I was reading about presidential elections around WW2 and of course that included past history of some of the issues that persist to today.
"All of Truman's advisers saw the events in Korea as a tes...
I made a comment "The sheep vote for their butcher" on a video recently that really resonated, enough that people used it outside of YouTube. The thing is, it took me several rephrases of trying to...
You could learn something from narrated short stories. Even if those stories come from Reddit. Obviously, not a book story, but someone's experience with a situation.
Like what? They left you at you...
Artificial Intelligence or AI is quite the buzzword. It's slapped on to many products these days that at best are just cool. It's just a get rich quick scheme to draw in investor money.
Remember the...
I started learning to read Japanese with Hiragana first. MARU app has been very much the primary driver of helping me learn the symbols and sounds. Just constant practice and divorcing English, har...
Latest Quarter Revenue results have resulted in a substantial layoff. I've said it before and I'll say it again, Intel is dead. The so called MBAs and what not killed the company. The brain drain t...
Why do people still fucking open accounts there? There are other banks, online banks well capitalized banks that aren't as fraud fucked as Wells Fargo. This is the bank that decided they didn't car...
There aren't many multiplayer games doing this VERY important feature correctly. Community is how you increase engagement with games. I mean other than the fun factor. I haven't seen many games do ...
The fact that little to no doctors look at smart watch data when these things are active sensors with people day in and day out. There's a treasure trove of data that would help diagnose and preven...
They focused more on African American boys than anyone else, which irks me, but I suppose you have to grab attention some way.
I wasn't even planning on watching it all that much as I started it and...
How do you seek profit in a non profit seeking sector. Saving Human Lives and decreasing suffering is not inherently profit generating. It is a sector that mitigates and decreases losses in other i...
Article: https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/austin-texas-tech-bust-oracle-tesla/
Yup, it pretty much sums up what happened. I'd disagree with when the boom peaked. It always takes a while be...
Seems like you are branded an antisemitic if you are not Pro-Israel, which is an extremist emotional view.
When I read articles like: https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/pro-israel-tech-groups-witc...
It's actually pretty funny to me to see WFH was a trend. Corporations saw massive money saving opportunities and jumped at it. Now that cities are suffering from the lack of workers therefore lack ...
It's touted as sugar-free alternative to sugars and I've consumed quite a bit of it through Sparking Ice and a "Sugar free" BBQ sauce. I figured it wouldn't be a terrible choice to avoid sucrose in...
It's given me some good inspiration and direction for some graphic assets. I don't know why artists or graphic designers feel threatened by it since their requesters can generate multiple examples ...
Imagine being associated with an actual criminal and voting for a criminal while trying to paint yourself as the "Law and Order" and "Back the blue" party 🤣🤣🤣.
Republicans threw away those ideas q...
Sigh. Like SOPA and all the other overbroad bills before it that caused internet companies to protest with blackouts. This entire bill to not just counter social communications software, but a whol...
Without proper discussion and educator input.
The more I hear about one or two parents challenging coursework because it might hurt theirs or their child's feelings, against their religion and or se...
They always said crypto was a lower friction way to move money. It's looking like that is increasingly true.
Look at Square for instance: https://squareup.com/us/en/press/policy-and-pricing-updates
W...
Reading articles from professors who want to find who is using ChatGPT and education departments who ban ChatGPT from the environments they have authority would make one think using AI is a cheat a...
Oh Meritocracy! What cup are you under? Is it in "big tech" or "big pharma"? How about "big finance" and government?
It's funny when I see people talking about they only believe in Meritocracy in re...
I have a strong opinion about stupid marketing words. If you use imaginary words, I skip your article, software or whatever. Definitely will make sure to replace your software for adding vague word...
Especially for Investigative journalism and war coverage.
Did Twitter break the story on George Santos? Fuck no.
Some might say "legacy news writes about posts with lag time". Isn't it a shock that w...
I read this article (https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-hardcore-twitter-culture-inspires-fellow-tech-founders-2022-12) that talked about people who call themselves founders looking up to Mu...
With Elon Musk doing stupid shit with Twitter, I've decided to move up the timeline for Dayolog. The next generation social discussion software. The mission is to bring stability and control of for...
With your money or Crypto especially in an unregulated sector. It is your responsibility to take your cryptocurrency out and put it into a wallet where you own the keys. I was never affected becaus...
As I said in previous posts (https://www.normansoven.com/post/like-i-said-before-federal-judge-aileen-cannon-is-a-trumper), this Judge is a biased gRump loving q*nt who believes gRump's bullshit.
