The existence of it also adds another potential attack vector for hackers. It’s unlikely that this would be a real problem, but any additional software is just another place that could be exploited.

I was a sys admin at one company for just under 10 years. I left to another company to become a software developer, but ended up as a Servicenow admin for 2 years. Now I’ve a full stack dev. It’s been tough sledding since I came into this role with only a single year of coding in college some scripting skills I learned in my previous system admin job, and some sell learning using free online resources. I’m still way off from where I want to be skill wise, but I’m good enough that I can do most of my work with minimal assistance. I do feel inadequate a lot of the time because I’m surrounded by people with experience, but I’m pretty intelligent, can learn concept quickly, and I put in the work to get better. Being on a supportive team has been the best thing for me. All said, I’ve had the best growth in my career since I moved to my dev role compared to the past 12+ years, both financially and in skills.

Coming from someone who should have left his system admin job 5+ years before I did, I encourage you to take any opportunities you can get to not be miserable in your work life. I took a pay cut to move companies, and it was worth every penny, especially since I’m making more now than before with much better benefits. If I stay with my company for the rest of my career, I can work for the next ~18 years and retire before 60 thanks to offered benefits.

I don’t really understand why voting machines are complicated enough that there are feasible vulnerabilities. They have one job, and it’s to count. It really shouldn’t be too tough for a crack team of competent devs to write the software required to make them work securely. No network access, a memory safe language, and strict business rules should be relatively trivial to setup. Double that will external audits and you’ve got yourself a stew.

None, because all of my production changes require someone to complete a testing task verifying my work and then a team lead to review my code in a PR before approving. For certain apps, there’s more extensive UAT required as well. Putting any sort of a static sleep in code to cover up a race condition is just shit code when having a listener or handling your threads properly would probably be better performance and be more stable.

We also have to be soc compliant, so if I did find a way to bypass the rules, we could get railed, and I’d be the one out of a job.

What you’re saying is if someone got good at chess then they would be better suited to succeed in college. There may be merit to that to some degree, but in the end, that person would be going to college to get a better education, and may have a leg up on other less analytical people. OP is suggesting replacing college with things like Chess or Go. College also teaches specifically in different fields. Knowing how to play Chess doesn’t teach a person about seg faults, stack overflows, or computer architecture. A college can if that’s the field a person decides to pursue.

How many chess masters can do open heart surgery?

So you think every college student just phones it in and skates by?

Yes, it is. Just because dumbasses spend the money to not learn anything and leave school under qualified doesn’t mean that the school wasnt intended to educate them.

Yes, classes could change how they do things to mitigate LLM usage and structure classes in a way to weed out these people, but that’s a different thing. College is about educating, and your example is just of people failing to allow to be educated.

Learning strategy of those game will definitely help build a person’s analytical thinking skills, but it won’t teach them the specifics of a topic they need to be successful. It could be a good elective course, but learning chess won’t teach a person about history, algebra, business, or computer architecture.

Or doctors… How do you figure learning the strategies of a game of Go will make someone understand human anatomy and how to perform arthroscopic surgery? Will it maybe help them get better at learning which they can use to gain that knowledge? Maybe to some degree, but where do they learn that information from then?

College.

I recently read an article about synthetic Kratom getting banned for sale. In that article a couple store clerks were arrested after selling the federaly banned versions of the product. I’ve never heard good things about Kratom, but now it sounds like it’s getting significantly more dangerous.

Dumbass article from a dumbass source post by a Trump thumping troll. Downvote and move along.

I have a lifetime pass and there is remote streaming without needing to setup of a bunch of technical stuff for me and my user base. If I was only using for myself, I’d use jellyfin, but I have over a dozen users that aren’t going to setup tailscale or something similar to access it. Also, I’ve personally never had any issues with the platform. Yes it’s enshittifying, but it hasn’t reached a threshold where I need to do something about it.

There’s not going to be a one site fits all option. Search for what you want to know, find various sources and vette them. The Internet has never just had the answers. Someone looking to learn something has always had to do some work. If you want specs about thinkpads, go to Lenovo. If you want opinions about what thinkpads are a good value, then you have to watch videos or read forums of people’s opinions. You just have to put in the work, just likes it’s always been.

I love Sanderson’s writing style. The way he builds up the characters and environment is unparalleled imo. That and the vastness and variability of his magic systems really keeps everything fresh. There are a couple non Cosmere or at least not intertwined novels that are great too. During the pandemic he wrote 4 books in one year. Absolutely insane. Yumi and the Nightmare painter was maybe my favorite of them, but I’d recommend all of them.

I’m gone through his YA work with Janci Patterson, and it’s good, but too juvenile for me.

The other authors and books I listed I was chasing Sanderson like work. None of them are quite there but I know that hes praised at least the powder mage series.

Another one I forgot to like was Brent Weeks: Lightbringer Saga. I want to say Brent was a student of Brandon’s. The magic system feels like something he would write, but the writing isn’t quite as mature. It was still a good series and worth a read.

I love all of the books in Brandon Sanderson’s Cosmere universe and it’s definitely my number 1. Mistborn, Stormlight Archive, Warbreaker, Elantris, all of them. I think it’s worth looking into reading order. It doesn’t matter too much in the earlier books, but there are some references that add to the experience. In the latest books, there are things that need to be understood from other books for it all to make sense, particularly between Mistborn and Stormlight.

Other series I really enjoy:

• Robin Hobb: Realm of the Elderlings anthology.
• Jim Butcher: The Dresden Files.
• Brian Mcclellan: Powder Mage series.
• Joe Abercrombie: The First Law series.
• James Islington: The Licanius trilogy.
• Robert Jordan: The Wheel of Time. This is what got me into Sanderson since he finished the series

Unfinished series:

• Scott Lynch: Gentleman Bastards.
• Patrick Rothfuss: The King Killer Chronicles

So what you’re saying is I was exactly right.

It is ridiculous that somehow the charges got dropped in a plea deal and his punishment was basically non existent though. I wonder how the plea deal was even an option given the clear proof the defendant had. I’d think that she would have had to approved of such an offer or made it go to trial, where he would have assuredly be found guilty.

If someone in America were caught putting lead paint in someone’s food, I can guarantee they would be charged with no less than attempted murder.

I guess I can’t really relate. Games usually launch within 3-5 seconds for me. Sometimes it can take longer when it has to do whatever it does with vulkan shaders, but that’s usually only first time launches or after some updates.

I find with wine it’s easy as long as you have a sweet wine and a dry wine to taste back to back. Something like a Cabernet Sauvignon has a lot of tannins making it dry. When you take a drink, you can run your tongue along your teeth and it almost feels hydrophobic. Compare that to a Port wine that’s like drinking hard grape juice. Then there are levels of dryness. Something like a Merlot is considered dry, but to me it’s closer to sweet than dry.

I probably only have a couple glasses of wine a year anymore, but there was a time when I was playing sand volleyball across from a wine store, and me and a teammate would go about an hour before, share a bottle, then play ball. I tried a lot of different wines and went to a couple wine tasting events. It really made me appreciate the differences between the different kinds and to some extent price points.

Do people have issues with steam launcher being slow?

Still a serial poster. I’ve always just assumed it was a bot account.