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by benchly 9mo ago
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 direct the likely path we would end up taking. You also bring u
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by benchly 9mo ago
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 automation (mostly) as a lead tech and professional troubleshoo
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by benchly 9mo ago
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 thread turned into a USA vs Russia debate when they both
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by benchly 9mo ago
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 that results from these platforms turning a blind eye to t
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by benchly 9mo ago
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, Even switching to the Hacker's Keyboard and tweaking s
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by benchly 9mo ago
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-mathy as it tries to be) is that Time is really heat. Hea
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by benchly 10mo ago
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 since then, and most importantly, the tech landscape back then w
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by benchly 10mo ago
> You Can't Win It's pretty entertaining! And free to read for anyone interested: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69404
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by benchly 10mo ago
Some days, everything feels like one big psyop.
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by benchly 10mo ago
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 forethought that should take place about the best or safest
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by benchly 10mo ago
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 to never apologize.
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by benchly 10mo ago
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 ability to analyze the impact of our choices before we make them.
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by benchly 10mo ago
> 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? Perhaps this starts by simplifying bloated systems, red
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by benchly 10mo ago
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 everyone" tray: https://getyarn.io&
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by benchly 10mo ago
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, profession to profession, etc. As an example, I consider m
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by benchly 10mo ago
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 a lot in movies and tv). It's good to remember whe
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by benchly 10mo ago
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.
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by benchly 10mo ago
> 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 easier to control. We learned this during WWII with the pro
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by benchly 10mo ago
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 fix all the pollution, etc" then shifting to "
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by benchly 10mo ago
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 :)
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by benchly 10mo ago
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 cool art I enjoy, usually from artists I
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by benchly 10mo ago
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 largely based on stereotyping and a bit of myth
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by benchly 10mo ago
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're all themed with the retrovideo games I still l
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by benchly 11mo ago
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, these other things that were crusaded against offered
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by benchly 11mo ago
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 means more photos. What I really need to do is standar
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by benchly 11mo ago
I thought that too assumed my blog fit the criteria. I was wrong; weighed in at just over 100KB too heavy to get in the club. My guess is the photos.
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by benchly 1y ago
> Individuals may be heartened when they have confidence these principles will carry on to the next generation. I like this and care deeply about what happens to our world after I am gone, but I worry (excessively, actually) that most ot
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by benchly 1y ago
I've been part of three software-adjacent product development teams where the Lead did exactly this and it did not go well all three times. Having been team lead a few times myself now, I have learned that I am not there to be a field
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by benchly 1y ago
It's less illusion and fantasy and more code for "what I think." If you notice, it's only uttered by people who believe their own reasoning should be automatically accepted as truth. Ego leaves no room for doubt or emb
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by benchly 1y ago
To me, this author's blog (and others like it) do echo the finality of the end of our existence by remaining in their questioning, unfinished state. That's really just how it goes with our mortality and I think there's some

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