wackywayneridesagain [none/use name]
It’s just MAAA now. Google (Alphabet) and Apple each have 16-20x more employees than Netflix, it was never even part of the club to begin with but especially not now. Pretty soon it’ll just be AAA I guess, Meta only had like 6x more employees than Netflix before the upcoming layoffs.
At least it’s not a blanket ban, eg centrally-issued digital cash is pretty interesting and has none of the ills associated with proof-of-work decentralized “trustless” tokens. Eliminating banks, payment processors, etc reduces leeches and friction in transactions, at least some of the people in those industries can be moved to a theoretical state arbiter for fraud resolution and the few legitimate customer service issues (eg that they didn’t create themselves) that banks deal with. It’s all fantasy shit at this point, but automating taxes/quotas/welfare/enabling a certain amount of privately spendable non-reversible cash per person which the state gets no real information about (all the features of paper cash, but you can still make sure nobody is using their million dollars to make society worse without invading the privacy of everyone in the country who spends a reasonable amount of money). There’s all kinds of opportunity with this stuff for what The Economist would call “authoritarian” regimes…
It’s harder than it seems! I tried post-Snowden and only got close once or twice, once with Mark Cuban weirdly.
Instead FTX gets to piss away 15$B, probably much more. When for just a couple measly million (+legal support) we could have centralized file storage and sharing which, for various reasons that make this an unfortunately difficult pitch, is unable to remove data they’re (probably) hosting while being immune to prosecution in most every Western nation, with some even needing constitutional amendments to ban or harass it (and yes all the insider attack/court-ordered/feds with access to the actual hardware running things stuff is accounted for, again unfortunately nothing about this is succinct).
The plan was to supplant both the need and hopefully market for VPNs and gain legitimacy to become a less fraught… Internet Archive, of sorts… But 2000 different variations of the same one-way ledger distributed database each having unique environmental catastrophes are definitely needed and most importantly safe, definitely pump billions into more of those.
I use mostly fat free cheese for dietary reasons (I know, but it’s basically just protein at that point) and can only get pre-shredded unfortunately. I do steal it so whatever.
I buy part skim in blocks and use roughly half of each for pizza because it’s indistinguishable once they’re cooked together. The fat free stuff doesn’t melt as well as part skim… Unless you rinse it once. The water gets cloudy if you do it in a bowl, obviously a lot of the starch or whatever is separating. I mostly use a mesh strainer I have so that it doesn’t become tedious to wash and drain it. But after rinsing, it melts as well as part skim if not better. Is rinsing it more of a hassle than shredding? For me, no, but if I could buy a block of fat free cheese I would. Not stocked anywhere around me, and I don’t want to bother with ordering goddamn cheese online that’ll get shipped with dry ice and shit…
There is one guy in my department now who I’m 95% certain is doing two jobs because he’s so ineffectual and irresponsive, it’s remarkable he’s still around. I’d never complain about him though and even make excuses for him, because, shit, I’d hope someone would do the same for me.
I only did a little tiny bit of the higher education thing, so not sure what “revise” means in this context but I’d say keep algorithms and data structures if that’s not what you’re already planning.
OOP using JAVA
Object Oriented System Development
The first thing I wasted my time learning was Java back in the day… I hate Java (and OOP) so much now. Got that DARPA money though at one point lol. But OOP has been a disaster for organizations everywhere, except for game dev probably. I have just never seen a single codebase in a business or information processing environment where the OO nature of it didn’t just become the equivalent to the organization taking a 12oz hammer and smashing 2 toes on each foot of every developer after a couple revisions were needed.
Anyway… my votes for emphasis would be Database Management Systems and Distributed Systems.
I thought it could be James Woods at first, but if you zoom in the face is bordered by “A” and “J”, so I think it’s Andrew Jackson for some reason (???). @Aryuproudomenowdaddy since you were looking too
Yeah the origin of the “verified” marks on various sites and services is probably somewhat obscured nowadays, and it was actually generally well-received when verified accounts became a thing due to the prevalence of, mostly, scams. The dilution of its value happened long before :melon-musk: from what I can gather. I forget the first website I saw doing it, I know it wasn’t the bird site because I’ve only ever gotten linked there and never participated.
Maybe it already does something like this, but if someone starts chatting with you and they have a similar name to a verified account, sites could say “this user is unverified, and might be impersonating: <profile badge or something> (dismiss) (report)” - simple as that. Because as it stands, the absence of verification isn’t an immediate red flag to the vast majority of people (who would already fall for some kind of celeb romance scam, or worse). Maybe if every other user had an “unverified” mark, it would stick in peoples’ minds to look for it.
There’s still a pretty common trend of country musicians and shit being impersonated on Facebook etc and romance-scamming thousands from senior citizens. The chats are pretty wild, Kieth Urban (pretty sure that’s one of them) telling :meemaw: that he needs them to wire 10K to get away from his wife so they can elope.
I should also mention that my manager at my primary gig is aware that I’m working another job, that’s probably important context. We’re actually pretty chummy and have done stuff together outside of work and so I’m aware he has his own business serving small business IT needs which takes up a lot of his day, and so he’s aware that I basically work another full time job or possibly “contract work” while I’m on the clock there. His response to me telling him was, as I recall: “Yeah, me too… Gotta earn that money, cash is king”
I think he’s starting to get suspicious of another guy in our department who’s just not pulling their weight at all. It’s pretty bad but I refuse to say whether I think it’s because they’re really bad at working two jobs because it really should be easy, and we really only brought them on because we needed role redundancy for regulatory reasons. I refuse to complain about them though, if they get fired for performance reasons I won’t complain either though.