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Though my Erlang skills have long atrophied, this book was my intro to functional programming and helped me understand recursion. It’s been a while since I’ve read it but I remembe…

I recently took a Waymo back to my hotel in Phoenix after a few drinks and it was a really pleasant experience. It didn’t take the freeways but it navigated the surface streets pre…

Probably not in any meaningful way, but I would agree the above comment they are ethically distinct.

I know this video is humorous, but it’s also kind of touching. After watching, I started taking random measurements in my field notes book and had a really nice time.

I will eventually read through this because I have a reasonably good handle on Python/Go, but don’t have any experience with Rust. This book will help me focus on the parts of Rust…

I worked for a brand that was heavily impacted by phishing sites that used LE certs. It was annoying, but honestly I wasn’t sure what LE couple do about it. If you deny creating a …

Don’t forget CAASM!

I think the implication is that if a kid buys a toy they will have something tangible that they can play and interact with, but tipping/donating to a streamer doesn't provide that.…

The skilled people I know who work for the US government usually are very mission driven and/or working towards a pension. For foreign governments, people tell me they like the sta…

The sad truth is that no one is getting a promotion to staff for just maintaining a service. I wish this wasn’t so. At a previous job I had a VP tell me that my team was like a pub…

This is giving me major Geth from Mass Effect vibes. Given the massive impact that AI has had on the cultural conversation, I wonder how far away we are from a similar conversation…

I enjoy reading things like this. It’s posts like this that have helped me build my command line text processing skills over the years. If you are early in your career, I suggest y…

It is going to be close between my gmail (I was invited during the beta in 2004) and my bank which would have been 2002/2003 timeframe but I can’t remember for sure. I can remember…

It’s a bit older, but I learned a lot from “Writing idiomatic Python”. Honorable mention to “the little book of Python antipatterns” as well.

Think Python 2e changed the trajectory of my life. I took a single Java class and hated it so much I gave up on programming. A few years later as a network engineer I had a problem…

I had a brief, but passionate fountain pen phase and it was great. I mainly used Pilot metropolitan, and found the world of inks to be fun to learn about. Then I had a pen leak a b…

My personal example of this is the security company “Thycotic”. They could be greatest InfoSec company in the world, but I really hate their name. It looks like the word psychotic …

My current team is a hulk assembled from a few previously broken teams. Essentially no one is doing the work they were hired for and there is fairly intense resistance from other a…

Thank you for the response. I really want to avoid formal stuff like sprints and stand ups if at all possible. As a former engineer, I agree that it burdens ICs needlessly and woul…

This is a hard reality I am learning right now. At my previous company I had an amazing team that was very intrinsically motivated, they needed me to generally protect them from po…

Never used mint, but if you are looking for something to help you budget and categorize your transactions, I love YNAB. I have been a user for just about 3 years and it has signifi…

At least we are protected.

Having worked in the fraud space for a large fintech, I understand that it can be hard to determine if transactions are legitimate or not. Bad actors has strong financial incentive…

Sadly, yes. This isn’t a statement about the death penalty, just a confirmation that gang leaders have been known to continue to operate in a leadership capacity even when incarcer…