I've been feeling this for a while. There's a performative sort of aspect to people's personalities now as though they are mimicking a character playing out scenes. There's always been jokers or people who quote lines from movies but what I'm seeing is way more pathological than that. I don't know if they are doing it on purpose or oblivious to it. If it were children doing this I wouldn't be too concerned but it's 30 year adults mimicking stuff like anime / video game style expressions and movements. I worry that something has gone collectively very wrong in all of our brains from over stimulation.
People working from home for the first time over the last few years are still in the honeymoon period where it seems 100% positive with no downsides. After 10+ years of working remotely I can tell you it's not as great as it seems. First unless you have an active social life outside work you are setting yourself up for a life of extreme social isolation. Second when your boss and co-workers don't see you in human form often there is a tendency for them to start treating you like a stranger with less trust and empathy. Third your work/life balance will never be the same. First you will be guilty you're not working hard enough then you'll be resentful you're working too hard. In my experience hybrid is the ideal setup so you can maintain good human relationships with your co-workers.
One of the reasons I got out of network engineering was how frequently the work I was required to do would cause unintended consequences. You can do all your due diligence, get your work blessed by vendor support, and still get blown up by a bug or undocumented behaviors on a regular basis. The conspiratorial part of my brain says these network device makers intentionally provide unreliable software and terrible documentation to bolster their support contract profits. I was just the guy typing in the commands and getting all the blame.
One of the greatest flaws of modern society is how we systematically beat this natural childlike enthusiasm for bending the rules out of people. I'm just old enough to remember when 'it was just a joke' was a legitimate excuse that could get you out of trouble. If the joke was funny and didn't hurt anyone you might get a slap not he wrist but people of all ages appreciated your effort to make the world a less grim place.
Jordan Peterson is completely wrong though. Monogamy is part of the problem. We should normalize as a society that there are indeed people you just want to have sex with but are not interested in marrying/reproduction with. It shouldn't be that big of a deal.
Has anyone seen Mac malware that involves hyjacking accessibly/mouse input? I've come across several Macs in the last year with mysterious self moving cursors. I don't know what benefit there would be for malware to hyjack a mouse cursor so my assumption is they simply have hardware problems with their trackpads. Makes me paranoid tough.
There should be a feature to request an unlock request to the owner. I accidentally re-sold a locked iPhone once and luckily was able to work it out with the buyer but only because they had my contact info. That being said this is a known risk of buying liquidated Apple hardware that should have been factored into the the bids of whoever bought them. When I worked in a bit in IT liquidation back in the day and we guessed 10% of everything was going to be junk and bid accordingly.
It's a flawed system now that people most often use downvotes as disagrees. In the process of disagreeing you are also suppressing alternative opinions and information. It's the modern day version of shooting the messenger. Slashdot figured this out in the 90s. If you're going to ask people to rank stuff you need to give them a handful of basic categories to choose from (inaccurate, misleading, redundant, etc) instead of a good vs bad binary selection.
Seems like all this trouble and risk could have been avoided by simply leaving a note on the car with a warning about cameras/police. That's going to discourage most people who think they are 'getting away with it' to stop.
The simple satisfaction of successfully installing software from a stack of magnetic disks is part of what made computers fun back in the day. I remember installing software I didn't even want just because I enjoyed the process and the sounds the drives made.
Some products/service are really hard to quote upfront without knowing the customer's exact use case and needs. You don't want to scare everyone away with sticker shock but at the same time you don't want to mislead people into expecting a much lower price. Often this includes offering customers decent pre-sales support in the quoting process. Sometimes it's a sign they are willing to negotiate widely on price as well.
Personally used about an even split of ECC vs. non-ECC RAM over the last ~30 years and can't say I've ever encountered any problems with non-ECC RAM. If it happened it was no significance for me to notice. Professionally yeah I've run across a server here and there report bit errors but it was a four leaf clover the of thing. Not unheard of but not common. The more important thing in my experience is using high quality hardware with stable well tested drivers. That is the first practical precaution to consider. If you've got a box full of the cheapest parts you can find on Amazon you got bigger problems to consider before worrying about ECC.
Probably untrue but the general trend of Apple throwing in the towel on privacy has made me start seriously thinking about the logistics of moving away from macOS in the near future. I know it's going to be super unpleasant because I've been a 20+ year macOS snob and it's an integral part of how I get any work done. Making a reluctant change is so difficult. I almost hope Apple makes some terribly egregious changes to macOS that will make it easier for me to cut it loose and move on.
If you're able to horde in a healthy way it's no problem. I just think for a lot of people it tends to become an unhealthy obsession of relying on obtaining media to self medicate. Chasing the dragon trying to obtain more and more media. Then ultimately facing the disappointment when it doesn't provide the dopamine fix or childhood nostalgia you're hoping for. I vividly remember the terrible feeling of opening up Plex with countless terabytes of data and realizing nothing here is going to actually make me feel better. Media is a powerful stimulant and I've reached the conclusion for myself at least it has to be used in moderation.
