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[dead] 4 years ago

of course it's possible with a rigid arm, it's a super common circus act.

Do they have cloud budget? Slow dev machine is a deal breaker for me. I ask about dev machine quality in the interview bc I hate being bound by the machine I'm on. It's hard enough to focus on tasks, if I'm constantly having to take coffee breaks to compile things that shouldn't take that long it would drive me (more) crazy.

I work for one of the OS makers and we have been making a concerted effort to get rid of memory safety issues across the codebase. I'm not sure if the open-source side of things are attempting similar efforts but as far as consumer OS's I have seen a lot of improvement over the last 10 years.

I feel bad for anyone working in an org that doesn't have the ability to proactively find bugs in their stuff. Lots of places are cheap and don't account for the debt they accrue by not updating their systems. 'if it aint broke don't fix it' doesn't apply to software. What you are shipping is always broken. 'safe' languages are written in unsafe languages. The interpreter has bugs, the vm has bugs, the virtualization stack has bugs, the OS has bugs, the libraries to do everything have bugs. What is there and what is known are both moving targets. If you are not hiring the offensive minded individuals who will find the bugs with or without your support then you will not know about the bugs until they are out in the wild. If you aren't willing to pay those people you are accruing debt that will come due later.

This assert doesn't work like you think it does. If the computer is off is_computer_on is undefined, so if this is called when the computer is already off it could return a nonzero value, thus resolving to true even though the computer is already off.

Fedora 35 5 years ago

It is so hard to tell people about using Linux, how great it is, it's free, etc, and then you get to the name part and it's called 'fedora'.

Computers should be noisier is an interesting take.

I can't tell you how much of a relief it was to have finally have a computer with solid state everything, an insulated case, 120mm fans. Turned it on, silence. It's good for recording sound, it's good for anyone else who happens to be in the room.

Why sound? why not just a.. oh idk. disk access light? Maybe add other little leds for other stuff?