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Robᵇᵉᵗᵒ Graham
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Articles like this demonstrate why the left denies basic science. Shell couldn't have "known" 40 years ago because the science was uncertain 40 years ago. They could only have suspected.
Science is simply about knowing the truth, but measuring confidence in the truth. Our confidence in anthropogenic warming is higher these days than it was 40 years ago.
Pretending that people 40 years ago could have, or should have, had the same confidence they have today is religion, not science.
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So I'm writing this decreasingly short guide to crypto (it's getting longer and longer). How can I use 'openssl' on the command-line to encrypt a message? Here's the basic way, but I have questions.
Encryption isn't a matter of simply using a 'key' and an 'algorithm'. We also really need an 'IV/nonce' as well as some sort of integrity check, like AES128-GCM instead of just AES128. Is that something I can do on the command-line?
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1/ Many people claim "10x engineers" don't exist. Of course they do. The problem is that most engineers think they are 10x, or 5x, or 2x, when they aren't. That annoys everyone around them.
2/ Everybody wants to be measured according to their strengths. Thus, they claim "I write 2x the amount of code therefore I'm a 2x engineer". But their coworkers recognize this engineer's code is half (0.5x) the quality, that others have to spend their valuable time fixing.
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1/ My timeline is full of this "10x engineer" tweet, mostly hate directed at it. As a 10x engineer, I thought I'd write some comments.

The first is "how to spot a 10x engineer". It's not anything on that list. 10x engineers are as diverse as any other kind of engineer.
2/ How you spot a "10x engineer" is whether their contribution to the organization is 10x the lowest engineers. Each does this differently. Some are hermits working in a darkened office producing code. Others are outgoing team leaders spending most of their time mentoring others.
3/ There are certainly a large number of charlatans or negative-x engineers, who think of themselves as massive producers, but who may in fact have negative contribution to the team.
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