I live by a large-ish herd of farm raised Bison. I've gone to visit them a few times, mainly because they boarder a national forest with great trails. They're big as heck, when they run as a herd you can feel them. Truly impressive animals.
Cyber security is so wild west right now. change your linkedin. Do some public speaking. Read some blogs and you'll get your foot in the door. Where you go from there is about how well you sell your self.
I'm the guy that if you're in the line at walmart with me, I'm going to start talking to you. I've met some down right interesting folks this way. I also travel for work a lot. Talking to people in the hotel lobby is one of my favorite hobbies. I've met CEOs, truck drivers and people on vacation, all of them really interesting folks.
Everyone has a story or a piece of advice to give you. Just ask.
The Unix process, with its uids, is also a form of isolation. But most reasonable people would guess that there are undiscovered privilege escalation bugs in any given kernel and thus be careful who is allowed to put code on a machine.
Because they can't. I was going at this to the parent post. What JD offers in addition to the warranty riders, is a logistics and service network that's INSANE. when you buy a big tractor/combine/machine you get white glove service. Tractor breaks in the field? A field tech will come out and fix it, quickly. Have a dumb question about the length and width of cutter heads? they'll answer it. When you only really have 2 weeks to harvest 1000s of acres this service network can not be under stated. This is what's really locking people in. The software is a contributing factor, but it's not why farmers buy green.
No they can. There are a lot of other brands with similar support like Fendt or Massey. The reason everyone gets JD machines is that for their specific purpose they’re generally the best barring a few niche markets like what Ventrac targets with their mowers.
> The reason everyone gets JD machines is that for their specific purpose they’re generally the best
At least the best at marketing. A big time operator friend of mine, with a fleet of predominately Deere equipment, ordered a new CaseIH tractor a couple of years ago. Before it even showed up on the farm, John Deere caught wind of the purchase and swooped in to make him an offer he couldn't refuse, buying out the never used CaseIH tractor from him, and getting him into a green machine instead.
Of course, us smaller farmers look to what the bigger farmers are doing to gain some insight into how they are successful, as people do. When you see the big guys running Deere equipment, it is easy to think that Deere helped them achieve the success they have, and if you buy Deere equipment you will also be successful. But there is some smoke and mirrors going on.
I have a few different brands on my farm. As far as getting the job done, I'm not sure any are better than any other. They all break down just the same. However, John Deere does seem to have an edge on operator comfort. Which, admittedly, is nice on the long days.
A lot of folks call this setting standards. The standard you set for you self is X, your ego/will/desire/whatever you call it will not let you drop below your standard.
I'm not in the bay area....However I did recently buy a house. Banks are taking locked out stock, or even pre-ipo shares, as people's "gross value" in order to get people qualified.
Bank of America will indeed value tenant income, however, you'll need to provide proof of multiple years of steady tenant income before they'll value it above zero.
That's unusual: whenever we got a new mortgage or refinanced (US Bank, Wells Fargo, Chase, ...), our rental income and the rental cost was included in the calculation.
To clarify - tenant income from renting out one of the rooms of the place I'm trying to buy (not existing tenant income).
Basically the peninsula is unaffordable to own alone, but if I could get a two bedroom and rent out a room I could do it (alternative is having to buy in SF a one bedroom for 780-875k). Banks don't let you do this though and without this I'm priced out of two bedroom units.
I suspect you could create some new mortgage instrument that allows groups of friends to buy a house together since now we typically just do this via renting and splitting the cost for individual rooms (though I hesitate to suggest this since it would ultimately drive up prices even higher). It's also hard to find people willing to risk this, but I think a standard contract structure could go a long way to reducing the social risk.
though I hesitate to suggest this since it would ultimately drive up prices even higher
I went to one open house in SF and the top floor was a nicely updated if small house. The basement/garage? The owner had put up walls to create 6 rooms and 2 bathrooms. The rooms were maybe 10'x10'? Apparently they rented them out to help with the mortgage. You could probably get $500-700/month for each or $3000-3600 for all six?
And that's one reason why parking is an absolute mess in SF even if you get away from the city center. A lot of houses have one or more in-laws (many illegal). And no place to park the car in the garage!
You can absolutely get a joint mortgage with a friend: I did. The real challenge is finding someone you want to go in on a long-term coliving arrangement with, agree with on how to handle home maintenance and the like, and trust not to try to screw you over.
I think I'd be happy with a 1BR in someplace like SOMA where you can walk to everything you need. Conversely I'm not sure I'd want a long commute (across bay bridge, down South Bay, or in Marin) even if I could have a sweet house.
Preface: I am far from an apple person. Android phone(pixel), chromebook, linux desktop. But your airpods are flawed. I use airpods daily and I've never had complaints. A bunch of co-workers use them and there's never issues.
I've had volume issues with the AirPods on my android (Pixel 2). They were so quiet that I could barely hear anything at full volume over normal street noise walking around in the city. I ended up selling them. This was over a year ago so maybe things are better now somehow.
They also apparently pair/connect way more seamlessly with an iphone but I didn't have any major issues with this.
I'm a pagerduty user and I've met a bunch of their people. Their service is top notch and their people are really cool, knowledge folks. https://response.pagerduty.com/ is a _MUST_ read for anyone remotely near operations or support.
The people not getting paid mostly don't have enough political power to matter. If the airports start going offline politicians are going to very quickly hear from the constituents they actually care about.
