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I saw this online somewhere and I just had to recreate it. This is my coding happy place.

@JessTheUnstill My cynical suspicion is that much like more police create more crime, SWAT teams create excuses to use them for internal reasons. If you have a SWAT team sitting around not doing anything, do they really need all of that budget money? So SWAT teams are motivated to find ways to get used, the more the better (for their budget and prestige).

(Plus this isn't just police, there's a whole pressure on government as a whole to be 'efficient', which often means no idle resources.)

SWATting would no longer be a problem at all if we abolished SWAT teams.

Maybe having an on demand paramilitary strike force that can be deployed by anyone with a phone and a plausible sounding story was a bad idea to start with.

The thing about #tech #layoffs that people who haven’t been through it often don’t understand is that morale never recovers. The employees who remain will never have the same relationship with that company, bosses or peers.

Watching people you respect pack their stuff and crying on the phone with their spouses is something that never goes away. When I survived a layoff in my 20s I became a “do exactly what the ticket says” person. I stopped suggesting ideas, providing feedback, believing anything a manager told me.

If you are a company considering layoffs, especially a profitable company, you should approach it as “this department will have 100% turnover”. The second I got another job offer I left that company and six months later nobody who had been there at the time of layoffs remained.

I’ve seen that pattern play out multiple times.

A fantastic job opportunity here, a German train company are looking for a Windows 3.11 Administrator https://www.gulp.de/gulp2/g/projekte/agentur/C00929028

Imagine kissing with a girl, while watching yuri together ​​ ​​ ​​ ​​ ​​ ​​ ​​ ​​ ​​

Hacker, n: One who instinctively looks for exceptions to rules that allow them to make complex systems work in unexpected ways that benefit or delight them.

@tek @onepict my favorite definition of a hacker comes from St Jude

A hacker is someone who cleverly circumvents imposed limits, whether those limits are obvious ones imposed by authorities, but also the non-obvious ones such as your believes about what you're able to do or what you believe is impossible to do. A hacker is someone who is told "you can't do that" and responds, I think I'll do that anyway.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id-im54HOY0&t=8m35s

in 2006, the bbc faced a problem. the reboot of doctor who was doing well, and had revived interest in the original series. there was clearly a market for selling dvds with old episodes. but many old episodes were erased after broadcast, and now lost.

you know this story so far.

Germany slipped into recession last year, and the reason was record sick time. "The large scale of sick leave last year led to a huge shortfall in production. Without sick leave, the German economy would have grown by 0.5 percent last year." Due to the large number of workers who were on sick leave, the German economy shrank by 0.3 percent.

I wonder why so many people are getting sick. Its a mystery! (Can't be #COVID19, can it?I thought the pandemic was over!) /sarcasm

https://www.koha.net/en/boat/407190/study-Germany-went-into-recession-last-year-due-to-medical-holidays/

Love this toothpaste label - let's roll it out across all products

THE FCC DOES NOT REGULATE THE GENDER SPECTRUM