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1. I'm not posting for senior roles. I know I have more to learn about the new technologies since I'm switching stacks. It's not just confidence that makes me think I was performing at that level. The olny reason I wasn't officially given the title is because of politics and poor leadership by my superiors. I had people from other teams calling me a tech lead, a commendation letter from another team due to my involvement in an enterprise wide upgrade, my supervisor said she wanted me to get the highest performance rating but couldn't make it happen (political reasons), and everyone on the team treated me like the tech lead and even called me that. For the senior developer year, it was pretty similar but since we had an official tech lead hired on I let him handle half the elevations and half the interaction with other teams. My manager even said when he gets a new task that's highly technical and difficult, he gives it me or the tech lead. I met some people from outside my team offsite by chance. We were talking about work stuff pretty regularly. They where surprised when I said I was only a midlevel dev. They thought I was a senior dev or tech lead based on the things I was saying and doing. I had the same thing happen on the next team I went to where some techleads in the department were surprised that I was only a midlevel. Also I was the ASC for that application and recieved excellent reviews from everyone about that role. That role is supposed to be for people who are a senior dev or higher. Unfortunately there were political issues in that group too.

So after two years of working like this, my supervisor (different one) tells me that I could be promoted but I have to work extra time everyday. Now I'm fine putting in some extra hours to make a date or run an elevation. I'm not just going to work extra hours above company policy as a normal thing. Why would I take a 13% increase in hours for a 7% raise? That's taking a rate cut for a position with more (official) responsibilities.

2. I'm probably not worth anything since I have to learn the new stacks. They have me in AWS tech, which is ok. I got certified, but that doesn't mean much since I dont get a lot of chances to use it. I get some experience in Java and Python ECS and Lambdas. Some Dynamo, Cloudwatch, SNS, SQS, etc. A lot of this is stuff like synthetic alerts or increasing test coverage, which sucks. But then they also throw me on no/low code stuff like Splunk and Tableau, which also sucks. I'm never going to become an expert if the type of work is constantly changing and there are big gaps between when I last used that skill and when I'm asked to do it again.
Transport is a devolved matter, so that shouldn't be affected. Although this is often confusing and badly reported.
The most useful gdb trick I know is `gdb -tui`. Having a UI makes stuff so much more discoverable.
It also subsidized Richard Branson's lifestyle. This is also a political decision.

I looked at London-NY - if I put it off one week I can easily cross 1/3 of the world for less than the price of a day trip to Manchester tomorrow.
I think this and sibling captures the difference quite well. For your hex editor, you could replace it with an image converter service - each image conversion need to open a source file for reading and a destination file for writing. You could limit the converters access to not read /etc/shadow various static ways. But assuming uploads/malicious.jpg blows up, it's tricky to statically say: deny access to uploads/other_user_medical_bill.jpg.

So the example isn't all that contrived. Run time dropping of privileges is very useful (and common for network daemons etc for a long time - like apache binding port 80, maybe opening log files, then dropping from root to nobody/www data).

But being able to say that "after this point I should never have to open a file" and having that pledge enforced - is really nice.

This is a tool for good programs to behave in the face of bugs, while static measures are a way to enforce access on potentially bad programs.
Better article: https://news.mit.edu/2021/2d-transistors-microchip-0513
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Some bad and crazy ideas are attached to that label. Also, some perfectly reasonable ones. I’m not sure about “right to repair” because I never know which ones we’re talking about.
> In biology, we know that even a single defect in DNA, a mutation, can cause a disease or some other observable change in an organism

And this would relate to material science?
I prepared so much for our audit and the only thing this guy cared for in a 5 developer company was the fact that I had root access on all environments.

He didn't care about Aws having 2fa configured about our vlan ipsec Tunnel, etc

I even took the liberty to fix the md5 Passwort shit with bcrypt just before the audit...
In terms of "declared" number of cases.
London to Birmingham is an exception because you have three train companies but also two separate sets of tracks -- the West Coast Main Line (WCML) and the Chiltern Line. This builds a lot of resilience into the system. I wish other lines had this as well.

That said, the WCML is extremely well run relative to the horrow shows in S and SE England.

If you live along the WCML (think Bucks, Coventry, etc), you have two providers: Avanti (formerly Virgin) and London Northwestern/West Midland (formerly Midland). You actually have Southern as well, but they are... not a credible provider.

HS2, if it's ever done, will further reduce pressure on the WCML and increase resilience.