Les is mor and tell a story. The core of a good presentation.
I get annoyed at too much information in presentations. Use links or keywords to direct people to more information.
I also get annoyed at...
Still seeing websites remove their comments section because the promises of increased engagement can no longer materialize with Twitter and FB. Hard to engage when your comments section is filled w...
https://council.nyc.gov/press/2021/03/25/2079/
Good step in the right direction in ending the fetish for treating police like they are a royal class. Now if this were to end for police nation wide, ...
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8722346/
The premise of the movie is captivating. A kind of black Bonnie and Clyde situation where they are on the run from cops who try to turn the story on them. A bla...
Especially beating this one (Arna Kimiai) in particular: https://www.instagram.com/keepinupwforeign
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/kelly-loeffler-wnba-montgomery/
There's no way she wanted to stay owner long term running on a racist campaign. She's retarded like her mentally ill constit...
Watched John Oliver talk about Police Raids on Drugs. Remnant of the war on drugs.
Few quotes/things stuck out to me
John Oliver said it best: 'Why would you risk your life for drugs that can be flus...
https://apnews.com/article/jason-ravnsborg-charged-3-misdemanors-192acb129ad9cf2c901f9d26a2ba7e11
Crash investigators said in November that Ravnsborg was distracted when he veered onto the shoulder...
A movie from the point of view from an FBI informant who infiltrated the Black Panther Party. It captivated me. Who knows, maybe I would have turned into a Black Panther going to their talks about ...
Will property values keep increasing the way they did? I'm betting on stagnation now that it is different with social media.
Who remembers 2011's winter storm taking out Texas? I'm sure Facebook and...
She is being punished for it like a child.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55940542
and she's defended by none other than the QOP.
Took a punishment for this really really dumb bitch to start...
HERP DERP Lets protect oil and gas jobs while making no inroads into new ...
Good cartons describing the cult and personallity of tRump.
https://www.usnews.com/cartoons/donald-trump
Fuck tRump and his shit supporters!
The invasion of the U.S. Capitol by tRump broke down the po...
After what happened, I bet you he will be. Directed his angry supporters to the DC Capitol. This is textbook sedition. He is completely finished. Any future statements coming from him are from his ...
Quite simply... I type in gmail.com and BAM shows me my mail. It is straightforward, no bullshit. No fucking loading screen, nothing. Just shows me my email.
I would like to get back to those days ...
Doordash and AirBnb valued at more than 2x their IPO price? Wtf?
These ones are going to come crashing down. Fucking UBER is does more than these companies and some how it is valued less than these ...
"Epic Games founder Tim Sweeney likens fight against Apple to fight for civil rights"
I have no other words
Never will understand the case where someone doesn't take the chance at something that meets or beats. Why take the risk of shopping around for a marginally better offer?
Applies to shopping, dating...
Well, on the bright side people learn who their "friends" are and who their friends actually...
This is an interesting video and idea. Touched upon some interesting questions and put some answers out there. Can't say I am satisfied by it all but hey it is a good direction. It is not like I ...
I'm in full 100% support of stopping all counts, so we can nip this shit in the bud and make Biden president.
Trump is an idiot. He has lost this race. Good riddance piece of shit. LOCK HIM UP!
This ...
Why does "The One" matter? Oh yeah, humans and animals have a duty to procreate. The spiel of the simple "meet someone, fall in love, get married, buy a house and have kids" creates that hole fro...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events/October_2020#2020_October_23
Hmmmm, I feel like this should be one of the most visible articles on Wikipedia. It is news, but very boring news tha...
Anytime a doctor measures my BMI, I say this doctor is a hack and never go to the same doctor again.
Here's an NPR story on why BMI is literal bullshit: https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php...
Much better experience than retard debates with the rTard 45th. Fucking a.
Much better to hear what he has to say about what he thinks and how he grapples with his past, present and how he hopes to ...
Anyone heard of any other language where there are "module" specs? You know specs for how your library will be bundled up in order to expose your library for consumption.
AMD, CJS, UMD, ESM, SystemJ...
My god...
I sign up/in with ID.me to make it easy to sign in to a MySSA account and what do you know... It works. Great. End of story right?
Ha! I tried to request a replacement SS card and it can't...
Lots of regurgitation I see online about how texting should only be used for this and that. I guess if you are a mindless robot sure. The realization is that people suck at writing, fail and then s...
for wanting to replace a Supreme Court Justice in an election year. Fucking turtle looking flip flop!!!!!!!!!!
