abulman

As I pointed out to the OP on Mastodon, I very much believe that it was a reference to Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, where they filmed a big door, and the original laser sequence from the first TRON movie.

LLL also made an in-house video when they were filming the original movie - https://www.spyculture.com/dept-energy-invent-making-video/

you'd first have to program it to take the picture, and look back at the photographer's eye to get the reflection of the screen with the IP address on!

Michael Sheen is apparently such a fan of TRON, that he might have been lucky to not negotiated himself down to a $0 pay packet - just in case someone else might have gotten the role :D

Some of the views their cameras get are fantastic - and the tracking on the last flight test would quite possibly make NASA envious. Cameras on the beach and also just next to StarHopper are in harms way too, they've lost a couple of them. I'm not sure what the cost of repair was after a chunk of concrete from what used to be the pad took out the back of a car!

I'll often spend a little time while watching the flight-tests (usually with Tim Dodd / EverydayAstronaut) just doing a search on YouTube for 'spacex live' and usually report 15-20 each time. They are very easy to spot when you've seen a few of them. I'll usually get a report of a few being shut down later in the day, and more over the next couple of days.

But, yes, they should be easy for YT to detect & block automatically - it's frustrating they (and other scams) get to stay online so long.

They might do some minor optimisation in terms of when the fly to keep some coverage but ...

As of May 2024, there are 6,078 Starlink satellites in orbit, of which 6,006 are working - https://www.space.com/spacex-starlink-satellites.html

Agreed - I'm still using it everyday to view and do some minor editing (trimming and resizing pics). It, along with browsers, VLC, Putty, and SublimeText (and now also ObsidianMD) are the first things I will download to a new Windows PC.

Maybe all the interns that were left in charge didn't properly do what the AI had said?

wow, there. Lets not get crazy there. It's plenty enough to support multiple package managers, but what you are considering is just too much!

I'm also using Obsidian daily notes, with all un-actioned items shown on a page with a dataview API[^1]:

    ```dataview
    TASK FROM "VaultName/Journal" WHERE !completed
    ```

[^1]: https://github.com/blacksmithgu/obsidian-dataview

[^2]: https://github.com/alister/alister-tools/blob/main/.todo.cro...

Just don't use -O2 and -fe unless you want to end up with Rust.

"The Ocean," it says, "is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to the ocean."

Ever see the video of a guy walking past a Saturn V (lying in it's side), doing a piece to camera and pointing to the rocket behind him?

'Connections' (1978). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WoDQBhJCVQ

"the way God and Robert Heinlein intended."

I can assure you that as someone that has done a couple Gov-related public-sites, some developers do think about it, and use suitable tools to ensure there's no issues.

Before the last-and-stolen-passports site went live (that I spent most of 2014 getting live - not writing - but mostly trying to get deployed), we did have a conversation, and easily proved that people called Mr or Mrs Null and/or O'Brien would have no problems. That conversation was also somewhat prompted by the Dartford Crossing site that went live a little before us - which had 'some issues'.

Yes.

previously discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=beyondgrep.com

see also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3835901 (ag/the_silver_searcher)

Every contract of employment I've received initially had a part saying I could not do outside work/projects, or that they would belong to the company.

None of them were there when I started work - as I had them all struck out, or changed to "work I do for the company belongs to the company, and I won't work on similar projects for other people while I work here".

It has never been a problem to arrange that. The only time it was, was during a initial phone-screen interview with the company HR person that said: a) they use Subversion and any discussion of changing to Git was never going to happen (this was in about 2017), and b) any outside projects were totally forbidden. No wonder I hadn't heard of the company before - despite their office being a few hundred metres from Silicon Roundabout and all the various meetups - no one was allowed to improve their skills...

What she had to do with making those decisions, I have no idea. And so that's the only interview I ever rage quit (though I did once tell someone else their puzzle-based questions were dumb during another interview).

I'd expect they would also ensure the Evil bit was set to 0. https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3514

I started working for a US-based company a couple of months ago. They pay me through a company that handles the contract.

The CEO pays my invoice on Monday and it gets to the contract company on Friday, if I'm lucky. Good for me though - the intermediate has their bank account with Transferwise - so when they pay me, it's in my account in barely minutes after I get the email they've paid me.

From from Transferwise USD account, it's usually seconds to get to my UK-based bank (one of the first group of 'Challenger banks'), and if I want to pay myself from there, it's also seconds to minutes at most from there, to my personal account.

TLDR: It's a week to go from one US company to another, but just a couple of minutes to hop across the atlantic, and between UK banks.

I do enjoy his geeky humour, and the rest of the Festival of Spoken nerd's (@fotsn), and actually went to see him and others just a couple of weeks ago at @AEOUD.

It was also the day before he posted https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSSsZLTMDq0 which explains how I was the 'Thirty-seventh' commentator - though you'll have to sort by newest comments and go down to at least the first couple of hundred comments to get that joke :)

Paging Adam Selene, Adam Selene, please come to the phone...

I applied to them a few weeks ago with years of PHP & Symfony experience. Their comments back to me said that previous FinTech experience was also a requirement.

Much of the time, the software isn't what makes for a great company - it's how that software makes the business work. A company can have the best code in the world, but if Uber had no cars, AirBNB had no houses, or Facebook didn't have your friends - they would be pointless.

For the matter of the Team/Company culture, I'd also add - Do they expect you to come in and merge into a unchanging culture, or would you add to, and change the culture?

Since the code already exists, within pi - or tau - surely all you have to do is to find the working code with it.

I'm sure that you can do that before noon of the first of next month.

'Security Hardening'.

I've also called out crappy interviews - while in the interview. I went on to be offered the job - but declined.

Location: London (West/Central) - or Remote

Remote: Happy to - have done it for years at a time before

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: PHP/Symfony, Linux, Docker, MySQL, MongoDB, Queues, Ansible

Résumé/CV: https://stackoverflow.com/cv/alister (17K score)

Email: abulman+hn@gmail.com

Github: https://github.com/alister

Don't be .... Mean.