I use mine as a 2FA on services that support it, and I've never had to do anything but plug it in

remember though, you will need pc smart card support...typically the pcscd daemon must be started and enabled

literally a no-op...junk mail is printed, USPS delivers it against my will, I put it in my recycle bin...another truck comes and empties that bin

this is well-functioning?

Our military budget will soon pass $1 trillion annually

Our elected representatives now routinely provide the Pentagon with more money than it even requests

Every NYTimes article on Ukraine is riddled with comments suggesting we provide a blank check for weaponry

The Washington Post likes to tell me every day why it is essential the US build more $15 billion aircraft carriers to provoke China

This is just one reason why we have poverty and always will

You may be overestimating the time you need to "recover"...my guess is you will be fine after a couple of weeks of low stress and a change of scenery

As to living in a HCOL area...the stress won't end, look at relocating.

All of these tech companies are overinvested in real estate

now your resume is in a stack with 300 other dev resumes instead of 3

honestly I may just make my current tech job my last, its increasingly not worth it to get waterboarded like this just to write unit tests

Reform is otherwise either totally impossible or practically impossible on an adult's reasonable time horizon

Any attempt at change will result in the change agent being labeled a Nazi or a Trumper

Just let it fail

After the failure is objective, the rats will scurry and real change will be possible

It would have been useful for Moritz to at least acknowledge how much of California feudalism has been geared to rewarding his ilk

If you are a rich VC, how about just building twenty houses?

hurry up, you'll keep the President and Secretary-General waiting!

if your severance package isn't "good enough" in your opinion, you keep it and reformat it...eventually they tell you that your severance will go away unless you return the equipment

most returned equipment will just become e-waste, no one is going to breathe life into my four year old laptop

I see a lot of companies just telling people to keep it and use it as they see fit

some security types freak out about former employees being able to access "confidential" information on their own laptops after being terminated...newsflash: if we wanted to mail this stuff to North Korea we could have been doing it five times a day

I mean...the day Musk took over Twitter, lots of comments here were calling for twitter.com to be kicked off the internet...

so far...is anything really happening?

I enjoyed the episode with Nick Offerman, but it seem self-contained

otherwise, we've got two people driving around CG dystopia wreckage and having encounters...but there isn't much plot or character development

the main characters seem stereotypical...the precocious smartass teen, the grizzled older guy...I'm waiting for something to arrive, hopefully it will

Microsoft can't rethink Windows because they will never corral the PC makers on a reasonable timetable

PC makers are still selling the same laptops as four years ago (modulo minor spec bumps) because Windows is basically the same OS as four years ago (modulo some UI fluff). Intel and AMD are stuck in the middle waiting for the deadlock to break...but the only winner is Apple.

This isn't controversial and it happened in the dot-com bubble aftermath

For many, they were never deeply committed to IT anyway and were only following good/easy-to-attain positions

For some, they had bills to pay and couldn't afford to wait things out

The most interesting class of workers in this round are the (former) FAANG cohort of overcompensated middle-performers. These people were gut-punched by their layoffs, and they will be gut-punched again when they see future offers that may be 50% of what they were making before. HN isn't receptive to these types of observations so it will likely just have to sink in over time...the days of coding React for two hours a day and pulling in total comp of $400k are probably gone forever.

markets are crowded and saturated, most participants are just doing replacement business (for example, Lenovo, Apple, Samsung selling replacements to people who already purchased their products)

it takes fewer people to maintain a business than to build one

there just isn't as much work to do, and what is remaining is quickly being automated and/or commoditized

tl;dr: you may not be needed

- cheerleading war in Ukraine

- cheerleading anti-China sentiment (on their iPhones!)

- lamenting being laid off

Well guess what folks - we have a massive enlistment deficit in every armed service

Kill three birds with one stone, enlist today!

if there is no realistic hope of economic progress, people will just stop trying

we already accept that home ownership has become "for the rich"...what next? car ownership?

we can brag about our low unemployment rate...it doesn't look so rosy when you factor in workforce participation

Rust is the tool you use when you are done prototyping, not when you are just beginning

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