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cjk2on Anti-patterns in event-driven architecture

Less than 5 years. Vanity project. Built and maintained by astronaut architects. Entirely unnecessary. Poorly implemented down to the level of wire contracts being inconsistent. Overheads are insane both from engineering and operational POV.

cjk2on Anti-patterns in event-driven architecture

No. We have a complete fucking disaster on our hands.

cjk2on Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders ID'd in WA plane crash

I do. That didn’t do anything.

cjk2on Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders ID'd in WA plane crash

Oh don't. I spent an hour yesterday trying to get a damn table to stay on the right page.

cjk2on Memory-safe, clean implementation of classic Posix "BC" calculator

I’d sleep better knowing the existing bc can’t write to ~/.profile than if it’s written in rust or not.

cjk2on Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders ID'd in WA plane crash

Oh hell that last one got me. Now how do I do that equals with two bars and a squiggle ... ERK ... THUD.

cjk2on Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders ID'd in WA plane crash

As a mathematician I'm going to fall on a slide rule and poke my brain through an eye socket.

Yeah doesn't work does it.

cjk2on The flip-flop on whether alcohol is good for you (2023)

This wholly depends on where you are in the world.

cjk2on The flip-flop on whether alcohol is good for you (2023)

It can vary hourly :)

cjk2on The flip-flop on whether alcohol is good for you (2023)

Hey if I stayed sober I'd have had three less kids and two less wives.

cjk2on Microsoft will switch off Recall by default after security backlash

Yeah my 82 year old mother knows more about files than my kids do.

cjk2on Microsoft will switch off Recall by default after security backlash

If you think this is bad, there was a period last year that my documents folder would suddenly rename itself to "Documents" but in a different language. This would religiously change every few days. Other people have reported it as well.

I have disposed of my last PC now and have nothing to do with the infernal things, or onedrive, or any of that crap ever again!

cjk2on Turn On, Tune In, Write Code

I think if I chatted with my database it'd have nothing nice to say. It'd just bitch about the deadlocks, keyspace starvation, that other one it has to share everything with and all those people asking stupid questions.

cjk2on Cancel Adobe if you are a creative under NDA with your clients

Yeah after posting that I'm actually downloading the trial now :)

cjk2on Cancel Adobe if you are a creative under NDA with your clients

+1 for pixelmator

Annoyingly there is nothing that gets close to Lightroom at the moment :(

cjk2on Developer posts secret key on GitHub, loses $40K in 2 minutes

The toilet paper and tylenol guys will be fine.

cjk2on Super Heavy has splashed down in The Gulf of Mexico

They used to be far more exciting. It's the anticipation of less excitement that is nail biting :D

cjk2on Israel reportedly used fake social accounts to garner support from US lawmakers

Well there's a problem here. There are rules. But no one really has to abide to them. There are no consequences against a sovereign nation other than political allegiance risk or travel risks for convicts.

cjk2on Israel reportedly used fake social accounts to garner support from US lawmakers

An exercise with war casualty stats you can do is look at previous wars and look at the variation in estimates in body counts for each side. Then factor that into the news you are reading it.

End game is there has never been a credible body count from even a small scale war. So to claim anyone is right here on either side is probably selective bias on your part. At best when the dust has figuratively and literally settled, it'll be a decade before anyone has an even remotely credible count.

Manipulation of the body counts is easy material for propaganda. It has been since the dawn of war.

Factor child soldiers into these arguments and it gets very grey. The number itself without compounding facts has little meaning.

And for the sake of credibility, the figures were later revised so you're not even quoting their current estimates and compromising your own credibility!

https://reliefweb.int/report/occupied-palestinian-territory/...

cjk2on Israel reportedly used fake social accounts to garner support from US lawmakers

I think that's just paranoia. The citizens generally are the government. It's not optimal but without the citizens there is no government.

cjk2on Israel reportedly used fake social accounts to garner support from US lawmakers

It's a war. It's about doing wrong things until someone capitulates.

I mean it'd be nice not to have them but as a species we're stupid animals with stupid ideas so there's no end of it in sight.

I don't agree with any of it for ref.

cjk2on Israel reportedly used fake social accounts to garner support from US lawmakers

Unfortunately it was mostly "I was lied to, but I agree with it anyway because of X" where X is some loose justification to absolve themselves of the self-inflicted mess they got themselves into.

My father was a fine one. His staff fucked off back to Europe, he couldn't hire anyone else and had to fold his company and retire. Then he found out he got cancer and that the NHS had staffing problems due to Brexit.

Me, I am better off for it as I fill a niche demand, but I voted against it because it was generally bad for society and I do not always vote in self-interest.

cjk2on Israel reportedly used fake social accounts to garner support from US lawmakers

To be fair propagandists generally don't have to aim high. They only have to shift the undecided and uninformed opinions a little bit.

You want to see some of the crap the agencies were pushing out pre-Brexit and it worked, so I wouldn't classify the average UK citizen as much to be contended with (I am UK as well for ref).

cjk2on Israel reportedly used fake social accounts to garner support from US lawmakers

100% agree (hence my point about quitting) but the problem is it's a difficult position to be in when everything is narrative driven and misreporting and propaganda are rife.

You can sit there and do nothing and wait for your enemy to paint you in a bad light and the next thing you know your usual political allies are throwing money and aid at your enemy. Or you protect your citizens as best as possible by entering the game. The moral high ground may have a higher body count.

This point applies to both sides for ref. And because it's a war, the rules of fair play go out of the window until people are on trial afterwards.

cjk2on Israel reportedly used fake social accounts to garner support from US lawmakers

Well their enemies used social accounts to garner support from US citizens so you've got to start somewhere!

It's not like we haven't done this either. I worked for a company in 2005 which was doing this paid for by politicians. Moment I worked this out, I quit.

cjk2on Study finds 268% higher failure rates for Agile software projects

I've prevented a lot of losses :)

cjk2on Is Microsoft trying to commit suicide?

Stuff like that makes me appreciate Time Machine on my Mac. I have hourly snapshots of everything that changes. I don't even use VCS software when I'm writing code any more unless I have to collaborate with someone else.

Also there are serious problems with OneDrive version history. In numerous occasions, files have failed to restore or the UI is broken and unusable.

cjk2on Is Microsoft trying to commit suicide?

To be fair Apple Photos does this.

But it does it to your photos not your entire universe.

cjk2on Is Microsoft trying to commit suicide?

> That being said, I worked at Microsoft, and it is filled with brilliant, hard working, competitive people of high integrity, so if anyone can figure out how to turn that Aircraft Carrier around and succeed in a world with intellectual freedom, it is Microsoft.

This is no good if the management and marketoids are fuckwits though, which they are.

cjk2on Study finds 268% higher failure rates for Agile software projects

This is my methodology. Set two PMs on each other and go and do some work that generates ROI.