingenuous and orthogonal to my first concern.

You're gaalighting my strawman, and I have no desire to engage with you further. Have a wonderful day.

https://www.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/magic.html

Edit: it is in the jargon file, just like I remembered it:

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/magic-story.html

It seems like all this preparation to pass an interview is the meta-career.

Here's a copy of the paper, if anyone is interested:

https://maggiemcneill.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/synthesizi...

I know this isn't the case for everyone or everything--everything that makes computers special is still out there in one form or another, and arguably tools like YouTube and the like has made creating and sharing new things possible. It still seems you have to stray away from the path you're guided to in order to find them (and know they exist!). I'm thinking of things like microcontrollers, electronics, programming in general.

It was a "government document simulator." What you would do is upload a nicely scanned document, and it'd give you back a mis-alighed, crappy quality "scan" of that document, with random blotches and other visual noise. You know, like regular government/FOIA-received documents.

I feel like this is halfway there, if not more (so thank you!), but that website was so authentic.

I don't know if it's even around, but it made me giggle, and I'd like to find it again. If not--great startup idea!

Why are comments here always so deliberately vague? I'd like to know which manufacturer. It seems like an important detail.