SirNuke

For context, this is leading to my AC unit. While hanging a light above my workbench, I noticed daylight coming in from the wall where there shouldn't be any. It appears a previous owner had pulled back the insulation and forgot to put it back - shudder to think how much money that's costed me over the last two years. Would like a hardier seal than insulation to stop water and mice, but not sure what is required.

This reinforces my belief that online advertising produces a lot of objective data ("how many times was my ad viewed? clicked?") but benefits from not being able to tie that to outcomes companies are actually interested in ("are the ads expanding business?").

A number of years ago I read an analysis on how some large social media site had changed the order of a few important buttons out of the blue. This was likely from A/B testing showing increased engagement, but it was probably just confused users clicking on it. I bet similar things happen all the time in ads, possibly inadvertently. If an A/B change shows increased ad clicks, it's unlikely not to be adopted, even if it's not intentional clicks.

Is there any actual analysis this went down as written? This sets off two eyebrow alarms for me: 1. AI doing something revolutionary without serious issues and 2. clean cut police work, which never happens (at least not anymore).

Honestly I'd put money down the police caught him by chance and went backwards to find a good explanation for how. I'd also be highly skeptical of an AI system that actually catching drug dealers without also catching like everyone else.

It was never properly contained in the first place.

Only issue I had with a similar setup is turns out the old HP desktop I bought didn't support VT-d on the chipset, only on the CPU. Had do some crazy hacks to get it to forward a 10gbe NIC plugged into the x16 slot.

Then I discovered the NIC I had was just old enough (ConnectX-3) that getting it to properly forward was finicky, so I had to buy a much more expensive ConnectX-4. My next task is to see if I can give it a virtual NIC, have OPNsense only listen to web requests on that interface, and use the host's Nginx reverse proxy container for SSL.

You might interested in the slowcore genre, notably the band Low.

I'd say the distinction is the definitely not ADHD variant of the scene has Hal finishing replacing the bulb, and then working on the fixing the shelf, and so on. But that wouldn't be funny.

Also I just noticed that he gets a screwdriver out of the drawer, but the shelf support appears to have a loose nail.

I think you are broadly correct in that we can't snap our fingers and simply change the amount of money flowing back to the coffee bean growers. However, I'm highly skeptical there's any inherent reason why markets should spread the profits this unevenly. If no one was growing coffee beans there wouldn't be any coffee shops either.

The questions you should be thinking about is why are the profits so unevenly distributed? Market forces, of course, but how much are these forces inherent or created? If they were created, what caused it to be the way it is? Would a system born out of powerful countries trying to advance their own interests (cheaper materials) and willing to exploit power imbalances to do so be an explanation?

FYI the scene this is from. If you "so bad it's good" media I highly recommend Danger 5. It's one of the very few things to initially try that and pull it off.

You might know it from this gif.

If you live by a major university, they likely have property disposition where you can pick up slightly older equipment, sometimes for super cheap.

All that makes sense. Mentoring junior engineers is something I've always enjoyed, though I haven't had as many opportunities as I would like. I should mention that I don't have a job right now. Laid off from Amazon during their big layoffs earlier this year, though there's no way I could have been an SDM at Amazon. I would die.

I see SDM as a combination of people management, project management, and tech leadership. The former is something I thought I could never do, but I no longer think that's true. But I would have to grow into it. The middle I don't see as an issue, though if you have any particular courses or books on project management I would love to hear them. The third is a nonissue, as I've done plenty of tech lead work. My main weakness in that area is delegating, though Amazon did help me a lot with learning how properly define and track work.

I'm still struggling with what type of company makes the most sense. I was leaning towards more specialized SDE roles, but now I'm thinking that doesn't matter they just need a really good SDE -> SDM pipeline. Probably larger, more established companies? I'm not sure how to break this to 18 year old me, but I'm actually considering one of the gazillion fully remote Microsoft openings.

I kinda hate to be like this, but if you are in a tech position, past the early entry level nonsense, and not making six figures (in the US) then you need to be job hunting.

I don't know if any particular certification will get you there, but IT remains a great practical field to be in. Don't make any sort of "I'm just in this for the money" apologies.