Twirrim

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by Twirrim 2y ago
> Because if you under-provisioned stuff for your database, it might start going slow, and it would actually lag the web interface you would use to increase the resources! What the ever loving heck... seriously?! Why wouldn't this
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by Twirrim 2y ago
At one stage pre-pandemic, someone with tongue firmly in cheek, produced a wiki page with details of all the meals you could make with the office kitchen snacks and equipment. I think that eventually got removed, because the snacks changed
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by Twirrim 2y ago
I found that gap annoying, when they finally did address it it was such a hand wavey thing that doesn't actually say it's bad for you. We know particles are being produced, because smell doesn't come from nowhere, so in some
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by Twirrim 2y ago
The JVM doesn't attempt to compile a method until a method has reached 10,000 executions. So it's extremely likely your code ran the entire time in interpreted mode. Even if a method did get flagged as hot, you've then got t
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by Twirrim 2y ago
People can write bad code in any language
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by Twirrim 2y ago
I had similar experience in the UK. Maybe 3-4 outages in the first nearly 30 years of my life. Moved to the states and even living in the outskirts of Seattle I used to get multiple outages in a year . The funny thing is, every time peop
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by Twirrim 2y ago
I'm so glad this is making its way in to Go properly now, and sort of baffled that this wasn't treated as a priority sooner by Google, given that they're operating within FIPS environments.
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by Twirrim 2y ago
You're welcome to your opinions, I don't stop engineers I'm working with from having opinions about the code formatting. It's still going to be formatted by the opinionated formatter. Having one gets us into the "W
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by Twirrim 2y ago
I've grown to be a big fan of opinionated linters like gofmt, rustfmt, black etc. They avoid so much time spent disagreeing about code formatting and personal preferences. Instead engineers can do mutual grumbling sessions about weird
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by Twirrim 2y ago
One job I had, we got handed a code base with at least 4 different reinventions of an ORM in it. It became clear that each developer who'd worked on the code had written their own helpers to avoid direct SQL. It took a fair bit of per
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by Twirrim 2y ago
A whole bunch of ATC staff just left because the new contracts they got offered reduced pay. https://www.fastcompany.com/91270064/a-bay-area-airport-near...
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by Twirrim 2y ago
Sure wish it meant more than it does. Sorry that "Front page of the NYT" phrase is one I've been using since back when everyone would have expected it to be the death of a company!
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by Twirrim 2y ago
> I would say most organizations are completely devoid of that type of supervision and oversight. It's unfortunately far too counter to "move fast and break stuff" that startup space tends to be enamored of, because they
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by Twirrim 2y ago
> First, the Apple Watch (like all Apple products) is too much device for a kid. It ships with so many shiny features and apps and notifications. It feels like a bit of an under-served market. T-mobile has a smart watch that you can lo
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by Twirrim 2y ago
> Not everything changes though - gold plating thickness is measured by the micro-inch Considering how much manufacturing and science etc. has fully migrated to metric, even in the US, this seems bizarre to me.
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by Twirrim 2y ago
This is also something that keeps affecting "smart" software engineers with projects, that don't realise they've got misconfigured S3 buckets, or have Firebase or Mongodb etc. wide open to the world. We've seen so
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by Twirrim 2y ago
I had the OG pebble, which I only stopped using due to suffering the screen corruption bug that plagued a small percentage of the original models. Other than that it was smooth as silk. It'd last close on a month on a single charge.
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by Twirrim 2y ago
Oh this is awesome news. The Pebble was by far the best smartwatch I've ever used. No quirks, just always reliable. The hard work shone through with how quirk free it was.
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by Twirrim 2y ago
This is such a big loss. Folks may also know him as "voidspace". He was one of the creators of the mock library for python, as well as being part of the core dev team at times. I never met him him in person, but for a good while r
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by Twirrim 2y ago
Ours are absolutely atrocious. I forgot just how bad it got until they did a big office move a couple of months ago. Previous to that I'd been way out on the edge with large windows behind me (with some shading film on them). My move
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by Twirrim 2y ago
I was getting nostalgic and thinking VistaPro, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VistaPro . Spent far too many hours than I can think of, rendering landscapes in it.
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by Twirrim 2y ago
If we block on the basis that previous people didn't have something and that it would be unfair to them we would literally never make any progress in this world. Instead of starting a new better world, we'll just stick with the ol
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by Twirrim 2y ago
The military project is/was JWCC, TS/SCI+ classified, air gapped clouds. Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Oracle etc all have existing contracts with the DoD covering such work (and getting the contract meant building and running a clo
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by Twirrim 2y ago
> For me, the main issue is that every time I voice the idea about building something I get bombarded with premature growth and commercialization concerns instead of excitement about how to solve the problem. I think this is endemic - th
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by Twirrim 2y ago
Most (all?) of the Euro Zone has "free" Healthcare, so it's not just that. (I put free in quotes to avoid any reply guy "itself not actually free" blah, blah, blah)
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by Twirrim 2y ago
I've spoken to a few folks in middle management there, and some senior engineers, and it's exactly this story. So far as they can figure there aren't many middle managers actually pushing for this. It's all senior leader
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by Twirrim 2y ago
From working at a cloud, and speaking with capacity folks regularly when I was in certain roles, the supply chain strikes me as one of the biggest nightmares. Even at scale when vendors really, really want (or want to keep) your business.
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by Twirrim 2y ago
Agreed. The web driven enshittification of everything continues. It doesn't have to be this way. It really doesn't. If what you're using makes it this way, maybe stop using it? Stop drinking the kool-aid, get over your su
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by Twirrim 2y ago
Broadwell is gonna broadwell. I won't ever trust their NICs ever again. They've been way too much pain with them both personally and professionally. Their firmware is crap quality, and their bugs are just absolutely astoundingly
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by Twirrim 2y ago
I loved my N810, but Maemo had so many little issues all over the place, it was reaching "Death by a thousand papercuts" territory. iPhone did what Apple used to do so well, which was obsess about the user experience.

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