djinnandtonic

I guess that would be very typical, grabbing gov't assistance with both hands and whining about socialism the whole time

Google the farm bill. Farmers are most successful when they work the system for handouts. Most farming is not economically viable otherwise

Meh. The same folks who clapped and cheered as Musk revved a chainsaw to celebrate a hundred thousand federal workers being thrown out of their careers. Hope they have to sell their land to Monsanto for pennies on the dollar.

I am a big fan of Hoxhunt; it keeps social engineering attacks in the forefront of everyone's mind

What if there are hallucinations in the verification tool?

Why does this notification say passwords were compromised and not password hashes? Certainly Roku engineers were better than that?

It's kind of weird to see big corporations want to attract talent but then act surprised or salty when people don't like being treated like a line item in a budget.

It's nothing personal. I'm sure your company is great and you truly believe in your mission beyond just providing value to shareholders but humans like stability and to be treated like people. You might be a Fortune 500 but you're not god just a job.

If you think these things aren't fair or suck, you should try treating people better or else deal with the organized labor that will make decisions for you.

Sorry, it's getting kind of annoying to see employers not getting this.

ngl I read this as "open source house plants" and immediately had some future shock

Except vaccines don't damage people

> Further, it's happening because of how they voted. [citation needed]

Its happening because business-backed city leadership decided to deprioritize affordable housing in an effort to uplevel the tax base and get rid of all the artist types, with the completely forseeable result being an explosion in homelessness

Its more useful to compare the violent crime rate per capita, not strictly homicides: https://www.areavibes.com/compare-results/?place1=Portland%2...

By which measure Portland is safer than both of your examples, even after this supposed apocalyptic crime wave caused by defunding the Police

There's a lot wrong here:

1. Don't conflate business interests with the interests of the population of a city. I don't doubt there is rising demand for private armed security from the 1% of Portlanders who own businesses, that does not reflect on everyone.

2. Portland has seen rising violent crime but this is part regression to the mean (Portland is the safest city of it's size, even after the 2020 spike) and part of a larger trend (crime rose everywhere in the U.S. since 2020). The assertion that policing has broken down and the city is lawless is laughable.

Or use Kotlin, it's near perfectly interoperable with Java and the acclamation period is measured in weeks if you're a Java dev

Would you imprison a burglar that jimmies your lock while you are away? If so, what is the difference?

For someone that only dabbles in investing, what are the reasons people choose ultra-high-risk investments like crypto?

Read the release log for Funny Number jokes, came away disappointed

I don't understand why this is called an attack. Looks like just a (very cool!) communication protocol, over an unusual medium?

mRNA-based vaccine technology was in development years before COVID-19 made it economically viable to release.

VAERS is self-reported (and you can report for others) and not verified. We live in an age where a small segment of the population is highly motivated to cast doubt on vaccines.

Also, there has never in history been as quick and wide a rollout of a vaccine as COVID-19. If a database were tracking every negative outcome for a person after taking a vaccine - even if the vaccine didn't cause it - we would see a spike. You'd see a worrying spike in negative outcomes if we spun up a database that recorded adverse reactions after eating a banana, for example; doesn't mean bananas are killing people.

Yawn. The lack of hard evidence demonstrating injuries from vaccines has led to a lot of this "lower order proof" conversation: "well here's something suspicious and here's something suspicious...".

Taken together it feels like someone heavily implying something while waggling their eyebrows and nudging you in the ribs to get you to come to the same conclusion.

If the vaccines are injuring people, the evidence should be overwhelming. Despite rigorous review (https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/covid-19-vacci...) there is no evidence of this.

I'm always floored by the rationalizations that people like this rely on to get through their day. "It's my job to carry out this order", "the law needs you to leave" ... just admit you chose this career and enjoy it.

I think you were being sarcastic but yes all your points are correct (except Bitcoin has still failed)

I'm sorry to hear you're feeling discouraged. Jobhunting in software is a roller coaster. The standard advice is to apply to many companies, read Cracking the Code Interview and practice Leetcode, ask any more senior devs or your profs to do mock interviews. If you're having trouble getting that first callback, I think the commonality is you're only going through the school job board - that might not be working, try directly applying.

If you'd like to post your email (a throwaway is fine) I'll email and review your resume, I'm ~10 years into my dev career.

I wouldn't be too worried about this. I'm noticing chatter in the worst parts of the internet around COVID vaccines causing prion disease, it's likely just the latest disinfo by Q types.

This site hosts white-supremacist aligned articles (like this one supporting the dehumanizing NPC meme: https://www.countere.com/home/how-to-spot-an-npc) so I wouldn't be too worried about an article here about the "end of the world"

This seems a pretty good read and I've enjoyed it, thanks!

The only spot that really made me grimace was "closing on hiring candidates" advice:

  Ask them, "If we were to make you the following offer (state the offer in full detail, including cash, equity, benefits, etc), would you accept?"

This seems like trying to secure (what the candidate believes to be) a binding decision in the candidate's mind before the details of the offer are laid out, or at the least an offer with immediate acceptance (if you don't pre-accept this offer, I'm not telling you what it is)

It's cute that this guide wants to position the official offer letter as just an endzone dance for the recruiter and candidate, when it is the only thing of legal substance, the only source of guarantees, in the whole process.

I would advise anyone caught in this recruiting tactic to treat a "verbal yes" as exactly what it is - hot air transmitted into a room or over a mic - and scrutinize (and if necessary, clarify or haggle over) the offer documentation.

I don't like to sound like I'm wearing tinfoil, but I'm not sure I believe this. We keep getting eyebrow-raising explanations for how computer criminals are caught; I always ask why bother?

The American intelligence apparatus has compromised nearly all network traffic, from hardware backdoors on up. I assume the real way this person was detected and caught would be too embarrassing to admit, hence the fingerprints-from-a-photo cover.

This is fantastic news! Now there's a huge market available for a rideshare app that wants to prosper by actual good service rather than wage theft and outright hostility to the regulations of the market they operate in.

I hope some hungry founders-to-be are working on this now.

I recognize this is totally anecdotal, but about three times a week I have to ping the team asking "where is this doc that I know exists, but can't find?"

Usually I'm searching by filename or for keywords that should be in text. I believe it's an issue with how documents are ordered in folders; Some documents (in personal folders?) never come up in search, etc.