gw98

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by gw98 4y ago
Um, no.
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by gw98 4y ago
Oh completely agree. But the philosophy is spot on. I've applied it to many problems over the years successfully outside the domain of Unix. The reality is however less than ideal.
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by gw98 4y ago
I'm well aware of how Emacs works. mg probaly fits better. It's just an editor. One small component.
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by gw98 4y ago
Indeed. But it's a nested abstraction.
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by gw98 4y ago
I inherited one of these once. Someone had got half way through migrating it to Pegasus on NT and given up. Just as I got the whole damn thing in reasonable shape the bastards hired some Lotus consultants and replaced it with Lotus Notes.
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by gw98 4y ago
Completely agree with this. Unix is centred around composing lots of individual tools that do one job well. Emacs is the antithesis of this. It's closer to Visual Studio. Honestly in the 30 years I've been using Unixes I have neve
97.
by gw98 4y ago
Seen that. Currently living it. Honestly it has pretty much destroyed our business and customer relations looking after the pile of steaming shit that remains.
98.
by gw98 4y ago
Fire the astronaut architect immediately. Seriously. I couldn't fathom why the hell you'd migrate an existing application to this other than because the guy is a one trick pony who drank all the sales kool aid from cloud vendor of
99.
by gw98 4y ago
Crikey sci.electronics.design is a mess now (was active over 20 years ago on it).
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by gw98 4y ago
Yeah there's a relatively ancient female crash test dummy in the Science Museum in London. Photo I took. These folks have seen some shit in their time: https://imgur.com/TsEtUAx
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by gw98 4y ago
I have solved this by refusing to use anything involving node or npm. We had one project kick off with that and it was a lesson in supply chain attacks within a week.
102.
by gw98 4y ago
I get the feeling they don't like their dystopian hell holes compared to dystopian hell holes.
103.
by gw98 4y ago
I think it's more that 80% of the work is unnecessary. There is so much waste in software engineering it's embarrassing.
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by gw98 4y ago
Not even slightly jealous. The guy purports to be solving the greatest problems humanity has in some kind of altruistic way. But really he’s built a company selling luxury electric cars to the top 5% which allow us to carry on our bad behav
105.
by gw98 4y ago
I can assure you my disdain spans more than just Musk.
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by gw98 4y ago
I would probably take the job and proceed to do fuck all until they fired me again. A company tried to get me to come back and do handover after terminating a contract in breach a few years back. Agreement was a month. I did nothing for the
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by gw98 4y ago
How it looked in his head: Swoop in to the sounds of Jan Hammer’s Crocketts Theme with his Tesla staff entourage, you’re fired you’re fired, sit down, hack the planet, job done, planet bows before him, free speech restored. How it turned ou
108.
by gw98 4y ago
This is why I get rid of it the moment AppleCare is gone. I want someone else to handle the risk of it turning into a brick.
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by gw98 4y ago
Both actually. I replace hardware the moment the AppleCare runs out. I also tend to track near or at the latest versions of macOS. I factor in the cost on a monthly cost basis.
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by gw98 4y ago
Got to be honest I rarely get any issues with macOS for a couple of years now. The only notable one I remember was the date selection in reminders on 12.6 stopped working and that was fixed in 12.6.1. Workaround was to manually key it in. Y
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by gw98 4y ago
It's the eventual consistency nature of the problem. You have to check and you can't guarantee. Don't expect the clients to work properly either. Edge notoriously started uploading zero byte files when already open in MS offi
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by gw98 4y ago
You know it's bad when cPanel is a less painful solution :)
113.
by gw98 4y ago
I've done contract work for a couple of large enterprises. It's amazing how many AWS accounts are just floating around out there on a corp credit card that no one knows who added it and when it's going to expire.
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by gw98 4y ago
Nope! Edit: not strictly true. I know JavaScript quite well but I wish to have nothing whatsoever to do with it and the ecosystem around it due to a number of reasons I would have to write a whole essay on.
115.
by gw98 4y ago
We don’t know typescript. So we’d have to learn that first.
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by gw98 4y ago
Can't do that. The clients own the S3 buckets not us. The whole idea we had was stupid.
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by gw98 4y ago
We get our customers to upload to S3 directly so we don't have to handle their ingress traffic through our infra. Problems involve mostly when the client cocks up as it's near impossible to distinguish between broken files and goo
118.
by gw98 4y ago
It's even worse. We use presigned URLs (from the SDK) and S3 for file uploads. That's one fresh hell you don't want to get involved with. One of those seemed like a good idea at the time things...
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by gw98 4y ago
Yep. Really these days I want to solve the problem and go home, not remember where the poo I stepped in last time I had to solve it was.
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by gw98 4y ago
Yes. CDK is just another way of expressing the same things as terraform and cloudfront but using a framework which is opaque. Plus it's slow as fuck, buggy and difficult to debug when it goes wrong. Every attempt keeps trying to solve

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