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Botzo

@ Botzo @lemmy.world

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  • Those who left tech for greener pastures, what do you for work now? What was the transition like?

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  • As a lead software engineer: I engineered an exit with severance and unemployment compensation after the company was acquired by VC and I coasted a bit. Basically stirred the pot enough to be on a couple shit lists without getting fired, so when the workers had to suffer because the CEO couldn't hit his sales numbers after gutting the sales department twice, I got put on the layoff list.

    After burning through unemployment and some savings, I've landed as an IT business analyst at a giant company. I'm still technically freelance, but that's just how they hire. I make about 20% less, but am still comfortable. It's also the easiest job I've ever had by far. I talk to vendors, I meet with people, and I spend most of my time building the simplest little tools to reduce toil for others. I make up my own timelines. My boss is already asking if I want to be a manager.

  • You may be cool, but you'll never be Kirk with his Jupiter 8 cool

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  • Quite a crossover with Batman, Bewitched, and Mission impossible!

  • I guess theme hospital isn't so niche, but it probably among my age group

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  • Holy crap, I had this game and never once successfully completed a surgery. Everyone died.

    I was still in elementary school, so it was still fun to goof around.

  • DNC Leadership Pressured Gen Z Member to Kill Resolution on Banning Arms to Israel

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  • Dear Ken (and DNC),

    I recognize that you're in an abusive relationship with AIPAC (et al), but aren't quite ready to accept that a breakup is the only way to fix your problems.

    I just want you to know that we're here to support you through this process, but only because the alternative is apparently becoming them.

    Please fix your shit in short order before the entire world burns down.

    Sincerely, Basically everyone at this point

  • With midterms more than a year away, a record number of lawmakers are eyeing the exits

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  • I guess something is working...

  • A Tech Rule That Will ‘Future-Proof’ Your Kids

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  • I like and understand where you're going, but I can offer some actual experience. I learned my legal first name at 8.

    It didn't go down well (I cried because the teacher didn't call my name and sent me to the school office to get it sorted) and I had a weird complex about the real name into high school. There's no rhyme or reason to the two names, so it is actually sort of surprising to pair the two. To this day I still go by the nickname I thought was my real name. My nieces and nephews still enjoy discovering my real name and calling me by it thinking it's a big secret they've discovered. I still have to explain it a hundred times a year to new coworkers and acquaintances.

  • You can take it from my cold dead pincers

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  • Might even call it a cargo cult.

  • There’s a Big Sea Change Underway Among Even the Most Conventional Dems

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  • Numbered 2028, when he's up for reelection.

  • Democrats go nuclear in redistricting arms race

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  • Yes, anti-fascists have to play the same game as fascists. None of this "when they go low..." shit can stand anymore.

    But I have a little bone to pick with your first statement: at the state level, that holds up (depending on the state), but at the federal level, land (ok, less populous states) has an outsized influence because of the permanent apportionment law from almost 100 years ago.

    Every California house member serves about 760k people, where Wyoming has 576k people total.

    That means 9.5M ((760k - 576k) x 52 seats) people in CA (or 16.4 Wyomings) effectively don't get a say every time the house votes.

    And it's even worse when we get to the electoral college (sum of House and Senate members per state). Wyoming has 192k people per electoral vote and CA has 732k people per electoral vote.

    So it's not entirely fair to dismiss the people vs land vote.

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    How to Setup a Secure Ubuntu Home Server: A Complete Guide

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  • Totally.

    Port knocking is one of those "of course someone did that" things to me too. A replay attack is enough to make it security theater.

    An IP allowlist is a more useful addon.

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  • South Dakota election office publishes voter list labeling thousands as public assistance applicants: Information is included in newly required free version of statewide registration spreadsheet

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  • 887 thousands.

    So, less than the Bronx (1.4M), but more than Staten Island (450k).

    About the same as Indianapolis, IN, USA or Donetsk, Ukraine.

    So, 1 medium city's worth.

  • Philz Coffee close to closing deal to sell to private equity firm for $145M

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  • RIP.

  • EXT4 Shows Wild Gains With Better Block Allocation Scalability In Linux 6.17

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  • Not time, ops per second.

    the fallocate operations per container per second are able to come up significantly when looking at the upper percentiles:

  • TIL about the term "kludge"

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  • Entry-Level (2yrs exp. required)

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  • I think it's easy for them to fall into a trap where they artificially inflate the requirements just because there is interest in the position.

    So in a sense, yes, they've lost touch.

    They also forget that every year, the "best" interviewees use them as a practice round and leverage for a more prestigious company. Inevitably, they chase unicorns at the expense of everything else. Every year, 3 colleges, hundreds of hours of interview rounds for 10-15 positions and they'd end up with 3-5 that actually started the paid internship.

  • Entry-Level (2yrs exp. required)

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  • Absolutely. If you're in college, an internship is ideal.

    And yet, the number of times I had to talk a manager off a ledge about an internship candidate without relevant experience...

    This after they'd been through 2-3 rounds of coding challenges and a "culture fit" check.

    So put something on your resume. Maybe you were a "support tech in a Linux server environment" for 3 years because you helped your grandparent with a router a few times. We weren't calling references. And your coworkers will know and expect you are green.

  • The key to understanding Trump? It’s not what you think

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  • tl;dr: Trump's lust for money is fed by "deals" that do not need to be conventionally successful.

    Here's the subheadline:

    Everything the US president does is for money – and in serving his avarice, he’s managed to triumph over the market

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    Trump has figured out to an exceptional degree that dealmaking does not need to be successful in order to massively increase his wealth.

    Deals, successful or not, are Trump’s magic means to amass money and feed his avarice.

    ... greed can have numerous objects – such as food, sex and power – whereas avarice is single-minded in its focus on money.

    Trump exemplifies this focus.

    Other commodities are of interest to him only insofar as they serve his desire to acquire, hoard and increase his stock – of money.

  • Congresswoman Lauren Boebert's Son Charged With Misdemeanor Child Abuse

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  • It's a "full beard" too, but you'd have to really zoom in to tell.