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Cake day: September 26th, 2023

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  • You and me both.

    Not too many years after that nightmare, I was perfectly capable of enjoying thru-hiking, carrrying exactly same weight anyone else would have been, moving at same speed on rough terrain, etc. Still couldn’t run a mile - or much shorter distances - in my wildest dreams. Didn’t matter, I was in exactly the shape I wanted to be in, for the things I cared about.

    Can’t do it anymore, my body widely conspired against me in various ways, but glad I was capable of it and have the memories. If I had been able to run a mile, but not hike any distance with weight, I’d be alot less happy about what I had achieved at that point.



  • Thought they charged something to put $ on temp card, via EFT though I may well be wrong.

    Don’t recall the org name I conflated w them anymore u fortunately.

    And from where I sit, yeah they pay me to some degree - the acct costs me nothing, and it’s got a handful of the usual “edge case” insurance benefits and such most debit cards don’t.

    Not real useful to me, admittedly, but I do receive something.

    That, and they reliably post direct deposit exactly 48h early, plus or minus fifteen minutes. Ability to plan my life around when exactly my check will show up has value. Seems to be very much a “best effort” basis to post early w/ most banks.

    Lots of that stuff is useful because of my individual habits and patterns of spending I’m sure, might well not be for you.

    Will check out privacy, now I’m kind of curious if there is something even more friction free for my scenario.









  • “Almost unbreakable keys” - I’m not up to speed on what this race entails, relative to the current state of affairs. Does “almost” mean “any gov agency w/ a budget and quantum computers” can break it, it is it an actual step forward from the status quo?

    A question worth asking, in context of article.

    There’s not a ton of stuff I demand to be secure, full stop, but SSH and comms w/ my wife are among them. I need to dive deeper, and understand the actual risks.





  • Teams is bloated garbage.

    I miss Slack, though circa several years back. “Just worked,” on most any platform, without the BS or “help”.

    Wouldn’t like it now, I’m sure, but haven’t had a chance to use it since I started working for a co who is “all in” on MS, including foisting AI on us.

    I am capable of drafting an email or message, bitches. If I am concerned about tone, etc., I’d prefer to employ an actual human I have a close relationship with to review the same.

    I have zero desire to be constantly corrected, and there are certain niche scenarios where very minor errors are actually endearing, and indicate enthusiasm.

    “Bob, I saw the posting for your role, can you tell me about your avg day?” is effective because it’s honest, coherent, and just excited enough that you made a minor error that slipped through.

    When Bob gets 25 of those emails and they all look the same because AI, it’s much harder to make the connection.


  • Cnet? Yeah, no.

    The whole premise of how I use virtual cards is to separate - and block, as needed - charges from a given source.

    If I use a physical card, it’s because I’m physically in a store and want to choose who charges my card, and when.

    This is a step towards making it easier for random things to charge cards unexpectedly, and towards making it harder to dispute charges.

    “You were there, per the thumb|face print. Therefore, you must have authorised it.”

    That’s a sea change in how questionable charges/questionable disclaimers are handled.

    Nope. I absolutely demand that protection, and if I lose it I’m taking my cash out of your bank ASAP and using that, suffering with change be damned.



  • Can you even do that anymore?

    I’m mid-forties, and that was what you did circa 99, and I was taught how to do it.

    But I can’t imagine a manager today wanting to deal with paper resume and walk-in application.

    (Also, if I hand you my resume, it means I’m going to skip the job history fields on the application. I hope manager can read and critically think enough to notice the resume and get that concept. Otherwise, I don’t want to work for you.


  • Interesting point, I am not sure I fully agree.

    I work for a company with operations across the world. Education systems that lead to citizens who are deeply literal and have any shred of critical thinking stamped out of them are a real problem with communications.

    On the US side, I can and have adapted to communicate effectively with those colleagues, but it’s less about English being their third or fourth language, and more about our tendency to speak colloquially, and their tendency to not do so.

    To their credit, if my livelihood was tied to working in a second or third language, I probably would have trouble with non-literal communications in that language as well.

    Different systems, different work cultures, etc. make communication difficult.

    OTOH, we have no opportunity to get to know each other and/or bond over food. Ribs, and something spicy from them, and a bit of time to chat would go a long way to resolving some of those difficulties.

    Now that I think about it, I wonder how we can pull off an intercultural cooking exchange with those colleagues, without sounding like a giant racist when I post it on the internal social site. Seriously could build some bridges.