Anti-depressants.

Your comment is painful to read.

I’d probably turn off the power first especially if I didn’t already know what was behind it and whether it is properly grounded.

They’re not more effective. They might assist with speed of absorption but that’s it.

Never trust the network in any circumstance. If you start from that basis then life becomes easier.

Google has a good approach to this: https://cloud.google.com/beyondcorp

EDIT:

I’d like to add a tangential rant about companies still using shit like IP AllowLists and VPNs. They’re just implementing eggshell security.

I actually disagree. I only know a little of Crowdstrike internals but they’re a company that is trying to do the whole DevOps/agile bullshit the right way. Unfortunately they’ve undermined the practice for the rest of us working for dinosaurs trying to catch up.

Crowdstrike’s problem wasn’t a quality escape; that’ll always happen eventually. Their problem was with their rollout processes.

There shouldn’t have been a circumstance where the same code got delivered worldwide in the course of a day. If you were sane you’d canary it at first and exponentially increase rollout from thereon. Any initial error should have meant a halt in further deployments.

Canary isn’t the only way to solve it, by the way. Just an easy fix in this case.

Unfortunately what is likely to happen is that they’ll find the poor engineer that made the commit that led to this and fire them as a scapegoat, instead of inspecting the culture and processes that allowed it to happen and fixing those.

People fuck up and make mistakes. If you don’t expect that in your business you’re doing it wrong. This is not to say you shouldn’t trust people; if they work at your company you should assume they are competent and have good intent. The guard rails are there to prevent mistakes, not bad/incompetent actors. It just so happens they often catch the latter.

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At the cost of leg room.

This book helped me out significantly:

https://www.saltfatacidheat.com/

I used Netscape “back in the day”. With some interim transition attempts including the likes of Opera, I eventually switched to Chrome because it was genuinely more featureful and faster.

I was a happy Chrome user until they decided to deprecate manifest V2 and fuck up my ad blocker, at which point I switched to Firefox and haven’t looked back.

Everything in this industry is circular I guess.

https://youtu.be/FiDY2nXVLZ0?si=LYjbmf5sgeUlIFNM

I don’t see any fundamental difference in this context. A group of individuals pay into a communal fund and access it when in need.

Some take more than others, but everyone has a safety net to access.

You could argue about premiums and co-pays but the model is the same. The only difference is whether it is taken out of taxes or paid directly.

I apologise if we are approaching this from different viewpoints and I am not understanding properly.

Insurance is a scam

I’m assuming you’re in the US.

Do non profit or cooperative insurance companies exist? They would seem like a less evil option if available.

I’ll just go cancel my universal health care now.

If the cast iron is well seasoned you’re fine.

The acid in the tomato will attack the coating you’ve developed but if you use it and season it regularly there is nothing to worry about.

The great thing about cast iron is even if you “wreck it” it’s pretty much always possible to fix.

As other comments have alluded to, a sharpening stone is a far better investment and only takes a half hour to learn.

Even if you do a bad job it’ll likely be a better result and better for your knives. Most sharpeners absolutely destroy knives and take far too much material off.

1000 grit is a good place to start.