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Very neat. I work for a small manufacturer and wanted to implement LED signage like i had at my old gig: show machine speed, job info, etc.

But the signs we used before were serial with ethernet converters that were pretty fragile and as the sole contributor i dont want that hanging over my head.

Are there larger forms of these signs available? I understand TVs are trivially expensive at this point but theres something about the brightness and design of LED displays that seems uniquely better in the manufacturing space.

Incredible! Thanks for sharing

Wow, Journeyman project brings back memories.

I got this game for Christmas and wasn’t really bright enough to get through the whole thing at 7 but it was a really interesting game that I’d forgotten about until now.

What a wonderful project. Bookmarked for the next time I need something nice in the terminal :)

Way to go, team.

Yeah, totally. He only printed things a few times a year and by then inkjets usually dry and print poorly. I don't fault him but it's interesting to these strange market forces in my life.

As an aside, my grandfather was a terrific guy. He bought a Gateway 2000 PC in the 90's and spent lots of time with me getting Sim City 2000 loaded up on it. He always had some gadget to show me since he knew how much I loved technology and he was very good at it for someone of his generation. I don't begrudge recycling 11 printers as I cleaned up his house and it always gives my dad and I a good laugh and nice memories of an important person in my life.

Just an anecdote: my grandfather passed away a few years ago and he was always into new technology. After he passed when we were cleaning up his home we found no fewer than 11 inkjet printers in his basement.

Every time one stopped working (probably ran out of ink, or printed poorly because of long delays between printing) he would go to Best Buy, get talked up by a salesperson about a nice new printer, and buy it.

It's just incredible to see this story in action.

As someone who is literally starting an IT department from scratch, this is a really exciting list for me to dig into. There are old favorites like 'mythical man month' that I'm generally aware of, though never actually read personally, and whole new blogs and videos to sift through. Thanks for this.

I work in an organization with a lot of internal line-of-business apps for manufacturing. While there might be hundreds or thousands of users, the problem just doesn't really warrant the extra steps that microservices requires to really work. (If my users want reporting, we can just run reports against the main database. We don't need some Report service implementing CQRS or Event Sourcing to put all the disparate pieces together...)

However, I will say we've taken some considerations from the microservices discussion to heart and thought more about fault-tolerance, ci/cd, and streamlining the deployment process so we've definitely gotten some value from the zeitgeist.

That said, most of our apps end up being a fairly relaxed monolith with some service integrations here and there. And you know what? It's pretty nice sometimes :)

I love daft punk and had countless nights in college studying, gaming, and coding to their albums. I will continue to love their music but totally understand wanting to move onto something new after almost 30 years :)

Best of luck to them in whatever they move onto next

The Nasa person they have helping narrate what's going on is so genuinely happy the landing went well. It made me kinda tear up. It's infectious just how excited all these people are about this project. Also, I was a bit worried he was going to pass out. 10/10, would watch again (and probably will with my kids)

I know nothing about this tech but could you copy a whole drive bit by bit onto another drive and keep the original while “using up” attempts on a donor drive?

Pretty bold claim that 2080TIs are going to sell for $250 in a month, lol.

Certainly the market for them will take a beating compared to new prices now. But I can't imagine it collapsing like that purely based on the supply. How many people are really going to drop their 2080 just because a new thing is out there?

I'd love to be wrong, as an original 2070 owner ;)

As a developer for some sleepy enterprise apps, I am very impressed at how companies like Zoom, Microsoft, and such can scale to handle this increased load so gracefully. I'm guessing this is just their website and not their actual app backend, but I'd imagine they had a huge spike there, too.

I work for a very large player in the print industry (which is transitioning to 'multichannel marketing solutions provider').

I feel like my company has done the best they can (given our industry has already been under a lot of pressure prior to COVID) under circumstances. We're in groups of rolling furloughs so folks have not been permanently laid off. While laid off, we still are receiving medical benefits, which is great.

As a remote worker prior to all this, I haven't had to change much of my day to day and our infrastructure has handled the influx of remote workers (thousands) very well.

However, it also makes the prospect of moving to another company daunting. I worked on-prem for years and developed relationships with co-workers prior to moving off-site. I have a lot of anxiety about not being able to create the same relationships at a new company or having to commute again to a city center for work (something I really can't see myself doing unless absolutely necessary). It's a scary prospect and one I think is absolutely possible given the precarious state of my industry and the economy on the whole.

Basically, yes.

Here's an excellent Planet Money article I heard yesterday going over this issue: https://www.npr.org/2020/03/13/815307821/planet-money-why-th...

At least in the US, there's a policy of 'creating' a market for vaccines for these potential outbreaks in order to incentivize industry to research and produce them.

  trickle down economics and the myth of tax cuts automatically generating enough economic growth are just that: myths, that have been debunked.

I live in the midwest and there's a Frys up by Chicago. I drove up there during the holidays in hopes I might be able to snag my wife a nice monitor off the floor.

I was absolutely gutted to see the state of the store. It's immense, which makes its hollowness even more shocking. I remember when the store opened during my highschool years (2004'ish?) it was a pilgrimage to go there and see double-stacked shelves of every part you could imagine.

The employees (probably a 15-20 in the huge 400K sq.ft. store) looked shellshocked and didn't seem to have any inclination to ask me how they could help. I talked to a security guard who was maybe 17-18 and he mentioned something about renegotiating contracts with vendors or something, but I could tell even he didn't buy it.

