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What society or culture survived by taking the high road? I'm reminded of Princess Leia's quote: No! Alderaan is peaceful, we have no weapons.

My wife and I used various warmers and threw them all out for microwaving water. 8oz is 30 seconds. 6oz is 22 seconds. It's easy, fast and reliable every time.

Kaggle is what they talk about in my industry. https://www.kaggle.com/datasets

We were contracted because the agency lost lawsuits and had to payout and change policies. The contractor was never successfully sued, but I had to compile lawsuit discovery docume…

I worked for a private company contracted to provide a portion of a public service and later got employed by the the government agency. - The contractor had no budget. Our servers …

Yeah. The HIPAA data needs to be encrypted and you have to report everyone who has access and you need patient permission to share. HIPAA is bad, but ITAR violations put you in jai…

I wasn't very clear. She had a mac laptop around 1998 or so.

1. His kid was finishing high school and didn't want to move out of a small metro with limited jobs. 2. Company health insurance + family member with chronic disease. 3. He was per…

> fear of being replaced I saw the most extreme example of low competence bullying. A manager with less than 1 year of experience fired a contractor project manager who was a previ…

iPhone SE, iPad, and the MacBook Air all disagree with you. I feel like this is the cheapest Apple products have ever been. My grandma had a colorful $2000 Apple laptop in early 20…

1. They grew up. 2a. Got a job and had kids/got hobbies. Stopped caring and just subscribed to Netflix like everyone else. --or-- 2b. Created copyrightable works. Joined the protec…

Article from 2010. Instagram was created on October 6, 2010. I bet it's related.

Do you have disaster recovery / high availability requirements? SQL server on a desktop has a lot of single points of failure.

I think we're doing pretty good: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/homicide-rate-1990-vs-201... https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/homicide-rates-across-wes...

last 6 months job listings from itjobswatch.co.uk Python - 23,146 Java - 19,800 Scala - 2,274 Clojure - 291

Dystopio is signing off. Find your favorite features in the new Apocalypse Wow!

Thank you for the context. Imagine being criticized for spending 6000 hours in Visual Studio.

He was a long time employee with a legacy job title "wintel engineer." A transformational ex-IBM director was finally brave enough to PIP and fire him. I think he was mostly retire…

At a big telecom we had an employee that maybe closed 10 tickets in two years. He was the highest paid team member (as reported by our director) and worked remotely from an RV in O…

My family member who runs a company in China avoids bribes by pretending to be a dumb American.

I worked with a guy who was previously a big state university buyer/administrator. He said that Oracle charged around 1% of retail prices to the university.