But on the other hand, go up North and there used to be trains which are modified bus bodies[1]. Are those still there? So yes, absolutely, the rail network does need to improve across the country.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacer_(British_Rail)
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If you do a lot of email, especially professionally, it's totally worth it, even just for email alone. I feel like a lot of people were using Hey to help them manage their email-heavy workflows (e.g. their focused replying tools to handle a big batch of emails in series) and that's the market here too.

Fully agree it doesn't make sense if you're just sending & receiving a handful of emails a week (but in that case, why look past gmail at all).

For comparison: Superhuman costs $360/year, Spike costs $144/year, Front costs $228/year, etc etc. Some people pay for serious email tools.
A Black Swan is an "unknown unknown", something you don't just lack understanding of, but don't expect or predict. The statistical interpretation of the term was popularized by Nassim Taleb in the book of the same name: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/242472.The_Black_Swan
Join the club of staying on Ansible 2.9 forever! It’s 2015 MacBook level good and still being developed. 2.9.21 was released two weeks ago and 2.9.22 is coming soon.

The way Ansible is developed it’s way easier to fork your own and backport bug fixes and features you need because it’s a toss up whether the fix you need actually got merged or whether it languishes in the GH issues.
Control & standardization.
The infrastructure had been renationalized for quite a while. Its the Operators that have still been private, which in general can be made to work. In Britain it didn’t work well.
A roommate studying for aerospace engineering described that field as "Everyone gets in because they want to work at Skunkworks and design the SR-71. In reality, 95% of graduates will spend the next 40 years optimizing the efficiency of a winglet on a 747."

Security feels similar. The edge of the spear is fascinating, exciting, challenging work.

Unfortunately, no one needs that work. What companies actually need is mind-bogglingly slow, comprehensive, steady progress and improvement of their postures.
That's true. The problem in this case is that they are weeding out applicants based on their knowledge of terminology. Talking about a concrete code sample may not fall into that trap.
There are? Name some.

I know Cobra Kai started out that way, but has now been solved off to Youtube as they abandoned that model.

They certainly don't mention exclusive content as a region to pay for Premium.
The most profitable thing Ford has ever done was convince suburbanites that they need a 18-foot vehicle to make Costco runs.

What % of these pickups ever see real work?
I just don't think that's how rail should work, I'm not booking a flight to go to another country, I should be able to turn up to a train station and get on a bloody train.
Practice building things.

My first personal software application was a diff tool that compared beautified code thereby ignoring differences due to whit space and comments. I eventually moved from a bunch of plugins to custom parsers and just figured it out through trial and error.
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Great question! I actually address this concern here: https://www.paced.email/docs/security

I’m going to surface this page a bit better soon as I’m currently developing a multi-tenancy feature along with branding improvements.

Rikki
Love this site!! Thanks for linking! I considered making one like this but never had time. Always found it so hard to know whats been done in the mech keyboard area with so many home grown and low volume boards.
No, since while the size of atoms already comes into play with modern lithography and has been for a while the 1nm is just an arbitrary number.

No feature size is really 1nm in any dimension probably not even close.

The definition is more or less arbitrary, TSMC could have released a statement that they made a breakthrough in 1574 Zorks Chip Production and it would be just as true.

The only thing that really matters here are the actual characteristics of the node in terms of power and density both on their own and in comparison to previous TSMC nodes and competing nodes.

It seems that with this specifically the focus was to create as thin layers as possible. Weird shit begins to happen when you have “extreme” geometries or topologies e.g. graphene that has some unique properties when it comes to electrical conductivity due to how electrons move within the lattice.

So it seems that the aim here is to exploit similar effects.
Let's be Blunt with Montel
Ask anyone in Aviation, checklists matter. Cybersecurity is often drudgery, but avoiding excitement is the entire point.
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I've worked in cybersecurity for ~7 years, and what you said is accurate. I'm actually switching to a government job and taking a big pay cut because the field is pretty miserable to work in for the most part. I think I've had one cybersecurity job that was actually enjoyable, and that was a Fortune 500 customer that saw the value in keeping their company safe, so their only limitations on our activity was no social engineering, and don't break anything. They knew that real hackers won't follow checklists or a strict RoE, so they didn't want us to either.

The field is also full of people who switched careers to make more money, so they blow minor security issues out of proportion to try and justify their paycheck. It's really frustrating, because then management thinks you aren't doing anything if you don't do the same.

