Em Adespoton

No, you’re still missing it. It was a surprise to him, because his world view stated that what he had done should make the people in power overlook the laws he’d broken.

It wasn’t a surprise to most people. He made the wrong kinds of mistakes.

What you are saying is that he had a head for numbers.

That says absolutely nothing about his ability to function in society. He had a personal world view that was extremely self-centred and ignored most US social values. The way he operated his businesses shows that he also had no clue how to responsibly manage a business; he left the wrong tasks to the wrong people and left tasks to others that were his responsibility as CEO. He felt that telling others that something was legal was just as good as actually making sure that the things he wanted to do actually WERE legal.

So… not delusional, just ignorant of pretty much everything outside his own narrow area of expertise, and assuming that his smarts at math automatically made him an expert at everything without actually learning the details of how everything else worked.

I wouldn’t say they’re bad at it, just playing catch-up after they bet on the wrong technologies.

Toyota was the first to sell a usable hybrid back when BEV battery tech wasn’t there yet; Honda bet on hydrogen fuel cell tech.

When it turned out everyone was going with the Tesla BEV concept, Honda and Toyota were already mid-development lifecycle with investments in technologies that didn’t make the cut.

Now that those lifecycles are starting to wind down, we’ll see of they can leapfrog the current designs for BEVs to come up with the next big thing before China or Korea beats them to it.

This is a really interesting point; I tried flipping it on its head and the reasoning became even more obvious:

My thought was: “surely we can take advantage of relativistic effects to keep time at a slower pace locally but have it take a short enough time in the referent timeframe.” But in this case, there is a very obvious floor we’re working with: absolute zero. Because making things go relatively faster means making the other things go comparatively slower, and 0 is as slow as you can go. If subatomic particles have no movement, there’s nothing to measure, literally.

As a result, there is a very specific bound on timekeeping measurements no matter how you try to finesse things, with the amount of energy required to make minor improvements ramping up exponentially as that floor is approached.

In order to get around this, we’d have to come up with a different way to do error correction and results measurement, and I’m not sure there is one.

As someone who does IT interviews, the degree (any bachelors degree) is what gets you to my interview, unless you’ve got a really good portfolio and a decade of experience.

At that point, the only things I care about are: what do you know, how well do you communicate/work with others, how do you learn and what motivates you. The degree just shows that you have demonstrated critical thinking skills and the persistence to work the system.

If you can do that without the degree… well, you can try wrapping up the courses you’ve got into a certificate or five (often the courses taken can count towards multiple certifications) and then focus on what you actually want to do.

Exactly this. It’s called a “hook” and when the phone is “off the hook” that’s the thing it is off of. Being off the hook means the phone is powered up and connected to the local loop. When the phone is “on hook” that means it is disconnected from the loop and awaiting the pulsed ring signal.

Desk phones have a reversible hook so that it keeps the button depressed when the phone is in the cradle but doesn’t catch when you attempt to pick it up.

On modem signals in the old days, the + was equivalent to “flashing” the hook, or quickly disconnecting and reconnecting to the loop, and the AT command H1 told the modem to go “on hook” while H0 told it to go “off hook”.

Back before the DTMF network, when everyone used pulse modulated phones, the “pulses” were caused by going in and off hook in a specific pattern. You could actually make a phone call from a rotary payphone by flashing the hook in the pattern that mimicked the rotary dial pulsing the line as it rotated back to home position.

In the really old days, the hand crank served much the same purpose, but actually supplied electricity to the local loop; when the phone was on hook (which was a big metal thing the earpiece sat in) someone else turning the crank would make all the phones on the loop ring; you picked up if the ring matched the number of rings for your extension.

Which towels are we talking about, and how frequently do they get used?

Bath towels, hand towels and dish drying towels will all get dirty at different rates, and get/stay wet at different rates.

Towels should smell clean (clean, not perfumy) and be dry and not feel like they’ve got something on them. The more time a towel stays wet, the more often you wash it. If it gets noticeably dirty, you wash it. This could be anywhere from once a day to never, if it’s just decorative and you never use it.

Except… CalDAV exists. It’s built on top of WebDAV and not email. IMAP has the ability to share objects, and some calendar apps use that to share calendars the same way you’d share emails, but there’s an international standard for doing calendars without email.

I personally use a self-hosted NextCloud for calendars and contacts. It integrates into pretty much every app out there, or I can use the web interface or NextCloud apps. Email is only needed for the admin account to send email notifications of someone gets locked out etc.

