Notices by stephen ryner jr. 🦉 (nuthatch@infosec.exchange)

Everything is better. The pay is better. The benefits are better. You have more opportunities to work on things that interest you. There’s more variety to chose from. Your work has more impact because more people use the products you worked on. Sure, time at a startup in the beginning of your career is invaluable because you get to “wear many hats,” but do your time and move on. You work to support yourself, not some dysfunctional unchosen family. Don’t get confused about this!

I have worked for some of the largest corporations in the world, and also very tiny groups. I far prefer dealing with the big guys. Yes, there’s all kinds of nonsense, but you learn to deal with it. In a small organization, politics gets personal and there’s not a whole lot you can do when things turn sour except to leave. It’s like the meanness gets concentrated without enough people to dilute it. And if two employees are related to each other, absolutely do not work there. You will always lose in that situation.

@jasonkoebler @nuthatch “Apple has what is among the most complex supply chains that has ever been designed in human history, and it is not going to be able to completely change that supply chain anytime soon.”

@obrhoff not sure “the expanse” is a valid hashtag here 😬 let them move on haha

My secret is I study two languages, so I can make French mistakes in the morning and Japanese mistakes in the evening

This puts me in the top 1% of mistake-makers this year apparently

Apropos of nothing

After a long day of making serious mistakes at work I like to relax in the evenings by making little mistakes at home

I’ve reached the “How old are your grandparents” lessons in Duolingo. Fortunately this old Tumblr meme had prepared me for what was to come 🫣

French: ...four twenties! :) Four twenties one...

I love this so much!

Other languages: **stares**
French: **stares back**

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rmBqIFeHN8

“And this is the craziest part. Right before I dropped him off, you know what he said? He tried to tell me what a hundred was. I said, ‘Listen, if you tell me some stupid shit I'm gonna be so pissed.’ He said, ‘There's two choices. And the two choices are, you got two fifties, or four twenty-fives.’”
“Wait. Is it actually?”
“Nah, it's just a hundred.”

"Bet the French loved the new millennium. 1999 - Mille neuf cent quatre vingt dix neuf.”

“I can just imagine the relief when the 2000’s came and they didn’t have to spend 3 hours saying the year”

@anneapplebaum @wa7iut reminds me of the drumbeat of propaganda leading America into the Gulf War not long ago. “We’ll be greeted as liberators,” said the idiots. But we had to do it because someone said something about pipes.

@PlayAllTheThings @anneapplebaum @wa7iut Mission Accomplished