If you want to work in cybersecurity, I think your job as a software developer would actually be very valuable. The biggest problem we have, besides management thinking we're a waste of money, is having too much data, and no good way to go through it. Dedicated cybersecurity tools are pretty awful, and very expensive. If I had any professional experience in software development, that's what I'd be focused on. There's only a handful of automation tools used by most of the industry, and they are only used because they're the only option, not because they're particularly good.
Same on iOS in certain circumstances - eg. webviews.
For those unfamiliar with the other definition referenced here: dynamic range compression (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_range_compression)
> Also interesting he is stepping down during a wave of crackdown on Internet giants in China by the CCP.

Yes, "the best lies are the ones shrouded in truth". The reasons he listed might indeed be reasons why someone else would be a better fit for his positions, but I wouldn't be surprised if the actual trigger for stepping down now is the CCP.
Isn't it also notorious for being a toxic workplace?

https://kotaku.com/inside-the-culture-of-sexism-at-riot-game...
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Despite my extensive headphone collection I wouldn’t consider myself an audiophile.

They’re good, I think the demo/test they do if you try them in person or after first setting them up is really disingenuous. They’ll tell you is the mid point of all profiles, but it sounds muddy and like no headphones I’ve ever heard. Customise them though and everything sounds amazing.

Where it got interesting for me though I’d have a few friends customise and setup their own profiles and they’ll report the same thing. Yet switch between each other’s profiles and you think everyone else’s sounds like trash too. So to me it seems clear the customisation is definitely working and highly personalised.

All that said I couldn’t say with confidence I’d immediately notice the difference between them and my Bose QC unless I was switching back and forth and testing them side by side. For daily use I’ve found most headphones in that price range to be great. For long haul flights the Bose still win for me. I find the in ear and over ear combined designed of the Nura to be very uncomfortable after 10hrs. Any shorter time and the Nura are my goto now.

I was impressed enough that I recently bought a pair of Nuraloops for running too. I don’t think they’re as well designed. They’re difficult to fit, difficult to keep in, and ultimately I had to get aftermarket Comply ear tips to have them be in any way usable. They’re fine now, but I expect I’ll have to be replacing ear tips monthly at this rate which isn’t what I expect for a product at this price point.
What about a type of liscence that behaves like a union. If you pay into this union then you are free to monetize all software with this particular license? Then at least AWS has to pay elastic something if they want to use it
Because buying in bulk gets you a discount, one of the most universally understood things in economics.
1. 2nd hand kayaks, cheap and great fun, good to recycle the used plastic!

2. Road bike, best exercise and stress relief process and I've got to know my local area up to a radius of 50 miles

3. Upcoming - new guitar to go with the bass guitar a few years back.

Amazing cost/return on these items!
on other hand I am amazed how good are Italian trains ehen I travel there- they are fast, cheap and go almost everywhere :)
Where does the subsidy for Branson's lifestyle come in? Branson hasn't been involved in the UK rail network for a couple of years.

If I look at Manchester-London in a weeks time with a non-flexible ticket it costs £45 return (actually for £45 it's pretty flexible - you are just limited to one firms trains, a bit like that BA fare, and can't travel in the morning rush hour)

https://i.imgur.com/CNCzmKu.png

That's less than 9p per mile. What do you think a fair price would be?
This is very exciting. I’ve been really inspired by the passion Conor Hoekstra has for APL and J. His other podcast (Algorithms + Data Structures = Programming) is a lot of fun, and his YouTube videos are very educational, but I’ve really wanted something like this where he can interact with other experts outside of the C++ world.

Instant subscribe from me.
Its business insider. They are a glorified clickbait outlet that so happens to have a good name.

To name a few other BS outlets that once had a good reputation:

Forbes
Cnn
Inc.
venturebeat
Mashable
The list goes on...
I don't think lack of promition = unhealthy relationship with colleagues v

'full effort' might mean a variery of things, but if we are talking about working overtime to meet a sudden new requirement, or studying new framework over weekend, then thats a cancelled family trip and dissapounted spouse.

And if you do that repeatedly it will result in unhealthy relationships at home, which is much worse than at work
politics and timing can have just as much an impact as personal effort. you can put in unlimited effort but if it’s on low visibility/impact products, nobody will notice or care
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"Full effort" means different things to different people.

