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I'd like to see their business continuity plan lmao
Re: on Wednesday January 29, 2025 @01:27PM (#42869051)
I guess they saw the avalanche of legal challenges and decided better. I wonder if we'll see this come back with more of a targeted approach.
Re:A Coder Considers the Waning Days of the Craft on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @12:10PM (#38266142)
> Especially non-native speakers or otherwise bad writers can now write long-winded nonsense

You have now described 95% of Quora's content.

Re:Ask HN: Career in trades for possible ex-programmers on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @09:00AM (#37235175)
I worked as an electrician in the military, albeit for aircraft. I do miss getting my hands dirty in that regard; however, the civilian side aircraft electrician pay is not remotely comparable to my SE salary (in fact it'd be a more than 50% pay cut). Is residential/commercial electrician pay closer to SE pay?
Yeah, my in-laws rent went up nearly 40% and the property management claimed it was due to upgrades (the upgrade was a new coat of paint on the building). That took them out of the range of being able to afford their apartment and other necessities with social security and a meager retirement. They had to move to a new place in a bad area and my MIL had to start working again.
I was using Github Copilot, however I just ended my subscription because I wasn't using it enough despite being elbow deep in code every day. Most of the time the integrations that I use (JetBrains Rider and VS Code) wouldn't function correctly or I'd constantly be logged out. When the integrations _were_ working, the suggestions would be decent but occasionally when doing something like converting jquery to vanilla javascript I'd end up spending more time debugging the result of the suggestion than if I had just done the conversion myself.

Otherwise, I use ChatGPT to help me write tickets/user stories for work as well as for generating test cases for my QA engineers to follow.

Re:Stop the Earn IT Bill Before It Breaks Encryption on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @09:35AM (#24697487)
https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2020/01/earn-it-act-how-b...

Scroll to summary, specifically "Section 230 immunity for CSAM can be earned via 1 of 2 “safe harbors”."

Re:One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020 on Friday October 02, 2020 @09:51AM (#24662565)
No way man, there are very meaningful changes like this one https://github.com/devraj-kumar/BLOG-/pull/13/commits/1b26bf...
Re:French fathers will now get 28 days of paternity leave on Monday September 28, 2020 @03:01PM (#24620128)
You make a good point.
Re:French fathers will now get 28 days of paternity leave on Monday September 28, 2020 @10:45AM (#24617165)
> I'm very curious about how a company could determine or enforce which spouse is primary and which is secondary.

My company leaves that decision to the couple. The couple chooses who is primary and secondary. My wife got 12 weeks as the primary caregiver. Our situation is a bit weird because we work for the same company.

Re:French fathers will now get 28 days of paternity leave on Monday September 28, 2020 @09:10AM (#24616239)
Around the start of August I finished up my 6 weeks here in the US and it was definitely not enough. 133+ days would have been nice, but here in Freedom-Land™ I was lucky to get the 6 weeks I was given. I know a few new dads who got no paternity leave from work, or 1-3 days. Absolutely ridiculous in this day and age.
Re:I no longer build software on Monday September 21, 2020 @11:57AM (#24544872)
Yeah I did the same. I went from being an avionics/aviation electrician to college and then to being a software engineer. I hated being in the elements all the time so I wanted to have an officer job. Overall it's been good for me but I do miss working with my hands more.

> Turning my hobbies in jobs killed off a lot of fun I used to have.

Yep. I haven't really worked on any of my hobby projects like I had before.

No one wants to give their intimate financial details to a "passion project."
Re:Ask HN: How to rediscover the joy of programming? on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @10:36AM (#22946004)
>I don't think I have come home any day and felt like, "oh, today I will code this!". Nope. I always leave work at work - coding, studying, learning about work. It's not really a discipline, or an attempt to keep work and life separate. I just don't feel like it.

I'm in the same boat. I've been coding for over 15 years, and since I've been doing it as a career, I can't bring myself to work on very much outside of work like I used to. I have a github full of projects that I used to work on but when I'm home I want to do something that I enjoy. I don't think I've made a significant commit to any of my projects in over a year. Almost makes me want to go back to being an electrician so I can find renewed passion for what used to be my hobby.

I just installed a Tushy and let me tell you, it takes some getting used to. Especially when the water is very cold.
Political optics. Current POTUS's claim to success rests, in part, on a high performing financial sector. If the market tanks or stagnates, he no longer has that as a talking point.
We're basically running out of tools to combat an actual financial crisis. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/l/liquiditytrap.asp
> You provided a lot of emotion, zero facts

This could be said about your original post.

> Password resets don't end Instagram sessions, so both you and the second person will be able to access the same account at the same time.

Yikes.

Re:Democrats Declined DHS Offer to Test Caucus App on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @11:09AM (#22237175)
> Such a test from DHS’ Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency would have focused on security and not the performance issue that Wolf said was most likely responsible for the failure. Still, Wolf said this was a “concerning event” given the amount of scrutiny around elections security after Russians targeted the 2016 presidential election.

> “We don’t see any malicious cyber activity going on,” Wolf said. “No one hacked into it -- so this is more of a stress or load issue as well as a reporting issue that we’re seeing in Iowa.”

> The Iowa Democratic Party has said there was no evidence of hacking in the much-delayed results, merely human error.

DHS wouldn't be the one to do performance testing. Sure they should have had security scans but the issue at hand is not related.

> Maybe, eventually, it's California that won't matter anymore.

California's economy is the fifth-largest in the world. It's a whole lot more than a tech hub.

The 18th Amendment sure did make things more peaceful and everyone totally abided by it, right guys? Right???
Re:Coalfire Comments on Penetration Tests for Iowa Judicial Branch on Thursday September 19, 2019 @01:16PM (#21018321)
Perceived "easy win" for conviction rate due to a fundamental lack of understanding of the issue. This backfired hilariously.
Re:Equifax doesn't want consumers to get their $125 on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @10:52AM (#20995831)
I chose the cash option because I have credit monitoring through 2025 from the OPM breach of my SF-86 (security clearance application information) years ago. This is so idiotic. The FTC did consumers no favors in negotiating such an absolutely pitiful settlement.
They'd make it require a proprietary pin by making the hole a few fractions of a millimeter thinner than a paperclip.
PSA: If you have Amazon Prime you can log in with your Amazon account for free for 6 months. https://subscribe.washingtonpost.com/prime/#/
It's not even a Netflix show..

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