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megadopechos

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megadopechos··on The KIDS Act would require age checks to get online
What's happens when that third-party identification verifier has a data breach?
megadopechos··on Every AI Subscription Is a Ticking Time Bomb for Enterprise
After reading the third "rounding error" phrase I quit.
megadopechos··on Should QA exist?
Absolutely QA "should" exist. Our QAs are the most knowledgeable people on our product, often informing devs and product alike of requirements, missing requirements, weird configuration outliers, how to actually use the damned app, etc. Without QA we would be developing and testing for brittle requirements to get code into an MVP state, not a functional, user-friendly state.
megadopechos··on 2026: The Year of Java in the Terminal?
> Java cli is a solution looking for a problem

That's a great way of putting it. I'm a Java developer also; I'm most comfortable with Java and, dare I say, I like Java. But Java would be far down the list of tools I'd use to make a CL program.

megadopechos··on Tinnitus Neuromodulator
Same. I got it when I was 19 from recording music and the audiologist said, "This is something only old people get, and even then very gradually. You will either go crazy or depressed." But I've gotten used to it and I wouldn't say it's been a huge detriment.
megadopechos··on Women dating safety app 'Tea' breached, users' IDs posted to 4chan
"Your data privacy is of the utmost importance to us."

No it ain't.

megadopechos··on Do you want to be doing this when you're 50? (2012)
Yeah, I'll take it all day long. I'm not even done with my first year of my first software engineering job so perhaps I'm full of optimism and hope. But in a previous life I was cooking on a line and moving tons of gravel with a wheelbarrow with my brother. I much prefer my situation now.
megadopechos··on Software developer arrested in connection with murder of healthcare executive
Aaaaand it's gone.
megadopechos··on Ask HN: Is GitHub down?
That is funnily.
megadopechos··on Incident with Issues and Pull Requests
Very helpful 500 page: "In the meantime, try refreshing."
megadopechos··on De-dollarization is happening at a ‘stunning’ pace
Lots of people, perhaps. But not enough. Or not enough media coverage to reach enough people.

I was there marching in DC and even my close friends and family (in suburban DC) seemed to be unaware of the protests. I thought, surely, with 100,000 people protesting in the city, Black Bloc hanging from streetlights, speeches from celebrities, Jesse Jackson, a former Defense Secretary, etc., that it would pop up on the local news. I never heard about it.

megadopechos··on Oral Sex Stoking Throat Cancer ‘Epidemic’ in UK and US
Almost 40 here and my doctor recommended I get it since my father died of throat cancer and I couldn't recall if I'd ever been vaccinated for HPV. Here's hoping!
megadopechos··on OldLinux: Ancient Linux Resources
Same with my stack of 2600 Magazines from the late 90s. I'm never going to read them, nobody I know is interested in them, but I'm never going to throw them away.
megadopechos··on Instagram Threatened Removal of Verified Status for Posting Snapchat Content
What is posting Snapchat?
megadopechos··on Dear Amazon, We Picked Your New Headquarters for You
Because the amenities and attractions and character of the city are being ruined by the flood of people moving here.