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Munitions exporting. I fondly remember the PGP feasco. I spent years using PGP to encrypt my emails to several people who refused to use email without it. Good times.

Yeah, I'm stuck on X11 since Wayland and NVIDIA with two video cards for display is hot garbage. I have been a Linux user on the command line since the days of root and boot floppi…

I've been running https://github.com/rtk-ai/rtk for a week seems to be a good balance between culling out of context and not just killing everything. I've been running https://gith…

As someone who has been dealing with SOC 2, HIPAA, ISO 9001, etc., for years, I have always maintained copies of the third-party agreements for all of our downstream providers for …

And that's why they call it a hot take. No, it isn't going to give rise to microservices. You absolutely can have your agent perform high-level decomposition while maintaining a mo…

I don't think Ben would tell you to limit yourself. There are many fantastic people doing these kinds of things. James Sharman has been working on his system for years, and it is f…

SNOBOL FTW!

That's what you don't get. You aren't just watching ads. You are giving them data about you, a lot of data. That data is used to heavily manipulate you. This isn't like the old day…

100% this one of the big reasons I fell in love with go. Single executable, no runtime stuff to install and crazy portable. I can look at anyone's go code and very quickly get up t…

I am sad for for your loss but glad he had such a large impact on my life and so many others.

I also still have the books and a CoCo 3. When everyone else I knew either had a c64 or an appleII I was on my own and just had to push through. I started with a CoCo II then UPGRA…

LEGEND! I remember pouring over the xmodem doc's back in the day. Thank you sir, without your work my life would have been a much experience.

100% contextual. In every business where I've been an executive, or had access to the budget, we talk "made" as gross revenue and EBIDA as a stand in gross profit and specifically …

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPITBOL FTW! I got turned onto SPITBOL in the early '00's from a colleague who used it as a rapid utility language for writing small command line apps…

James Sharman's build is nuts. He has been at it for several years. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iHag4k4yEg&list=PLFhc0MFC8M... Usagi Electric is taking it all the way with a v…

Until it is litigated or you are charged and convicted it isn't against the law. YouTube and the entertainment industry have zero interest in your rights. Media companies make agre…

PC/MS DOS of course. It was the last OS I could hold in my head. I could understand every part of the OS. I could write everything from batch files to TSR's. You could reason about…

1. Certification, in the USA if you want to get paid from the government you must be certified. This isn't a small undertaking at all and requires quite a bit of development and th…

I'm in

Startup experience maybe. FAANG experience, you probably don't need. There are a ton of people out there that specialize in getting you off the ground and through your first couple…

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I have seen fantastic developers promoted to horrible managers. As others have stated management isn't coding. Leadership isn't management. Understand that it is your job to guide …

I use UPX to compress my go binaries totally awesome to trim down their size and still have no issues with execution.

This is a completely anecdotal analysis. Every time this comes up it makes me cringe. Yes, I use MSSQL. Yes, I really like MSSQL. I know loads more about MSSQL than I do PostgreSQL…

Hey, 20 years come get your reduction prize. This guys salary is probably a rounding error on a spreadsheet but what he knows about Apple in any line of their business would be wor…