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A lot of managers suck, a lot are dead weight but the good ones, the very few good ones are invaluable.

> mostly managerial with a small component of hands-on technical work

I've been manager and an IC (currently IC)

The biggest concern I'd have for you in the manager role is that you're inheriting a team. I was lucky enough to have built a team from scratch once (by recruiting from within the company, and a few new hires) as well as inheriting a team once.

You never know what you're going to get by inheriting a team, they could be resistant to change. There could be one person who causes more harm than good but is very difficult to fire for some reason or another. They could also all be awesome. I would say, if you've not already done so to ask for the ability to meet with the team you'd be managing.

I have never actually gotten a job from LinkedIn, the social media aspect is the most potent form of cringe.

I really should delete it too but I just never log in.

I shipped an international package with USPS today and there was an option to add an email. I used my email address with a .family TLD.

They couldn't add the email, they said the system was telling them it was an invalid email. Inaccurate email validation in the wild... I suspect the system has a list of known TLDs and that didn't exist when their system was created. Or even worse, they have some hardcoded list of known email providers...

Fair point, in my attempt to throw shade at domain squatters I seemed to forget that countries and languages exist. (I really hate domain squatters...)

> did the world really need more than the basic five?

Only because of domain squatters...

They _lost_ basically the GDP of Estonia...

This.

I've heard countless times that Postgres is better and I've watched talks where they show how loosey-goosey MySQL is with some things but I know how to backup, restore, tune, secure and replicate MySQL. I grok it's permissions in depth more than I ever have with Postgres and I've even written a mysql plugin in C so I have that in my toolbox if I need it. So I'd by default, usually go with MySQL (or in some cases SQLite.) but if I didn't have to administer or maintain it, and someone else was handling that I think I'd be fine with Postgres too.

Again, I don't still know if this is the case, but you could use smaller instances with MySQL aurora than with Postgres, given the way our application worked it would have made a big difference for us if we had used mysql.

RDS/Aurora was our most expensive resource so we were looking at ways to cut that cost down and mysql was one option (though the way the app worked and the extensions that it relied on made it not a possibility.)

I dunno if this is still true but a couple of years ago MySQL was cheaper on AWS (RDS/Aurora) than Postgres.

Oh, this is awesome.

Doesn't work if Firefox is the default browser.

Why the downvote? Is it really acceptable for the machine reading your passport at the airport to have bit flip? Or the person processing you at the DMV, the doctor reading your medical history, or a million other things that power the modern world?

We don't take bit flips seriously enough, practically every consumer device uses non ECC memory, very few folks use filesystems (e.g. ZFS) that can detect corrupt blocks. Even when using those things together it's still not perfect.

Everything is terrible.

> some useful info about the website like what it is about, when was it published, the author, etc etc.

Aren't there already things in place for that info (e.g. meta tags?)

Forgive me if I sound dense but you would still want a password to unlock the private key, right? Otherwise, authentication is just "something you have" not "something you know + something you have." In which case, this headline might really mean "The beginning of the end of the password on the web".

Upon further reflection perhaps this is the most American thing that could be done...

The folks who got in early and made millions in Crypto reaped the benefit but no new comers could ever realize the same potential because we've taxed the snot out of it. Closed that loop hole (not that I have much faith in crypto anyway.)

Wow, taxed based on how you use your computer huh? Doesn't sounds very American to me. What's next, taxed for fuzz testing? Taxed for using inefficient programming languages?

FWIW I do not support the crypto space either, but if they want to use a computer to run an infinite loop for the end of time that's their business.

Perhaps spending more effort on improving the power grid and using more renewable resources would be a better effort?

So we're supposed to just go about our day, anxiety free, after seeing this?

Is Grimes really known for her vocals though? She even said herself in an interview the only reason she decided to sing on her own songs was because she didn't feel right micromanaging someone else to do it the way she wanted (I'll try to track that interview down.)

Still, it's interesting. I think she has a unique voice so perhaps it'll be utilized. I generally like her music though and have a few of her albums.

Also, I forgot about it's performance index too: https://forgeperf.org/

SourceHut doesn't require Javascript. If that means a _simple_ user interface, I'll take it.

I really really like SourceHut but it's lack of Pull Requests (and to some degree Organizations) are the only blockers I have for using it for both personal and work purposes.

Aside from the dual NICs and dual m.2 slots, with no out of band management and no ECC memory this just seems more like a NUC to me.

I had some of those Winamp skins back in the day!

https://futureblues.com/skins.shtml

Warning: NSFW

It looks like they're closing "Pull Requests"?

Has Laravel never had "Issues" on Github? The missing "Issues" link on the repo is the only odd thing that sticks out to me.

What's the use case for such a header?

User agents (browsers) tallying up an estimated C02 emissions for a session? That'd require a lot of buy in from sites and I don't expect many to adopt this or give out that info. Also, does google want you to use your browser less? Probably not...

I recall around 2010 or so, when a company I worked for was creating a new, rather ambitions, web application. I had to argue against using Java Applets in favor of standard web technology for several components. Thankfully I won that battle.

That web application is still in use, in production, today.

+1 for Koel