Can we have more Sigrid? Hell yes we can!

I like how obviously enthused Corden was about her performance, as she was great. Would love to see her live.

Fun:

She has more personality and charisma than most small countries. And she reminds me of someone I knew a long time ago.

I don’t fit in any social group. Partly because I don’t want to, partly because I am a huge introvert, and partly because in general the more I get to know someone, the less I like them.

This is only not true of a few people, and they know who they are.

I think often that I want a larger social group, but the simple fact is that I couldn’t tolerate it in reality.

Elizabeth Olsen Calls Out Empire Magazine for Photoshopping Her Face on Cover: ‘Does This Look Like Me?’

What’s weird about this one and most of those Photoshop jobs is that Olsen actually looks much, much worse in the photoshopped version. I thought the idea was to make people look more attractive? Olsen not only doesn’t look like herself, she looks gaunt and pinched, like she just tasted some really bad kimchi or something.

There was one magazine in the grocery store with Alicia Vikander on the cover. She’d been so photoshopped she was barely recognizable. Why would you do this to anyone, but particularly her? She’s already very beautiful with no makeup. You’re not improving her by making her look any different because part of what is appealing about people is their particularity and even their flaws, not some android version of themselves (very appropriate for Vikander).

Elizabeth Olsen herself is kind of unusual looking, and that’s part of what makes her interesting. That’s one of the reasons why she was picked to play the Scarlet Witch, after all. It doesn’t hurt that she’s actually a pretty good actress, too.

(Here’s another terrible photoshop job, this time with men.)

I’ve now got tools in my browser that block the blocker blockers. Shit is getting meta, ya’ll.

Incidentally, these tools will not work in the new Firefox — by design. Can’t “redefine ad delivery” or whatever bullshit Mozilla is planning if you allow such a high level of control.

Timed some tasks in the old and new (Quantum) Firefox that I routinely do tonight, achieving each task the fastest way I can find in both browsers.

1) Saving a bunch of photos of some bugs I wanted to keep from a webpage for reference and putting them in the proper directories.

Old Firefox: Less than a second

New Firefox: Seventeen minutes

2) Organizing Tabs (including closing certain tabs and not others, selective bookmarking without navigating to tab, etc).

Old Firefox: Five minutes for about two dozen tabs

New Firefox: Infinite, as it’s not possible

3) Switch Proxies between VPNs

Old Firefox: Less than a second

New Firefox: Infinite, as it’s not possible

As I was writing this, I realized timing anything else was pointless as most of the things I want to do are simply no longer possible at all in the new Firefox.

Fuck Mozilla and fuck the Firefox developers!

Mentoring doesn't mean treating an intern like a slave or assistant. You want them to succeed beyond you and not be a slightly lesser version of you. https://t.co/bKRJnxjsFV

— Amanda Rousseau (@malwareunicorn) March 16, 2018

Yep! The intern I was mentoring thought she wasn’t good enough to get a job at Google. I urged her and frankly needled her to just apply after her hopes of being hired permanently at her internship were dashed.

Readers, she now works at Google.

I only wish I had been as smart and as capable as she is when I was 22. Go go go!

This is a difficult but fun question. It depends on what level one would want a replacement to function. If merely adequate, for my current job I think I could train a replacement of above-average intelligence in 8 years of 8-10 hour days, five day a week. However, that is only to to do the very bare minimum of the role as it is written on paper and as management understands it, not what I actually do.

I don’t think anyone not of above-average intelligence has any real hope of performing my current role so I won’t consider that hypothetical person at all, but to do what I actually do day to day in the role (which is far and above what most people could do, or would be expected to do), I’d say it’d take 15 years minimum to train my replacement — more likely 20 unless they were much smarter than I am. I say none of that to glorify myself, but there was a reason I was hand-picked for the job, honestly.

One of those reasons is that in my current role, not only do I have to understand and to perform extremely technically complex tasks in a wide variety of domains and knowledge areas, but I have to be able to discuss this directly with customers on a daily basis. These customers are often completely non-technical and have little to no understanding of what they need for their own environments or how anything in my domain works.

In other words, not only do I need high-end tech skills, I need better-than-average people skills. In IT, this combination is as rare as a white peacock.

It’s funny, two things that people on either side of the divide told me were worthless — obsession with computers and people skills — turned out to be extremely, extremely valuable when combined. Separately, you can make a little money with either one. Combine those, and you can do a whole lot better.

Well, all that discursion aside, if I were to get a fresh and ready person of above-average intelligence and with ok people skills, I think I could have them doing my job at my level and with my documented and undocumented responsibilities in 15 years.