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This is true but it also varies with industry. In defence and parts of the government, potential new hires are likely to receive a full and extensive background check, including academic records and past employment. It's similar for certain areas such as finance and some executive positions, either because it's considered fraud or dishonesty which is considered to make people unsuitable (e.g. in banking) or because the company is trying to manage risks and they want to be sure that they know what skeletons someone has in the closet.

This sort of thing wouldn't get you very far in those industries, and it's certainly not unheard of for people to be fired even after successfully getting the job. A surprisingly large number of people have been walked from high-paying finance jobs because they lied on their application, even months or years after being hired.

Thank you for this. About a year ago I came across ShellCheck thanks to a comment just like this on Reddit. I also happened to be getting towards the end of a project which included hundreds of lines of shell scripts across dozens of files.

It turns out that despite my workplace having done quite a bit of shell scripting for previous projects, no one had heard about Shell Check. We had been using similar analysis tools for other languages but nothing for shell scripts. As you say, it turned up a huge number of errors, including some pretty spicy ones when we first started using it. It was genuinely surprising to see how many unique and terrible ways the scripts could have failed.

It does work (for many people), eventually. I have been taking it for about 2 years and I only really started noticing results after 6 months, with noticeable results at ~9 months.

Granted, I was gradually increasing my dose, and eventually switched to oral Minoxidil (on a prescription) which for me was a massive improvement, so it might be possible that if you got the dose dialed in earlier you might see better results sooner than I did.

I believe they have these in Brisbane, Australia. This image is also from Australia somewhere given the street signs and what looks like the Australian Aboriginal flag (and possibly the normal Australian flag) in the background.

I'm not sure if you're being serious here or not, but I too have a tux tattoo. I knew at the time that it wasn't a unique idea, but I've never met anyone else who has one. There must be dozens of us.

Do people also ask you if it's Pingu or something from club penguin?

There are lots of reasons to dislike Trump or question his ability to be a good president, but whether he uses adult incontinence products should not be one of them.

A lot of people will experience incontinence issues at some point in their lives (roughly 1 in 3 women and 1 in 4 men), so it's a surprisingly normal thing. Obviously not all of those people will need or want to use incontinence products, but many do, at least in some situations. That can be anything from relatively small liners designed for light leakage all the way to what many people would consider a "diaper" designed for greater absorption. In any case, none of those products prevent people from living normal lives and doing whatever activities they want with their day. I mean astronauts and fighter pilots wear them sometimes, and they have notoriously rigorous schedules and extremely demanding jobs.

The idea that it should be treated as a disability because he'll need to take longer toilet breaks is absurd. Different people take different amounts of time to go to the toilet, for any number of reasons, and many people who use incontinence products are perfectly capable of doing what they need to do in a "normal" time. I also just think it's ridiculous to be considering how long it takes for someone to go to the toilet as part of their eligibility for a certain job. People should be allowed to take however long they want to go to the toilet, without concern for whether it's taking too long. It's really just basic human decency and respect to allow people to manage their own body.

Finally, it's worth noting that if Trump uses incontinence products, he faces a uniquely difficult situation because men's toilets are often not equipped with facilities to dispose of sanitary products. Women's toilets almost universally have bins or other systems to dispose of sanitary products, but it is relatively uncommon for men's toilets.This means that men are often forced to either dispose of these products improperly (flushing them down the toilet, leaving them somewhere that isn't designed for it, etc.) or taking the used products with them to dispose of elsewhere. Neither of those is a good option. Purpose built facilities to dispose of products like that should be available universally in all restrooms.

From what I've read, it sounds like the update file that was causing the problems was entirely filled with zeros; the patched file was the same size but had data in it.

My entirely speculative theory is that the update file that they intended to deploy was okay (and possibly passed internal testing), but when it was being deployed to customers there was some error which caused the file to be written incorrectly (or somehow a blank dummy file was used). Meaning the original update could have been through testing but wasn't what actually ended up being deployed to customers.

