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> failed their strategic objective copium > It's their relentless deindustrialization that will eventually do them in Agree, China has already won, at this point a lot of the world…

Anecdotal but we certainly run flyway migrations with a high privelage user not the regular low privelage "app" user who can only SELECT UPDATE and sometimes DELETE. The fact that …

Mighty fine AI you have there, be a shame if something were to happen to it...

This! I've worked with a few developers I would consider net negative to their team and product, in that their removal would have increased 3-4 other team members productivity by s…

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I thought copy.fail is a privelage escalation exploit, become root from a regular user? Am I missing something? How would "node architecture" make people vulnerable to this? You ha…

In an interview with Zelinsky Trump asks "why haven't you had an election? " Zelensky : "because we are at war" you can see the idea percolating then. People think I'm a nutter for…

For machine tools I just use an oil can with a finer than normal tapered tip, this will depress the ball bearing in zerk / grease nipple fittings no problems, this also works with …

One place I worked at used Red Dwarf characters, Hollister, Cat, Toaster, Rimmer etc TV show characters can be good I normally use Greek gods for snowflake servers A concatenation …

This has aged well https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17818647

LSP (Language Server Protocol) a way for editors to talk to language tools to provide auto complete, warnings errors etc. this means the language tools can be written once and then…

Not even particularly elegant code, for example, opacity is clamped between 0 and 1 in in the very next line a bounds check is made anyway. opacity = (opacity 1) ? 1 : opacity; if(…

> these religious institutions help stabilize society I'm not sure this is true, there are plenty of conflicts because of religion. I would argue the most stable would for nobody t…

A couple others Mail Catcher https://mailcatcher.me/ Lunatic SMTP https://github.com/anlar/lunaticsmtp Green Mail https://greenmail-mail-test.github.io/greenmail/

Auctions generally perform better in a seller's market (strong buyer demand), with interest rate rises prices have been dropping lately here (NZ)

Banks don't give out access to this API easily. Unfortunately it's not some OAuth thing that a new upstart accounting software could easily hook into, therefore the banks gate keep…

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A Hungarian notation but as a suffix? Ignoring variable name shadowing a static type system helps a lot https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_notation

100% this! One of the worst projects to reason about I have ever worked on (and I have worked on a lot of trash) was when a colleague insisted on implementing a state machine in a …

"dairy" is Kiwi for a convenience store, Off License, Superette. I remember being surprised moving overseas and calling it a dairy nobody knew what I was talking about https://en.m…

> Never ending warnings you can't turn off and many other small things lead me to skipping small expenses and just eating them, because I can't be bothered to fight Concur. Sometim…

UT99 GOTY always amazed me with how well it runs and plays on abysmal hardware, can lan party it on pretty much any PC

What about living things other than humans?

A common configuration is to pair a router with a managed switch that can handle VLANs and have a trunk port between the switch and router such a setup is called a "router on a sti…