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If you are interested in a pretty good political discussion - this is worth a watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kV5E2UYwUkk

Something I've noticed a lot is the how quickly people jump to complicated answers.

I've seen this a lot.

A few examples:-

- this code isn't logging -> is logging broke -> code was never deployed - 500s are being thrown -> it's definitely not my code -> revert code 500s cliff face

Literally, every week there is a version of that. I have no idea why or how to tackle it but it is highly prevalent across skill set and roles.

I'm so glad we migrated away from LastPass (to BitWarden). It was a breach that caused us to move in the first instance.

"Hypocrisy, thy name is you"

Yeah I don't want to rain on OPs parade; but this is already a solved problem:

From my bookmarks (found on HN originally!)

https://gist.github.com/andyrbell/25c8632e15d17c83a54602f6ac...

Anyone else got a really weird Chorme pop-up asking which cert to use for su3.io:443?

Very bizarre, never seen that before.

Thumbprints:

  - 60949a09aab8677f87a0b9eda7099a03ca510fb3
  - 1b146798f0dc93773247e86312f1b730c4eeebb3

I'm amazed that this is still being discussed.

It's open source, no one is forcing you to use it.

If you don't trust the newer versions; use the old versions.

If you no longer like the maintainer because of reasons, fork it/start your own.

It's not that hard.

Storm in a teacup.

Big fan of https://speedtest.aa.net.uk

Surely this is ripped content?

https://sandeepbansod.medium.com/why-your-docker-container-i...

I feel like if you've done any kind of investigation work then this is the normal baseline.

I mean you can argue the same about Telsa, but look at BYD now.

Just because you are first to do x, doesn't mean you are going to be the winner.

Consumer/private needs to be local.

Work? I don't want it local at all. I want it all cloud agent.

This applies to much more than just software, in fact it applies to almost everything.

I don't remember where I read it, but it basically boils down to need vs want.

I've used that rule for deciding between a new car or used. A fancy vacuum or basic.

A shiny new gadget.

Bringing new things into the tech stack.

Picking a new tech stack.

Mythos has been a boon for "look busy" work. My global corp org has been on a bender upgrading everything, patching everything. There is a giant dashboard that shows green/red for everything we have.

I think it's a total overreaction. But the edict was passed down, and here we are go.

I mean this is pretty amazing.

This feels very much like "we are now moving the goal posts".

Ha! No chance, my case comes in at a beefy 18kg (purchased circa 2008). Some of the components are slowly starting to give up the ghost. My GPU purchased in 2011-03 died a few weeks ago.

So it's happening, unfortunately I'm not paying for new RAM. So I'm planning a new rig around my existing CMK64GX4M4A2400C14 sticks.

Tangent: Author has this fabulous post I'd highly recommend: https://fabiensanglard.net/mjolnir/index.html

I read it once years ago and I come back to it every now and then wishing my current PC (10+ years and going) would gently die so I could finally build something small and tiny.

She shared her suspicion with another government employee, who reported it.

And what pray tell do you do if you don't have anyone to report it to inside the government? Reports like that can easily get blackholed.

...not in my experience. It does what I need it to do; center a div.

That is a beautiful api.

Absolutely not. The value isn't in the cloud storage. The value is in the client (DropBox in my case) seamlessly working across all my devices.

Ignoring the disaster that is their branding/naming.

Copilot is _amazing_. Everyone is hyping about Claude, but I'm way more productive with the copilot cli. The copilot cloud agent is great, and copilot code review is great (we also tried the new very expensive claude code review - it was slow and expensive).

Forget that it's Microsoft, forget that everything is Copilot and go and give it a shot.

Huge fan of https://github.com/mermaid-js/mermaid, not the prettiest things but enough to scratch the itch.

I appreciate performance as much as the next person; but I see this endless battle to measure things in ns/us/ms as performative.

Sure there are 0.000001% edge cases where that MIGHT be the next big bottleneck.

I see the same thing repeated in various front end tooling too. They all claim to be _much_ faster than their counterpart.

9/10 whatever tooling you are using now will be perfectly fine. Example; I use grep a lot in an ad hoc manner on really large files I switch to rg. But that is only in the handful of cases.

I don't think I'm quite bored. I'm exhausted/fatigued with the pace.

Desktops showing the taskbar positioned on the bottom, top, left and right side of the screen

Welcome to the 90s?

They are so far off track. I'm basically never leaving Windows 10.

I'm waiting for a wired bone conducting headset (mic included), so far only Chinese producers for that market.

The trouble with XML has never been XML itself.

It was also about how easy it was to generate great XML.

Because it is complicated and everyone doesn't really agree on how to properly representative an idea or concept, you have to deal with varying output between producers.

I personally love well formed XML, but the std dev is huge.

Things like JSON have a much more tighter std dev.

The best XML I've seen is generated by hashdeep/md5deep. That's how XML should be.

Financial institutions are basically run on XML, but we do a tonne of work with them and my god their "XML" makes you pray and weep for a swift end.

I adore DuckDB.

Did a PoC on a AWS Lambda for data that was GZ'ed in a s3 bucket.

It was able to replace about 400 C# LoC with about 10 lines.

Amazing little bit of kit.