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But besides that, can we just take a facepalm to recognize an NSA employee sending _and_ keeping classified data in a personal email server. Like, how did he not know he would get caught, right?

> Unkenholz allegedly retained the classified NDI within his personal email address.

I love how whoever wrote this clearly does not understand technology, and thinks that somehow the _data_ was stored within the _address_.

Are you aware of https://ifcomp.org/

> a growing set of Gen Alpha kids are doing the same in "metaverse"-branded online worlds, but earning a little crypto here and there from whatever they launch or interact with and use it to buy knockoff jpeg apes

We really are approaching "Snow Crash" in real life

Wow! There are a lot of options. Thanks for the list

Yeah this one or the HTTP spec itself: https://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html#sec1...

I’ve often thought of creating a tool as a side project but I can never figure out how it can be monetized. For example, looking up DNS records or prettifying JSON seem like things that will have a lot of users, but who will pay for that? How do you monetize these ideas?

Wait until you visit the link and read what “object” means in JSON, especially the part about remaining interchangeable with all programming languages

> Objectively, a great majority of people can live their lives without even thinking about or performing calculus

OK no argument there. The OP statement was "For example ... Calculus for solving all sorts of problems" so it appeared you were taking issue with the idea that Calculus can be used to solve all sorts of problems. Your argument is clearer now: even if Calculus can be used to solve all sorts of problems that doesn't mean that it is "fundamental knowledge" for most people.

Oh, gotcha. Well, I definitely agree it would make more sense for it to be an object like you mentioned but I think it's probably more explainable by the fact there is native support for ISO date / time strings in most programming languages, making it just as easy to parse a date or time from a string value and having the added advantage of reducing the size of the payload on the wire. I could be wrong

> People turn their RSUs into cash to be used. Their RSUs are taxed as income not as capital gains.

This is technically inaccurate. RSUs are taxed as "ordinary income" on the date they vest. _AND_ they are also subject to capital gains taxes when they are sold.

> I dont think FAANG stock is that risky.

Look at Facebook's stock (FB symbol) the past year. Between February 2nd and 3rd of this year it fell from $323 to $237.76.

> And the fact that it's just a limited number of people making these wages emphasizes that it's a wealth inequality problem. I'm not sure how that would be a counteargument.

I think it _is_ a counterargument because a comparison between average software engineer pay and average frontline worker pay probably looks like you'd expect as far as market forces are concerned.

It's only when you move on from averages and start to focus on outliers where it looks like "problem." I would definitely consider FAANG engineers who make $300,000+ per year outliers.

> The fact that nobody does that and instead serialize it to ISO-style string is telling about json.

Tell me more about that. I'm not sure I grasp what it is telling about JSON?

Raise your hand if you're surprised.

No one?

;)

Investors encourage this kind of behavior because they respond to it so readily.

JSON doesn't have types like that so that doesn't make sense. It supports a few simple primitives and that's what makes it extensible and gives it it's power. Types like timestamps should come from the language or library that produces JSON only.

https://www.json.org/

Programmers are lazy. I've seen more than my fair share of the default behavior of a language like Java implemented. Which usually means just making a system call for the current time and will return the time in whatever time zone the system happens to be set for.

> Looks like a paywall.

That's odd. It loads up just fine for me with no paywall.

Check this out for more: https://allusesof.com/math/51-amazing-uses-of-calculus-in-re...

The point is that calculus is used to solve all sorts of problems. Sure, you can say "...not in my experience" but that's one experience and not representative. You just happen to a) not work in a realm where Calculus is used and/or b) work within that realm only on problems without Calculus.

And Unix tools in general

“ Chances are, every time you used your credit card, filled a prescription or pumped gasoline, a calculus formula was used to calculate it.”

https://study.com/academy/lesson/calculus-in-the-real-world....

To-do lists.

I’m quite surprised that Unix time is so common. My anecdotal experience with dozens of public and internal APIs over 20 years of development is that the most common format is local time followed by ISO. I actually have almost never seen Unix time.

This is a little more nuanced. A lot of that pay is in risky stock that may or may not turn out to be worthless when it vests. It’s also a very limited number of engineers in the grand scheme.

It's Kotlin now. Kotlin has similar expressibility and extensibility, without Scala pitfalls. (Scala pitfalls that people didn't like included new versions having breaking changes, complexity, theoretical/academic features that weren't necessarily useful to consumer applications, and slow build times).

I'm raising my eyebrow a bit while reading this. It conflates build tools, Debian packages, and Docker containers as one big tangled mess or abstraction. More than half of it is about everything BUT containers.

There are proven methods for providing security and governance of containers in data centers. It's a nice rant, but lacks the whole picture.

What’s the loss for you if you did reset the account, or even just started a new one with another email address?

Also I’m not clear why being contacted by a recruiter at Amzn was relevant to the story?

There’s always room for contributions!

When I read this article, I had my usual immediate reaction to the phrase "creator economy:" is that actually a thing? If you add up all the net profit made in the so-called creator economy does it amount to anything interesting? I suspect it's just one drop in a bucket that amounts to a long tail of menial low-paying jobs.

This site has a nice theme. I wish more of the internet looked like text files.

I just don't see what you're seeing I guess. The clock starts at 00:00 and goes from 23:59 to 00:00 in the 24 hour system. In the 12 hour one, it always starts at 12:00 and goes from 11:59 to 12:00. That parts not confusing at all.

I do understand that having two different 12's in a day introduces an ambiguity about which one is the "real start" of the day just based on "12:00" alone.