RIP Ruth Bader Ginsburg. You really did try your best.
Familiarize yourself with the landscape is the crux.
Jokes that I thought were funny, but actually sting. It's not until you see the reaction that you know well that did not go well. Maybe an apology was done off camera.
The most stinging joke was the...
Seeing lots of closures and the US government prop up businesses that would otherwise...
Never really thought about master/slave terms until it was brought up during one of the Uberversity for nUbers. Course teacher talked about how some teams were trying to pick names for these two te...
The more, I feel like bringing my own social media product to the world. It is insane how bad information is spread with no good avenue on policing this shit. I'm glad I waited since I've seen how ...
You are a bad leader and must never be a leader.
If you cannot dig deep into your knowledge about how protests start and you think there is only one single goal that unites them. You live in an Ivo...
"Our Founding Fathers protected this sacred right with the First Amendment to the Constitution."
https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/24/work-collaboration-unicorn-notion-is-blocked-in-china/
Notion didn't contribute to social unrest in China, but hey let's arbitrarily block it. Is it arbitrary thoug...
Sensational news galore.
I stopped ordering from restaurants in general because costs to...
Always been bullish on blockchain for financial transactions.
Blockchain speeds up the settlement process in finance. That means bank transfers (ACH, Wire Transfer), stock transfers, escro...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/18/they-dont-give-him-enough-credit-the-voters-who-back-trump-even-through-the-pandemic
I give him credit for the whole thing.
Turns out the credit runs i...
Summary: Don't open a CK savings account.
Never seen any savings offering that let you link only one account and doesn't let you change it for that matter. Second, you never see the account number n...
“Unforeseen problem"
“Came out of nowhere.”
Statements of a trash President with a shitty cult circle. All who follow this cult bullshit blindly can die off with him.
He is telling me that I knew abou...
It is/was a great product. It is so simple to use. It is nothing like JIRA. It has so much potential to be a much better than JIRA product.
I just liked being able to create a card in Trello quickly...
CoronaWar and Oil Dumping
Layoffs are prominent in the Travel and Shipping industry. It'll soon spread to the Tech Industry, who thinks they are immune. If people conserve money they will cancel the...
Freedom of speech only applies to Government. It is posts like this: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=8481 that try to apply the Free Speech principle everywhere they go and it attracts bottom feeders. Th...
It does not make me wonder why highly infectious diseases will never be eradicated.
Not surprising that Republicans and Trump are spooked enough to request emergency funds around this ordeal after ...
You know what is more likely to happen? Quitting. Temporary leave.
Not sure why "got hit by a bus" as a expression for person is suddenly gone took off. If said person in the room then it is usually...
https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/12/21135474/doordash-workers-forced-arbitration-william-alsup
"DoorDash contractors have turned a forced arbitration clause in their contract against their employer,...
http://blog.interviewing.io/no-engineer-has-ever-sued-a-company-because-of-constructive-post-interview-feedback-so-why-dont-employers-do-it/
^ What he said
Maybe the best recruiters are the ones who ...
It's funny that the only reason I went with ZenniOptical not because it was cheap, but because Eyeconic had screwed up my order. When they screwed up my order I ranted about it and figured someone ...
https://medium.com/@iwaninzurich/why-software-engineers-dont-get-jobs-three-horror-stories-77fd1ae3b875 - This post was written by a recruiter who knows his shit. This is the kind of recruiter to h...
Wtf? NoooooOOOoooOOOoo!
Reddit's toxic Rust community strikes down a popular Rust library.
Yes, the maintainer of Actix has quit the open source realm, well, because of the Rust communities' shitstor...
I don't follow meta, but resignations like this and the responses are
indicative of where Stack Exchange is going because of bad management.
https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/392889/i-am-res...
Good management is open minded and knows how to make sure to keep a situation defused. Adequate explanations do not require justification.
Bad management is closed minded and shows it by making assu...
Wow, just off the heels of bad management from Stack Overflow. Now we have the United States attacking a government official (General Soleimani) of a sovereign nation (Iran) in another sovereign na...
https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/340906/update-an-agreement-with-monica-cellio?cb=1
Escalated to a lawsuit because they don't know how to use their site and resolve without lawyers. Hell the...
Reference: https://twitter.com/suj1th/status/1070336643125690368
Looks like Stripe may do this practice. What makes anyone think that a candidate should waste their time giving feedback when compani...
You have likely have read about issues with software engineering interviews before and are reading yet another one! Well, I'm going to talk more about my experience in going through the motions.
Fo...
