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This again. If this was truly the case, then they would put an immediate stop to the offshoring / nearshoring that has been rampant in the industry for the last 20 years. Not a sin…

I too hit the 50. For the last 8 years I been 100% remote and seen the office ONE time only and that was just to hug a buddy happy retirement. Later on I found out his wages were c…

Dell does this but continues to outsource to India and China where communication is an epic problem that has never been solved. This is nothing short of a stealth layoff. If they w…

This is why people should build a huge ass f-u fund and not look back.

I have first hand experience with this product for over 2 years. It is a PITA from a SRE/Devops Security point of view. Things constantly break, the indexes, emailing reports, just…

I tested this out on my workload ( SRE/Devops/C#/Golang/C++ ). it started responding about non-sense on a simple write me boto python script that changes x ,y,z value. Then I tried…

the author(s) of the article, completely ignore the cpu itself can be patched. there is microcode underneath the ARM instructions for such scenarios. Look at intel, there has been …

Listen to me, what hurts most people. is DEBT and run away spending. Stop both of it. I been through 2000,2008, 20015(:) and 2023, layoff a few times, and my answer now is, shut up…

he is not the only one, or will be the last. Having your name on the main line of the kernel is really worth $$$. However here is a pro tip. FreeBSD, being a kernel commit, and hav…

I love FreeBSD on personal servers and workstations. But lean into FreeBSD not into macOS look and feel. The m2 macs make it the best workstation out there. If you have that there …

some of us are trying to get rid of the smart phone ;). I want a flip phone but 2FA is a problem with flip phones. I recently started to use 1password paid just 2FA. on a serious n…

I used this years ago and the comments reminded me why I never used it again. Common theme in the comments it’s a nightmare. I do recall it being ungodly prickly to get it to work …

in the words of linus, java is a horrible language.

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Andrew even thinking about dropping LLVM, says all I need to know. Its going to become the next D language of 2020s. LLVM has decades of mistakes FIXED, and rewriting the first tim…

finding that amount of gold bars is incredibly hard. People usually respond "comex & london" has gold bars? I dare say 30% are fake, numerous occasions where gold bars stored in th…

IBM has been sued multiple times and lost multiple times on ageism. Recently they settled on Jan 23rd, because discovery found a email trail that they do not want exposed to the pu…

I read article a few years ago that described why this happens. It boils down to this, people with zero experiences are in it for the $, and they will not stay around. It takes 1 t…

I have 2 LOB on the desktop. Is Jank an issue? Only to those who have 100+ refresh rates. Corporate wise , nah, its fine, Jank effects heavy animations. Even then the 3-4 encounter…

Turbo C for dos was written in 2 1/2 months. Now it takes almost 2 years to write a code editor? This is not a ding towards the OP. It is an awareness that something has gone funda…

bingo. there is a flag you can set that eliminates most , if not all. It's not slow cause it's written in 'python'. It's slow because of safety.

This question is easily answered if the OP would attempt to UI in rust. Rust isnt there, nor will it ever be. Swift is there cause Apple focus on generating SwiftUI.

welp time for the pig to talk about reality. #1, you are spot on, with the free money, and ZIRP, it has created 1000s of zombie companies are a live because they have access to the…

this man speaks the truth. IPX/SPX was king back then. Frankly, SPX is recognized today as better 'tcp'/'packet' performance than ipv4. If it ever comes back it needs to stick to i…

I had this happen a few times. My response is, you have to pay for 3 years at the rate. It does not mean you work 3 years, you are paid for the contract,6 months,etc. What happens,…