And backdoored encryption is just as bad as unencrypted, maybe worse, since it lulls you into a false sense of security.

Give me one year paid family leave and Medicare for all, then we'll talk.

Debugging interviews are great, because it really allows you to see how someone thinks. You give them a working test and some buggy code, then ask them to debug it and take as much time as they need while you look over your shoulder (virtually). IDC what the methodology is or the time it takes, if you can solve logic puzzles, you'll make a decent programmer.

Send help. Phallic Innovation stuck in a ceiling fan.

If they were in the retention department, it might have been because they knew there was nothing they could say to keep you. It reflects badly on them when they can't "save" a customer.

I have never used a MS account for local login but it sounds to me like it just leads to people using insecure passwords for publicly reachable accounts because they don’t want to type a long password every time logging into their computer.

I guess that's what the PIN feature is for, even though you're Personal Identification Number can have letters...

He (or more likely, the advisors with their hands up his ass) is starting to freak out about the empty ports out west. We probably have another week or two until the lack of goods starts showing up on store shelves and consumer confidence falls off a cliff. Problem is, even if we reached an agreement with China today, it'll take 30+ days for ships to reach our ports.

Trump’s tariffs — the biggest middle working class tax hike in modern history

Fixed that for them.

At our local demonstration, there was a group of 10 MAGA that came up to the crowd to stir shit. After a few minutes, the police encouraged them to move along.

Cut myself while grafting after sharpening my knife and got the same compliment.

Start attending local government meetings, it's full of gossip and complex backstory.

Fat fucking chance Vance does that.

Disposable culture is a blight on society...

We pretty much stopped spending money shortly after he entered office. Utilities, mortgage, and basic necessities only, garden is being rampped up and we're making pretty much everything from scratch too. The food we are buying are coming from local farms/butchers where possible.

I the last couple of years, I've grown to really understand why my depression era great grandparents were the way they were.

I agree that it will continue to be a useful tool. I've gotten a similar productivity boost using AI auto-complete as I did from regular auto-complete. It's also pretty good at identifiying potential uses with code, again, a similar productivity boost as a good linter. The chatbot does make a good sounding board, especially when you don't remember the name of the concept you are trying to implement or need to pro-con two solutions and you can't find articles about it.

But all these claims of 10x improvements in development speed are horse shit. Yeah, you might be able to shit out a 5-10,000 LOC tutorial app in an hour or two with prompt engineering, but try implementing a feature in a 100,000 LOC codebase and it promptly shits the bed: hallucinating internal frameworks, microservices, ignoring internal practices, writing straight up non-functional code, etc. I'd you spend enough time prompting it, you can eventually massage the solution you need out of it; problem is, it took longer to do that than writing the damn thing yourself.

Every time this happens to me I head out into the garden or walk through the woods. Usually clears it up for a while.

I think this is the plan. They want to be able to blame China for the massively increased cost of consumer goods.

Believe me, I am.

Weed is very habbit forming. Addiction might be too strong a word for weed. But oh boy is it habbit forming. Ppl who deny this, are in denial.

They're also in denial about it making you dumber if you smoke frequently. When I still smoked, it became obvious to me that my thoughts were slower and I'd have trouble finding the right words when I started smoking nearly every night. Took a T break and cut back to weekends only and the problem went away.

Occupy didn't have any sort of leadership or organization, the movement quickly fragmented into a million little factions.

This article is a nothing burger. It's assertion is that both Obama and Trump used DHS for domestic surveillance... Yeah, no shit, that's literally what Jr. created it for.