If you asked the president of the United States to point to Denmark on a map, you would be lucky if he hit the correct continent so… I’m going with “plausible.”

Second Protectli. They are solid little x86 boxes with no moving parts.

I saw a job posting the other day that had a hard requirement of 7+ years of experience with a specific IDE. It was phrased as an absolute must have.

That’s how you know an organization is totally clueless. TBF, not all IDE’s are created equal but it would be kind of like a construction foreman refusing to hire a anyone who didn’t have 7+ years of experience with DeWalt power tools.

“Mooommm! He hit me back!”

Is the server exposed to the WAN? If so, what ports are forwarded to it? Do you know where these requests are coming from?

Next week, we will spend 3 days trying to get the product team to pick out a dress only for them to insist that the one that is way too small “will fit” and that the dev can just “alter it real quick and it will be fine.” Even despite loud protests from the dev team that they cannot alter it and it will not be fine.

Spoiler alert: it wasn’t fine.

From now on, I will [continue to] not use ChatGPT.

“LLMs are fantastic for security and have a great opportunity to actually make a dent in the coming wave of software vulnerabilities,” he said

Hmmm… and what could possibly be the root cause of this “coming wave of software vulnerabilities?”

I don’t have any money but I still do it.

Long time ago I had the benefit of spending a couple years in banking. Bankers have a very different attitude about money than most people since for a bank, money is the “product.”

The most valuable thing I learned from that experience was that in order to be in control of my finances, I had to have a clear understanding of what my money is “doing.” Just being able to get that insight has been enough to keep me relatively on top of my book keeping.

Not sure it has quite sunk in yet for Sarah that she is never going to be POTUS.

Almost time to drag out the banner again.

We actually have a “landline” (voip) and I’ve gotten in the habit of giving the number to people when they genuinely need my phone number but I don’t want them calling my cell randomly throughout the day.

It’s also nice to have a phone that is readily available in emergencies. Nothing like frantically searching for your cell phone so you can call poison control.

I used to use our states Farm Bureau Insurance for property and vehicle insurance. They were the most competitive provider around for a long time. Until about five years ago anyways. Now their premiums are a joke and they’re trying to demutualize so they can merge with an out of state competitor because they’re on the verge of financial collapse.

Too many catastrophic wind storms over a short period of time.

Edit: kind of ironic that an organization which spent years denying the existence of climate change and lobbying to prevent legislation to address climate change is now suffering the consequences of climate change.

Eons ago, I had a guy bring me a non functioning Compaq desktop and say, “Wull the fan was makin’ a lotta racket so I greased it.”

What he actually meant was, “I sprayed the entire motherboard with WD-40 because I don’t know shit about computers OR lubricants.”

I gave it a bath in electronics cleaner and it actually fired right up after that.

When it’s the right tool, it’s incredibly useful. When it’s the wrong tool, and it often is, it racks up tech debt at an incredible rate.

I once worked with an SVP at a huge corporation that liked to engage in “bike shedding”. This guy is like seven rungs above me on the ladder and is trying to tell me what fields each SQL table should have.

Then we got a new department director who was very good at keeping upper management distracted and off our backs. Lots of people in middle management don’t justify their own salaries but I would argue that he sure did.

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Only if it can also be a microservice.

Just because someone collects data doesn’t mean that they’re using it for a particular purpose. I’ve worked at orgs that archived gobs of data - not necessarily user data - “in case we find a use for it.” Possession of data does not guarantee possession of a particular insight.

I’m not saying that no one at Google knew. Just that it’s far from impossible.