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Joe Barrett

@barrettj

Husband, Father, Coder | I like games, security, and ultrarunning. | Former USGov | Technical Director at Epic Games | Posts are my own

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I am nowhere near this fit. Time to fix watch/treadmill calibration before Garmin gets the wrong idea about my potential.

I am nowhere near this fit. Time to fix watch/treadmill calibration before Garmin gets the wrong idea about my potential.
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Starting your morning with Bulgarian Split Squats is a fantastic way to ensure your day can't get any worse. You're welcome for this life pro tip.

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I feel personally attacked by this, but am also willing to admit if we go this route that Option 3 is necessary. The dumbing down of AI for liability reasons is quite frustrating, reminds me of the 90s panic about the Anarchist Cookbook online. Yes, it's making the content more

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Well, shit. I've been doing this wrong - trying to be polite for when the eventual machine uprising happens, hoping they spare me.

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Since updating to Android 16, every time I launch an incognito window for a one-off Google search I'd rather not pollute my search history with, I get hit with a Captcha. Sometimes 2. Every time. Home wifi, cellular, doesn't matter. Google gets angry about me using Chrome

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Deleting AWS resources is always such a fun adventure. What's the magic string to delete this kind of resource? Is it 'delete', 'delete me', 'confirm', the resource name, or something else? Consistency is for chumps.

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Okay, when I said I was looking for an app to teach my kids typing, I didn't mean this. But I'm definitely going to give this a shot.

Okay, when I said I was looking for an app to teach my kids typing, I didn't mean this.

But I'm definitely going to give this a shot.
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Son's soccer practice is supposed to end at 8:15. At 8:14, the coach announces "next goal wins" in their scrimmage. One eternity later... I guess I'm getting my money's worth? That or they're all so bad (or evenly matched) nobody can score. At least I've got nothing better to

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My desk right now: - pictures of my wife and kids - a set of SEREPICK lockpicks and a padlock - a water bottle, a coffee mug - a Captains of Crush grip tool for fidgeting during Zoom calls Seems pretty reasonable to me?

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I love this visualization. I don't necessarily agree with 100% of it, but it's a fantastic thought exercise. When interacting with an employee, you can mentally bucket how they're choosing to respond in the moment, and then use that as a tool to help them push forward to more

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Cybersecurity professionals may take encouragement that when one cannot even prevent art thieves from stealing priceless historical jewels from the Louvre in one of the most well understood perimeters ever built, failure to secure ever changing estates with orders of magnitude