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What is it with ThinkPads and screen brightness. It’s been abysmal for as long as I remember

Definitely this 100% I proposed for company game night: Predict where the Jira cursor goes next in response to right arrow. There’s so many possibilities: right left up down, teleports, disappears. My favorite is when the cursor splits into two at two different seemingly unrelated locations. Two cursors?? How do you even do that in a text area?

> Jamie Cooper stressed the importance of using a filter when photographing the Sun

Yep, good tip

I’m afraid we just “deploy more pods” these days

Oh boy, think you might be living in a bubble.

An ass-clown engineering director/manager I had, proudly shared a chart – I guess it was from something related to the post - that at the current rate, everyone in the US will need to be a SWE at Amazon for it to continue to grow. I can't tell if that case is true or not and I don't remember the time frame, but I have a suspicion SWEs will instead have to work smarter with better tools and languages that effort "multipliers". x10 languages, and tools perhaps.

> We can’t even push to a git repo unless it has a linked work item/story/task/bug

Exactly the same where I work. The pace of getting things done is absolutely glacial compared to what you know you could achieve if you had any agency. I think the only reason this organization I'm temporarily a part of can even compete is that all its competitors must be equally inefficient.

Basically all our taxes go to military. The military can’t even say no, we’ve got everything we need to Congress, so sure why not.

Recently read unleaded aviation fuel seems to be an insurmountable problem for the FAA. Will it be that hard with electric aircraft or is it further along?

> contains approximately 2,100 unique Go services (and growing)

How is that possible and what do they do???

Works for email, phone numbers and addresses, too.

Man that is really sad, but I suspect these code in the cloud schemes will be targeted toward hordes of developers with such a superficial grasp on what’s happening.

> Paralinguistic symbols

What’s that? I googled and am still confuzled.

Heh I’ve been vegan for ages, just watched it. Great reminder.

Christ what is PI planning? We're doing something "OKR" meeting related which I have neither the interest nor time to look up the un-abbreviation. Luckily one can Zoom with sound and video off at least...

I complete a ticket, now I've got to spend a day writing another ticket about how it's supposed to be deployed so any regular jack off can deploy it. Then I've got to find a "champion" (aka. a middle manager) to "champion" the ticket I wrote about the ticket. Then I have to notify several Slack channels about it, wait a bit in case someone makes a stink, then finally press "deploy" in Jenkins.

It's a Modern Stack™ – cookie cutter, untestable locally, horde of Golang services on Kubernetes pulling and pushing to various cloud services. Of course, it's ad-tech and for a company that seems to be the media equivalent of a Jerry Springer show.

> ILP, OoE

Moron here, what is that in this context?

> Why We Switched from Python to Go > Reason 5 – Fast Compile Time

From Python??

Uh curious how your hens feel about the fake owl watching over them.

Definitely this.

Our teams have many 1 or 2 step DAGs that are idempotent. They could have been lambdas and they're already pulling from SQS already. It could be just my misfortune, but in AWS, MWAA is kind of janky. It's difficult to track down problems in the logs (task failures look fine there) and the Airflow UI is randomly unavailable ("document returns empty", "connection reset" kind of things).

Every now and then we get someone on freenode/libre #emacs asking the weirdest questions.

> It’s 2022 after all, and transistors are cheap: why don’t all our microcontrollers feature page-level memory protection like their desktop counterparts?

I always thought it was because of the added cost from increased design complexity. Is it something else?

If you’ve seen one Forth, you’ve seen one Forth.

> I just wish Google had built Flutter on a low level core that isn't tied to Dart

Why did they tie Flutter to Dart anyway?

It’s three or four old SSRIs and that comes with with other caveats and requirements. I’m also a private pilot wannabe and the FAA situation in regard to this is bullshit. Is there a chart somewhere showing how many small planes fall out of the sky due to some dude taking his meds?

At a company I work at currently, they have microservices, but they moved the monolith into the side-car. Best of both worlds.

At the end of the movie about the Kursk, someone drops one in water accidentally and it seems the air ignites afterwards. Are these candles the same thing?

PicoLisp works like that IIRC

> Start at n. poke in rnd(256). n++. Poke. Repeat till crash.

Pretty sure all my assembler attempts on the C64 back in the day were basically that

Reading through the threads here: If the HN can't articulate FIDO and differences between it and the now decades old password model to each other, I think regular jack-offs are going to have trouble.

People have the mental model that their secret is stored in their gray matter/post-it note/password manager, and now you're telling them it's in their phone, and somewhat related to the phone's security model, or maybe a "yubikey", or behind biometrics, or maybe not, it depends, and Big Co. has copy, of something, and it's synced, and one possibly "migrates" between Big Co. and Big Co. might deliberately/accidentally disable all your websites, or losing your device/yubikey/piece of paper means you're screwed, possibly...