One could argue the requirements have changed because the security and compliance part of the world finally caught up to modern software delivery concepts. Even the most dinosaur apps at compliant orgs are being dragged kicking and screaming into new CI/CD tools where applying governance and custody chains and permissions and approvals are all self documented automated hooks.

If the function is known by all parties then the last person to send still has control

There’s a building like this by MIT in Boston. It famously sucks to live in.

It turns out by making the surface area of the exterior extremely high compared to the internal volume, you massively increase the odds of a water leakage problem. The building may as well have no roof.

It also attracts birds, bats, and bees to nest in all the little nooks and crannies so it looks like shit now with bird spikes and metal mesh crammed into all the spots that were intended to be the places your eye is drawn to in the original design.

Hey dummy, state and federal standardized tests results do not get used by colleges or universities as part of admissions. Only SAT, ACT, LSAT, CLT, etc… are accepted by most universities, all of which are not part of the mandatory standardized tests for schools to perform.

When my city raised property taxes, rents went up across the board.

I had a dream of owning a proper sized tub. Finally bought a house and got all ready to upgrade the bathroom and it turns out the tub isn’t even the expensive part. After talking with about 5 different general contractors and engineers, we learned that to hold up a real tub, the whole fucking house basically has to be rebuilt with twice as thick beams and twice as many 2x4s. Even putting one down on the ground floor is a full upgrade to the beams and posts in the crawl space and basement. It was going to cost ~25-50k in re-engineering of the framing and associated removal and repair of drywall/plumbing/siding/insulation/electrical/trim/flooring/etc… plus reinforcing the stone foundation

Turns out most houses built on the east coast between 1800 and 1950ish literally can’t have a good tub because water is super fucking heavy and these things are built out of toothpicks

Unless wealth is just their means to feel in control. All the wealth in the world apparently can’t stop war from happening and someone else being able to nuke them means they have to face the reality that they are not in control of all things. Vault tec gives them the psychological out of not facing their own lack of control by telling them they get to drop the bomb and control the vaults. If they drop the bomb, they take control back from chaos.

The unfortunate reality is that these communities are big enough now that advertisers are aware of them. They are full of sock puppets and have become guerrilla advertising platforms and you have to really read through them more carefully than in the past

Averages are fun. It’s likely Opsy roles do have the highest average. But it’s also very true that devs have the highest ceilings. There’s just very few devs making 600+ and the majority at 120-150. Then there is an absolute shit load of opsys making 160-200. So in ops you hit the ceiling super fast while the occasional dev just keeps rocketing to bullshit pay but the averages are what they are

(Hiring manager for devops. I get the raw data through a corporate data broker)

When we wrote malware in labs in college one of the first places we looked was unemptied trash. This is almost certainly a pattern that’s going to leave your crap in trash in plaintext and even the dumbest script kiddie will find it the very first time you slip and something gets in your system.

Think of when you open the menu on your screen to adjust the colors or brightness or change the input to another one. That overlay is controlled by the screen and not the computer. If you take a screenshot when it is up, the screenshot won’t show it because the monitor is driving that, not the computer

Interestingly enough. Queen bees do not actually control most hive activity. Individual workers and gatherers communicate through dance and pheromone signals and the hive literally votes on what it will do. For example a scout will find a new flower patch and tell the rest of the hive and the hive will vote on how many more bees to send.

It would have been far more interesting for the collective to have a queen but for part of the plot to be the humans misunderstanding her purpose to the collective, kill her, and then have the collective be just fine and produce a new queen.

Then it would literally be bees