vrek

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[–] vrek@programming.dev 14 points 6 months ago

Yes, and those are the ones I make.

[–] vrek@programming.dev 13 points 6 months ago (4 children)

See the corroding part scares me. Actual electrodes planted in the brain should never corrode. The company I work for actually makes brain implants(no, not nueralink) so I know it's possible.

That stuff is EXPENSIVE though ... So he must of cheaped out with a cheaper metal and that's why it corroded.

[–] vrek@programming.dev 23 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I don't mean this to be offensive but holy shit is that advanced for third grade. I would would expect that to be like high school work. I think in my third grade we were doing stuff like "who discovered America?" and how to read a analog clock.

If you could analyze Shel Silverstein, or even knew who that was, in third grade you would of been light years ahead of me in third grade or most of my classmates.

[–] vrek@programming.dev 3 points 7 months ago

Mostly but that doesn't make as good of a story 😁

[–] vrek@programming.dev 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Long story short... Most of the money the company earned was from the credit union. I went through a depression phase and tried to kill myself (I'm doing better now) so I was inpatient in a mental ward for about a month.

The credit union got a computer security audit from the ncua(similar to fdic but for credit unions). My boss could not access any system. No servers, no firewalls, no intrusion detection systems, nothing. I had the passwords but was unable to be contacted and "documentation was a waste of time".

They failed the audit. Credit union basically asked "we pay you for computer security, we failed an audit for computer security, so why do we pay you?"

Contract was lost and company went under shortly afterwards.

[–] vrek@programming.dev 8 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Ok, I'll give my experience. I was hired as basically a paid intern. I was in high school, I "knew" computers like a nerdy teenager knows computers... Not real knowledge of their workings but I played with some programming(I got hello world to work using perl) , I could install linux(in the early 2000s, I bought copy of Debian Linux on 7 cds). I was basically told I would be an assistant to the other computer technician.

A week after I got hired, he got fired. For the next several months people got hired and fired after a 2-3 weeks. The company was 3 people, myself, the owner, his wife did the accounting. I didn't know what I was doing, googling what I could to figure stuff out(i now know that's normal but also now know how to Google correctly). I leaned on the owner to figure out things. I don't know if your job is in computers but these are things I learned later were absolutely idiotic.

  1. If a computer came in with a suspected virus, standard protocol was no research or investigation... Format and reinstall.

  2. We had corporate clients (main client was a credit union), we gave the windows CD and license code to each teller with no record of what they were. He sold the license at the price he bought then for from staples.

  3. All servers had local admin accounts. All local admin accounts had similar passwords. I was the only person who knew what those passwords were.

  4. My boss thought time spent documenting was time wasted.

Anyways I stayed there for 4 years. It was not perfect and I learned so much wrong stuff. It was a decent job, my boss had really weird rules(why so many people got fired), and my time would of been spent better learning correct information.

That said I ended up causing the company to go bankrupt and the owner and his wife are now Christian consulers...

[–] vrek@programming.dev 10 points 7 months ago

I'm an expert in bird law but bird doctoring.... Ehh...

[–] vrek@programming.dev 22 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I work for a medical device manufacturer and you are missing a important reason for that exception. Yes human lives are on the line. In addition WE (meaning my company) are responsible for finding out why it broke and how we will prevent other devices we make from breaking.

We make a device and say it will last 10 years, 2 years later it stops. We have to replace it, We have to investigate to the best of our ability, We have to report our findings to the government, if several cases happen We need to come up with a prevention for the future dailures(or prevention if severe enough). We have entire departments for this. It is our burden not the consumer and it's our burden so we have enough evidence to determine root cause and final solution so we can prevent further failures.

[–] vrek@programming.dev 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I agree with your sentiment but that's not how taxes work... Only the money after 578k is at taxed at 37%... So the first 22k is taxed as 10% even if you make a billion dollars.

[–] vrek@programming.dev 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Even that one from 2250?

[–] vrek@programming.dev 3 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Unless the light is in a vacuum like space

[–] vrek@programming.dev 25 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It depends... Also a different skill set.

If I'm asking about proper crop rotation to keep a high nitrogen level in my soil.. I'm absolutely going to a farmer.

If I need a database to store crop yields and sales... I'm absolutely going to a software engineer.

If I'm looking for how to reset my forearm after I broke it snow boarding... I'm absolutely going to a doctor.

If I'm looking for how to make a desk from reclaimed old natural wood... I'm absolutely going to a carpenter.

Everyone has skills, one profession is not smarter than another. Each profession is smart in what they are trained or experienced in.

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