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901.
by elric 2y ago
Intel being on life support is a bit of a stretch. They are investing an awful lot of money, and it's going to take time for those investments to pay off. I worry more about their inept handling of recent CPU bugs than I do about their
902.
by elric 2y ago
The online dating space (I use the term liberally) is a huge fucking mess. There's only 2 or 3 companies with an offering that is anywhere near useful, and they're either evil, incompetent, or both. Maybe it's time for an ope
903.
by elric 2y ago
I couldn't agree more. This is essentially a solved problem, we just choose not to implement the solution. To everyone's detriment.
904.
by elric 2y ago
I guess we as a species (and sci-fi writers) underestimate the banality of evil and its cumulative effect. Nearly 25 years ago, I ran a couple of banner ads on my website to help pay for the hosting costs. Back then it didn't cross my
905.
by elric 2y ago
Also depends on how old you are ... if you're 80, a grandparent born in 1890 isn't particularly impressive.
906.
by elric 2y ago
Those are calles "buses". Though trams can be even better.
907.
by elric 2y ago
By the time Alien came out, corporate evil was certainly well established. Everything on the space ship had Weyland branding, and the corporation treating its employees as expendable was par for the course. I'm struggling to come up wi
908.
by elric 2y ago
Just yesterday I tried to register for a service using one of my own domain names with self hosted email. The confirmation mail arrived, but as soon as I clickes the link I was told that my email address wasn't allowed..... Not sure wh
909.
by elric 2y ago
I don't remember who said it, but "AI generated code turns every developer into a legacy code maintainer". It's pithy and a bit of an exaggeration, but there's a grain of truth in there that resonates with me.
910.
by elric 2y ago
> For me DevOps/DevSecOps is reaction movement against toxic turf wars and silos of functions from ambitious people Well the DevOps grandfathers (sorry, Patrick & Kris, but you're both grey now) certainly wanted to tear dow
911.
by elric 2y ago
People who complain about verbosity and boilerplate in Java generally fall in 1 of 2 categories: people who haven't used Java for anything non-trivial in a very long time, or people who are bad at designing abstractions. Less code can
912.
by elric 2y ago
Even after all these years, Tomcat is still incredibly solid, so thanks for that :-) Sometimes I do worry about the long term survival of the ASF. Many projects are largely supported by 1 person. A lot of projects are mostly abandoned (but
913.
by elric 2y ago
Interesting, thanks, I was unaware of that distinction.
914.
by elric 2y ago
Similar experiences with the reMarkable 1. The USB interface really bugs me. It's nice for annotating and highlighting PDFs, but pretty bad for reading. Great for taking notes, but awful at extracting them, unless you get an expensive
915.
by elric 2y ago
I suspect many larger companies simply pay developers to contribute features. This is orders of magnitude easier than trying to make a donation as a corporation without getting an invoice in return.
916.
by elric 2y ago
Tangent: I've never seen botched spelled with dg before. Is this a local spelling variation? Or is my brain on the fritz? English, the gift that keeps on giving.
917.
by elric 2y ago
I had untreated sleep apnea for years, which presented in two ways: snoring, and something that looked an awful lot like panic attacks. Every doctor I saw kept insisting that everything was fine, everything was healthy, every test came back
918.
by elric 2y ago
I've worn out more USB-C earphones in the 2 years since I've been forced to use them, than I have 3.5mm earphones in the 30+ years since I first got a Sony Walkman. The connectors and wires are so stupidly fragile. They're bu
919.
by elric 2y ago
I cancelled my IEEE membership years ago. I enjoyed their magazines and journals, but remember being frustrated at the time with their pricing. After I cancelled, they became aggressively spammy, and they are now on my shitlist. This Presid
920.
by elric 2y ago
I imagine this is popular in the same way Brexit was: only when the question is worded in a way that ignores all the possible negative outcomes. Something about having a cake and eating it...
921.
by elric 2y ago
I imagine that anyone who is serious about anything will end up building/designing some of their own tools. Maybe a custom pedal (or pedal board) for a guitarist, a custom printer for a 3D-printing diehard, or simply designing the tool
922.
by elric 2y ago
It really isn't. Most sensors suck. The reliable ones (i.e. the ones used in sleep labs) are uncomfortably tight (because they need to stay on to give useful readings). Most sensors stop being reliable as soon as any movement is involv
923.
by elric 2y ago
This is pretty cool, and the price (390USD) isn't too bad. Might be useful for self-monitoring of my sleep apnea treatment (all sleep tracking that isn't an EEG is essentially unreliable). Almost tempted to buy one, but unclear wh
924.
by elric 2y ago
The Passionate Programmer is still high up in my list. It's more about ways to get better at software engineering, and less about specific tools or technologies. Depending on the tech stack you're interested in, I would also stron
925.
by elric 2y ago
"Clean code", when not applied judiciously, tends to result in overly complex code with a lot of repetition. This may be desirable when very strict decoupling is needed in complex projects, but in many projects it makes things wor
926.
by elric 2y ago
I'm not surprised, but I am a little disappointed. Some random tech fund gives a small amount of money to a project that can put it to good use, and even plans specific useful things with said money, and then some ninnies come along to
927.
by elric 2y ago
I did consider filter addons, but sadly my house is too small, fitting the unit was already a pretty big challenge.
928.
by elric 2y ago
The majority of fraud comes from rooted devices? Citation needed. I suspect the majority of fraud comes from users doing silly things without paying attention, like wiring that money the CEO asked them over text. Or from running hopelessly
929.
by elric 2y ago
Nokia was able to keep the team, AFAIR Nokia kicked them out (and Nvidia hired a bunch of them). I tried Sailfish for a while, but it got progressively slower and I vaguely remember some weird Russian involvement?
930.
by elric 2y ago
Good window management is a niche skill (on the user side). I often see "normies" waste so much time tabbing between windows or turning their heads between monitors or whatnot. When I want stuff side by side, I press a hotkey to a

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