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901.
by hinkley 11mo ago
No, Newline was its own division of WB, but during the financial bubble bursting, and shortly after Golden Compass lost $100M they gutted it and drastically reduced their scope of operations. It's still technically its own division but
902.
by hinkley 11mo ago
I think I’m thinking of old school kvms you attach a laptop to instead of VNCing into.
903.
by hinkley 11mo ago
Because WB owns what is left of Newline, that would include LotR and The Hobbit.
904.
by hinkley 11mo ago
I was fortunate to have had a religious crisis before I could code for shit. I was inoculated by that experience and got a booster shot during the DotCom boom. Problem is that not going in for fads gets you labeled as a curmudgeon, rather t
905.
by hinkley 11mo ago
It would be good if it could also scan build output like code coverage and test results. But that’s about all it should do. I keep meaning to write a partially federated CI tool that uses Prometheus for all of its telemetry data but never g
906.
by hinkley 11mo ago
That is secret management.
907.
by hinkley 11mo ago
> injecting signed JWTs How is that not secrets management?
908.
by hinkley 11mo ago
CI is arguable, but how do you intend to do deployments with no secrets?
909.
by hinkley 11mo ago
On the terraform comment, things that change together ship together is a good mantra. If you keep having to make edits in two independent systems every time you want to make one change, something is wrong. If you’re leaving footguns around
910.
by hinkley 11mo ago
I don’t think it’s the cost of making the same fix n times, it’s the cost of missing one, or two. Especially if customers notice first.
911.
by hinkley 11mo ago
I would probably still be working with one of these assholes if I hadn’t gotten laid of. Dude was 40. How tf have you not learned better by now?
912.
by hinkley 11mo ago
They mean the K in KVM could trivially have a keylogger. For the computers attached to that KVM. Audio is for logging for computers not attached to the device in question. Which could be up to and including a whole server room save a coup
913.
by hinkley 11mo ago
Ultrawideband never caught on because it turns out that the speed of light and sound in air is frequency dependent, so you have to know the distance to the target pretty accurately and then skew the signal to send or receive. (Imagine a pha
914.
by hinkley 11mo ago
Microphones and LEDs have been used famously for side channel attacks and also to circumvent air gaps. From a Least Power point of view this is troubling.
915.
by hinkley 11mo ago
Someone last winter was asking for help with large docker images and it came about that it was for AI pipelines. The vast majority of the image was Nvidia binaries. That was wild. Horrifying, really. WTF is going on over there?
916.
by hinkley 11mo ago
Something I only figured out in the ‘10s is that the main tax of code smells is during debugging. Debugging when taken to the level of art is less about sorting all of the possible causes for a problem by likelihood but by ease of validatio
917.
by hinkley 11mo ago
The big pearl of wisdom I took from Larry Wall seemed to be counter to the culture I experienced looking in from the outside. That always confused me a bit about Perl. And that was, paraphrased: make the way you want something to be used be
918.
by hinkley 11mo ago
> if difficulty itself becomes a badge of honour, you've created a trap: anything that makes the system more approachable starts to feel like it's cheapening what you achieved. You become invested in preserving the barriers you
919.
by hinkley 11mo ago
Failure resistant systems end up having a bespoke implementation of a project management workflow built into them and then treating each task like a project to be managed from start to finish, with milestones along the way.
920.
by hinkley 11mo ago
My vehicle before that was the Accord that had the shit transmission that bailed out reliably at 110k miles, so I’m sure I barely noticed. My Accord shat itself at 100,300 miles, in the mountains. Luckily it was noon, a warm day, and I had
921.
by hinkley 11mo ago
We still have two holidays and associated vacations and vacation brain to go. And then the January hangover. Every company that has ignored my following advice has experienced a day for day slip in first quarter scheduling. And that advice
922.
by hinkley 11mo ago
That is not how this usually works. Most of the time QA can tell you exactly how the product works, regardless of what the documentation says. But many of us haven’t seen a QA team in five, ten years.
923.
by hinkley 11mo ago
If ownerless code doesn’t result in discoverability efforts then the whole thing goes off the rails. I won’t remember this block of code because five other people have touched it. So I need to be able to see what has changed and what it tal
924.
by hinkley 11mo ago
Was this one measured and documented rigorously? Well obviously not, because the front fell off. That’s a dead giveaway.
925.
by hinkley 11mo ago
Ariane 5 happens.
926.
by hinkley 11mo ago
They also did a lot of pioneering work in DSG transmissions. I bought a Jetta when they finally moved it to VW from Audi. Great transmission and saved me a lot on brake jobs. Their DSG tune automatically engine brakes when you feather the b
927.
by hinkley 11mo ago
It was practically a stereotype that all of the young male H1Bs had a BMW desktop background on their work computer. I knew one guy who practically bankrupted himself by buying one the moment he thought he could afford it. The mandatory ins
928.
by hinkley 11mo ago
BMW uses bolts that require people to buy a special set of drivers to work on them, don’t they? Like giant inverted torx bolts.
929.
by hinkley 11mo ago
Engineers hate mechanics. How can they feel your wrath unless you specifically design a giant “fuck you” into every vehicle shipped?
930.
by hinkley 11mo ago
If you don’t want to deal with F2 plants, the alternative is “landrace”, which are collected seeds specific usually to a microbiome. They germinate with the most appropriate genes already activated (epigenetics) in the germ line. Instead of

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