Our company offered all programmers $1000 to spend the night in the office. But they sent us home around 4am.

The same time many of the overnight jobs started up :-)

Fortunately we had zero issues.

Like Chuck Norris, chuds don't sleep. They wait.

Special forces training and force vetting seems astoundingly poor for such an "elite" outfit.

"we've shown a pretty significant increase in the number of new housing permits each year, we’re closing in on the 10,000 mark for the last two years"

Does that mean the "surge in supply" is really a surge in permits?

Funny thing about permits...

Searching for more DOGE-boy wrecking balls?

I'm in SF where they advertise a lot, and the ads are incredibly niche and nerdy.

But a general sense of paranoia comes through quite strongly.

5G C-V2X New Radio might be helpful.

https://www.telecomtrainer.com/lte-v2x-vs-nr-v2x-key-differe...

Back in the 80s, the Tek 4115 (color, 1280x1024) was so much fun for a young programmer working at RADC/Hanscom AFB.

Mandelbrot sets and Towers of Hanoi were so exciting to write in Fortran (I think Fortran 77), running under, iirc, CP/M.

Great memories, I worked for a CAD/CAM company at the time.. as an intern. One of the problems they had was that they did not want to ship demoes of their system to certain countries as they had seen code be reverse engineered and stolen. I made a demo suite that allowed for 3D renders to be played back in vector mode from the internal 4115 memory. The feedback we got from the main office in England was not good: the demo made it seem that the system was capable of creating real-time rotation views of complex models. Well, yes, it took several days to compute all frames but once I had the vectors the 4115 could show the frames at incredible speed.

They flew me to headquarters to explain how I got that to work and potentially incorporate a demo module into the system. Company went sideways after that, I ended up in Cambridge at another startup in a similar but different space, they used Sun Workstations ! Good days.

From same museum, in case people are interested in a 4115 brochure https://vintagetek.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/4115B-broc...

And the US never revolted against our domestic aristocracy, as they never revolted against our clergy.

Wonder how it would have turned out if the French revolution happened before the American Revolution? What could we have learned from them?

For months, Mullvad has been papering San Francisco with smart and cheeky ads, like "Mass surveillance is made by machine men with machine hearts".

I admire that they're saying this, and wish other VPN companies would do similar public relations to highlight the risks of ad targeting.

Tbh, I'm a customer. Before Mullvad, I used PIA.

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/advertising-that-targets-everyon...

Same. Switched off PIA when they were bought by Malware vendors Kape