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Though my Erlang skills have long atrophied, this book was my intro to functional programming and helped me understand recursion. It’s been a while since I’ve read it but I remember it being kind of funny as well as informative.

I recently took a Waymo back to my hotel in Phoenix after a few drinks and it was a really pleasant experience. It didn’t take the freeways but it navigated the surface streets pretty much perfectly. It helped that it was about 25% the cost of an Uber at that time.

Probably not in any meaningful way, but I would agree the above comment they are ethically distinct.

I know this video is humorous, but it’s also kind of touching. After watching, I started taking random measurements in my field notes book and had a really nice time.

I will eventually read through this because I have a reasonably good handle on Python/Go, but don’t have any experience with Rust. This book will help me focus on the parts of Rust that I am most interested in given my current InfoSec work.

I worked for a brand that was heavily impacted by phishing sites that used LE certs. It was annoying, but honestly I wasn’t sure what LE couple do about it. If you deny creating a cert with Gmail in the domain, people will just use something like gmall instead.

Don’t forget CAASM!

I think the implication is that if a kid buys a toy they will have something tangible that they can play and interact with, but tipping/donating to a streamer doesn't provide that.

The skilled people I know who work for the US government usually are very mission driven and/or working towards a pension. For foreign governments, people tell me they like the stability.

The sad truth is that no one is getting a promotion to staff for just maintaining a service.

I wish this wasn’t so. At a previous job I had a VP tell me that my team was like a public utility and I took that as a compliment. Later my boss explained they were saying that they only noticed my team when something was broken. Sort of explained my lack of career progression in retrospect.

This is giving me major Geth from Mass Effect vibes.

Given the massive impact that AI has had on the cultural conversation, I wonder how far away we are from a similar conversation about robots.

I enjoy reading things like this. It’s posts like this that have helped me build my command line text processing skills over the years.

If you are early in your career, I suggest you work on these types of skills. It is surprising how often I have found myself on a random box that I needed to parse application logs “by hand”. This happens to me even in fancy, K8-rich environments.

It is going to be close between my gmail (I was invited during the beta in 2004) and my bank which would have been 2002/2003 timeframe but I can’t remember for sure.

I can remember earlier accounts like deadjournal, Hotmail, something awful, but I don’t use those anymore.

It’s a bit older, but I learned a lot from “Writing idiomatic Python”. Honorable mention to “the little book of Python antipatterns” as well.