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I'd like to see their business continuity plan lmao

I guess they saw the avalanche of legal challenges and decided better. I wonder if we'll see this come back with more of a targeted approach.

ptyyyon A coder considers the waning days of the craft

> Especially non-native speakers or otherwise bad writers can now write long-winded nonsense

You have now described 95% of Quora's content.

ptyyyon Ask HN: Career in trades for possible ex-programmers

I worked as an electrician in the military, albeit for aircraft. I do miss getting my hands dirty in that regard; however, the civilian side aircraft electrician pay is not remotely comparable to my SE salary (in fact it'd be a more than 50% pay cut). Is residential/commercial electrician pay closer to SE pay?

ptyyyon American workers are demanding almost $80k a year to take a new job

Yeah, my in-laws rent went up nearly 40% and the property management claimed it was due to upgrades (the upgrade was a new coat of paint on the building). That took them out of the range of being able to afford their apartment and other necessities with social security and a meager retirement. They had to move to a new place in a bad area and my MIL had to start working again.

ptyyyon Ask HN: What AI tools do you use to boost productivity?

I was using Github Copilot, however I just ended my subscription because I wasn't using it enough despite being elbow deep in code every day. Most of the time the integrations that I use (JetBrains Rider and VS Code) wouldn't function correctly or I'd constantly be logged out. When the integrations _were_ working, the suggestions would be decent but occasionally when doing something like converting jquery to vanilla javascript I'd end up spending more time debugging the result of the suggestion than if I had just done the conversion myself.

Otherwise, I use ChatGPT to help me write tickets/user stories for work as well as for generating test cases for my QA engineers to follow.

ptyyyon Stop the Earn IT Bill Before It Breaks Encryption

https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2020/01/earn-it-act-how-b...

Scroll to summary, specifically "Section 230 immunity for CSAM can be earned via 1 of 2 “safe harbors”."

ptyyyon One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020

No way man, there are very meaningful changes like this one https://github.com/devraj-kumar/BLOG-/pull/13/commits/1b26bf...

ptyyyon French fathers will now get 28 days of paternity leave

You make a good point.

ptyyyon French fathers will now get 28 days of paternity leave

> I'm very curious about how a company could determine or enforce which spouse is primary and which is secondary.

My company leaves that decision to the couple. The couple chooses who is primary and secondary. My wife got 12 weeks as the primary caregiver. Our situation is a bit weird because we work for the same company.

ptyyyon French fathers will now get 28 days of paternity leave

Around the start of August I finished up my 6 weeks here in the US and it was definitely not enough. 133+ days would have been nice, but here in Freedom-Land™ I was lucky to get the 6 weeks I was given. I know a few new dads who got no paternity leave from work, or 1-3 days. Absolutely ridiculous in this day and age.

ptyyyon I no longer build software

Yeah I did the same. I went from being an avionics/aviation electrician to college and then to being a software engineer. I hated being in the elements all the time so I wanted to have an officer job. Overall it's been good for me but I do miss working with my hands more.

> Turning my hobbies in jobs killed off a lot of fun I used to have.

Yep. I haven't really worked on any of my hobby projects like I had before.

ptyyyon Show HN: Tired of reading NerdWallet to see the best credit card? I automated it

No one wants to give their intimate financial details to a "passion project."

ptyyyon Ask HN: How to rediscover the joy of programming?

>I don't think I have come home any day and felt like, "oh, today I will code this!". Nope. I always leave work at work - coding, studying, learning about work. It's not really a discipline, or an attempt to keep work and life separate. I just don't feel like it.

I'm in the same boat. I've been coding for over 15 years, and since I've been doing it as a career, I can't bring myself to work on very much outside of work like I used to. I have a github full of projects that I used to work on but when I'm home I want to do something that I enjoy. I don't think I've made a significant commit to any of my projects in over a year. Almost makes me want to go back to being an electrician so I can find renewed passion for what used to be my hobby.

ptyyyon Fed cuts half point in emergency move amid spreading virus

I just installed a Tushy and let me tell you, it takes some getting used to. Especially when the water is very cold.

ptyyyon Fed cuts half point in emergency move amid spreading virus

Political optics. Current POTUS's claim to success rests, in part, on a high performing financial sector. If the market tanks or stagnates, he no longer has that as a talking point.

ptyyyon Fed cuts half point in emergency move amid spreading virus

We're basically running out of tools to combat an actual financial crisis. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/l/liquiditytrap.asp

ptyyyon FBI director says disinformation campaigns 'never stopped' after 2016 elections

> You provided a lot of emotion, zero facts

This could be said about your original post.

ptyyyon Teens have figured out how to mess with Instagram's tracking algorithm

> Password resets don't end Instagram sessions, so both you and the second person will be able to access the same account at the same time.

Yikes.

ptyyyon Democrats Declined DHS Offer to Test Caucus App

> Such a test from DHS’ Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency would have focused on security and not the performance issue that Wolf said was most likely responsible for the failure. Still, Wolf said this was a “concerning event” given the amount of scrutiny around elections security after Russians targeted the 2016 presidential election.

> “We don’t see any malicious cyber activity going on,” Wolf said. “No one hacked into it -- so this is more of a stress or load issue as well as a reporting issue that we’re seeing in Iowa.”

> The Iowa Democratic Party has said there was no evidence of hacking in the much-delayed results, merely human error.

DHS wouldn't be the one to do performance testing. Sure they should have had security scans but the issue at hand is not related.

ptyyyon FCC’s Approval of SpaceX’s Starlink Mega Constellation May Have Been Unlawful

> Maybe, eventually, it's California that won't matter anymore.

California's economy is the fifth-largest in the world. It's a whole lot more than a tech hub.

ptyyyon Fingerprints could be stolen from V sign selfies (2017)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_sign

ptyyyon Tests show bootleg marijuana vapes tainted with hydrogen cyanide

The 18th Amendment sure did make things more peaceful and everyone totally abided by it, right guys? Right???

ptyyyon Coalfire Comments on Penetration Tests for Iowa Judicial Branch

Perceived "easy win" for conviction rate due to a fundamental lack of understanding of the issue. This backfired hilariously.

ptyyyon Equifax doesn't want consumers to get their $125

I chose the cash option because I have credit monitoring through 2025 from the OPM breach of my SF-86 (security clearance application information) years ago. This is so idiotic. The FTC did consumers no favors in negotiating such an absolutely pitiful settlement.

ptyyyon $15 Minimum Wage Would Leave 1.3M Jobless, Lift as Many Out of Poverty

Direct PDF link: https://www.cbo.gov/system/files/2019-07/CBO-55410-MinimumWa...

ptyyyon How I Got my $3500 Camera Kit Stolen on KitSplit

https://www.wsoctv.com/news/local/man-arrested-for-not-retur...

ptyyyon GE accidentally makes the case for not owning smart GE bulbs

They'd make it require a proprietary pin by making the hole a few fractions of a millimeter thinner than a paperclip.

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ptyyyon Top UCLA Doctor Denounces HBO's “Chernobyl” as Wrong and “Dangerous”

It's not even a Netflix show..