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Who are you and why should we listen to you banging on the drum? Memento mori.

You are absolutely right! It was an honest mistake on my part. The absence of colour is the smoking gun.

We are reaching levels of pettiness never considered possible previously.

Source?

There is a very good open source conversion tool called "Calibre". I use it all the time to convert my, erm, security backups of books I own.

What is "good code"? If you ask your boss, it will most likely be whatever spaghetti code which ensures the contract gets signed on time. The boss doesn't care if the developer nee…

Butcher worker protections and quality of life across all industries to (hypothethically) benefit a single one? No thanks. Why do you feel grinding insane hours would be beneficial…

It is a comment on the absurdity of orbital data centers. Mountaintop data centers sound absurd, but are more feasible and efficient than orbital ones in nearly every aspect.

I use PHP. None of the language tools or constructs available to me are adequate. https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-php-singularity/

Except that is not what the article says and you clearly missed the sarcasm.

If the user puts glue on their pizza because a computer said so, that's a human problem. The computer generated recipes can be useful as inspiration, but of course common sense is …

Until Omega Star gets their act together, we have to live with this nonsense...

Can't you simply fill that gap on your resume with something made up? "Self employed", "freelancer", "stealth startup", "confidential employer" etc. How would the companies ever kn…

Very cool research and wonderfully written. I was expecting an ad for their product somewhere towards the end, but it wasn't there! I do wonder though: why would this company repor…

Recommendations from past workplaces and networking. Honestly never heard of anyone else being hired as a solo contributor outside those channels.

> so why use PHP at all instead of JS like all the other vibe coders? Because there is nothing remotely close to Laravel for JS. I don't want to think about auth, job queues, maili…

>hype-driven commercial product >single-handedly keeping PHP relevant While architecture astronauts are clutching pearls, I've built multiple profitable products with Laravel witho…

> Agile just finally embraced that specs are incomplete and can even be wrong because the writer of the spec does not yet really know or understand what they want. So they need wor…

The US public discourse is so dehumanized today that anyone who is not "with them" is literally not a human anymore. Even within the country itself "the leftards" are considered an…

You can simply add a shell alias with whatever name you like and move on.

Aged like already spoiled milk.

All of those matter, making this whole situation even more unjustified.

If you only realized how ridiculous your statement is, you never would have stated it.

Amazing idea and execution, the sort of stuff I wish there was more of on HN.

Sure it could have been, if you knew about SSH packet inspectors in Wireshark... The author didn't, and used a general tool to their aid - why is that unfortunate?