web3-is-a-scam

This seems like something that static analysis that is android aware should be able to find?

The government doesn’t care that TikTok is collecting your data. They only care they can’t control it like other American tech giants.

I hope that when the world comes to an end, I can breathe a sigh of relief because there will be so much to look forward to.

For me the tone is big part of why I love it. It’s such a perfect distillation of what it was like being an angsty teenager at that moment in cultural time. Even looking back I still think it is just cool AF.

The closest comparison I can think of how I see it is like Brandon Lee’s The Crow, which is also still one of the most badass films ever made.

I had to get married fast because my travel agent failed to get our wedding license to Jamaica fast enough for our destination wedding to be legal in Canada. So we got married a few days before leaving to Jamaica and had the pastor on the resort “officiate” for the family experience even if we were already married (nobody knew except us). The “two weddings” were only a few days apart. My pastor at home dropped everything to marry us the afternoon we called him with our dilemma.

Maybe it’s rose tinted glasses but WW holds up much better today as well, in my opinion. The combat in that game is just absolutely wonderful.

Unpopular opinion but Warrior Within is my favourite, followed by the cell shaded Reboot and Sands of Time being about equal for me.

Super Mario? Wouldn’t Mega Man be a better video game analogy?

It’s a good thing we have tons of server cattle to feed all that straw to

we use elastic beanstalk which is functionally not that different than elastic container service/Fargate. It’s basically Heroku when all is said and done.

Everything sits behind application load balancer and API gateway, all basic stuff

We have about 100 boxes, but basically only 3 “environments” for our distributed monolith. Every box in a distinct environment is provisioned and configured in exactly the same way.

need to change some config? It’s at most a few extra clicks to do it in multiple environments. Then EB handles the rolling deployments and health check failover stuff. It’s very hands off, with another small benefit of not needing to bother with fudging around with terraform state, wasting compute on building containers and paying for registry storage.

Apparently everything I work on because our customer success team always seems to come back immediately after something goes into production with “customers can’t use this!”.

We also went from - click around in the gui -> automate everything -> click around in the gui. Zero regrets.

We went even further than that and ditched kubernetes, and containers altogether and moved everything to just EC2/elastic beanstalk.

Took us 2 months to write everything in terraform initially. Took 2 days to shift everything back and maintenance is just so much easier for us. Much easier to find people that can manage infra this way too.

To this day I struggle to find a tangible benefit to the old stack. Everything is just “better” now and half the cost.

YMMV of course.

Last time I hit this, all I had to do was log in. Is that still the case?

“Next” generations tend to look at previous gen pop culture and hate it, then they fall into their own generational pop culture bubble of their own that the next generation will despise in turn. It happened to MySpace and it’s happening with Facebook/Twitter, it’ll happen with TikTok and whatever comes after it. Social media is not the first thing that comes and goes in cycles and it won’t be the last.

I work in scheduling software and had no issues today surprisingly. But we have hundreds of end to end tests that cover daylight savings as well as leap years.

Windows on a gaming PC, Mac for Work and Ubuntu for the daily driver. I’m going to be replacing the Windows PC with steam deck once I scrounge the cash for it.

In my experience, there is no such thing as “anti-virus” software. The software itself usually does much more damage to my PC than any malware ever has.

Then again, I don’t keep anything valuable on my internet connected computers - and if I’m suspicious of even a little thing I just wipe the PC and restore from image.

Haven’t run any antivirus software in over a decade and haven’t had a single problem.

I use fossil in the post-Dropbox era by keeping my singular repository file inside Dropbox and my working copies outside of Dropbox. Works great for me. Works infinitely better than a git or mercurial repository where the .git/.hg folders get corrupted when there are file conflicts.

I’ve been using Firefox for nearly two decades and I’d be hard pressed to switch now. I’m practically married to it: through sickness and health.

How do you know when your LLM is bullshitting you

My productivity app is just todo.txt in one drive using specificaly notepad.exe.

You put .LOG at the top of the new file with a return. Save and close the file.

Every time you reopen the file, the timestamp is append to the file. Add your notes, save, exit notepad. Open it again when you need to update, rinse and repeat.

Nothing I’ve ever tried has been more effective than just keeping this endless file.

I work at a company that did Agile/Scrum ok - it wasn’t perfect but we had regular retros and we tried to improve our processes and we were given some leeway from management to have some of the work required to support those processes into our sprints.

Then the CTO left, and was never replaced, then the layoffs came and a competent PM was replaced with a junior. Entire design department replaced with a single junior as well. Engineering gutted. Ok, lay-offs happen but at least I still have a job.

Then came “we’re waterfall now”. You know what didn’t come with it? Actual planning, documentation or specs or anything typical of “waterfall”. Estimates are now guessed before anything is defined and turned into commitments. You know what we still had? “Daily stand ups”, “backlog grooming”, two week “sprints”, and no retrospectives. No opportunity or agency to try to make things better - just endlessly stuck in my own personal hell.

Now we have projects that are supposed to take 2 months now taking 6. We have last minute spec changes that require massive rewrites because UAT isn’t done until the end of the entire project. “PM is slow to write out requirements” so we’re basically expected to just guess what they are based on very small selection of unfinished design flows.

And of course, executive wonders “why does engineering take so long to deliver”.

I started calling this “scrumerfall” or even ”fragile”. It’s basically the worst of both with none of the positives.

I don’t know what point I’m actually trying to make…just get like ranting and this seemed like a good time lol

Apache my beloved

The only thing worse than Jira managed by an obsessed micromanaging manager/Jira admin is when they leave and you’re left with their godforsaken configuration that everyone hates and nobody can change.

AWS egress is one of if not the biggest costs on our bill, it’s downright criminal.

Every day this incompetent government gets more ridiculous than I ever thought imaginable.

this is just on brand for the Liberal government

They banned a bunch of sport shooting and hunting guns because they look “scary” when criminals largely use handguns to commit crime.

Licensed gun owners in Canada are statistically the least likely people out of all to commit crime of any kind (let alone gun crime), as they are background checked every day. Let alone the fact that criminals use illegal black market handguns smuggled from the US to commit the majority of gun crime and won’t have a firearms license.

piracy is not stealing because the original “copy” still exists, stealing would mean someone didn’t have something anymore

And no, money is not stolen because they never had my money to begin with

I have a large gap in my resume from a bout of depression that left me basically incapacitated for nearly 10 months.

I get asked about it all the time in interviews.

I just respond “I’m under NDA”.

I also get asked about GitHub profiles. I have a pseudonym on GitHub, and maintain a few projects. I dont divulge that information either.

“I’m under NDA” or “I only work in proprietary code with many trade secrets involved so I can’t”

I’ve probably been screened out of plenty of processes just for that, but I don’t care. I’ve been doing pretty good for myself without making my life an open book.

This article matches my experience with RDS. Performance is just absolutey atrocious when even a docker container on my MacBook performs the same queries on the same dataset at 100x the speed.

M1 with 16gb of memory vs 16 vcpu Xeon with 128g, my laptop absolutey trounces it.