I don't think there is any question of whether Fry's is in dire trouble.

This is fascinating.

I work for a large enterprise that has basically written its own ERP from scratch. There's a lot of rough edges but it's very tailored for our workflow and processes.

I've toyed with the idea of what I'd build if I could largely take what I know and start fresh (standard exercise in madness, I know) in order to learn about the bits I am not familiar with (I'm more in manufacturing, know very little about CRM and accounting processes).

It was very interesting coming across this only a few weeks ago and seeing this here. Starting it up in a docker container was a snap and it had a number of free modules that were easy to add. It's very basic but gets the point across and was a fun learning experience (and nice because it's in a language I don't currently develop in, python).

Just thought the timing was peculiar and enjoyed hearing about folks here harping on ERP development as soul-crushing. Yes, it can be at times, but I also really enjoy how it lets me really dig into my company's processes. When you get it right, it can make your users sing with joy when you help speed things up or streamline things.

I don't know where I was going with this but just enjoyed the article :)

I am doing a short 'primer' for my developer colleagues on GraphQL, this came up just in time. Thanks for the terrific resource!

As someone who works in manufacturing, I can't count the number of times I've been told to "just make it work". And, in reality, sometimes that truly is the best option in the immediate term to get a system working so you can make enhancements later. But I think that's the operative phrase: so you can enhance later.

The challenge is that once the immediate fire is out, it's easy to simply leave things in a half-baked state. That accumulates as technical debt.

Thankfully, most of the instances where I have had to deal with this has been purely software and not affected the lives and comfort of operators on the floor like with Tesla. But I can see how this happens. Even if the 'tent' becomes a permanent installation, I hope they spend the time and money to improve it to the necessary working standards that employees deserve.

I just watched a fascinating video on 18th century cooking where this same kind of fish (cod) is prepared: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdzAt6e1l-c

I thought the step where they beat the fish with a mallet was so wild. It's certainly led me down a rabbit hole of seeing how we used to prepare food a few hundred years ago.

Evil? I think you might mean "microsofts priorities don't align with my own".

Man, people are salty about this.

I've been a long-time .net developer and the changes in the last few years have felt really refreshing, even as someone deeply in the microsoft ecosystem.

.Net announcements seemed to feel like monolithic messages coming down from on high. Now, I see folks like Scott Hanselman and the asp.net team (Damian Edwards and David Fowler, mostly) being so open about their design decisions as core moves forward. VS Code seems to have been a smash hit from all indicators I can find.

Sure, Windows isn't OSS, and there's a lot of skeletons in the closet. But the amount of dismissal I read here is frustrating given the amount of earnest effort I see engineers putting into getting things right.

Illinois

To the surprise of no one, things are going slower than expected: http://www.chicagomag.com/city-life/February-2019/What-Happe...

As an enterprise software developer who makes software for 'internal' customers, I've not really had to address the issue of accessibility. However, I find this really neat and hope I can be more mindful about it moving forward.

Pretty neat to see how much effort was put into this.

    It works on every database known to humans

We're fully on Jetbrains tools otherwise (R#, dotTrace and dotMemory, TeamCity as build server) so it was a no brainer for me to want to continue that trend but it didn't check all the boxes for us, despite its clear polish.

I tend to hate any IDE built on Eclipse (which I think DBeaver is), but I've been very pleasantly surprised with how well it works.

1. It's got very nice ER modeling where other tools (Like Oracle SQL Developer) make you jump through a dozen screens and a wizard to make a simple diagram.

2. It's got nice export tools to get your data to business partners in a more convenient way. Sure you can copy tables in pretty much every tool but there's just an 'excel' button that can pop open your current query in a new sheet.

3. It does have a weird delay when opening up databases sometimes where it 'reads metadata' about the table and it can sometimes take a long time to return even the most basic query. But once it's cached that data I've not noticed problems after that.

4. It does seem like the document database tooling isn't as baked as the relation tooling. I routinely get hangs when querying my Mongo collections, which is sometimes a drag. But it hasn't been a huge issue.

Overall, I'd highly recommend the paid version of this tool as it's helped me consolidate: Robo3T, Sql Server Mgmt Studio, SQL Developer, and MySQL Workbench into a single tool.

I wonder if this study includes memes like that or only actual site links external to Facebook.

I have similar experiences with older loved ones I'm friend with on Facebook and it's rare they send links. But I think the rampant meme-sharing of misinformation/disinformation is much more prevalent.

I've work for a company that does these from time to time and they've always been optional. For big milestones, there are typically quite a few people who are genuinely excited and it's nice to see photos like these posted in the lobby for posterity. If I was crunching at Tesla for months I'd probably want to be in this picture, too. As long as it's optional for folks that want to join in, I actually see it as a nice thing (for us it's a time where we can hang out with the CEO a bit, something that's rare for as large as we are)

Good? Meh.

Necessary? Probably.

No one likes paying taxes and, given the chance, people will either willfully or accidentally take advantage of the system. There needs to be a system in place to keep people and companies honest so that the system is fairly applied.

I think that's a subject entirely independent from the simplicity of the tax system. It needs to be as straightforward as legislators can make it.

That would be great, never seen MkDocs but looks like it might be an improvement for jumping between topics.