The best place to start is talking to people you know and checking if they have the in with any good jobs. Then if that doesn’t work, apply directly for jobs you find by checking with individual companies, ideally speaking with the hiring manager first. Jobs listed on job boards are really difficult to get. You’re up against everyone, and they have filters that accidentally discard a lot of qualified candidates.

I always thought it was BS in movies when they pick a door lock in a few seconds, but nope! That’s completely realistic. The rake was even faster than my key on some attempts.

I have a dozen different hobbies, but I was really into flashlights for a while too. I was into them enough that my wife asked me to stop buying more flashlights and lanterns. I didn’t stop though! I only stopped when I finally decided I had scratched that itch, have obtained what I want, and was bored. But now I have great flashlights in both of our cars, in my mom’s car, one at each exterior door of the house, one at the garage door, and a few lanterns in the closet. She very much appreciates the fruits of my labors now that I’m finished.

Most apartments use Kwikset locks, which are cheap and ineffective. Picking one of those was easier than picking the practice lock from my kit. I could get my front door open in 30 seconds flat with a single pin pick, or like 2 seconds with a city rake.

Well that’s handy. I wonder what determines if it can relaunch a program or not. Does it retain your actual work state though, or just relaunch those programs? On my MacBook if I tell it to restore stuff when I shut down then it takes me back to exact same state, sans some VPN logins. Unsaved text editor files will still be there, whatever I had open in vs code will be active, all my browser tabs will restore, etc… It acts more like a hibernate than a shutdown.

Shutting down and re-booting doesn’t retain your active work state. Mac OS will at least launch everything you had open if you want it to, but Windows (at least up to 10) has no such feature.

That’s an important distinction. Whenever trillion dollar tech companies say they’re not going to do something hugely unpopular and selfish because of public sentiment, what they really mean is they’re not going to do it right then. Instead they back off, do something like this to get everyone’s attention focused elsewhere, and then they’ll push the original unpopular idea anyways, but quietly.

They backed off their web drm, because it was hugely unpopular, but also because they remembered they own chromium and can just disable adblockers directly. They tried to over-engineer something that requires everyone else to adopt a new standard, when all they ever needed to do was use a sledgehammer.

I don’t want to block things people post on Twitter about subjects of interest, I just don’t want my feed constantly flooded with news about Twitter.

It’s frequent enough that I still see a lot of posts despite having filters for “Musk”, and “Elon Musk” and “Twitter”. I figured I probably can’t block “X” without blocking a lot of unrelated posts since it’s just a letter in the alphabet. I wonder if that was intentional.

They don’t want the possible negative backlash of being associated with unhinged extremist bullshit. If unhinged extremist bullshit was popular enough to be profitable then they’d be all aboard. Corporations do whatever is profitable.

That is not what this is about. This is about if humans perceived actual human faces more human than AI generated faces. The result was that humans perceived AI generated faces as human more often than they perceived actual human faces as human. So clearly the technology does work.

That human female 84% is pretty cool looking.

And those are enormous advantages. It will also get you a lot more jobs. I see Java jobs everywhere. I barely see C job postings at all.

JavaScript. I can’t think of anything else that can be used for everything. It’s a back-end language, a front-end language, it can be used for styling and animation, it can be an OOP language or a scripting language, and can make database queries & submissions. Is there another language that is as versatile for website development? I can’t think of one.

The problem with tweakers is that they feel so good, every stupid idea they have feels like a breakthrough. Okay, there’s a lot worse problems with them, but that one is relevant. They have stupid ideas that they think are brilliant.

I was going to sign up for pre-check and then I realized I hated the idea. You have to let them do a full background check on you, give your fingerprints, register all of your information, and pay money just to be afforded the same decency that used to be standard. I hate everything it represents.

I like the way they look. It makes the code more pleasant to read for me.

The only font I’m interested in for Code is one that has ligatures. Otherwise I’m fine with whatever.

Practice! Frequently take on tasks that are above your skill level and then learn to do them while you’re doing them.