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Weird that a Biden DOJ would do this.

Here's a bet: they are offloading a legal liability. Within 12 months someone reverse engineers the binaries and show that they were siphoning out all keystroke data, or it has an official remote backdoor or something equally horrendous.


Good flex. These days access to capital is attractive for talent.


You guys don’t have a text file full of world changing ideas you would work on if you had some runway?


Custom tooling I wrote:

1. Focus session time tracker with talking clock counting down every n minutes.

2. Activity monitor and alerter. Tracks active window and title every minute and alerts if more than n minutes outside whitelisted websites. Alert immediately if blacklisted website (dns blocking is painful. Sometimes you want to access it for a few minutes).

A bunch of more things but those are the two most effective ones.


Wow sounds nice, any of it open source? Would love to see


Not yet sorry but maybe in due time. It’s probably half a day of python dev work to reproduce. Maybe more to nail down the analytics and charting.

One day.


In a logical world, affirmitive action efforts would be redirected to people with ACE score >= 4, regardless of ethnicity or race.


Annual vaccines are much more convenient and are preferable to one-off treatments like antibiotics, (which reduce the nations GDP as well because of they "cure" the problem cheaply), and have proven to be safe.

I call for an immediate ban on antibiotics. Only high ranking members of society should have access. And people with good social credit scores.


The 1990s called. They want their threads vs events debates back.

Todays processors are fast enough to serve many useful workloads with a single core. The benefit of the async abstraction outweighs the performance benefit in the majority of the cases.

And debugging multithreaded code is way harder than async code, mainly if its the kind of program that needs stepping into.


The military aged illegal immigrants have photo id. Let that sink in.


Anyone can buy ammo without showing ID in most states, definitely can do that online in quantities larger than you could buy at the AARM - Automated Ammo Retail Machine. Also, the AARM only dispenses if ID is VALID and if facial recon matches. The AARM would not be the first option for someone that has questionable ID and/or is up to no good. The AARM is not your usual coke machine.


Do they have a drivers license that is the kind US citizens have, or do they have another form if photo ID?

In Texas, there are many variations on ID cards and Drivers Licenses. The style and color say a lot.


Would these people have any trouble buying bullets in a WalMart or any gun store?


Welcome to the real world. It’s like this at many places. You have to assume that the director and manager go on family picnics together. At these places you get promoted to manager because the guy above you trusts you and for that reason only. Talent can be hired, trust cannot.

Either learn to adapt or leave and join a firm with top tier culture. Do your homework on that.


Sir if you live in USA and do not take a dip into the VC money swimming pool, you are stupid, because crazy people with stupid ideas routinely get to $100 Million valuations, like no other place on earth.

Its like going to Disney Land and saying "Oh i'll just sit at the coffee shop". Some people are here for the ride. Some people like the 9 to 5. Like you, obviously. Why dont you go start corporate-drone-news.org, this board is for hackers and founders.


I don't mind the shit take, but please don't use underscores in your domains.


Good catch, fixed.


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