I say weird shit and half the time I actually believe it.

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  • Nobody actually has an answer to that because there is no answer to it.

    The system is so broken that there is no longer a way to fix it.

    Any processes that could be implemented that have the potential to fix the issues comes from a broken system.

    These processes would then be administered by the broken system.

    Therefore no matter how good the process is, it will end up broken.

    You may say that I am a hopeless person.

    You may say that I am wrong and there is obviously something that can be done that has not yet been done.

    I would say you are right, but experience indicates that although the possibility of reform exists, the capacity of the system to reform itself would be administered by a broken system.

    Therefore even reform will end up broken and fail.

    There was a reason why Nero played the fiddle while Rome burned. I’m just out here handing out rosin .


  • I could see a certain amount of time in prison, like a decade.

    Obviously this homicide was aggravated by the circumstance that the CEO was technically the administrator of.

    Therefore I feel like the punishment should be somewhat lenient given that the CEO inadvertently escalated the situation resulting in his own demise.

    Kind of like if somebody beats up your best friend and then you beat them up in retaliation, the punishment should be more lenient on you than it is on the original aggressor.





  • Honestly my dude. Lie.

    Find a job you’re interested in and then tell them that you have the experience needed to do that job. Make shit up if you have to. Get the job and then learn how to do it as you go.

    I’m probably going to get down voted for this. I don’t fucking care. It’s the truth. If you’re telling recruiters the absolute Rock solid truth then you’re giving them all of the cards and they are going to try to get you to underbid your abilities and skills but if you’ll put the effort in and just reach a little bit you’ll be fine.

    Like, I wouldn’t say apply to be a doctor when you don’t have a medical degree or anything but apply for that senior position when you only have a Junior’s skill. Go for executive vice administrator or senior associate programmer or sysdmin Ii or whatever the fuck is a step above your actual capabilities and then do your God damnedest to grow into the role in the first six to eight weeks of the job and more than likely you’ll be fine.

    Back in the day I did very similar and it has worked out swimmingly for me and I believe you’re a smart person and that you’re capable and that you can succeed if you’re given the opportunity and if you have to lie to get your foot in the door then fucking lie and go for it, and once they let you in turn that fucking lie into the goddamned truth.




  • Per user costs for a website is on the number of pennies a month and most of that is for electricity.

    I can plug in a $750 second-hand server with a xeon processor, 40 TB of storage and 128gb of ram and easily serve all of the needs of several thousand users on essentially any website type for $1.50 a day.

    Sure, if you throw in video and a lot of bandwidth then the number would go up, but for pictures and text and website interaction on the par of bluesky or twitter or mbin sans hosted video it would work very well.

    If I reached the point where I needed to expand for the raw processing I can just throw another $1,000 and $45/month in electricity at it and double how much I can handle.

    Computers are stupid cheap. Internet services are stupid cheap. Asking for more than a dollar a person per month for anything that doesn’t have licensing fees on it (like tv/movies) or very high bandwidth usage (like YouTube) is a greedy rip off.

    That being said, at those prices I would not make anything for running the service, and that also would not cover additional development costs for any new features that needed to be added, but even so, unless your goal is to disenfranchise users you should not charge more than a buck a month or hell, $10 a year per person for all of their access to your service.