I guess some system support people may have been fired recently

Not working for me now ( cannot find host name); their dns server is acting up; probably the instance that runs on is having issues or is under attack

But until many states have elections which pass United Nations reviews, and international witnesses, and stop having oligarchs counting the votes without oversight. All of this is just pandering to reasonable people. Just words with no weight. Hopes and dreams. The voice at the back of one’s head while doing something stupid.

This, what you said, is so important. In my years doing my own business, I have had literally hundreds of scammers, some smarter than me. Its best to just not even try to talk to people trying to contact you first in these platforms.

And many many scammers will post jobs, and one cannot tell by seeing if this is a new account. Some of my multi year assignments have been initiated by sketchy new accounts. At the same time existing accounts of clients usually have their own preferred coders. If you get to talk to an existing account with a history, check out the reviews and be wary. There may be a reason they are seeking out new blood.

I think its ok to go off site to talk to the new job candidates. Often, cannot have decent conversations in platform. And an in depth talk is free for all, and will often give clues in the first few minutes of talk.

My home instance is starting to do some of this, it’s talked about a lot in https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/div0

College computer programming programs normally do not train people to immediately work, unless the students spend thousands of hours coding on their own. Most comp sci students avoid this.

So, when a new dev graduates and they did not do that extra work, then the first year of paid work is them putting in those hours while being paid rather than doing it for free

Uphill, in the snow, both ways

When people have limited choices to vote on, voting for a or b does not make them like a or b.

It just means it’s a “boiling the frog situation” when gradually changing the goalposts makes people not notice the real issues.

The average American really has not changed that much from the past generations, but the candidates that are allowed to run in either party have drifted rightward.

If I want to vote for green, and I can choose only on a greyscale, my interpretation of which shade of gray might be closest to green might be a personal choice, highly disputed.

A successful alt would need a high level of traffic, or posting many new things a day. Some have one, some have the other.

Would be delighted to find one

I spent a lot of time using msdn Microsoft docs for windows and activex c++ back in the day. Faintly envious there are videos in the c# docs.

I changed tech stacks, but comments and examples are awesome to use inside docs. Usually in the php, it’s the comments in the docs that are the best help, and example code and work around can be found there.

But most php depends on the tens of thousands of projects and libraries made others: so the docs one needs is scattered in the dependencies. Some who have good docs (laravel) and some that have no docs , in which case a debugger is best way to learn.

This seems to be a rare individual who would not have done such except for his own misfortune with his back.

If I learned anything from this, is that most people cannot do any real changes either for health or environment. It has reinforced my cynicism