drwho

Yup. Been there way too many times. "Too gay to be straight, too straight to be gay."

Odds I've been hearing for Trump being re-elected are about 3.4 to 1.

The thing about an operation as big as Amazon is that one or two people work on one component of one thing. If the folks who work on that one thing both bail, it doesn't slow down Amazon or any of its constituent components overmuch. The way things are architected it can chug along for quite a while until somebody else is tasked with learning about and maintaining it.

This is, unfortunately, true. The kids of some family friends are trying in the worst way to get in at Amazon or Facebook to make their bones. They figure that they can build their brands by surviving there for four or five years (Amazon's reputation for burning through people like toilet paper at Wing Wars is well known in the tech industry, and respected), sock money away because they still live at home, and get a jump on the good life.

I can't tell 'em what to do. They asked for my advice and gave it. What they do is their problem.

I didn't know Audacious was still being developed.

Additionally, there are hangers-on who are banging the drum about another January 6 if they don't get their way. It's foolish to take them at their word and think that it only means a voter supporession billl.

People want to be lied to.

So much for going on a Shodan safari in South Korea.

News flash: IoT doesn't always mean "backend is on AWS."

Sheesh.

I was serious. BBSes would be an ideal long-distance communication method under some circumstances.

Or perhaps an unassuming office building that only has outbound VPN connections.

This. Whoever manages to splice an optic nerve (meaning, it goes just about perfectly) would be in line for a Nobel Prize for Medicine.