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hnzix··on Jira and Confluence Are Both Down
Well... there goes my day
hnzix··on On cigarettes
Smoking lowers the risk of developing ulcerative colitis and can suppress its symptoms. There's a lot of anecdotal stories on Reddit of people quitting smoking and getting an UC flare.
hnzix··on On cigarettes
> it's clearly safer than smoking

There's a lot of anti-vaping FUD in the Oz media right now. Anecdotally a lot of people I speak with view it as more harmful than smoking. And legislation has made it extremely unpleasant and inconvenient to obtain low-nic vapes that don't taste like ass.

Fortunately every second convenience store sells high-nic illegal vapes under the counter, with $deity knows what chemicals inside. Yay?

hnzix··on Can we have the day off?
Yeah but the transition is rough. For example when we have autonomous vehicles what are all those drivers going to do. You might saw "tough luck" but we are a society not just an economy.
hnzix··on Major Xero outage takes out payroll
This outage has left businesses unable to pay staff and conduct EOM activity.
hnzix··on The Rabbit R1 is probably running Android and is powered by an Android app
The OP1-F has velocity sensitivity now.
hnzix··on 93% of paint splatters are valid Perl programs (2019)
FastMail runs on Perl: https://blogs.perl.org/users/neilb/2019/09/fastmail-and-perl...
hnzix··on 93% of paint splatters are valid Perl programs (2019)
Just make sure you don't accidentally autoviviy another instance of yourself.
hnzix··on Are Ultra-Processed Foods All That Unhealthy?
If you're looking for the who, Rhonda Patrick points the finger at rampant corruption in nutrition research and public policy. For example the American Heart Association being sponsored by Cheetos.
hnzix··on Why CISA Is Warning CISOs About a Breach at Sisense
Was that a fundamental problem with TerraForm or just an implementation issue?
hnzix··on Show HN: OPML list of Hacker News Users Personal Blogs
Fear not, dang is Hodor.
hnzix··on Imaginary problems are the root of bad software
> Will the setting icon be three dots?

Multiple hamburger menus with a scattering of cryptic icons stuck at arbitrary places on the screen. What does the swirly icon with up arrow do? No text label for you!

Oh and let's move the next button to the top left of the screen and not highlight it. Mmmm that's some good UI design.

hnzix··on In praise of blowing up your life
In creativity, unless you are a savant it takes grinding to increase your ability to match your taste.

If you started very young, then bravo, the grinding is out of the way and you were likely to be able to focus on the fun parts and have fewer distractions.

If you're starting as an adult, then it's gonna take some grit to get to a level you're satisfied with.

hnzix··on Neeva acquired by Snowflake
Corporate and education is infested with Oracle due to an army of salesdroids and large technical platform decisions being made by upper mgmt instead of infra staff.

I've also observed that Oracle stack people generally don't have experience with other platforms, so push it in whatever org they're working for.

hnzix··on The decline and fall of the hit instrumental song
Lone, Chaos In The CBD, Roland Tings.
hnzix··on Vim Keybindings Everywhere – The Ultimate List
You might try Kakoune.
hnzix··on Ubuntu stops shipping Flatpak by default
>I feel like hunting down drivers hasn't been an issue on Linux for any relatively modern machine I've run in over 10 years.

Try installing any Debian flavor on an Intel Mac. Keyboard, mouse, bluetooth, wifi drivers all incredibly hard to get working. Need to perform some voodoo extracting the drivers from a MacOS image then making them available during boot.

hnzix··on 2023 State of Software Engineers [pdf]
Rails provides a sensible and productive pattern for MVP but doesn't provide much guidance past a certain complexity level (Service Objects etc). Once the app grows past a certain size, more bespoke architecture needs to be applied and this will live or die on the competence of the team. Spaghetti code is not inevitable but can result from devs who are used to the hand-holding of less complex Rails apps.

Dunno where you are pulling docker from, that is completely orthogonal to Rails development.

hnzix··on How Spotify's podcast bet went wrong
Trying to setup chronological podcast playback on the Apple Podcast is horrible, and they are constantly fiddling with the terrible UI. I just want to binge 5 consecutive episodes of a history podcast, but everything in the UI tries to funnel you into listening to the latest episode of multiple podcasts.
hnzix··on Why Is Colorectal Cancer Rising Rapidly Among Young Adults?
Fiber supplementation can worsen symptoms of IBS as it draws water into the colon. "Just eat more fibre" is a knee jerk response of people unfamiliar with the science. These conditions are corelated to inflamation and often it's FODMAPs which are a major contributor.
hnzix··on Read this post ‘unless’ you’re not a Ruby developer
Short circuiting is such a beautiful way of avoiding giant nested "if" mountains. I wish it was more widely used.
hnzix··on My Overemployment Story
If someone is slacking off then they need to be performance managed or fired. That's management's problem.
hnzix··on My Overemployment Story
Are you selling hours or outcomes? If you're meeting all your assigned deliverables on time then you're satisfying your employment outcomes.

If you're stalling or failing on your deliverables, then it becomes unethical.

Merely warming a chair is not ethical.

hnzix··on I hate living in my tiny house (2019)
At least give me a high partition so I don't have to watch my cow orker sloppily eating food with their mouth open and gesticulating wildly all day.

I can put on noise cancelling headphones but I can't visually block out physical shenanigans, my monkey brain is tracking for threats.

hnzix··on Build the Modular Monolith First
Law of Demeter, constraining responsibility in functions while avoiding tortellini code, clear variable names etc.
hnzix··on Vim After 15 Years (2017)
FZF is awesome but I would hesitate to remap ; as you lose that binding for movement repeat.
hnzix··on Python 3.11 is faster than 3.8
Corporate has a faceless horde of Java devs.
hnzix··on Ask HN: So you moved off Heroku, where did you go?
AWS is IaaS not PaaS. With IaaS you need to hire competent infra admins. PaaS abstracts away much of that requirement.
hnzix··on Two women recall coming of age in Victorian London (1970) [video]
The Languages Of Pao by Jack Vance is another classic science fiction novel that explores the impact of language on anthropology (the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis). For example, the warrior caste speak a dialect that encourages aggression.
hnzix··on Okta Exposes Passwords in Clear Text for Possible Theft
> OpenId Connect performs the login

Doesn't this presume that the third-party app supports OIDC? Which again makes it dependant on the vendors, not Okta.

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