Looking around my home area, I found HS football bleachers showing up as buildings and an outdoor basketball court showing up as a building. Looking at the coloring of those features on Google maps, I can see how the mistakes might have been made. But still feels like it needs tuning.

To be fair, I checked my boyhood home in very rural Maine and it was correct for the size and shape of the multiple farm buildings.

I live in Central NJ, which is pretty densely populated and surrounded by tech firms. The nearest MicroCenter to me is 35 miles away in Brooklyn.

I think Apple would be better served by re-introducing a line of smaller phones. Whether it is for physical or functional reasons, not everybody wants to outdo the size of the previous model. Bigger isn't always better. People with smaller hands, young teens or smaller stature adults, would love an appropriate sized phone.

I have repurposed retired laptops for my tech lab at home. They no longer keep up with the current software bloat for wife and kids usage, but make reasonable linux servers. Currently serving up 3 databases on one, kafka and networking on another and services/applications on a third. They take up very little space under my desk.

Just for curious, why would you need 3 databases ?

A good way to keep the laptops operating as well. It reminds me I have a few old macbooks with decent specs that should be at least running.

Also, My friend accidentally drank a bottle of invisible ink... she's at the hospital now, waiting to be seen.

"Waiting to be seen" having slightly different meaning with respect to hospitals and invisible ink.

In 1903 there was a proposal to inter corpses into crystal caskets.

The success of that initiative remains to be seen.

Is what you reminded me of. Technically first it was "fuckin' Mitch!" Because Hedburg sprayed reappearing disappearing ink on someone's shirt.

That's a big pet peeve of mine, although to be fair I've seen much worse than this one. It can make the deltas look more meaningful than they actually are.

Right up until those below average HR people break the law or allow managers to break the law and the company gets in trouble and no scientists or other R&D people want to work there.

I would really hope "not breaking the law" doesn't require an "above average" HR team. As long as it isn't bottom of the barrel you should be fine.

...if I was really cynical, I might say that one of the reasons you might want a "world class" HR team is in order to break the law, or come really close to the line, without getting caught, in a way that increases profits.

I would hope that when it comes to OpSec, SecDef, DoD, NSA, etc, don't act "Just like any human would."

All humans act like humans would. From a security standpoint, it is a mistake to assume otherwise in any context.

https://www.google.com/search?q=computer+security+human+natu...

Love this movie, it turned me into an avid reader of Clancy.

At the time of this movie, I was working as a software engineer for a defense contractor building combat control systems for submarines. When it was released, the company took the entire department, including former Navy submarine officers now project/program managers to a private viewing. There were definitely groans when some things on the sub were inaccurate, but given the level of hands-on knowledge and expertise in the audience, it was very well received.

This begs the question, how many of the newer generation of developers/engineers "know what a well architected piece of code is supposed to look like"?