Stop Closing Your iPhone’s Background Apps.

LOL. As a commenter points out, this article is full of bad advice. My guess is that Gizmodo is being paid by app makers to peddle this sort of propaganda, since apps do run persistently in the background and this does use resources (and does cause issues).

After all, you can’t steal data if the app ain’t running in the background. And on my phone, the battery definitely lasts longer if I shut down all background apps. Since stealin’ data is the entire goal now, of course app makers promulgate bogus crapola like this. Don’t buy into it. All lies.

Found out I’m being paid significantly less than the new grad hires.

In general, with rare exception, the only way to get a large raise is to jump jobs. Most companies budget very little for raises, but do budget at market for new hires. It’s moronic but that’s the way it is.

With one exception which I negotiated hard for (and they realized they’d’ve had to hire 3-4 people to replace me), the only time I’ve gotten really large raise is going to work somewhere else. By going elsewhere every 3-4 years, I’ve often gotten 30%-80% raises. If I’d stayed, I would’ve gotten 3%-5% raises. Loyalty is worth absolutely fucking nothing.

I like where I work now, but if I were to leave I could easily make 20%-40% more. Yes, even in this relatively bad market. That’s because I have an unusual combination of skills, certs, and I interview extremely well. Also, I don’t actually need to work. I keep that all in my back pocket at all times if I need it. If I get too frustrated, I go. You’re lucky to have me, not the other way around.

If that sounds arrogant…well, that’s why I get paid big $$ and others tend not to (even in my same field). But you have to be able to walk the walk. And I don’t just walk — I strut.

Sometimes, the best way to clarify things is to put them in economic terms. I was thinking again today about how much someone would have to pay me to actively use Facebook.

I think I’d do it for $20,000 a month. That’s enough where I could hold my nose and get it done.

I spent 4 months making a video about the crazy scale of Black Holes using VFX.

Too bad half the science and contentions are either wrong or dubious — in a large black hole, for instance, spaghettification would not occur nearly instantly. In fact, in a large enough black hole it might occur so far in the future that it’s meaningless to even discuss.

The event horizon of a black hole is not a physical barrier. It’s a real thing in the sense that it’s the limit of where light can escape, and where space becomes time-like and conversely, time becomes space-like. That, in layman’s terms, means that once you pass the EH the only direction you can move is toward the singularity no matter how fast you go. However, from the perspective of someone falling into a very large black hole, nothing changes. It’s only for the external observer — the one not falling in — that something changes.

In fact, it’s theoretically possible to enter an extremely large black hole and not realize it — that is, until you attempt to leave and the more energy you expend, the more quickly your course diverts to the singularity at the center as all space is curved toward it. Or to put in a very casual terms, in a black hole, all roads lead to the singularity.

Should’ve done more research. This stuff actually is not that hard.

The first ten on today’s playlist:

That bass! Jesus Christ.

The first ten on today’s playlist:

Cute song, but she’s a surfer! Get her on some damn waves if you’re gonna make a video (I know that’s a much harder filming setup…but just do it).

I could listen to Katie and her beautiful Alabama accent all damn day. This is better than the studio version. So, so good.

Well that’s too fun.

Great performance.

Maybe there is a scam I’d fall for. Probably involving pizza. But that the woman below fell for that is fucking ludicrous. There is so much clown-level shit that the government never does, that never, ever happens, that should’ve been completely obviously wrong — and she went right along with it. Can people not think? Can people not consider for once second how ridiculous what scammers are asking sounds?

How can she be a financial journalist and fall for this? And how can she not know how investigations are conducted, how police and federal agents actually contact you (hint: you’re never told you’re being investigated; they just show up and arrest or serve your ass), or that no one from the government asks you for fucking money, especially in cash or gift cards?

That scam has so many red flags it looks like a mayday parade in China. It boggles the mind how little people think.

How I Fell for an Amazon Scam Call and Handed Over $50,000.

Christ, how do people fall for this shit? Someone calls me up and threatens me, I’m gonna make it my life’s missions to hunt them down and put them in the ground, not hand over $50K to them. I just fundamentally cannot understand.

Having a prickly personality really pays off in the modern era.