I know everyone points out the problems with Nest, Ring, and various talking/listening/spying agents. For me, one of the worst offenders was a garage door motor that came with WiFi capability. Damn thing has the ability to just open up a door on my house on command. There’s no way am I putting that online.
Workers risk a few things, depending on the job:
These have a lot of dimension to them, including how one quantifies what “pay” actually is/for, what legal restrictions there are around taking the job (e.g. non-compete, non-arbitration), work/life balance, and so on.
Risk comes into play where the employee takes a bet that the job won’t destroy their health, work only as much as is absolutely necessary, and have taken a position at the optimal balance of responsibility, personal growth, retirement prospects, and income. It’s a risk since there are substantial barriers to changing to a new job, so you can wind up “stuck” in a bad position, but can’t know until after you start.
Combining “company quarterly review” with “dental cleaning”, while time efficient, is a kind of sensory combo that’s right up there with “nuts and gum”. Sounds great until you think it through a bit.
Edit: I’ve actually done the latter by accident. 1/10 - “I don’t know what I expected.”
This is what I keep telling the Mrs.
What’s crazy is that not only is that the same species as broccoli, cabbage, and cauliflower, but practically the entire plant in that photo is edible.
I, for one, want to believe that there are people responsible for this parade that deliberately pulled punches so we don’t go down that path. What was on display was more akin to a living history exhibit, like the Smithsonian itself hired a bunch of costumed actors for the day. If we consider for a moment what an “American-style” propagandized display of full-on military might would actually look like, I am very relieved that the events of the 14th were very, very far removed from all that.
The collective man-hours this would have saved people, if we had it back in 1999, would be staggering.
people love over engineering the fuck out of technology
Exhibit A: 2.85 Million packages, as of mid-2023
Computer Scientists: Physics is just the application of discrete state machines.
Okay, but do I really need to draw this many circles to prove what value Pi has? Also, it’s all in Greek.
Finally, we have “thanks, I hate it” as an emoji.
Rust is still in the locker room having an argument with their coach (borrow checker).
War boys from Fury Road?
This describes how most people have it deployed, yes.
It gets real fun when you have custom Java plugins, Groovy script, BASH script, Windows runners, and Linux runners, all in play at the same time. Much of which is held together with hopes, dreams, and unicorn farts, willed into existence by wizards that haven’t worked there in over seven years. If upper management could even comprehend the level of deferred maintenance and haphazard software hackery that birthed this electronic Gordian knot, this unholy union of decrepit software and company policy, they wouldn’t sleep. Ever.
It really should be “parlay.txt”.
Or more subtly, when the command uses BSD (nowadays Go) style single-dash args, so it wants -help and not --help.
That’s $400k worth of house and $500k worth of windows. Lotta big custom glass in there.
FROM Software: Fuck that, we’re doing fog-walls.
I don’t trust anyone when I’m on the road.
And you shouldn’t. Everyone is equipped with a lethal weapon masquerading as personal transportation, where safety is predicated on mutually-assured-destruction and the presumption that everyone is a sane actor. Keep your head on a swivel and stay safe out there!
Hot take: Debris was on track for something like that.
It had “new strange” style storytelling with a very grounded Sci-Fi basis, interesting episiodes, and a conspiracy arc to tie it all together. There were also hints at things well beyond understanding, turning typical X-Files formula inside out: “it’s all explainable phenomena and everyone knows it, but some things take time to understand.” The major flaw here were wooden performances and un-charismatic characters that just fail to pull you in.
That said, there’s no reason to wait for an X-Files reboot. SCP has more than enough lore to get the ball moving, and there’s gotta be a webisode series or small-studio production team out there just waiting for eyeballs and donations.