I can see it from both sides. My gmail accounts (regular and throwaway) were roughly my fourth generation email addresses. I got my first email address in 1990. It was tied directly to an educational institution. When I switched institutions, I switched email addresses, and around that time got an ISP email address as well. Non-educational emails went to my ISP address and anything educational related went to my new edu address; everyone in edu circles knew to switch addresses because my .plan file associated with my old account advised them it was closed and what my new one was.

Eventually, I realized that neither my ISP nor edu institution would be with me forever, so I switched everything over to an email redirect service with Yahoo and Hotmail throwaway addresses for stuff that needed an account that was neither professional nor personal.

Then along came Google, Yahoo imploded, Hotmail got bought by Microsoft, and my email redirect service went out of business as the dot com bubble burst.

Oh, and I changed jobs which required moving which meant switching ISPs.

So GMail was a lifeline because I set all my other accounts to both forward to gmail AND set autoresponders informing the sender of my new address.

Of course, that happened 19 years ago. Back then, there were no SMS authentications, no real life accounts tied irrevocably to an email address. My eBay and PayPal accounts just needed an address update, and pretty much everyone else hadn’t got to the point where email address was even an option on a registration form.

That said, I recently did some email address shuffling, and all the accounts that really matter got switched relatively painlessly; I have a password manager, and part of changing addresses involves going through every entry in my password manager (which is already helpfully divided into personal, professional and throwaway) to update addresses as appropriate.

Everyone else gets the same autorespond and redirect treatment for a year. After that, anyone I’ve missed will have to locate me via someone else.

Of course, I’ve also maintained a PGP key since 1993 that has my chain of email addresses associated with it, so anyone who knows my key can just look up my current email address. It’s really the only thing I use that key for anymore. But there’s a very limited set of people that would even think to look me up by PGP, or even save a copy of my public key and remember the key exchange I use.

Just make sure you make it clear it’s a simulator. While I love to see script kiddie consternation when their ransomware target turns out to be fake, you probably don’t want the real bad guys to use it thinking it’s legitimate. And you don’t want security companies putting you on a bad list because of joke software someone else abused to give a sysadmin a heart attack, either.

Well… that was… expected.

Google previously proposed putting restrictions on the functionality of this API for security reasons, potentially impacting the effectiveness of ad-blockers across all Chromium-based browsers including Chrome and Microsoft Edge.

Think antitrust may have had something to do with their change of heart?

The laughability of preventing content filtering for security reasons should have been so obvious that not even Google could argue that one with a straight face.

I don’t recommend buying a nothing phone because of iMessage integration. It’s unlikely to last long, and they obviously haven’t explained how they’re pulling it off while not breaking E2E encryption and account privacy.

In a way, Instagram is a great filter for me. I tend to socialize with a lot of people from kids to the elderly. The type of Instagram-first people are exactly the ones I don’t want to spend much of my time on. People with common interests and the ability to relate to others of various generations are the type of people I want to spend time with, and they tend to show up in the same circles I hang out in.

When you’re dealing with a full set of more than 7.6 billion people, those sidelining people who don’t follow them on Instagram is a vanishingly small portion, and worth the privacy.

Not having a social life and limiting your social life aren’t the same thing.

I’ve got multiple group chats going on Signal with people I spend time with in real life. I exchange emails and texts with people all day long, and spend time with my friends locally, as well as check in regularly with friends and family that aren’t local.

My social life is rather full, in fact.

And I’ve never had an account with a Meta property.

So don’t worry about limiting your social life, when there’s more opportunities to be actually social with people than there are hours in the day.

How I use it is probably different to how other people use it; I use it to report incidents of public/local interest, and to find out about such things. That’s it. Works really well for that.

Me too… and my phone uses an eSIM!

I tend to think of it more that truth is what actually transpires, and my reality is a story I tell myself to approximate that truth.

The story I tell myself is 99% based on the stories told me by those around me, assuming they’re real and not just another part of my own narrative of invented inside my consciousness.

That last 1% is a mix of sensory experience, chemistry and randomness.

I don’t believe you.

I know for a fact that I have at least 3 different shadow profiles about me being bought and sold on the Internet. They all have different inaccurate information about me. Because I don’t have a direct relationship with the brokers, any attempt by me to correct or remove one of the profiles would just result in yet another profile.

We need global legislation to make it illegal to hold PII on an individual without notifying them of the fact annually. Failure to do so would have GDPR level consequences.