Wow, election betting odds has changed against Trump: https://electionbettingodds.com/ Senate is a coin flip. I wish there was more data to explain the price changes.
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A would-be dictator will only be constrained by the personal opinions of the military. https://twitter.com/PaulSzoldra/status/1268308579355774976
2020 "End it All" election campaign will be holding a rally soon. https://x.com/WGNNews/status/1268230852577804288
50% of dc techies expect to be WFH for next 12 months. https://x.com/mistersql/status/1265696926210633730
The CDC, like the Federal Reserve, needs independence from the Executive branch. Imho, the research & action parts of the org need to be separated.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/03/us/cdc-coronavirus.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage
I image the internal politics are all about getting papers published in journals & studies funded. Those skills are useless in overseeing a FEMA-like response to a national healthcare disaster.
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Zoom only wants to work with law enforcement to prosecute poor people, got it. https://x.com/nicoagrant/status/1268020841054269440
What
<I started drafting this tweet and forgot what I was going to say, but I think this sums up the sentiment quite fine as is.>
Junior devs out there, put together a portfolio of code that puts you in a good light. Please. Thanks.
Stockmarket is up, election betting odds still predicts a Trump win, presidential approval ratings are flat. What the stock market prices, I don't know anymore. https://x.com/tellittoal/status/1267840130951282691
META: I. Need. A. New. Twitter. Client.
Everyone looks like a protester. People thinking of shopping & dining have to remember that when they think of going to downtown anywhere if the cops are going to hunt people that look like protesters.
This is the US. For better or worse, real voting is giving $20 to campaigns in AZ, FL, OH, WI, not voting in your own jurisdiction, which normally is uncontested or not nearly close. https://x.com/peterkrupa/status/1267805011565740038
META: https://x.com just killed the good twitter, now you get the 2 tweets per page twitter (too sparse), tweetdeck (too much) and https://mobile.twitter.com (too primative)
Y'all probably have just been suffering with the new twitter for the last few months. I was using the browser agent changer to get the old twitter.
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Today reminds me of the movie "Children of Men" where everyone is dying, human extinction is decades away and the government was focused on brutally suppressing immigrants & protesters.
Wow, that is a murder attempt if I've ever seen one. https://x.com/AmichaiStein1/status/1267231160574398465
That nominal launch was so nominal.*
* (wait, what doesn't nominal mean here)
JOB: .NET Stack Jr Dev work at Engineering firm that does radio work for military, gov't: https://recruiting.paylocity.com/Recruiting/Jobs/Details/281611
Starts remote, converts to mixed office/WFH after pandemic ends.
This is at the company where my son works, so comes with a good insider recommendation
them: oh you're just afraid of the outdoors
me: have you seen how we do things in DMV? We do en mass, shoulder to shoulder or not at all: dining outdoors, hiking, protesting, walking the dog, going to rock creek park...except Trump's Inauguration. That was sparse. https://x.com/AdamParkhomenko/status/1266544706516848640
This scrum is only 3 minutes, watch, learn.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ
Virtual conf best practices-- pre-recorded talks & then the presenter answers questions in real time in the backchannel chat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbXte2Rvk9w
DC real estate, $100,000 per bathroom. https://twitter.com/mattcampux/status/1266434320794882048
CONFESSION: I'm really good at using the AWS console. I should feel bad about this because cdk, terraform, pyramid, etc have been around for a while now.
IDEA: federally developed social media site for tightly regulated pro-government content. Could ironically call it "Truth" or "Truther"
Authenticate with active directory, just a 3-month account creation process w/an in-person visit to the security office.
still destroying... https://x.com/mistersql/status/1266120803042627586/photo/1
META: Twitter needs a way to say as your type "that joke has already been made"
https://x.com/search?q=%22air%20force%20beans%22&src=typd
Sorry I knock http://amazon.com offline. I've been doing a little bit of shopping.
STATUS: googling formal pajamas. Gotta stay professional when WFH.
If section 230 is revoked, the FCC would have to hire 100,000s of staff to moderate the entire internet. If someone was wrong on the internet, you could appeal to the FCC. And finally, we could set straight anyone who thinks Taylor Swift is better than Mamamoo.
I suppose we could also make similar complaints to the FCC about executive branch member's twitter content.
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Windows 10 May 2020 (aka, WSL 2, aka faster linux IO on windows) update is available on 1 of 2 of my machines.
October 25 2019. https://x.com/JoeBiden/status/1187829299207954437
IDEA: Your password fields should always have a blinking cursor to make users think that it has focus.
In fact it does not and you might be typing your password anywhere (IM chat window, etc)
Already implemented by VPN clients.
Of all the people in the world that need to be launched into space, they pick these two regular people who probably never did anything wrong.
techies/developers/etc in DC will be called back to the office
IDEA: More-of-comment-than-a-question Conf, or, Moctaq-Conf
Just audience comments instead of presentations.
STATUS: Shopping for a laundry-pick-up service. I live in a condo with a shared laundry room. The laundry room is now our biggest covid risk exposure.
I've read so far 1 newspaper anecdote of getting covid with only a history of laundry room use.
Sample of npm licenses in our project
- MIT :-)
- <blank> huh? Lazy slobs.
- UNLICENSED - what? Then why did they put it on npm?
DC area C# .NET Job doing military/gov't work. Front end/Backend work. Radio-related, but job doesn't call for understanding radio stuff.
This listing says Senior, but Jr and Mid-career opportunities for same team available.
https://recruiting.paylocity.com/recruiting/jobs/Details/231472/RKF-Engineering-Solutions-LLC/Senior-Software-Systems-Engineer
IDEA: Maven Beacon. Learn to type by typing java build scripts in XML.
I just noticed I had an implicit preferred pronoun in my twitter handle long before it was cool.
Shut-in life: Experimenting with running 15 minutes in the morning.
I feel like I'm half asleep & aimless until about 11. I used to walk 30-45 minutes before starting work for the last decade.