3 years which is unfortunately on the cusp of legitimately being out of the loop on current trends. I can't blame any employer for not wanting to take that risk when there are plenty of other candidates to choose from. It definitely effects my confidence in applying for jobs because I know my little hobby projects I've continued to work on are not the same thing as stepping right back into a production environment. I think all I can really do is be honest and hope to find a sympathetic employer willing to toss me a rope. Alternatively I'll have to step back to a more jr role for a while to get my chops back up.
Totally self inflicted. I was using a beta version of OpenZFS on a beta version of OSX. Begging for problems and I finally found one. Maybe I was subconsciously looking for an off-ramp of the burden of managing my horde of data. All my personal data was backed up so I just restored that and let the media horde go.
I kind of ruined up my career some by taking an extended break to pursue other interests like depression and sleeping 12+ hours per day. What I didn't really factor into my choice was employers are scared of people who have the financial independence to take breaks like this because they cannot be relied on to be loyal wage slaves. I haven't found a great way to overcome this yet because I totally get their concerns. Anyone who doesn't an absolutely 100% need the job is not as dependable. I don't want to be deceptive about why I took a break but in this case it feels like honesty just isn't gonna work.
There is some value in consuming a mix of both push and pull content. In the modern world we've gone way overboard on only consuming what we want exactly when we want it it. News letters are more like a magazine or newspaper subscription where you're choosing to have content randomly pushed at you to broaden your horizons. Also as a content creator it enables you to write differently for a smaller but way more engaged audience. It's like the difference between having a private conversation with a large group of friends versus getting on your soap box on the street corner.
Alternatively consider reducing your addiction to television/movies and stop worrying about where your next fix is coming from. In the golden era of piracy I used to be a huge media pack rat spending hours a day obtaining more media to stash away. One day my ZFS array puked and I lost almost everything. I wasn't even upset. It was a blessing in disguise to be liberated from caring about hoarding media. Never seeing your favorite television/movies again is going to have almost zero impact on your life. It's not worth wasting much of your time and money on.
I'm completely done with partisan politics. I even decided to stop voting so my primate brain isn't tempted to root for my team anymore. I'm not entirely unbiased but I feel like I can look at these things more objectively now. What I see is a very clear trend of the left advocating for freedom reducing policies and the mainstream media inaccurately labeling right wing concerns about it as 'bizarre conspiracy theories' constantly these days. We have states actively trying to ban the sale of gasoline cars. It's not some crazy conspiracy theory to be worried they are going to ban other goods/services you want to consume especially when someone is on record advocating for it. I'm furious at both parties for using deception to push agendas they know will fail at the ballot box or could not make it into law without exploiting loopholes/technicalities.
I found this out recently after being perm banned from Reddit for making too many dirty jokes. It was merely a creative writing exercise for me that I didn't take seriously. Not being able to comment made me realize though I was subconsciously always looking for the worst most absurd filthy angle to setup the joke. So I probably enjoy using the site more now though I'm still annoyed at being targeted by moderators because most of my silly jokes were very well received and upvoted by actual users.
Incidentally after years of resisting last time I updated my resume I removed every reference to UNIX and almost everything else non-Linux. I realize there are still jobs out there where it's a in-demand skillset but it just sounded dated, braggy, fabricated to mention my past experience with HP-UX, AIX, and Solaris in a world where it won't be relevant for 99% of the jobs I'm applying for. Also it's been so long since I worked with them I'm not even sure I can confidently claim them as legitimate skills anymore even if an employer felt they were valuable.
I was totally fine with tipping for 30 years of my life until I recently encountered a gas station checkout with a tip prompt. I heard Captain Picard in my head telling me the line must be drawn here. Now I only tip at dine in restaurants where I eat often and generally the bare minimum because of the inflation of base menu prices. I am not paying anyone $25 to bring me food and drinks.
Incidentally I've known plenty of people over the years who have worked in food service who never seemed to be lacking in cash for drugs, big car payments, expensive clothes. If just one sucker is willing to tip you 15% once per hour you're doing fine. If you're going home with hundreds of easily tax evadible dollars in your pocket at the end of the day stop complaining to me.
Is this an AI generated text? It reads very strange to me though I can't exactly put my finger onto why. For example statements like climate change related sea level rise alone could extinct all of humanity doesn't seem like something a reasonable human would write. Is there any credible climate scientist in the world who thinks this is a real possibility? Hint lots of people would just move away from the rising sea and survive. Anything short of catastrophic impact induced sea level rise of thousands of feet aren't going to extinct all of humanity.
I feel like at this point adding more continuity features would just be drawing attention to the fact they rarely work correctly and are poorly/confusingly implemented in a variety of ways. Maybe I have exceptionally bad results and they work fine for everyone else but my general sense is Apple quiet quits features they know are a dumpster fire.
I so much wish that usenet was still a thing. If someone would give me a bunch of money I would love to spend the rest of my career working on bringing usenet back to the mainstream with spiffy web/app clients.
I had to do some plumbing work a few years ago and quite enjoyed solving the puzzle and completing the work myself. It did remind me a lot of my day job in tech. No individual part of the job is all that difficult but planning and executing everything properly, and all the cryptic/arcane knowledge required, was very similar. And just like when one of my networks or systems is down the work had to be completed quickly to resolve the outage.