Installing a self signed cert system wide to do MITM? Sign me up!

Exactly, you can build 12nm but you can't quadruple the speed of light

As far as travel and hotel goes, another huge benefit is that the router enables devices without captive portal support, on a recent trip I can use: - Fi base station for my dogs trackers (huge for me) - FireTV stick (no need to trust hotel streaming apps will clear your credentials like they claim)

Also I can WireGuard back home automatically for select IP ranges (no need to configure WireGuard separately on many of my devices)

I named random Joe as the sole owner of "my" bank account and the bank wouldn't allow me to access "my" money!

That's not an equivalent analogy. A better analogy would be to say I had a bank account and I told my bank to call up Joe on the phone when confirmations were needed. I still have the account, but I have fallen out with Joe. I want the bank to call somebody else, but they refused to do so, even though it's my account and I'm paying the bill for it!

And we're paying extra for support!

Banks have established processes for changing signatories on business bank accounts, including in situations where a past signatory is no longer with the business.

In a nutshell: if a past signatory was a regular employee, it just takes any other signatory to remove them. If there was no other signatory, or if the past signatory was an officer, it takes a current officer (as set forth in the company's AOI or corporate minutes). Usually only the latter 2 situations of the 3 above require an in-person visit to the local branch office, and that only requires a few minutes.

> WA tax revenue is going to drop from this

That'd be their next excuse to extend the tax to all

When did blatantly unconstitutional laws become modest?

Why are income brackets unconstitutional?

SDE jobs are usually deliberately kept open to satisfy the H1B/PERM testing. Most big tech company does it so they can hire H1Bs and in turn do day 1 PERM sponsor as an incentive for H1B hires

Was it ever?

The British Government believes it to be secure. That’s why they were asking for a back door.

Brits: can we have access to the backdoor?

Apple: sure, but only if you pretend you didn't get access

Brits: jolly good

Another way to interpret it is they think it's secure against the British Government, and were asking for the same back door the US has.

While they did did get a backdoor they did get Apple to withdraw the product from the UK so it no longer impedes mass suveillance.

That only means that the UK government doesn’t have access to the backdoor.

Exactly they built one for the Chinese government. It's not if they have a back door it's who gets to use it

according to the snowden documents it is quite obvious that if the US government had a backdoor then the UK government would have one through five eyes

It’s possible that the back door already exists, and they already have it. So if they had conducted unlawful surveillance using these methods, then they may have to come up with some plausible explanation as to how they got that information legally. You could imagine a scenario where there is no plausible explanation for how the information could have been legally obtained. If they codify the use of the back door into law, then there is no need for all this theater.

One of my favorite conspiracy theories is that this is what the CIA Stargate program was. You don’t leak the existence of informants or satellites because you just got the information from “a psychic“.

This is an interesting point but if I may offer a different perspective:

Assuming 20 working days a month: that's 20k x 12 == 240k a year. So about a fresh grad's TC at FANG.

Now I've worked with many junior to mid-junior level SDEs and sadly 80% does not do a better job than Claude. (I've also worked with staff level SDEs who writes worse code than AI, but they offset that usually with domain knowledge and TL responsibilities)

I do see AI transform software engineering into even more of a pyramid with very few human on top.

Original claim was:

> At that point, outside of FAANG and their salaries, you are spending more on AI than you are on your humans

You say

> Assuming 20 working days a month: that's 20k x 12 == 240k a year. So about a fresh grad's TC at FANG.

So you both are in agreement on that part at least.

Important too, a fully loaded salary costs the company far more than the actual salary that the employee receives. That would tip this balancing point towards 120k salaries, which is well into the realm of non-FAANG

Yup WSL feels closer to the Services for Unix which has been around since NT 4/5.

It was sad to see WSL2 taking the path of least resistance, that decision has always felt TPM driven ("we got unexpected success with WSL and people are asking for more, deliver xxx by Q4! No I don't care _how_ you do it!")