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Just to clarify, no, we cannot be involuntarily drafted because we are amateur radio operators. However, should we be drafted in time of need, our experience in radio does help dir…

While I am not a software developer, it sounds like our career paths have had the same trajectory, and I'm wondering what the common factor is across industries. I work in automati…

As much as the current administration turns my stomach, previous ones are not absolved from weaseling their way out of catastrophic mistakes, either. It's sort of funny that this t…

There's no incentive for them to comply with your request. Like Facebook, scam ads are a revenue stream for Google. The profitability usually offsets any negative PR or fallout tha…

I have the same experience, and my hands are pretty small. Some paranoid bell rang in my head about it being an intentional annoyance to start getting us to use voice-to-text more,…

You might be interested in The Order of Time by Carlo Ravelli. Time and gravity are certainly linked, but from what I took away from the book (which is a lot to digest, even as non…

Good point. That kind of thinking is an absurdity. Saying IBM dropped the ball 70 years ago without acknowledging that lessons were learned, leadership has changed hands a lot sinc…

> You Can't Win It's pretty entertaining! And free to read for anyone interested: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69404

Some days, everything feels like one big psyop.

You don't see how preventative maintenance such as implementing a policy to remove old accounts after N days could have prevented this? Preventative maintenance is part of the fore…

Sorry, I should have worded that as "stop apologizing so much, especially when you keep making the same mistake/error/disruption/etc." I did not mean to come off as teaching my kid…

Thanks, this is where I was coming from. I suppose I could have made that more clear in my original comment. The idea behind my style of parenting is self-reflecting and our abilit…

> Everybody gets hacked, sooner or later. Right! But, wouldn't a more appropriate approach be to mitigate the damage from being hacked as much as possible in the first place? Perha…

I've thought on this as someone who travels between the US and Canada a lot, and the scene about the embezzlement scheme from Office Space often comes to mind (the "Pennies for eve…

First, define in detail what "success" looks like to you in relation to what you are trying to do. Be specific, here, because that yard stick varies from person to person, professi…

That's a great way to look at it, sort of like the idea of cutting notches in a door frame to keep track of your growth as a kid (not something my mom did, but I see it referenced …

Thanks for sharing! I will have to check out The Last Gasp. Heck of a title, that. The reviews seem to paint it as something that's up my particular alley.

> sacred knowledge? I think you might be romanticizing this, a bit. When you convince the public that not talking about something is the best course of action, they become a lot ea…

This was my take for a short story I banged out one week after reading about the metal-eating microbes. Basically, humanity was all "three cheers for these little guys helping us f…

Well, looking back on what I wrote, I should have also said this: 7. It's also okay to not have or want any tattoos Self-expression can take many forms :)

I have one on my laptop that says "Fuck Your Algorithm." It's like a fine wine that gets more potent by the week, but it's about as political as my stickers get. The rest are just …

You're missing something, but that's sorta the point. The idea of what a full-stack developer or back-end engineer or hacker (or whatever term we want to bandy about) looks like is…

I get this, but thankfully the regrettable tattoos I got back in the day were small/simple enough to hide under cover-ups. My former tattoos were drug-related, but these days, they…

What's missing from the initial comparison is the fact that smartphones opened up all sorts of conveniences, which is partly what makes them so addictive. Rock music, D&D, etc, the…

Hah! Maybe for now, but I'll probably pass that with a few more posts I have in the works. They're related to some projects I have going (that I will eventually finish), which mean…