ronbenton

Has any positive news come out of Microsoft recently? Copilot is junk, entra ID gets hacked constantly, employees resigning in protest. Yet, the stock skyrockets

But isn’t this just referring to the app view? And there can be (and are) many independent implementations of the app view?

Correct

We’d be lucky if the rent was paid in dollars but, instead, it’s paid in psychological manipulation

Default state doesn’t mean all the time though?

No doubt. They’ll only care about an employee dropping dead from stress if it causes enough negative press to affect shareholder value.

Microsoft’s continuous firings over the past few years has put a tremendous amount of pressure on employees to demonstrate value. I have observed H1B holders especially affected by this pressure as ge…

I would be unsurprised that the US wants to "suppress dissenting arguments" using anything at their disposal

> and ballot security is a rare concern Only because fearmongering about election fraud isn’t a top priority of a major political party. That’s all we have going on in the USA - one party’s head ha…

The article is trying to combat a bad faith initiative with factual information. The truth is that adding delays and uncertainty to the process are the goals, not just some unhappy byproducts. Delays …

Does having a VPN/intranet preclude zero trust? It seems you could do both with the private network just being an added layer of security.

>Stacking order when you have multiple modal dialogs and popovers in the top layer is based on most recently revealed element, so that toast that just opened is now hidden under a dialog. Whenever …

“I see you’ve only had 15 rambles this week” “Isn’t 15 the minimum?” “Well, yeah, if you just want to do the bare minimum. But look at Todd over there - he has 37 rambles” “Well if you wanted people t…

The nazi stuff was fine but insulting the head of state is across the line?

>Do companies not just double their CI workers after hearing people complain? They do not. I don't know if it's a matter of justifying management levels, but these discussions are often d…

"no new wars"

>Bullying online isn’t a thing I don’t think there’s any reason to read beyond this as I can’t imagine the rest is grounded in reality either

Apparently we need to be doing more LSD

>Hopefully these services can be restored in 3.5 years I am not sure it works like that. Destruction is easy, building is hard.

I thought it was mostly 18F. Interesting to hear USDS was involved in that one as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_Highway_System

Favorite quote(s) >But as I told the team as the end closed in, “We took a pipedream, and made it a policy choice.” No one can claim with a straight face that Direct File is impossible anymore; bri…

Sadly this program is being killed by the current admin. This repo looks great. The scala fact graph is super neat and there is clearly a lot of care that went into making the tutorial for it.