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wickedOne··on The senior engineer death spiral
sounds like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle
wickedOne··on Dark Castle
i still remember the christmas easter egg in there
wickedOne··on iPhone dumbphone
> I can only access the apps and websites I want to use

not really a dumb phone is it?

wickedOne··on Trump temporarily drops tariffs to 10% for most countries
the u.s. is not the only country other countries trade with so firing people should not have to be the result as long as you divert?
wickedOne··on Trump temporarily drops tariffs to 10% for most countries
because the u.s. is the only country the rest of the world can trade with?
wickedOne··on Trump temporarily drops tariffs to 10% for most countries
i wonder why the rest of the world doesn't just come together for a while and stop trading / providing raw materials to the u.s. for let's say a year or so.

isn't this all just a huge pile of bluff poker?

wickedOne··on She took a DNA test. Police used it to charge her grandma with a 1997 murder
keeps surprising me that, in a time where everybody seems to be concerned about privacy, people willingly "give away" their dna profile...
wickedOne··on M4 Macs can't virtualise older macOS
i guess there will be always a previous processor supporting something which the most recent doesn't.

but when the bug report is regarding supporting a software version which they don't support themselves anymore, personally i don't think they will give it any priority

wickedOne··on M4 Macs can't virtualise older macOS
official support for any macos version < ventura has been dropped (monterey support ended 2024-09-16)

so i wonder whether apple will consider this a bug...

wickedOne··on Show HN: IMDb SQL Best Movie Finder
nicely done!

would be even better if modifications to the actual select part would somehow persist when building the query

wickedOne··on Chile searches for those missing from Pinochet dictatorship with the help of AI
https://archive.ph/82jC4
wickedOne··on Ask HN: What's the Point of Life?
escape life, or the point of life (if there's one)?

i don't think there's a point of life. from a nature perspective it should be reproduce and assure balance in the ecosystem, but as there's way too many humans that ship has sailed.

from the economic perspective you're a pawn to contribute to a "healthy" economy so we all can enjoy our luxuries.

and then there's the individual perspective, where the point probably is what you want it to be.

after realising there's no point at all, for me the point pretty much is "do what you want and what you're comfortable with and try not to worry too much"

wickedOne··on What comes after Git?
though i agree that there isn't a proper vcs out there for large files (adobe bridge was a nice attempt) git wasn't designed for that and one might wonder whether you want git to be _that_ multi purpose.
wickedOne··on What comes after Git?
git has a steep learning curve for sure, but eventually scenarios described at oshitgit should be common knowledge for anyone using it.

personally i think putting out sites like that is more helpfull than dumbing down git

wickedOne··on What comes after Git?
what would be a typical large file you want to have in your codebase? usually this shouldn't be a consideration
wickedOne··on What comes after Git?
don't fix what ain't broken?

i think as long as git keeps evolving and there are no major pitfalls for any programming language: why should it be replaced?

wickedOne··on What comes after Git?
been using submodules for years without any issues other than the routine before "deinit" was introduced was somewhat tricky.

could you elaborate?

wickedOne··on [dead]
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24815741
wickedOne··on Yml Coding
despite the readability of the yaml syntax, for me the big disadvantage is the inability to use meta / type info.

for a straightforward collection of strings: probably good enough, for anything else xml is more likely to cover the usecase better

wickedOne··on Show HN: Hacker News front page in the style of a print newspaper
love it!
wickedOne··on [dead]
does this belong here? a ghost writer, not a psychologist...
wickedOne··on Ask HN: Not smart enough to a programmer, where to take my life from here?
you say you started doing programming as a hobby which means it used to be fun, right?

you might want to isolate the aspects of what made it fun back in the days when it was a hobby and what makes it dreadful at the moment and find yourself something which include the first, but lacks the later.

personally i think the attractive side of being a developer is creating something. reading you're not interested in business side of tech (analyst, salesman, management) you might want to explore other crafts which maintain the creative part.

that could be anything really. i myself started out as a graphic designer before i got involved in programming which might be something you want to explore...

wickedOne··on Do not log
this is ridiculous advice.

sure, use third party services / applications to ease insights and additional steps like notifications, but not logging at all does not make any sense.

"And eliminate all possible exceptions that can happen here" that's including runtime exceptions?

"There are a lot of cases when we don’t care. Because of the retries, queues, or it might be an optional step that can be skipped" using different log levels perfectly indicates the importance of the exception.

"it sounds like a job for Sentry, not logging" afaik sentry is logging which makes me wonder whether the author is advocating a principle or a product...

wickedOne··on Ask HN: Which configuration management software would/should you use in 2020?
puppet is pretty good in my experience
wickedOne··on How is search so bad? A case study
searching for

  best cell phone to buy site:reddit.com
and setting it to results from last month works fine...
wickedOne··on Ask HN: How do you roll back production?
interesting question.

we roll forward and thus far never ran into the situation that that wasn't possible in a reasonable amount of time.

nevertheless i've wondered more than once what would happen if we run into such a situation and there's a substantial database migration in the process (i.e. with table drops).

curious to learn what the different strategies are on that point: do you put your table contents in the down migration, do you revert to the last backup, etc.

wickedOne··on Mr. Robot Season 4 Teaser
i think that's why people lost interest; most of them who liked series 1 weren't interested in series 2, while the people who might have liked series 2 weren't interested in series 1...

flipping sides apparently didn't really pay off for mr robot.

nevertheless i think mr robot set a higher standard for hacker related productions

wickedOne··on Watch Netflix at work by making it look like you’re on a conference call
preposterous!

i wonder how many people who welcome this idea as a work thing, actually had to pay someone's salary some point in their carreer...

wickedOne··on I made a SFW porn viewer from Reddit subs
os x 10.11.6
wickedOne··on I made a SFW porn viewer from Reddit subs
nothing does; no images and non functional links.

looks like firefox' content blocking prevents some resources from loading, basically disabling your site.

apart from the obvious google tag blockage this one pops up in the console:

Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at https://www.reddit.com/r/EarthPorn/hot.json. (Reason: CORS request did not succeed).

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