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After 10 years in tech isolation, I’m now outsider to things I once had mastered

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Re: After 10 years in tech isolation, I’m now outsider to things I once had mastered

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Post by nihil75 »

indigochill wrote: post #16

>The only solution to making me happy again would seem to download Ubuntu, mount it to a USB thumb drive, and get it installed. Had I known that Windows 10 doesn’t utilize BIOS, but has replaced it with UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface), which is a secure boot option that validates programs before giving them permission to run, I wouldn’t have wasted two more days of my life trying to install my favorite o…

It's both SecureBoot and UEFI.

He's probably preparing the thumbdrive the old-fashion way, jusr dd'ing the iso into it. You need a modern prep tool that's UEFI-compatible for it to boot on new hardware.

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Post by nihil75 »

wolco wrote: post #14

Too bad he wasn't a frontend developer would love to see his take on the changes

With the state of npm these days you can go on holiday for a month and come back to a new world and find your React structure deprecated

Re: After 10 years in tech isolation, I’m now outsider to things I once had mastered

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Post by libertine »

throwablePie wrote: post #87

> "Caging me for a decade is not rehabilitating. I may be making excuses for myself, though there is a lesson that could have been learned with the same amount of value for justice if the sentence was 2 years, 3 years, 5 years, even 6 years." From the article at: https://forklog.media/ex-convicted-hacker-ghostexodus-severi... I don't consider myself a bleeding heart lib but I think that a decade in prison is excessiv…

Isn't the punishment a way to stop people from trying to commit a crime?

Because you seem to be focusing on the outcome/consequences of someone that committed a crime and got caught.

It's not like the punishment is the result of "bad luck" or "unexpected circumstances", it was a deliberate conscious action, right?

Also some of these actions aren't a burst of irrationality and poor thought process - they are planned and recurrent, done through stretches of time in a consistent manner.

So on one hand, it seems severe punishment, on the other hand, people severely push boundaries while knowing it's wrong and with severe punishment - what would they do if it was less severe?

Edit: just to make it clear, I'M NOT SUPPORTING HEAVY SENTENCES.

Re: After 10 years in tech isolation, I’m now outsider to things I once had mastered

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Post by lliilliillii »

Kye wrote: post #100
lliilliillii wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The more involved you are with anything to do with data, the less likely you are to use it. I don't like social media very much because it's created a culture of bullying people into conformity. It's not so much my opinion that data trends predict individuals, as some may argue, but that people are pressured to conform to trends, rewarded when they do, and punished when they do not. This philosophy is deeply entrench…

Social media didn't create the culture. It just gave more people a chance to be part of it. Before, marginalized voices were almost universally bullied and abused into conformity. Some of those marginalized people handle having a voice now poorly, but it doesn't mean the culture they participate in is new.

I would agree but that argument goes for pretty much any aspect of human behavior. Where I make a distinction is by defining dominant behavior.

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Post by mcv »

annoyingnoob wrote: post #56

I recently had someone in a restroom ask me how to flush the toilet. The toilets had IR sensors and flushed automatically. This person had been in prison for many years and had never seen that before. I think part of the social reform that people are protesting for recently needs to extend to people in prison. Our system does nothing to rehabilitate people or to prepare them to re-enter society. We need to treat pris…

I totally agree. If you want to reduce crime, it is paramount that convicted criminals become honest citizens. Excluding them from society does not accomplish that. Guidance on how to function normally in society might.

Criminal organisations would probably gladly welcome someone with proven criminal experience. If we make it too hard for criminals to rehabilitate, they are very likely to return to crime, because that's always an option for them. Help them out of that world, and help them build a normal life with normal responsibilities, where they can use their skills and talents to make an honest living.

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Post by namelosw »

> For me, I stepped out into an uncertain future. I don’t really see meaningful human interaction anymore.

People may think it's because he's been disconnected for so long. But I have the exact same feeling, and think about this problem every day.

I'm a software engineer, and doing everything okay in the modern world. But I mostly use smartphones as a phone like in the last century unless I have to, I don't use most social media stuff, and I don't even take pictures.

I don't feel bad or sad about it because I was not interested in the first place. But I feel disconnected, and cannot empathize with people. Everything seems more and more pointless to me.

I wonder how many people feel the same, or it's just the op and me?

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Post by non-entity »

desstap wrote: post #107
throwablePie wrote: post #87

> "Caging me for a decade is not rehabilitating. I may be making excuses for myself, though there is a lesson that could have been learned with the same amount of value for justice if the sentence was 2 years, 3 years, 5 years, even 6 years." From the article at: https://forklog.media/ex-convicted-hacker-ghostexodus-severi... I don't consider myself a bleeding heart lib but I think that a decade in prison is excessiv…

You are in Asia right? Let’s see China - disappeared for comparing xi jing ping the dictator to Winnie the Pooh, or mention Hong Kong or Taiwan in a postiive light on wechat Singapore - 2 years in jail for selling gum, death penalty for Having drugs Vietnam - 34 years for drug trafficking

> 2 years in jail for selling gum

What do they have against gum?

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Post by SketchySeaBeast »

ryandvm wrote: post #92
wolco wrote: post #14

Too bad he wasn't a frontend developer would love to see his take on the changes

Honestly, front-end development is probably the most forgiving area of all for tech workers returning from an extended hiatus. Front-end churn is like the apocryphal factoid about the human skin replacing itself completely every few years. It's only a slight exaggeration to say that you're never more than 4 years behind the state of the art in front-end development.

I got out of school in 2013 and then went to a job that was pretty self isolated, working in proprietary format that wasn't really aware of the rest of industry - at best there was some Python and some .Net work. I took another position a couple of years ago where I got throw into the deep end of the modern material - ASP.NET Core, Node, NPM, React, Typescript, modern ES, the whole kit and kaboodle. I can tell you it took me a loooonnng time to get it all figured out. A lot has changed in the latter half of this decade.

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Post by masukomi »

throwablePie wrote: post #87

> "Caging me for a decade is not rehabilitating. I may be making excuses for myself, though there is a lesson that could have been learned with the same amount of value for justice if the sentence was 2 years, 3 years, 5 years, even 6 years." From the article at: https://forklog.media/ex-convicted-hacker-ghostexodus-severi... I don't consider myself a bleeding heart lib but I think that a decade in prison is excessiv…

> I don't consider myself a bleeding heart lib but I think that a decade in prison is excessive for most non-violent crimes.

you miss the point. prisons are a massive industry with serious lobbying clout. Putting lots of people in prison for a long time isn't a punishment to the prisoner, it's a gift to the prison system. The "punishment" is just a side effect, and the longer it lasts, the richer the people in power get.

the harm inflicted by a crime has been detached from the relative prison sentence for a long time. Classic example is getting more time in jail (and loosing your house) for having a marajuana joint than if you raped someone. Fortunately this is changing in the case of marajuana but there are many other drugs for which a single personal dose will still get you more time than rape.

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