There’s no chain link fence in the area and for good reason! Some antedeluvian buggers end up moving in and using them as traps like a spider’s web. Then you end up with a huge mess of “leftovers” to clean up every time there’s a new moon. And if you get lazy and don’t clean it up you get all kinds of fustelarian loiter-sacks and grumbletonians moving in. Then every night is like Night of the Living Dead combined with an old BBC documentary on the mating habits of screaming lemurs. Then there’s the smell: It’s a bit like almonds smothered in parmesan cheese, dipped in old socks vomited by a dog at the end of your bed.

No thank you!

The squarish thing pointing down is most likely a radiation detector:

https://www.hsaj.org/articles/14715

The rest of it is point-to-point wireless networking antennas. Not sure which technology but it’s probably something specific to emergency alert/law enforcement.

The rectangular box in the back is a standard NEMA box that houses the electronics/power supplies for the other components.

I’ll take laptops over a Punch Card System (PCS) any day!

To be fair, you are always on the cusp of being fired/laid off. Even if you’re the backbone of the company, the best employee, etc.

Also remember that expectations of young people in a lot of businesses are very low. That’s why they pay the young so poorly 🤷.

If you seem to be getting work done and your boss isn’t bitching then you’re doing exactly what you’re supposed to be doing. Don’t worry about it.

Also, when you’re young change jobs every year or two! It’s the best way to make considerably more money over time and no, it will not hurt your resume in the slightest. It merely shows initiative and the fact that everyone wants you (i.e. you’re competent).

At least they’ve moved beyond blaming “the gays” for stuff like this 🤷

Oh? So what you’re saying is that the left is lacking in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion? Perhaps we should implement some of these anti-conformist ideals in the form of training programs?

“The last time he was on his knees, he was picking up a french fry,” Joy Behar offered

I thought it was when Trump met with Putin in 2018?

This is the type of thing you do after you have obtained and locked in your power. Not when you’re about to lose the House and have already lost the Senate and are likely to lose the presidential election.

So please continue, GOP. Show the country what you’re made of (MAGA sycophants/pro-insurrectionists/traitors). Not only that but keep it up! Don’t ever change, even after Trump is broke and rotting away in prison.

Change is for liberals!

Maybe the Democrats will get a supermajority in the Senate and actual governing can take place.

No, you can always pretend! Just like DeSantis pretends to govern with useless garbage laws like this.

Dental Hygienist. They make like $40/hour to clean people’s teeth. It only requires an associates degree and you can get it from community college (aka cheap).

The problem is that Trump didn’t do enough for them when he was in power and they don’t think he could win again. To the oligarchs, Trump is a lost cause. Trash that they don’t even have to clean up themselves.

In response, billionaires should get together and donate a few billion dollars to public defenders, pay off people’s medical debt, and offer to buy Mar-a-Lago in order to turn it into public housing.

Print your own!

https://github.com/riskable/void_switch

My custom designed, fully 3D printed analog keyboards (which use 3D printed switches and stabilizers)!

https://imgur.com/CmaEsP6

That’s my AHEK-95 (typing on it every day) which was reviewed by a semi-famous keyboard YouTuber 😁

https://youtu.be/iv6Rh8UNWlI?si=vsgg9F5dr1fBagyU

I’d also show off my Low Poly Rose Twist Vase design:

https://imgur.com/bdxnr27

Rough times when you’re forced to go at a sketchy gas station 😖

Never trust any organization with “heritage” in its name.

I’ve been giving out this advice for decades now and it still holds true. The Heritage Foundation is but one of many organizations that amount bullshit for hire or exist for the sole purpose of promoting and/or excusing racism, genocide, and autocracies and theocracies.

“Heritage” and “tradition” are some of humanity’s worst excuses for doing anything and have been used to extend human suffering since forever.

…or it may show that neither party is growing but Republicans are dying faster.

It’s evidence that progress really is marching forward one grave at a time.

This might not necessarily be the case for much longer with storage costs finally reaching certain thresholds.

2TB SSDs only cost ~$100 and you can cram a lot of SSDs into a tiny space with only a minimal amount of cooling (still need a fan but just a fan).

The next bottleneck to overcome is upload bandwidth. Too many providers offer asynchronous service with weirdly low/slow upload limitations. However, that too might be changing over the next few years as DOCSIS 4.0 supports 10Gbit down/6Gbit up (DOCSIS 3.1 only supported ~1Gbit up). An important note about DOCSIS 4.0 is that in order to take advantage of it’s improved features (on the ISP end) you need to provide more upload bandwidth to the client (well, you can still cap it at the router but at that point the ISP is just being an asshole instead of actually “managing bandwidth”).

Docker containers aren’t running in a virtual machine. They’re running what amounts to a fancy chroot jail… It’s just an isolated environment that takes advantage of several kernel security features to make software running inside the environment think everything is normal despite being locked down.

This is a very important distinction because it means that docker containers are very light weight compared to a VM. They use but a fraction of the resources a VM would and can be brought up and down in milliseconds since there’s no hardware to emulate.