Console? I've never even seen any of the servers that I currently manage. I haven't logged into a console in probably 10+ years.

I don't do passphrases. All accounts on my systems have lock-out passwords ("*"). If you want to log in, you need to use an SSH key.

That may have been true 15 years ago, but it's blatantly false today. I have a client with a legacy Perl text processing job that was beginning to run too slowly to keep up (log processing was starting to take longer than the log files were generated). They were going to buy an expensive log analysis tool, so I asked them if they actually wanted the tool or if they were happy with the output of their Perl script. They preferred the output of the script. So I said, "Give me a few hours."

A few hours later, I had translated the Perl script, line-by-line, into (I shit you not) Java. Ran two orders of magnitude faster. In Java.

Yes, slashdot's favorite whipping boy of a language bested Perl by two orders of magnitude.

Doctors do not spend 11 years of post-secondary education and training to differentiate bacterial vs. viral infections. I guarantee that you can train a person in far fewer than 11 years to follow the same process that an MD does for this specific task.

In my neck of the woods, we have convenient care clinics staffed with nurse practitioners who are trained in very specific tasks. You can go see them for cheap for simple issues which they can treat for you, but they also recognize when your particular case is not simple and will tell you you need to go see a doctor.

Trust is not a binary value. You need to be able to trust employees to do their jobs obviously, but do you need to trust each employee not to accidentally download malware from the public internet? Because I'd trust most IT professionals not to infect their machines, but would you necessarily trust your average user in marketing or HR or accounting or an admin assistant? Because that's how I'd look at it: I'd trust those people to do their jobs correctly, but I would not trust them to protect their machines from infection.

/r/coontown is still up because they stay in their own little corner and don't bother anybody. You don't like what they say? Me either. So join me in not reading that subreddit.

If they started doxxing folks, they'd be out on their asses, too.

Reddit doesn't care if you post repugnant shit as long as it's not child porn and you stay in your little corner of the Internet and don't bother others. /r/CoonTown is a good example of a repository of repugnant shit, but that keeps to themselves. The only reason I even know it exists is because it comes up in discussions of horrible subreddits.

But if you spill out of your little corner of Reddit, then that's when the admins get involved. If you're harassing people on other parts of Reddit, then you see shadowbans. And if you're harassing people offline (doxxing, etc.), then the admins expect the subreddit mods to do something about it. And if the subreddit mods aren't fixing it (deleting the offending content, banning the offending users), then the admins step in and ban the subreddit.

This is a pretty reasonable policy. Some may contend that it's not being applied fairly and equally (ahem SRS), but the policy itself is reasonable.

You take the hint and send them a text, my friend. That's why their voicemail box is full or uninitialized. They don't do voicemail.

Also (well) over 25. Everyone that I communicate with just texts or emails. I can't even remember the last time I got a voicemail.

I've never understood our immigration policy.

Mexican peasant who will be dependent on welfare for your whole life? Welcome to America!

Educated, ambitious, and ready to help grow the US economy? Eww! GTFO!

This country is run by fucking idiots, I swear.

In the states, we already have need-based scholarships and other grants. Hell, in many states, you can go to community college for zero tuition if you can't afford it.

The problem in the states is that we give unlimited loans with zero lending criteria because the government guarantees the loans. Need $150,000 for your undergrad in Inuit Art History? Sure, no problem! If the government stopped guaranteeing the loans, some underwriter would say, "ummm, no. How about you go to state school and major in something real and minor in art history."

There are plenty of need-based scholarships available for those who can't afford college, and more would be available if government-backed college loans ceased to be a thing.

I don't know if this is the intent, but it is certainly the (predictable) result.

I remember when my daughter was struggling with one of the New Math algorithms for subtraction. Naturally, I was only taught the traditional algorithm in elementary school, so my helping her was out of the question. As good fortune would have it, I had a parent-teacher conference scheduled with her math teacher the following morning, so my plan was to take 2 minutes and have the teacher demonstrate the new algorithm so that I might help my daughter with it.

Well, the teacher took several minutes just trying to contrive a subtraction problem that this specialized algorithm would apply to, and when she was unable to do so, she admitted in frustration that she doesn't understand the new algorithm either and that only the computer teaches that algorithm. I sat there with my jaw on the floor for what felt like an eternity and said not to worry about it and that I was sure I could find a YouTube to explain it.

So yes. What you say is true. The teachers are slowly but surely becoming little more than glorified exam proctors. It's pretty sad.

Exactly. It's easier to prove structuring than it is to prove an ancient sex crime. While I agree with you that he should be charged with the sex crime and that withdrawing money from your bank account should never be illegal, prosecutorial expediency is what's going on here.

Do you use nomorobo? How accurate do you find it to be? Does it cause any hassles?