Random QA Guy

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Software quality person, letting CISOs go home early. Loves his dogs, has too many things on his plate. Lives in a shack in the woods.

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I cannot recommend private equity backed mergers. The company that bought us appears to have no idea what they’re doing. It’s been over a month and I’m not sure what my job is or what to do. Startups almost never succeed. The ones that do almost never make anyone rich.

Ah for feck’s sake, it’s feckin’ gone and snowed again.

Happy National Battery Day to all who celebrate.

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Wanna know what's an incredible national security risk? A bankrupted man with access to classified information. (And after he secures the nomination, he'll once again get top secret daily national security briefings.)

Trump Ordered to Pay $355 Million and Barred From New York Businesswww.nytimes.com The judge’s ruling in Donald J. Trump’s civil fraud case could cost him all his available cash. It also bars the former president from running a business in the state for three years.

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roses are red your family sucks against my better judgment i think we should fuck -darcy

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Fascism is almost always opt-in until it really really isn’t.

Reading comments create of the Waymo car that was burned really gives you a unique perspective on establishing a narrative and how the tech press is so important doing it. Nobody in San Francisco is getting angry about self driving cars enough to burn them. 1/

Another of my few remaining yearly low-key chaotic but safe rituals Bay Area was completely ruined last night by the usual gang of live-streaming assholes. Start a two-alarm fire, destroy a million dollar thing and turn up the heat exponentially is so edgy, especially when you livestream it

In case you were wondering what right-wingers are fundamentally afraid of, it’s easy: one person, one vote. This “ironically funny” list of GOP planks was sent by a hard right winger in our rural NV neighborhood.

Reinventing getting stoned and taking a hike.

People smoke cannabis for a variety of reasons, including for pleasure and to unwind. Now new research has found another benefit: Getting high can make exercise more enjoyable.

Running sober vs. high: How weed affects your workoutwww.washingtonpost.com Running after smoking or vaping marijuana can make exercise more enjoyable, a new study found.

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If you joined Bluesky during the Beta, congratulations, you are now officially a Bluesky Elder! You will be assigned a rocking chair, a single cloud to shake a fist at, and a Chesty Gandalf Action Figure and/or Orca pool floatee while supplies last. Enjoy your new, completely inconsequential status!

@jay.bsky.team , @bsky.app @pfrazee.com , congratulations. This app and platform have been pretty solid for such a young product. It’s a complex thing, what you’re building, and your emphasis on quality throughout shows. Thank you for giving us a great place to be together!

This!

with the gates now thrown wide open, please remember that it's up to us to keep this place supportive. Don't feed the trolls. Block them. Stand up for the people that need help. 🏳️‍⚧️ Put positivity out when you can. I really want this to not just survive, but THRIVE.

Dude really is doing what he can. More like this please.

First placing monetary sanctions against West Bank opportunists and now calling Trump out as the asshole he is? Why the hell can’t we get more of this Biden?

SFGate Clickbait episode 3042.7: Pete Wilson is gonna be in a Super Bowl ad!

To put it another way, this guy has more guaranteed benefits than your average tech worker 20 miles north. He won’t be as well off, but he doesn’t have to worry constantly, either. Because Unions work.

Bedein is proud of his UFW contract at Countryside Mushrooms in Gilroy CA. He enjoys 7 paid holidays, vacation time & annual salary increases while working year round for the Del Fresh labeled mushrooms. To find other UFW produced products go to ufw.org/ul

Help me understand how this differs from 99% of employer-employee relationships.

Never, ever believe anything a company officer tells you. Ever.

I’d love to see this. Go ahead and try to scare her.

Kind of important stuff here. Boeing makes the biggest, most complex (physically) things this country knows how to design. Software industry has this problem too. It’s ongoing. It’s corrosive.

Richard Aboulafia really knows the aerospace business. He says that several waves of accounting/ finance—minded "leaders" are en route to destroying what had been proudest symbol of US tech/manufacturing excellence. aviationweek.com/aerospace/ma...

Opinion: Can Boeing’s Misguided Leaders Be Stopped? | Aviation Week Networkaviationweek.com We may be witnessing the slow demise of what was once the world’s greatest aerospace company, with few identifiable roadblocks to an act of self-immolation.

Long time since I’ve taken this car out in the winter. 60F in Reno today!

Sometimes we get a nice interlude during winter. The snow retreats, the roads dry, the gravel is brushed away, and it’s time to take the M5 out.

Yesterday a friend who was Early Twitter Infra posted his experience getting a call from a debt collector looking for money from Twitter. He hasn’t worked there in nearly ten years. It’s going great. If you’re rich you can get away with literally anything.

Private equity poisons everything. It stifles innovation. Destroys quality. Wrecks lives. And it only sees one thing: Line goes up. viewfromthewing.com/boeing-whist...

Boeing Whistleblower: Production Line Has "Enormous Volume Of Defects" Bolts On MAX 9 Weren't Instal...viewfromthewing.com A reader at respected airline industry site Leeham News offered a comment that suggests they have access to Boeing’s internal quality control systems, and shares details of what they saw regarding t...

Both stunned and pleased that Car and Driver has gone to six bigger, better, more interesting issues per year. I am a big fan of things that are worth the wait, and more great work half as often sounds like a fair deal to me.

Gawd, if Microsoft executes as well on AI as they have on messaging…ooooof.

Hard to believe that the first thing I bought when I started at Apple was a “ten years of Macintosh” shirt.

Forty years ago today.

Through a series of events, the X6M formerly owned by a friend now copies teleservice requests to my phone number. It’s what the car does when it needs an oil change or some other service. Every other day my SMS lights up with a note from BMW about how sick that car is.

The people who make my favorite camera app are doing a video app. I foresee a lot of …accessories in my future.

We have our first update on Kino's development! It's a behind the scenes look into how we explore new apps. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xB_E...

How We Start Apps: Behind the Scenes of Kinowww.youtube.com What will the app do? What should it look like? Who is this app even for? Captured with a pre-release version of Kino. Any issues with sound, light, color, o...

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Millionaires who were behind on their taxes have already paid a half-BILLION dollars to get current with the IRS as the agency ratchets up high-level tax compliance. This is the program the GOP vows to end, because tyranny, or something.

The IRS has collected more than $500 million in back taxes from delinquent millionairesfinance.yahoo.com Millionaires who were behind on their taxes have already paid half-a-billion dollars to get current with the IRS as the agency ratchets up high-level tax compliance.