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After almost 350 years, physicists have just arrived at a statistical solution for Newton's three-body problem – that is, the problem of figuring out how three similar objects or bodies are going to travel in space in a way that fits in with the laws of motion and gravity. OK, now do four
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My ex-wife is so fat, she looks like she's got the three-body problem.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Jeeze, I could wrap my head around the maths of this on a good day, but New Year's morning?
Have you turned into a temperance fanatic, who's trying to distil in our minds the evils of drinking?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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An Alabama man is leading a $5 million class action lawsuit against Ring and its owner, Amazon, following a string of hacking incidents involving the home security company’s internet-connected camera. When in doubt, sue
I wonder if he had the default password still on the camera?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: When in doubt, sue
My home was broken into once before. The burglar broke a window to get in. I sued the window company. 
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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A: Ring responded by placing "blame squarely on its customers" for using "weak passwords that have previously been compromised,".
B: Ring only required users enter a basic password and did not offer or did not compel two-factor authentication
2FA has absolutely SFA to do with using weak and previously-compromised passwords.
Using weak and previously-compromised passwords is the process to follow if you absolutely want to be hacked. 2FA will be of little help if that's what you want, and is also a major intrusion of privacy -- "your security" is not the real reason why companies like amazon and google want your phone number, etc.
Besides, I thought Merkins didn't want their hands held, when doing stuff; they want to be big, rugged men, In Control of Their Own Destinies!
(Which kinda doesn't work, if you don't put some effort into preventing hackers taking control of your destiny.)
So, after three minutes' not-too-careful consideration, I'm going to have to go with A.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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According to data crunched by Triplebyte, “opportunity for professional growth” is the biggest motivator, ahead of salary, better work/life balance, and “impressive team members.” "When you're through learning, you're through."
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Yep, That's the whole benefit of being techie.
Wonde Tadesse
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Ahead of salary?
Salary is the thing that makes us work; if learning precedes that, it is because the salary offer isn't worth the offset. If learning precedes your wife, it is time to divorce.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Quote: Salary is the thing that makes us work
True, But knowing something ahead is a plus.
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A plus, but not the main motivation as the title suggests
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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I'll have to bear that in mind, and ask questions about it, the next time I'm hiring.
I want to hire guys who get work done, not perpetual students.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Starting New Year’s Day, you may notice a small but momentous change to the websites you visit: a button or link, probably at the bottom of the page, reading “Do Not Sell My Personal Information.” Because GDPR was so fun, we'll do it again...California style
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DNSMPI is way more sexy.
"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Starting New Year’s Day, you may notice a small but momentous change to the websites you visit: a button or link, probably at the bottom of the page, reading “Do Not Sell My Personal Information.”
of course for them to remember your response you'll need to turn off your current anti-tracking protection meaning you'll get uberpwnd by the ones who gamble they can make more money than they'll end up paying in fines for ignoring it.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Whhhhaaaaaaa? You mean the government didn't anticipate this? Madness! 
TTFN - Kent
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previous record: [my personal info]
new record: [my personal info
bool: DoNotSell = true]
new record with your selling preference is now sold to interested parties. 
Side question: Is there a way to block my website from being viewed in California? Kind of, if location == California then go away
or, if location == California then display tumbleweed
Exactly what legal power does a state have over people who are not residents of their state?
Where does this nonsense end? How many little accept/reject buttons are we going to add to websites?
“The palest ink is better than the best memory.” - Chinese Proverb
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littleGreenDude wrote: Where does this nonsense end? How many little accept/reject buttons are we going to add to websites?
Remember what browsers used to look like around 2000, with all the "browser toolbars" every site felt the need to add?
Or Word when all the toolbars were enabled. 6.4cm of screen height ought to be enough for everyone. 
TTFN - Kent
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littleGreenDude wrote: Where does this nonsense end? How many little accept/reject buttons are we going to add to websites?
It's actually simpler (and a Hell of a lot more user friendly) than what we currently have, where every site can make you wade through 15 pages of verbiage, and go as far as they can toward hiding the tools (note the plural) that actually accept choices -- tools that can take half an hour to do the job, at that.
I've long said that all I want is a "F*** off, you nosey b*st*rds!" button, which does it all in one go, without making me have to jump through intentionally complicated and hard-to-get-through hoops.
It's less work for the sites to implement, too, but they're happy to do all the extra deceptive work, because a fair percentage of people will just give up, and let them steal their personal information.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Interestingly, slate.com is one of the many sites that I have blocked either for not following or for taking the piss when following GDPR laws.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I want the option of "you can sell my information if you give me a cut of the action."
("Dude," they'd reply. "Nobody wants your information, even if we pay them.")
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I’ve had never really come into contact with hardware programming, working mostly in python or C#, until a friend of mine asked me for some help with programming a simple controller for RGB strips using Arduino Nanos. It's hard?
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What? It takes a different set of skills to do something different than what you are used to? Who'd a thunk. 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Seems like basically the same process to me
Quote from TLDR: Read your specification
Read the right specification
Check connections logic thoroughly
Plan your stuff
Split your hardsoftware into parts
Don’t hardwirecode everything
Prototype and test on breadboard
Ever heard of fuses? Handle exceptions so you don't get garbage input into the wrong parts of your code
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At a high level sure, most problems in general could be addressed with that list, at a lower level it's a largely different mindset, well at least for me it is anyway.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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