If your definition of "full effort" means: 50+ hour weeks with no end in sight, arbitrary deadlines disconnected from reality that exist only to give some a-hole exec an illusion of lower risk, make-believe agile, inability to disconnect after work, and countless meaningless hoops to jump through, that's NOT something which will reap rewards in the long term and it is far from a healthy relationship.

"Full Effort" should mean a solid day of work, with enough time to have a life outside the office. Sure, sometimes there's a crunch and one needs to stay late. If the relationship is healthy that will happen a handful of times a year, max. Anything more than that, and you're getting used.
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Just opened the latest stable release of chromium edge, there is no IE compatibility mode. No flag, no command line switch. Nothing.

Why was it removed?
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These days having good video and audio quality doesn't require a lot of money. It just requires couple of hours educating yourself online what you need and how to use it.
Virtually all cloud deploys are misconfigured ;)

https://www.crowdstrike.com/cybersecurity-101/cloud-security...

Cloud native tools such as Cilium that leverage eBPF to provide packet level visibility but I doubt 1% of enterprises use them!

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes...
IBM and Apple. Which makes Apple's Big Brother ad even funnier.
Or patience impaired. It's a whole hour.
> This paper suggests the ‘improvement’ “webmd [1] says it may stain your teeth”.

If nothing else, have they ever used WebMD?

WebMD will say it can cause nausea, diarrhea, headache, and possibly death, because they say that about basically everything.
The trains in the UK seem ok in terms of the number of services and reliability, but they're so expensive. It's almost always cheaper to fly or rent a car than it is to use the train for anything approaching long distance.
I'm not sure of the details, but it has something to do with the modern way of CI/CD pulling in random 3rd party docker containers.
I couldn't be more surprised by this comment as someone born and raised in Croatia.

You are the first person I heard who likes paying Croatian taxes. Do you follow the national news? There's always a steady stream of corruption news, especially recently.

It's ironic you post this in a thread about rail. Croatia has a truly horrible rail system. It's universally mocked as useless.

Regarding COVID, I would have agreed with you that Croatia did great last year in March, but from late summer 2020, it's been catastrophic. And Croatia depends on tourism, so there's a big incentive to get things to normal levels so tourists come. We could have been better than Portugal now.

Also re COVID, have you witnessed the vaccination campaign? Have you seen how many politicians and their friends got vaccinated ahead of the elderly, despite guidelines saying vaccines should be given according to age? The rector of Zagreb university got a vaccine before my grandma. How is that not sadistic?

Croatia has some great pros, such as a relaxed lifestyle, but you're really stretching it with calling it a rolemodel society and good value for taxes
With more and more clients switching online in the search of goods and services, there grows the popularity of online marketplaces as the ideal spots for buying and selling whatever you like. Such popularity owes much to numerous advantages online marketplaces give for all the parties involved: buyers, sellers, operators, and third-party vendors like logistic companies. In this article, we discuss five main aspects you should consider if you want to build an online marketplace
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You're probably right, any tech ad featuring the tag "security".
this seems like it's very very niche (and very specific to the niche that I am interested in!)
Except the density can vary hugely for a single process depending on the type of circuit you're building so even measuring that is quite tricky.
That's certainly how I use the rail network (and often the plane network - I've booked a flight from Europe to the far east with just a few hours notice on more than one occasion), and you can do that (unlike in europe where you have to book long distance trains in advance in many countries). I don't see the conceptual difference between going London - Paris or London - Edinburgh though?
1% of a home’s sale value is never “many extra years of work”.
That guy is completely right. I wouldn’t look at anything else either as that is already the security worst case scenario.
Is an array language a language where you only have arrays? That honestly sounds a bit odd.
I guess it's comparable to having a corporate uniform or getting to wear what you want
I wouldn't say they are niche, but many people I work with would model these systems in relational or no sql databases rather than pick a graph database for such a specific use case. With the popularity of microservice approach, this may be changing. Traditionally applications were based around 1 or few single datastores.
> I have never had to set a bit... What? In which case?

Access modes on a file.

C# enums with the [flags] attribute.

Etc...

It comes up.

This is literally just OR-ing a value with a value. Not exactly rocket science!

flag = flag | thebit;

You say you have 6 years of experience, and you say you have never done that? Really?
it's a matter of cost of opportunity, and risk management.
maybe those efforts were great for "VR as a medium" or for Linux enthusiasts, but not for cs community, which was basal for Steam success
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