insamniac

similar to the lab-grown intelligence impact

Nothing to hide for now.

Don't know how long it took, but we made it to Nazi videos pretty quick.

Not supported on linux :(

Took me through a promising questionnaire on how to suck my own dick but I didn't want to pay the $2 to get the full plan. It's nice to know that it exists though.

I feel the same way tending to these goddamn machines. Who's helping whom?

All humans need to start being compensated for all the data they generate that gets collected. Start giving fractions of stock or whatever for all human input which can now more than ever be endlessly productized.

you should be a production line manager.

As above so below. I love how it looks so similar to a colonoscopy.

The sad future.

To what end exactly?

I was hoping for a few specific examples. You might be able to find something with more abstractions between yourself and the killing and destruction, but if there are any 'pure' industries out there, there certainly won't be enough jobs for all of us.

What are the most morally acceptable industries on offer that we should use our skills for instead?

I haven't heard about this guy in a long time (2001 or so) but one thing he said has stuck with me for some reason, and pops into my mind often. I think he framed it as good general life advice to his young adult daughter. "No one owes you anything."

Were you actually able to convince yourself with all that or no?

The official rtsp firmware is garbage and outdated and of course still phones home. For v3 I have been playing with https://github.com/gtxaspec/wz_mini_hacks which seems very promising since it allows ssh root access.

transpoosion

Just a terminology mistake on my part. I don't know what to call the virtualized OS I'm remoting into. We just refer to it as VDI, but that's more general.

What's the term for the instance I connect to? I guess I should have just called it the VM. My VM only has 4GB of RAM and one core and I'm supposed to write and test (deploy) decent sized applications on it.

It would if I didn't have mouths to feed, taxes and rent. I'm starting to prefer time over money at this point.

I think my stuckness has more to do with working at a place that's always a few steps behind the private sector, so nothing I'm doing really translates well into finding new work. It doesn't help my confidence, that's for sure.

Besides, if anyone is looking for an experienced Java 7, Spring 3.2, Oracle dev, I probably don't want to work there either!

I know the way out is side projects, building a portfolio, contributing, etc.. and being able to prove (to myself too) that I can do more than what I'm doing currently..

It's the odd coupling of frustration and complacency that I need to figure my way out of.

Heh. My on site machine is actually a 2008 Dell Optiplex 960, which had 4GB until I complained enough to max it out at 8GB.

Yeah it's not a single company making the hardware decisions. Like most government contract situations it's more akin to a 20 company gang bang at a public facility using shared work space and hardware.

I don't even know where I'd begin to petition for a change. This was mostly just my way of ranting somewhere I'd get support, since no one made a peep on the internal comment I posted. I don't think most developers are fine with the 4GB situation. Those that are don't matter, and the others have likely just been beaten into submission or don't want to be seen as fussy.

Oh how I wish. I would build and donate a machine if it were that easy. It makes it so much worse that I have 96GB of RAM here at home and remote in to 4GB that are probably overprovisioned too.

Oh, I forgot to add: Single Core, 2666 Mhz.

I really wanted to ask if I could donate my old netbook and remote into that.

I joined the army and got trained to be an Arabic linguist. That was getting old and frustrating, so I taught myself javascript/ksh/Tcl and made some dumb applications at work, which was enough to get noticed by some neighboring IT shops (I was out of the army, working as a contractor by this time).

I ended up doing Groovy, then Java, and now I'm in the government version of "Enterprisy Java" and I feel stuck myself. 150k isn't that much if it leaves you empty inside.