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I'm taking a guess at what the OP meant, but people focus on assault rifles and high-capacity magazines. Supposedly most incidents and deaths are caused by handguns. They're more a…

> Making $80k a year is a GREAT salary. That’s going to invoke a hearty yawn from many when comparing to dev salaries. I'd like to draw a distinction here: $80k is very good, by th…

Once when working in devops I asked my team lead why we didn't just move everything to Heroku, rather than reinventing a bad in-house version of their features. I was firmly told n…

I subscribe to a "Plex share": I pay some guy a few bucks a month for access to his streaming setup with thousands of pirated shows and movies. Plex being Plex, sometimes it's flak…

That has to be a reason. I use somebody's Plex share that has 0.55PB of videos on Google Drive. Someone on Reddit famously bragged about having 1.6PB. The person running my Plex us…

Quick note that depression isn't simply "I'm unhappy" (existence of a negative feeling). Depression is characterized by many/all feelings being severely diminished or completely ab…

While lack of human connection can be one cause or contributing factor for depression in individual cases, and may make a lot of people "depressed" in the informal coloquial sense,…

I have had treatment-resistant major depression for eight years. During that time I have had long periods with extensive, frequent social interaction and bonding. My depression enc…

I'm hunting for a new devops job and have some interest from companies that seem promising. But I've been burned in the past with teams that said all the right things but in practi…