I also assume that it's very difficult for them to conduct UAT given that a core part of their protection comes from being able to fix possible security issues before they are exploited. If they did extensive UAT prior to deploying updates, it would both slow down the speed with which they can fix possible issues (and therefore allow more time for malicious actors to exploit them), but also provide time for malicious parties to update their attacks in response to the upcoming changes, which may become public knowledge when they are released for UAT.

There's also just an issue of scale; they apparently regularly release several updates like this per day, so I'm not sure how UAT testing could even be conducted at that pace. Granted I've only ever personally involved with UAT for applications that had quarterly (major) updates, so there might be ways to get it done several times a day that I'm not aware of.

None of that is to take away from the fact that this was an enormous cock up, and that whatever processes they have in place are clearly not sufficient. I completely agree that whatever they do for testing these updates has failed in a monumental way. My work was relatively unaffected by this, but I imagine there are lots of angry customers who are rightly demanding answers for how exactly this happened, and how they intend to avoid something like this happening again.

The condoms have also become a popular souvenir from the athlete's village, especially in recent years. Many athletes take the condoms specifically to give to family and friends back home, if they personally aren't planning on having sex while there. To be fair, they are basically a perfect souvenir because they are small and lightweight, inexpensive, and something you can't get anywhere else, as they are often printed with unique packaging for the games.

I know you're joking, but having a seperate phone exclusively for work stuff is actually great, specifically because it makes it easier to entirely seperate yourself from work. At my old job, I was given a work phone and it was the only phone number I used for all my work stuff. When I was at work, I would answer it, and outside of that it was off or on silent in my work bag. If they wanted me to answer outside of work hours, they had to pay me on-call rates. The same thing applied to group chats and other work-related stuff like that, (e.g. emails). It all went to that phone, and unless I was being paid to be contactable outside of work hours, I wouldn't be.

The only exception to that was my manager and a select few people who had my personal number for genuine emergencies, and if they used my personal number to contact me asking me about work, it was entirely at my discretion to respond and would mean I'd get on-call pay.

It also meant I could keep my work and personal accounts/apps/etc. completely seperate. If they asked me to download some random app, I could do it on the work phone without worrying about whether they would be able to access other data on my phone or anything like that. Whenever I needed a phone number for 2FA or whatever, I could use the work number and not worry about where exactly that number would end up or how it might be used. For example, I used my work number to register for a conference, and then for months afterwards I would get calls and texts from sales people. That was still slightly annoying, but it was much better than getting calls on my personal phone.

It also meant that when I left that job, I could just wipe that phone without having to worry about having personal data on there, because I never used it for anything except work stuff.

It does sound like Microsoft is asking their employees to pay for an iPhone which is a bit dodgy in my opinion, but I'd still probably take the opportunity to use it completely for work and keep my personal phone seperate. It's easy enough to get another number, and then when you leave that job you can cancel it and get a new number for the next job, cutting that link entirely.

In the article it says they're cancelling the "pro" version to focus on producing a cheaper version. So it sounds like you might get what you want, although "cheaper" will still likely be very expensive, and your point about compatibility with non-Apple devices still holds.

It looks suspiciously like a pay-for-award company that gives out awards to just about any product for parents/educators/related to children or parenting, as long as you pay the "application fee" (although they specifically say an award isn't guaranteed).

I mean looking at their website they seem to give out an awful lot of awards, and they mention that for $500, you'll get to use their award seal on your product and receive 100 award stickers, and for $1,500 you get more stickers, plus they'll post about your product on their website.

Call me crazy, but I'd think that if an award isn't guaranteed, they'd make you pay for the initial application to start with, and then (assuming you "win" an award) they'd offer to promote your product for an additional payment, once they've decided that you're eligible. The fact that they talk so openly about how paying a larger application fee gets you promoted on their site (and some other stuff) makes it seem suspiciously like a pay-for-award scheme to me.

Well that's clearly because parachutes aren't effective at reducing the likelihood of causing serious injuries or death. There's even a randomised controlled trial published in the BMJ that says so: https://www.bmj.com/content/363/bmj.k5094