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Does my opinion on SQL and ORMs matter anymore? What does Claude think about ORMs an SQL? So far Claude seems to be content with my existing patterns of using JPA/Hibernate. We've been having this conversation since the early 2000s. Will we have it next year? Maybe just for fun... to pretend we are still relevant :(
I didn't realize Apple had a kid mode. Of course I see Apple watches everywhere, but I haven't talked to any parents about them. When we got the gizmo 3ish years ago, it was popular with a lot of kids around here. I wasn't hearing of kids using the apple watch. The gizmo is nice in that they can call us and that their contacts are limited. I really don't want to have more features than that. I'm just surprised that it feels like an "unpolished" set of features.
I have a verizon watch only account. I was able to get the new app working, but it was a struggle. I think it worked on the 3rd or 4th attempt. I had to start over and lost all of the contacts that were connected to the watch. Fortunately, there were only a few.
Overall, the Gizmo watch has been nice to have, but it leaves a lot to be desired. It's surprising that there are not better products in this market segment.
I use both SQL and ORMs every day. I've used hibernate since 2004. I've certainly had some difficult times with it; but overall it is a net positive. I find that it generally works well and saves a ton of time as long as I stick to my known patterns.
I tweaked the css in my browser with developer tools.
There's a mass delusion in the industry that using Kubernetes has to be hard, grossly over complex, and is always wrong if you are not Netflix scale. Is the system as described by the author significantly less complex and better than a small Kubernetes system? Sounds like they went through a lot of work to get it to their desired state.
Rolling your own zero-downtime deployments is as about as a good idea as rolling your own security... it's not a good idea.
I run our small system on a single EC2 instance with K3s. It runs a half-dozen or so services and does it quite well. I don't think it is particularly complex or over engineered. I like how easy it is to maintain the configuration in a helm package and quickly deploy it in different environments.
There is a learning curve for doing K8s well, but that's true for any non-trivial system.
I've been using Macbook Pros for a long time. I usually spend 3-4k on them. I recently purchased an 14" Asus ZenBook for $1300 and loaded Omarchy Linux on it. I wanted to have something less expensive and lightweight for traveling. I really like it a lot! I notice that it is a little slower than my Macbook Pro, but the performance completely acceptable for most things.
Some people get entirely too dogmatic about their “XYZ is wrong, don’t do it!” beliefs. At the time I implemented JWT in our system, many years ago; it was the most straightforward way to solve the problems that I had. I read about the pitfalls and have yet to experience any of them. So in short.. “no regrats” from this heathen.
I maintain a system I created in 2004 (crazy right). Not sure how we lived; but at the time, emojis were not as much of a thing. This has come to bite me several times.
I don't like being negative and I always appreciate open source / free software but..
I tried using it in a small k8s cluster on digital ocean. Initial installation using the recommended helm package was easy enough. However, it only saved a very short period of log data. I spent a fair amount of time searching docs and the web about how to increase the storage, with no luck. Such an obvious and common need should not be so difficult to configure. You should not have to deep dive, reverse engineer, and read source code in order to solve such simple problems.
In some instances, watermarks can be distracting from the perception of what the final product will be.
I recently used this to create a web site design. I wanted to see it without watermarks. Then after the customer approved the design, I purchased the image to use in the implementation of the design.
So anytime someone thinks something is dubious, their brain is "looking for patters and finding it even if it’s not there". I disagree, sometimes your brain makes connections and often (but not always) those connections are correct. To most dedicated runners (such as the LetsRun group); this case is pretty obvious. The last paragraph of the article reads pretty conclusive of his guilt.
This reminds me of Lance Armstrong. Prior to his outing, I believed Lance Armstrong was innocent of doping. But many serious cyclists told me there was no way he was not doping, and they were right. Expertise is often useful.
As a mid-40s marathoner, this is really interesting to me. I don't feel sorry for him; other than that he lived life with an ego condition allowing him to do this. That is sad, but he earned the scrutiny and outing.
Right now, I'm running 50+ miles a week training for a marathon. That is really hard and a major commitment. I won't set any records, but I have a good shot at placing in my age group. I don't run to win anything or achieve a certain place, but I would be somewhat pissed off if some idiot like this cheated and beat me.
I enjoy most of the time that I spend running, but to get to this level, you have to go through a pretty difficult level of training which makes all of your life a lot more stressful during the periods of intense training. Right now, I'm staying in a job that I don't like because the schedule is very flexible and allows me to spend around 15 hours a week training.
While I think he is quite funny, I would be pissed if I had to pay money to take his class.
This article made me chuckle. It is spot on. I worked at a trip planning startup around 2006 - 2007. A lot of money was burned, fortunately it wasn’t mine!
I’ve enjoyed using the Kubernetes environment on Docker Desktop for Mac. It’s been pretty good.. paying for it is not an unreasonable request.
I’ve used DO for around 8 years and have had mostly great service & experience with them. At the time of switching, we cut our hosting fees from around $1k to under $300. Now we are running on their hosted kubernetes service and it’s working great. They simplify a lot of things and the pricing is pretty straight forward.
I agree with this completely.
Apple recently required that anyone using 3rd party authentication (google, fb, etc) in their iOS app, must also provide support for Apple ID signin. That is not an unreasonable request. I was able to implement the signin without too much difficulty. However, when it came to doing a server-side validation of the signin via the Apple API; it was an absolute POS blackbox.
Their documentation and server responses provided no indication of why the validation failed. I searched the docs and forums; it was clear that a ton of other people had the same problem with absolutely no clues into resolving the issue. So I just gave up on it. Total waste of time.
Counting in dog years?
If it isn’t profitable to be a landlord; why would anyone be a landlord? And if there are fewer landlords, who provides housing? The government? I’d rather live in a really bad tiny house than a government project.
I’m sticking with MySpace
I'm not trying to go out of my way to be snarky... BUT I find it funny that someone writing about why a technology sucks; can't manage to keep their blog online.
REST is simple, simple is good. It's not perfect for everything, but it has served my purposes well for many years.
I don't bike in winter, but 'Fat Biking' has gone way beyond fad here in Northern Michigan.. You see people commuting around town in them all winter long... a foot of new snow is not a problem for these folks. But it is a smaller city.
The Yelp episode of South Park is one of the best.
"I'm a food critic with Yelp.com... umkay."
http://southpark.cc.com/full-episodes/s19e04-youre-not-yelpi...
The universe is chaotic and insecure
There are many things in tech which have caused great grief in my life as a programmer. JSON is not one of them.
if it bleeds it leads
As a Michigan resident.. I would like to see it happen. But I don't think Detroit is a particularly attractive destination for top software engineering talent.
Baristas and coffee shop owners use plenty of free services on the web, so let's just think of it as a symbiotic relationship.