Lea Kissner

IIRC last year someone had like two hours before RH came in, which sounded really rough.

Last year one of my in-laws died on RH, but in another country so it was me and the kids and not sitting shiva and having to keep it together because I signed up to leyn.

I mean also free lunch in the office

Well, we are about to post some more open roles...

In these cases it's often real, it's just not helpful to me to shortcut the evaluation process. Like Kartik knows better than I do whether some additional scanner will give us coverage we don't have so I want him to give his opinion

I have to admit I ignore those. I have gotten a lot of "so-and-so on your team is talking to us about our product do you want to talk to us instead" and: a) no, I want you to talk to the person who will actually use it b) sometimes I do want to tell that person about ways your product doesn't work

Happily other folks introduce me to other folks who know interesting things. One of the nice things about my current job is that there are a bunch of people who have been around long enough to know where the bodies are buried and tell me. Both entertaining and then we can fix it. Love a fix.

The most common is that I have had people flat-out tell me that Someone Else said something was ok already so don't check. Please don't venue-shop.

One memorable time a team told Legal a feature worked differently than it did. Legal approved. I looked at it and noticed it was illegal. We talk.

The number of people who don't seem to realize that people in the same field, even in the same team, talk to each other is astonishing.

A security vendor invited me to a dinner with featured guest the "VP of IAM at LinkedIn". There is no such person. I'm so curious who; the vendor wouldn't answer.

This legit almost gave me a heart attack when I saw it, please do

Man page for the less command, telling you that the flag LESSSECURE puts the less command in secure mode

TIL that setting LESSSECURE makes you more secure

How fast they dry depends a lot on where you are. I wouldn't want to try it in a Bangalore hotel room during the rainy season, but I love them in general

Many clothes can be washed in the sink! My clothes don't like being machine-dried but if yours do even having the hotel do the laundry is cheaper than shipping! There are shoes that squish flat! Wear layers!

Or my real secret sauce: don't care about fashion

Fully most of what I travel with for any trip is food, which I am not willing to risk the airline losing, but speaking as someone who packs light to the point where I did a 4-day trip with only a briefcase (pre-having-to-carry-all-of-my-food situation), this is the hard way to travel light!

A choice was made by me to take a better job, so it worked out ok

At one job someone decided to argue with me about whether my pronouns are grammatical.
a) yes they are I have citations
b) what an extremely odd fight to pick at work

In summary, there are so many ways not to be a jerk and not being a jerk is one of my life goals

Oh dude, no! (And thanks I'm advance for not making other people experience that joy)

I can't even tell you why I quit because they asserted attorney-client privilege and somehow that's not the most insane part

Uh ... sorry. I suspect I blew off that meeting and didn't mean to. It was wild.

Yep. Everyone gets charged for access, so bring a few bucks.

Vibe coding is a lot easier if you don't care about breaking things

I wonder if he got the idea from Burrito Real, where you could order by fax. There was a Linux utility for this back in the day.

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2589...

Weird Al: You think your Commodore 64 is really neato

Audience dude: IT IS!

youtu.be/qpMvS1Q1sos?...

Most humans in general are not jerks, but this one in particular saved my bacon. It became very clear a few hours later that being late with my meds would have been a real problem

Also major thanks to my spouse who knows where the UPS drivers hang out

In "people are awesome" news, some UPS drivers helped me find the UPS driver driving around with my medication and he popped over and gave it to me and told me how to find him if I end up with a meds emergency again. Stand up dude and I owe him.

The real question is whether this is psychological experiment baby or physics experiment baby

Oh man, that's probably what I was thinking of, thank you

Hard same.

Oh fun. Do you know what happened in the case? Was there anything embarassing?

Oh noooooo