jakeydus

Yeah it's more effort, but I'd argue that security through obscurity is a super naive approach. I'm not on Google's side here, but so much infrastructure is "secured" by gatekeeping knowledge.

I made the switch to Ubiquiti from TP Link last year. 1000% worth it. The "Just Works (tm)" thing is true, but the ceiling of what you can do with it is so much higher. I'll also say that the Unifi nerds out there are legion and you can find support and comment threads all over the place for pretty much any project you want to do.

edit: it appears that Orchomenus also has an area of the city that Wikipedia refers to as the acropolis; I'm wondering if the game pulls the acropolis data from the Athenian Acropolis but then mistakenly attributes it to Orchomenus? I thought it might be because some great physics discovery was made there (given the daily challenge genre) but I haven't seen anything.

It was a half-baked joke along the lines of "A New York 6 is a Utah 10" or something like that, one of those that crops up in a sitcom every once in a while. Like a silicon valley product, I should have let it develop further before pushing it out for public consumption.

Same here! I got the Parthenon five or so times. On the bright side, I know very well now that the Parthenon is not actually in Athens!

You know what they say, a Silicon Valley 9 is a 10 anywhere else. Or something like that.

This is 100% unrelated to the original article but I feel like there's an underreported additional first half. As a bigger runner who still loves to run, the first two or three miles before I have enough endorphins to get into the zen state that makes me love running is the first half, then it's 17 miles of this amazing meditative mindset. Then the last 10k sucks.

It's a rural area with limited resources. We drive slow for that turn.

Agreed. I think the newscaster joke in arrested development was a solid demonstration of this point. For those who don't know it, the showrunners would frequently insert a news clip of the same reporter summarizing whatever silly plot was going on, ending with: "What this means for your weekend, at 10."

Honestly that's what people watch the news for. What are external factors that they were previously unaware of that might impact their lives (or weekends)? Most (not all) people are aware of the dangers posed by heart disease. They're not watching the news to learn about something they're already aware of.

I might be beating this horse to a second death, but there's a section of road near where I live that's dangerous, and we all know it's dangerous. It's not newsworthy. If another section of road collapsed and introduced a new danger, then that's newsworthy. News is newsworthy because it's new and unfamiliar. If something is reported on that's old and unfamiliar, then that's a documentary. If it's new and familiar, then that's a paradox. Or maybe a fun anecdote at a party.

Oh they have invented a successful business model, it's just that it's successful for those in executive positions. The whole C-suite mentality is as successful for execs as it is cancerous for everyone else.

That's not what OP said, though.

To be fair a lot of these might be because OS X was unveiled in 2016 /s

We got an ipad mini for my kid(s) and regularly leave it unplugged for weeks at a time, sitting on a shelf until we've got a flight or long enough car ride to justify bringing it out. I did that the other day and after not charging it since at least labor day, it was sitting at 90%. I'm just blown away every time.

It speaks to motivation generally, I think. Most people just want to be able to take care of themselves and the people closest to them; they (and this includes me most of the time) don't have the bandwidth to think beyond paying next month's rent.

I did it for a few years after I graduated. It paid about a 10% premium over what other dev jobs in the area paid, and you never had to do anything super technically challenging, but you were pretty much at the whims of the sales org without any kind of product management in place. Plus the owner of the stack you worked with was openly antagonistic to the fact that developers had to be involved at all, even though all of their "no-code" tools introduced complexity that required developers to be involved as soon as you did anything more interesting than whatever was in the demo.

So yeah I made some money but I'd die before I was a salesforce dev again.

To be fair global entry is the greased skids of US customs. It's meant to be more efficient.

You keep saying I’m in a bubble. I read the Vance bio, and the Isaacson one. I came away with very different opinions of him. At least the Isaacson book didn’t leave me with the taste of boots in my mouth.

I don’t hate him. I think he’s a sad, small man who makes himself feel big by being a bully and faking technical experience and knowledge. I think his fans confuse being in the right place at the right time in possession significant capital as genius. I think he is an incredibly toxic public figure. I think farming outrage and feeding trolls is bad for everyone. I think Nazi salutes are bad. I think that lying is bad. I think abandoning children is bad. I think buddying up with fascists is bad.

So sure maybe I miss out on his generous acts but honestly he does enough bad that I don’t particularly care about any good he does. He’s only doing it for himself anyway.

Honestly you could have just saved us all this time by stating you're a hiring manager up front.

I appreciate your optimism regarding the nature of these postings, but I've seen at multiple companies them doing exactly what they describe in the article - fake job postings to improve their appearance to investors, fake job postings to justify H1B positions, etc. Every time I was at a company that got bought by private equity, the former appeared in huge numbers. As soon as we got acquired, in preparation for downsizing, the latter appeared in huge numbers. So you'll forgive me if "managing job hard :(" doesn't land for those of us who are applying for those jobs that don't exist.

I hope not, I'd rather have fewer narcissistic sociopaths in the world. He only cares about himself and what people think of him. Nothing he does is to benefit other people. He's not Iron Man, he's Lex Luthor.

I guess people have always idolized the creeps of the world, though.

Honestly, I saw this and was very interested to learn how they actually solved the problem. Cool that OP did it! Bummed that they weren't willing to share how they did it.

> not a new kind of life itself?

In my opinion, this is more a philosophical question than an engineering one. Is something alive because it’s conscious? Is it alive because it’s intelligent? Is a virus alive, or a bacteria, or an LLM?

Beats me.

Sorry my grandmother used to use the word piddle to mean pee so I got a real crack out of this.

No you’re not projecting they’re being weird.

I think the primary difference is shaming someone for behavior that impacts others and shaming someone for behavior that is none of my business.

One must think Sisyphyus happy, right? At the end of the day we’re just swapping our boulders for boulders.

Calling the comments on the meta post ‘vitriol’ is a bit on the hyperbolic side don’t you think?

> The project is MIT licensed. I'm here all day to answer questions and listen to your feedback—especially the critical kind. Let's discuss it.

You can tell that OP is a big AI believer by the final sentence. That's gotta be one of the most ChatGPT lines I've ever read.

I'm shocked I had to scroll so far to find someone who had this same thought!

> If gender is unknown or irrelevant to the sentence, then they is completely grammatically correct.

Emphasis on the relevancy.