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It's surprisingly hard to convince supposedly trained tech professionals that `chmod -R 777 /path/to/whadever` is not a good habit.

PS: Think about the next evolution of it, the auto refresh (from the great apps Instagram and LinkedIn). Did I use the word evolution right?

Loren Brichter [1] Never thought of finding out who until you mentioned! What a small but fantastic contribution! Thanks Loren!! [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pull-to-refresh

> at one point they asked me to work a weekend and I already had plans, so they asked what it would take. I wanted a classic FIAT 500, so I named the price of the car: multiple tho…

They tried so hard and got so far..

Just today my Pixel failed to do the right thing on "Set an alarm in 15 minutes" thanks to Gemini. This has worked reliably since Google Assistant was introduced.

> What are you going to do about it? Ah the difficult topic we don't want to talk about!

My theory is that, at some point they did a good PR job convincing many people that they are good (Maybe they were actually alright for a bit, who knows). To be honest I too saw th…

For a second, it appeared some found out. https://www.reutersconnect.com/item/south-korean-retail-inve... But it seems there's still a lot in their FA phase in the FAFO cycle.

Calamansi I got with Hokkien mee was green outside and yellow/oranage-ish inside. I assumed it's ripe since it was kinda sweet too. An aside: I used to not use the Calamansi in Hok…

I'd assume we can rent one in this era of renting.. everything.

I really liked fly at first and still have some stuff running (still falling within free credits). I was so excited for Sprites but I guess, I was not in the target audience becaus…

I assumed they are the same :-O

> There are so many great and useful things it can and will do to improve humanity. Caveat: Only if it also produces shareholder value

> Engineers who care about such things, often engage in acts of "benevolent noncompliance". Common workarounds are "asking for forgiveness instead of permission", secrecy, and misd…

Hold on just a sec. Will do after throwing everything at the AI wave.

Drum it out loud. Some organizations are stuck in proverbial cobwebs of security blankets. Those who dictate what security should be have no skin in the game, the end result is jus…

I was hoping you saw the nice end of it, with a feint smile on my face. Very rude ending! PS: I laughed outside. Cried inside.

Obligatory reference to "Software as theory building" by Peter Naur.

They are trying I guess: https://stackoverflow.blog/2026/06/10/announcing-stack-overf...

What if there's only half a dev and a swarm of agents after the layoffs?

Who else had LinkedIn posts about this flashing before your eyes?

Someone up in the food chain must have big investments in AI though. The great shove down didn't just appear.

Software loose on theory[1] trying to compensate with moar md. [1] https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Naur.pdf