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by sebazzz 2y ago
Code coverage only tells if a line or statement was hit. I’ve been working with offshore development teams which get sufficient code coverage, but don’t have any asserts. They call the code, but the test doesn’t test (except maybe a “smoke
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by sebazzz 2y ago
And .NET Framework. You can still run 3.5 applications, and 4.5 will also exist as long as Windows will exist.
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by sebazzz 2y ago
I have an Awair, which is generally good and has a locally accessible API. However, one dick move they did when they shut down (cloud) support for the old Awair, they shut down local API access too. Unfortunately, I was only aware of that a
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by sebazzz 2y ago
> Yes, can all be deactivated, I also use FF, but I do not trust Mozilla anymore. And so I feel much more at home with Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome.
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by sebazzz 2y ago
> 5 years ago, I switched to NextJS. It's a spaghetti of NPM modules just to build a very static website for very simple content. Sure. But 5 years later, the very same site is still up. There is no maintenance involved as the site
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by sebazzz 2y ago
If you want to reduce maintenance costs, reduce the amount of Javascript code and tooling. NPM-Javascript is a shitshow of constant breaking changes left and right, whether it is in your runtime framework, or your build system like gulp or
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by sebazzz 2y ago
> But if it’s working, is it wrong? Well, you'll find out later when it gives a headache. Technical debt are things that work, but are wrong.
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by sebazzz 2y ago
This can’t be a sustainable business model - can it? I work at a very large company and all computers are regularly scanned for Oracle components and those are cleared/flagged.
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by sebazzz 2y ago
LLMs know it better? LLMs are hardly a way to get good programming advice. In fact, it is often wrong but not in obvious ways. Especially with React and state management, there are a lot of working wrong ways to do things.
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by sebazzz 2y ago
If you want to reduce maintenance costs, yes. Javascript is a shitshow of constant breaking changes left and right, whether it is in your runtime framework, or your build system like gulp or more prominently webpack. Try maintaining 10 proj
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by sebazzz 2y ago
I believe this is separate from that. Generally it is believed that the admin the "airtight hatchway". They stil could have encrypted the recall database with DPAPI though.
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by sebazzz 2y ago
No it is the price we pay for doing business with a publicly listed entity, which in some way must find a way to make more profit than last year. Not break even, not just make profit, it must make more profit. At some point that is di
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by sebazzz 2y ago
Far right extremists on X are already blaming DEI hiring for this. Idiots. Also, this is likely a bird that got ingested.
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by sebazzz 2y ago
Because it moves complex circuity to an already very complex and expensive PCB, making it even more expensive. A power supply is likely to outlast multiple (re)builds of a desktop computer; a motherboard is likely not - especially not Intel
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by sebazzz 2y ago
And any server has them. And for all the crap Lenovo laptops are these days; they also have backup BIOS. Funnily enough, most BIOS updates end with a "self-healing backup progressing" screen nowadays - which makes me wonder: do th
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by sebazzz 2y ago
If ATX is being redesigned today, than it will not become better but worse for end users. Things like moving major power supply to the motherboard - for instance like in the 12VHPo standard.
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by sebazzz 2y ago
Aardman studios got some bad luck in the past, with the set burned down [0], and the special clay they need no longer being produced [1]. Wallace and Gromit is nostalgia for me, but by now also for my young kids. It is funny that in the rem
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by sebazzz 2y ago
If they are not in the business of storing data, then they should just offer the option to sync saves with Google Drive/OneDrive/WebDAV server.
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by sebazzz 2y ago
It seems to me that many publicly traded companies are increasingly showing user hostile behavior the last 24 months.
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by sebazzz 2y ago
Firefox saved someone from an unhappy life.
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by sebazzz 2y ago
Any language addition warrants caution. You can't take it back afterwards.
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by sebazzz 2y ago
It is only because it already existed it isn't branded as AI.
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by sebazzz 2y ago
It sounds like they are using/implementing something similar to SQL Server Always Encrypted[0]. This basically works by encrypting specific fields using a certificate that needs to be supplied by the connecting SQL client (application)
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by sebazzz 2y ago
I recently ordered glasses but the shop, though they run Windows 10, still use a TUI for customer orders and crm. It is so efficient for them, just a few keystrokes they need and they can crud the information they need.
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by sebazzz 2y ago
Isn't it also like gaming, especially with a controller? How "good" you are with gaming is at least a function of how well your brain is able to remap desired actions into necessary controller input muscle movements.
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by sebazzz 2y ago
Isn't our tongue a similar thing?
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by sebazzz 2y ago
Subtle reminder that ManifestV2 phase out now has a timeline at Chrome[0]. The best moment to switch to Firefox is now. [0]: https://blog.chromium.org/2024/05/manifest-v2-phase-out-begi...
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by sebazzz 2y ago
Software patents also come into view here. Doom 3 open-source version needed to have a change implemented so Carmack’s reverse algorithm was replaced by a different algorithm because the algorithm is patented by Creative.
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by sebazzz 2y ago
CSS layers are completely unintuitive to work with. I really don't see the use case for them. I hoped to isolate Telerik styling with it but it only made it harder to override styling.
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by sebazzz 2y ago
This is not only about consumer products. This is also about limiting or completely preventing governments from doing classification on you with an AI model. Something we know in the Netherlands as the toeslagenschandaal where civilians

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