Q: why did I hire you?
A: I don’t know, you tell me
Q: why can’t you do this thing I want that is outside your training and experience?
A: Because it’s outside my training and experience
Etc…. Every day
Q: why did the world make you this way?
A: I was molded by personal experience, industrial experience, and formal training.
I will never undertake a complex project that has stakeholders and expectations unless I am reasonably confident I can complete it using tools I know and have competency with.
How are you supposed to answer this? It’s not like you necessarily had a choice.
It’s like dumb questions about heritage or gender.
Why couldn’t you have been a man/woman born here or there to parents this or that?
The question is so dumb, it’s not even a question but an insulting commentary
Some questions you encounter in technology are intrinsically sickening and offensive.
Like: why couldn’t you have written this program in language X? I can’t imagine a more naive question.
Language is a substantial implementation detail that depends entirely on the training of the person or people authoring code.
RE: https://flipboard.social/@TechDesk/116297834084118285
Wikipedia has higher standards than most universities in the world (if not all of them)
If you are traveling to or through Hong Kong, here is a new thing to consider when you are deciding whether or not to take your devices with you and how you should set them up.
Physical security and cryptography can learn from each other, part 11367:
Hotels wisely don't put the room number on guest keycards so if someone finds your card, they'd have to exhaustively search the hotel to find the room it opens.
Some hotels now have elevators programmed to only let you call the floor for which your keycard is coded, preventing guests from wandering to other floors.
But it also means the elevator can be used as an efficient oracle to determine the floor of a found key.
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