AllegedAlec

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by AllegedAlec 1y ago
Maybe it's just because both our industry as well as the internet always going to the extrema, but I'd love to see a nuanced take on the subject at some point. My experience so far is middling; I found that it can be extremely he
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by AllegedAlec 1y ago
Given that Microsoft always decided to Will Not Fix issues because they went "oh this thing is throwing errors? Just ignore them". THey're numbskulls that are high on their own farts just as much as their managers. They des
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by AllegedAlec 1y ago
> Open Source is going to be the future. This is the fucking developer equivalent of "fusion energy is a decade away"
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by AllegedAlec 1y ago
With a bit more focus you might not have missed OP's point
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by AllegedAlec 2y ago
David Snowden does/did a lot of talks about these, how hard rules break catastrophically and you need systems of constraints with flexible rules which have rules baked in about when and how you can break the rules. Worth looking up the
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by AllegedAlec 2y ago
> Comments is a self-admission you failed to write readable code, and you can fix your failure by refactoring code into self-descriptive member functions # This is not the way I wanted to do this, but due to bug #12345 in dependency [URL
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by AllegedAlec 2y ago
CPI is absolute bullshit. They silently keep adjusting the way they measure it and by some profound convience to them the adjustments always end up with a lower inflation. Butter's now nearly twice as expensive. I'm paying twice a
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by AllegedAlec 2y ago
But the economy is doing so well guys, don't worry about the real inflation numbers being nearly 40-50% in the last 5 years or so. Lines go up, things good.
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by AllegedAlec 2y ago
Purportedly the Netherlands, but the research was badly performed. KNOWN PFAS contamination was around heavy industry, and yeah, if you live near those regions, maybe don't. Otherwise proceed with scepticism and/or some testing.
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by AllegedAlec 2y ago
> - Can’t eat the eggs This isn’t necessarily a chicken problem but mostly a problem with chemical industry. We’ve had a lot of PFOA/PFAS contamination and public health advise says to not eat eggs from backyard chickens The researc
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by AllegedAlec 2y ago
It is in vogue to be horrible to men as a sex because of some deluded belief that we have power and privilege over women. It's also something you mostly see, incidentally, in the terminally online. People with actual lives and life exp
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by AllegedAlec 2y ago
> How does she progress in two short paragraphs from dissing her ex-husband to dissing an entire gender, and turns that into both a complaint about relationships and the workplace, not just for her but for most working women? Because it&
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by AllegedAlec 2y ago
Before reading: making the text highlight colour the same as the background is a choice.
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by AllegedAlec 2y ago
Chinese fishing boats specifically.
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by AllegedAlec 2y ago
As someone working for defense it's hilarious how civilians use this kind of wording without any real understanding of what it means. The constant use of the term in the Phoenix Project bugs the hell out of me too. It's yet anothe
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by AllegedAlec 2y ago
God I hate programmers so much. "Hurdurdur it's not my fault. The end users are wrong. We shouldn't have to spend time creating an interface and UX that actually works as expected" Absolute fucking retards. We make tools
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by AllegedAlec 2y ago
Honestly this seems like good advice regardless of strikes.
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by AllegedAlec 2y ago
"All people to the right of my position are inhumane" lel
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by AllegedAlec 2y ago
They're currently more succesful in fucking up Europe than during their French camping trip in 1939.
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by AllegedAlec 2y ago
For those coming here in the future: - Turn off wifi immediately on boot, or go into safe mode and do it there - Turn off the setting Settings > Network & internet > wifi > turn on wifi automatically (which is an insane one to
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5th May 2024 Android update boot looping Nokia g20(old.reddit.com)
1 points by AllegedAlec 2y ago|2 comments
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by AllegedAlec 2y ago
Ran into this myself yesterday. Seems like this is just all G20s being affected. Posting here so that people who haven't done the update yet can avoid it.
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by AllegedAlec 2y ago
Can you imagine saying to your product owner or whatever "oh yeah we're not gonna do anything new. We'll spend the next year or so rebuilding this service because the code looks ugly."
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by AllegedAlec 2y ago
I currently develop applications which are used on machines with very spotty connections and speeds which are still calculated in Baud. We have to hand-write compression protocols to optimize for our use. Any updates/installs over netw
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by AllegedAlec 2y ago
To call any software monkey an engineer is laughable. Engineers are generally responsible for a system catastrophically failing. In IT it's seen as a natural consequence of progression. It'll take another 3-5 generations before
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by AllegedAlec 2y ago
> What seems like an infeasible solution? The article doesn't describe the author's "particular approach". The entire idea of "well let's rebuild this before it ever gets bad". That only works in the
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by AllegedAlec 2y ago
> bad engineering culture If 99% of projects end up in a way that's not a consequence of a bad engineering culture.
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by AllegedAlec 2y ago
> Even systems with 15 years of legacy and eons of manhours behind them get replaced. These projects do not always succeed but I've seen it happen. Yes. It can happen. If you can't do it with a 99.9% succes rate you cannot ma
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by AllegedAlec 2y ago
> In my career, I have taken a particular approach based on building new systems from scratch (before they succumb to the three laws), but this is a lot harder than it sounds This seems like an infeasible solution in most if not all real
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by AllegedAlec 2y ago
https://xkcd.com/1831/

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