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by donatj 8mo ago
I genuinely enjoyed it and do recommend. As another commenter mentioned, Lee Pace's performance is stand out. My only real critique is that it has the same problem as Mr. Robot. The writers and script are clearly very tech-literate, b
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by donatj 8mo ago
I've been doing this webdev things too long. Many of these "old" examples are news to me.
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by donatj 8mo ago
I've worked in the software industry for just over twenty years now. In my experience basically without question the most productive people I have known have had the messiest most chaotic setups online and offline. Hundreds of windows
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by donatj 8mo ago
Oh really? Hah, you are the reason I've known about Swatch Internet Time for the last 20+ years. I read the PHP docs and wondered "What in the heck is that?" before Googling it.
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by donatj 8mo ago
Fun fact, PHP has built in support for Swatch Internet Time with it's "B" format token. https://www.php.net/manual/en/datetime.format.php
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by donatj 8mo ago
It looks very much like something out of the Alien universe. I kind of love it.
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by donatj 8mo ago
A homebrew tap is really a lateral move from a safety perspective and still usually invoked by pasting into the command line.
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by donatj 8mo ago
This is my general experience with IT. In a small company they are genuinely there to help you get your work done. In a big company the relationship becomes adversarial. They're no longer there to help people get work done, they exist
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by donatj 8mo ago
And speak of the devil. Apparently the next round of layoffs had already started when I posted this, unbeknownst to me.
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by donatj 8mo ago
My general experience with Cherry style mechanical key switches is disappointment. In my almost 40 years of computing they are the only type of key switch that have consistently given me issue. I've owned at least five boards at this p
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by donatj 8mo ago
Spoken like someone who doesn't have their company measuring their AI usage and regularly laying people off.
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by donatj 8mo ago
The new Alexa is always cracking jokes about things I ask her. Sometimes pretty complex or off the wall jokes. They're rarely funny but usually competent, unlike other AIs in my experience. I wonder how much work went into that. That s
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by donatj 8mo ago
Let's say in theory the TSA is doing their job and verifying there is nothing dangerous on the plane, it would seem to me then anyone should be allowed to fly. I don't see what we're supposed to even be achieving beyond a war
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by donatj 9mo ago
Exactly. The article kind of circles around the idea that it's bad, but never really lands on why. My experience is with modern annotations, callable and iterable are pretty powerful, convenient, and safe. - https://phpstan.
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by donatj 9mo ago
> process has an unfortunate side effect of crushing innovation unintentionally We've been taken over by PE and forced into a very strict Jira powered "Agile" with time tracking of how long cards are in progress, and all w
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by donatj 9mo ago
My friend was going through a pretty massive depression after his mom passed. He'd been with my wife and I at our house for a number of hours talking through it, and apparently not texting his sisters back. They called in a welfare che
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Amiga Unix (Amix)(amigaunix.com)
140 points by donatj 9mo ago|61 comments
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by donatj 9mo ago
I'm married with children, work from home, and weeks away from my 40s. So yes. Not a big revelation. I have more than a couple nieces and nephews in their late teens/early 20s though and if you ask them, social media is for old pe
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by donatj 9mo ago
Do people under the age of sixty even use traditional social media anymore? Do we have actual stats? I am in my late thirties so surely out of touch, but am friends with people in their mid twenties and frankly I don't know anyone who
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by donatj 9mo ago
As the maintainer of a handful of small projects, what I have seen for better or worse is tickets and pull requests completely dry up. My guess is instead of Googling "library that does X" people are asking AI to solve the problem
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by donatj 9mo ago
My company gave out nice plaques for ten year anniversaries. As my anniversary neared I frankly got really excited to receive mine. My manager started a couple months before myself, and a colleague started a couple months later. We still wo
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by donatj 9mo ago
Well, I'm on macOS, and Canary very much respects the non-Canary specific /Library/Managed Preferences/{username}/com.google.Chrome.plist
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by donatj 9mo ago
Oh, hmm... I must be an asker. I've done a lifetime of code review over the last decade. Let me tell you, the number times I have asked what I assumed were simple yes/no questions like "Would it make sense to do X?" or e
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by donatj 9mo ago
Canary respects the systems MDM rules.
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by donatj 9mo ago
Exactly how we started down this path. We were an open macOS shop acquired by major locked down Windows using corporation. Started with nothing, slowly Jamf -> Intune -> Intense Corporate MDM Controls.
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Ask HN: How locked down are your work machines?
22 points by donatj 9mo ago|25 comments
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by donatj 9mo ago
> The problem is not that dev-owned testing is a flawed idea, but that it is usually poorly planned In our case there was zero plan. One day they just let our entire QA team go. Literally no direction at all on how to deal with not havin
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by donatj 9mo ago
Same general experience. I have seen friends and former coworkers who I know are mediocre devs but good at talking themselves up get placed multiple times this year. I've secured a single interview, company seemed like a great fit. Sys
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by donatj 9mo ago
https://donatstudios.com/ Kind of a collection of rants, tools, and old projects... largely from before GitHub became a thing. My site's getting kind of old and creaky, but I update it from time to time. There's a
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by donatj 9mo ago
I have been self hosting since the late 90s, but I've always just installed everything on Bare metal. I hear more and more about these elaborate Docker setups. What does a setup like this actually look like? Is it just a single docker-

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