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I would say knowing linux basics should probably come _before_ identifying as a "hacker"

Personally I've avoided using any Synology-specific functionality. It's not as transparent and seems kind of brittle. I feel like that's going to pay off because after a couple of years I'm pretty sure I'm going to switch to an open source solution instead, and I won't have to look for alternatives to systems I'm already using.

Cockatoo navigator: Hey, that's a neat-looking planet we just passed, let's dismantle it for fun.

Org-level admin requirements are what stopped me from pursuing my own solution. Hopefully your approach will have better luck.

Surely `rq` can't be far behind.

It may not have happened to you yet, but someday you'll see a date somewhere other than this post.

Most people have never had to replace the starter in their automobile, but the ones that have sure are glad it's not spitefully welded in place just to make things difficult for them.

This is usually the part of the discussion where we get to have a laugh about "private courts".

Sexy URL, sucks for you if anyone actually clicks it and/or examines your profile as a "Defense industry consultant".

Just to be clear, your answer as someone invested in the defense industry to the question of "What military role does the F-35 fill in the modern world that unmanned drones can't?" is to say:

A mission flown for the purpose of detecting targets and coordinating or performing attack or reconnaissance on those targets. Strike coordination and reconnaissance missions are flown in a specific geographic area and are an element of the command and control interface to coordinate multiple flights, detect and attack targets, neutralize enemy air defenses and provide battle damage assessment

Forgive my ignorance, but are you saying that we basically need a trillion-dollar endeavor to develop manned fighters which have just barely caught up to the existing technology to go pick fights abroad that we could have already been doing?

What new threat are we facing here, other than a slowing of contractual dollars?

That's absolutely true, and it definitely matters when you're designing something that will see productive use for the benefit of the people paying for it, but it's not obvious that that's the case here.

Hear me out...what if we could get both contracts?!

He's a former Java developer who is now accustomed to Scala, obviously he prefers that to Kotlin because it's what he knows...

What military role does the F-35 fill in the modern world that unmanned drones can't?

When the F-35 debuted, it was inferior to the F-16 and other 4th generation aircraft. However, its potential has been steadily unlocked by the engineers, and several years ago, it surpassed the F-16’s capability.

Sounds like the national defense equivalent of rewriting your website from scratch in $LATEST_WEBSHIT_FRAMEWORK. Sure, it's a worse product, but just imagine how great it _could_ be if we halt development of the working version and spend a trillion dollars making the new one work. See? It's better! And the customer is paying hand over fist, so everyone wins.

The next logical step from paying SodaStream for weirdly proprietary CO2 is to simply buy a real tank of CO2 and a bottle-top adapter and make your own. I'm not sure how that could be "disrupted" without carving out a niche for a slightly-more-convenient but equally unnecessary middleman.

Also the IRS: making tax filing free and super simple would be bad for shareholder value

Electron is bad enough from a user perspective, but it's downright horrible to see how it's instilled a rather defeatist approach in front-end developers.

"But I already know Javascript, it's too hard to figure out something else"

The option is native vs. electron vs. a regular web app. There's rarely any reason you need your web app to live in a dedicated Chrome instance without a URL bar.

Jesus Christ; firstly no, it's not a benefit whatsoever to be able to force someone to do something. Secondly, a boss who has to force people to do things rather than provide convincing reasons to do them is a terrible boss, and should be fired by his/her boss immediately.

The "very essence" of being a boss is knocking out obstacles for the people under you. That is what a boss actually does, not tell people what to do.

Those types of managers/bosses are great, and are some of my favorite people because they simply allow me to do what needs doing while shielding me from bullshit. But by no stretch of the imagination (or certainly the experience of workers as a whole) do they represent every manager/boss. If you've been lucky or sheltered enough to avoid the kind that aren't like that, you should reflect on that as a fortuitous outcome and maybe consider that your experience isn't everyone's experience.

Sounds like what I learned from Ravens in Winter (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/122665.Ravens_in_Winter) an excellent read.

You don't search the web using news sites.

Given a few more years to bake, maybe it would have achieved parity with the already fully-baked AR-15? It seems like the perfect example of "Not Invented Here" syndrome and didn't need to exist in the first place.

If, as a consumer of software and hardware, you presume that it's incumbent upon people expending their own energy for free to cater to your personal situation and/or purchasing habits, you'll keep taking whatever you're given and I don't feel bad when creators ignore you. "Market adoption" is not a driving force here.

Most of the meat they eat now comes from factory farms, you can't get much closer yo manufactured food than that.

That could be a factor, but by and large I don't think that law enforcement puts much of an emphasis on staying fit from what I've seen.

The use case is pretty straightforward; TFA says that the referenced columns are both indexed and the runtime is a function of how MariaDB executes that simple query. Do you have anything concrete to offer in terms of optimizing "storage patterns" in this case that the OP has missed?

I'm all for optimizing for minimal resource usage, but if plugging $200 worth of RAM into the machine allowed the original query to run in an acceptable timeframe, that may well easily offset the hours of analysis and transformation that resulted in the shorter runtime. Unless, of course, we're more concerned with engaging in a performative defense of our arbitrarily self-bestowed credentials as "engineers".

I keep waiting to get cynical about Spring Boot for some reason (maybe once the next conceptual breakthrough which looks obvious in retrospect happens), but honestly it's the breath of fresh air and simplicity that the JVM ecosystem needed, and it has literally turned writing Java weba apps upside down (err..inside out?) in the best sense possible.

Not all instructions (or instruction sets) are equivalent.

I've been impressed with the durability of MacBooks in the past, but sadly the "survives a fall from the top of a refrigerator without a scratch" feature has been superceded by "keyboard exposed to air, several keys stop working". They're way too flaky these days for the nice aluminum unibody to offset.

I hereby deem you insane. Now what?