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makeitrain··on Study finds a quarter of bosses hoped RTO would make employees quit
No shit that was obvious. Now you have a bunch of cynical people playing games instead of being productive.
makeitrain··on The Snowflake Attack May Be Turning into One of the Largest Data Breaches Ever
If your identity is stolen, at best the company is sued and pays for a few years of credit monitoring. I don’t think this is adequate, given the potential consequences. We need a better systemic solution for this.
makeitrain··on Elon Musk confirms that Twitter will charge new users a temporary fee
What’s his theory at this point? Let’s say this works and new bot accounts are delayed 3 months. What’s the next step?
makeitrain··on The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Inlining CSS
Can’t do media queries inside inline styles. That’s why tailwind’s responsive utility classes are so effective.
makeitrain··on The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Inlining CSS
Is it faster than embedding the styles? Or only faster compared to the framework?
makeitrain··on Popcorn Time 0.5.0
I have been half jokingly saying they’re rewriting php.
makeitrain··on FreeBSD 14.0 Release Information
Sorry, I’m not into Pokémon.

But seriously, I picked up FreeBSD a few years ago when centos went proprietary. Just got back into fiddling with the box recently, and great timing!

I’ve set up web servers in Linux many times. The differences between distros makes learning and implementing things a bit more fragmented. FreeBSD still gives you options, but feels like the path is more straightforward.

makeitrain··on FreeBSD 14.0 has reached – RELEASE
1. old computer found in a dumpster. Using it to learn about sysadmin and networking.

2. I installed it when centos was dead and I was looking for a stable os for a web server. My main computer runs Linux Mint.

3. It’s the first one I tried. Might check out open bds and dragonfly when I get into hosting and virtualization.

4. I’m just limited by lack of knowledge. But I like that there’s a more common path to follow, with great documentation. For the things I have working now, I feel like I have a better handle on my config choices vs in Linux distros I don’t always know if I’m doing things the Linux way or the Ubuntu way.

5. Several nights and weekends playing with ancient hardware and alternative software.

makeitrain··on GhostBSD 23.10.1 Now Available
What’s with the seo spam at the bottom of the home page?
makeitrain··on Shimano Recalls 760k Cranksets
Chinese bike parts manufacturing has taken off in the last 2 years. QA still needs refinement, but they’re at the point of building pretty good bikes at a fraction of the cost. I think shimano’s dominance has hit a tipping point.
makeitrain··on California's plastic bag ban is failing
I came to this conclusion as well but I don’t see it come up in discussion. We pull carbon out of the ground as oil, make plastic bags, and then bury them in a landfill for 10,000 years. I do not care about recycling plastic bags unless it is economically viable. If we bury plastic in a safe place, that is a very good thing.

Now the real problem the article talks about is the leaky transportation and disposal process. We chose to cut usage through policy and that reduced the amount of escaped waste. Plugging the leaks is a really hard problem, lots of design and engineering work to keep loose bags in bins, trucks, and barges.

makeitrain··on Ask HN: Why do you write engineering blogs?
In the last few days I’ve seen a lot of good blog posts that helped me with code. Companies like log rocket and digital ocean. It’s great content marketing and recruiting, even if the posts are just generally helpful and not specific to their service.

For devs who write, I do it as notes to myself or others when I think I figured out something useful, especially if it was originally unclear or I didn’t find any helpful examples. I appreciate everything I’ve read by others and I feel like contributing.

Since I believe in the value of writing, I can understand devs doing corporate blogging. They’re a team player and want to promote the place they work at. Maybe they make a real impact on marketing and recruiting and like playing on a winning team. Getting paid to talk about and evangelize tech is pretty cool.

Edit: fix typo.

makeitrain··on Kangaroo tendons could rebuild human knees better, stronger
Question: Would my new kangaroo enhanced legs disqualify me from the Tour de France?
makeitrain··on SF's Millennium Tower tilting more than ever to the West after early recovery
Chat gpt says no.
makeitrain··on Knight vs. Snail (2013)
Reminds me of Japanese fart scrolls. Probably just memes for the lulz.
makeitrain··on Unix Koans
https://youtu.be/lE4UXdJSJM4
makeitrain··on Twitter Takes Aim at Posts That Link to Its Rival Substack
How are they rivals? I read longform content on substack and D grade buzzfeed listicles on Twitter.
makeitrain··on Ask HN: How are you using GPT to be productive?
It’s like Twitter, but with bots.
makeitrain··on Ask HN: Anyone out there trying to help new devs avoid career pitfalls?
I’m thinking about starting a meetup for this. Like a coders guild, where we talk about how we work and grow in the industry.
makeitrain··on Crypto Faces Legal Reckoning as SEC Prepares Action Against Coinbase
Why should crypto currencies not be considered a security asset?
makeitrain··on Beginner Fountain Pens
My mentor got me into fountain pens... It's nice to have a fine instrument for contemplation. Something a little more exciting to use than a regular pen, really encourages you to pick it up and write something just to watch the ink flow. Then your thoughts unfold and you keep writing just to see where it goes. I've been able to discover and clarify ideas many times through this process.

I suggest a lamy safari and a rhodia pad. You can get ink samples from goulet pens and try a bunch of different colors.

makeitrain··on Microsoft 365 Copilot – your copilot for work
How will they get the data to train the model. They have everyone’s documents, and could potentially produce amazing results. But how will they protect against content leaks?
makeitrain··on How Californians are weaponizing environmental law to eliminate housing
What’s your long term view on California hydrology? Will droughts and desertification make it increasingly harder to live here?
makeitrain··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2023)
I started something similar, so far just an inventory of my stuff but I wanted to add a chores and maintenance schedule. I like the UI you have for setting up an item when you take a picture.
makeitrain··on EV startups from Lucid to Rivian see demand fade, supply chain issues linger
I can’t comprehend the decision to buy an electric car if you don’t charge at home.
makeitrain··on LastPass: Security Incident Update and Recommended Actions (1st March 2023)
100%
makeitrain··on Even Democrats Like Me Are Fed Up with San Francisco
How did Rudy Giuliani clean up New York?
makeitrain··on The Employee Revolt Rocking Amazon
What are they hoping for? People quit, the remaining ones work in the office, and productivity per worker goes up? Do they end up with a more hard working and loyal workforce? Is there any evidence this is a good strategy? If this is a financial issue, why not just say that and cut the number they need to make it work? Wouldn’t that make more sense to both employees and investors? Are these moves actually helping prop up the stock price?
makeitrain··on Twitter is just showing everyone all of Elon’s tweets now
I want to play something else.
makeitrain··on DevOps Is a Poorly Executed Scam
Instead of trying to “do dev ops” why not try to build a functional continuous integration pipeline that developers like to use. You can name it whatever you want.
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