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by lisbbb 11mo ago
All that tech is already persecuting people in China. It's up to us to hold the line here. I kind of gave up after the L3 got those Naked Body scanners into the airports based on the "underwear bomber" that was probably a f
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by lisbbb 11mo ago
It's because Apple sucks the least. They still suck, though. They could build decent computers that are upgradeable, but they refuse because they want your $$$$ in large amounts.
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by lisbbb 11mo ago
I couldn't really trust the author of the review after he established his preference for "quiet computers" having no cooling slots or whatever he called them. Okay, fine, you're placing aesthetics above actual performan
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by lisbbb 11mo ago
Man, I miss the days when telephones were just telephones. The world just seems less mysterious now.
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by lisbbb 11mo ago
One thing I learned with Kafka and Cassandra is that you are locked in to a design pretty early on. Then the business changes their mind and it take a great deal of re-work and then they're accusing you of being incompetent because the
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by lisbbb 11mo ago
It's not so much that they don't know as it they think Kafka is sexier, or, in my case, it was mandated to use it for everything because they were paying for the cluster. I solved one problem, very flexibly, in Elastic and they w
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by lisbbb 11mo ago
If you are doing high volume, there is no way that a SQL db is going to keep up. I did a lot of work with Kafka but what we constantly ran into was managing expectations--costs were higher, so the business needs to strongly justify why th
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by lisbbb 11mo ago
It's bad for your kidneys
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by lisbbb 11mo ago
They have all already disappeared form public and it's only in the 40s right now. By winter you would swear no Somalis live in MN.
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by lisbbb 11mo ago
It was never about doing right for people, it was about making unbelievable gobs of money using them as pawns.
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by lisbbb 11mo ago
What about the article that that talks about Vitamin D being the same chemical as rat poison and that the positive effects it has on our bodies may be due to the fact that we are low-level poisoning ourselves with it? "Vitamin D3, also
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by lisbbb 1y ago
There is no relationship between agile/waterfall and TDD. Same as there is no relationship to pair programming and agile/waterfall, either.
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by lisbbb 1y ago
I don't want to insult you, but I had to re-program myself in order to accept TDD and newer processes and there are a lot of systems out there that weren't written with testability in mind and are very difficult to deal with as a
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by lisbbb 1y ago
It's as matter of practice. The major problem is that business folks don't even know how to produce a testable spec, they just give you some vague idea about what it is they want and you're supposed to produce a PoC and show
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by lisbbb 1y ago
Why did you think TDD was garbage? Formalizing a specification is all that test first is. It's just that most devs I know had big egos and believing writing tests was somehow below them. I prefer the "build a little, test a lit
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by lisbbb 1y ago
Good God! My wife got cancer last year and I managed to stay on a very stressful contract gig until the end of the year, but after that I realized how burnt out I was and how much I needed to just focus on her recovery, which was going to
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by lisbbb 1y ago
A plasma cutter needs a pretty decent supply of compressed air
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by lisbbb 1y ago
So the whole Breaking Bad cash hoard on pallets thing is not a good idea?
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by lisbbb 1y ago
Yes. I once saw a guy open a bike U-lock using a car scissor jack and he was done in about 20 seconds and the bike was gone. Nowadays there are very good battery powered grinders that can take a cutoff wheel and no padlock is going to res
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by lisbbb 1y ago
One concern I have is that after 2-3 times building the same app, you're going to be finding improvements to it that you didn't think of at the start. Thus, doing a comparison with you as the "instrument" can introduce
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by lisbbb 1y ago
That's stupid. It's not all an illusion. The scale definitely matters. If you are buying stocks you can make a profit as a little guy that if the big guys tried to do it they would quickly become the "market maker" an
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by lisbbb 1y ago
I always figured the spy crap was programmed right in to the chips themselves and the BIOS.
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by lisbbb 1y ago
I like the "gray man" concept, but can't predict when you end up on the radar or why. As a young graduate student, I once wrote an article that rebuffed the government's "Total Information Awareness" trial bal
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by lisbbb 1y ago
I'm guessing this only works on back end? If yes, then why not just write the back end in Go if you're so fond of the language? It's not like Golang lacks the libraries to do web stuff. Would it be like some shop that is a
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by lisbbb 1y ago
The problem I see is that the entire US stock market has been rising only because of a small handful of tech companies, Nvidia being among them. If this bubble pops, and maybe "if" isn't the right word--when this bubble pops
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by lisbbb 1y ago
I once worked at a smaller company that didn't want to shell out for github and we just hosted repos on some VM and used the ssh method. It worked. I just found it to be kind of clunky having come from a bigger place that was doing e
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by lisbbb 1y ago
Every SaaS is someone's grift. It is what it is. Before that it was smartphone apps. The grift will move on eventually.
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by lisbbb 1y ago
One of the worst vendor lock ins that I was shocked to find was AWS Amplify. What a total piece of crap!
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by lisbbb 1y ago
My beef with SaaS is that every client I went to just wanted developers who would glue together these solutions and they would invariably have puzzling overlaps in the products they purchased, particularly around CI/CD pipelines. I wo
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by lisbbb 1y ago
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