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b40d-48b2-979e

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About b40d-48b2-979e

Not a throwaway account, just a random person in the American Midwest.

Educated in Network Engineering, I've been in the workforce since 2010, and have held a career in everything from Windows sysadmin to fullstack developer to my current interest in platform engineering.

My personal interests are dancing, PLT, video games, playing my assortment of instruments, and pedestrian-focused city planning.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49217568

    Not only is the pay worse (like literally half of what you make doing webdev for a corp), but they mandate you be on site at a factory working first shift like you're on the produc…

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    Comment #49202562

    as i recall AT&T used to have such windowless anonymous buldings scattered in some cities for their equipment I worked in Cleveland, and the AT&T building there was one such case. …

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    Comment #49198715

    whether they actually just hate gas turbine generators running 24/7 in their neighborhoods. Or the increased pollution (air, light, and sound) from having a warehouse-sized buildin…

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    Comment #49173661

    How often are you people mowing your lawn that that's even a concern? It's like this is "surburbs: the problem: the comment section"

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    Comment #49173483

    wat. Causing damage to the grass you're hitting with a (relatively) blunt object in the first place? All you did was waste three times the gas.

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    Comment #49064383

    Just submit citizen. Nothing to hide, right?

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    Comment #49021280

    Comparing crypto scammers to political dissidents is a WILD slippery slope strawman.

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    Comment #49016510

    It's easy: don't be a scammer.

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    Comment #49016026

    [flagged]

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    Comment #48950129

    I think it's quite clear that only applies to corporations. Workers will still go to prison.

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    Comment #48936599

    GP probably wasn't alive back then in all likelihood.

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    Comment #48934277

    IDK, it looks pretty comparable at the bottom end to the Buzz. New vehicles in general are so expensive now. I remember buying my first car in the 2000s for $1K (used, granted) and…

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    Comment #48934203

    Too expensive for a worse vehicle than the Model Y (with incentives, it was a >$20K difference). I take 1-2 trips for 12 hours a year and the Buzz gets >100mi less range, so that's…

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    Comment #48933943

    90% of the wealth at the top 1%.

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    Comment #48926715

    Yeah, I'm waiting to sell it for an EV minivan to come out. The Mercedes VLE looks interesting. I was hopeful for the VW Bus, but it's just underwhelming.

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    Comment #48925382

    Too bad the handling is shit. It's too heavy. This is why I kept my motorcycle for when I want to have fun on the road.

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    Comment #48922419

    This is what PowerShell does, it has both the archaic `for` style with a newer iterator-like `foreach`.

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    Comment #48907510

    What do you mean "no way"? We've written long texts for as long as we've been writing as a species.

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    Comment #48907447

    That is not the argument being made and this interpretation feels entirely in bad faith akin to the other sibling comments.

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    Comment #48907361

    Does the word "plaintext" mean anything to you?

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    Comment #48907083

    training people to believe that them having impossible to inspect encrypted channels from your machines to theirs is a best practice Oh yeah, I much preferred when my government an…

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    Comment #48819926

    What is a society without culture? Decline.

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    Comment #48810039

    Or just get it from your library. I rarely find myself re-visiting books, so that model is ideal to me.

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    Comment #48768005

    The same thing that happens in court cases across state lines. It goes to one of the jurisdictions in a lawsuit unless it qualifies for diversity jurisdiction and goes to a federal…

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    Comment #48764902

    and probably unaffected from climate change No place is unaffected.