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No, I left the industry.

dang seems to have outright banned him just over a fortnight ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42653007 On Hacker News, banned accounts can still comment, but those comment…

"There's no foresight. There's no planning." Couple that with "as an expression of agility," and it really rings true to me. I've worked in enough shops where the contractual oblig…

I've had a lot of experiences like this, and I wound up ducking out of the industry entirely in 2021 after having had my skillset reduced to dogmatic use of the infrastructure buzz…

A lot of newer[0] US domestic market manual transmission cars do, in fact, have an interlock that prevents the starter motor from getting power without the clutch pedal also being …

Georgia HB 87 (2011) and its unintended consequences say otherwise. While the H-2A is indeed popular, there are still a staggering number of people working these jobs who are here …

It's all part of the actuarial mindset. The entire point of the exercise is to arrive at a model of reality that has some degree of predictive power. > For me the only things that …

I'm also on team Keep An Eye On Things™, and approximately none of it really feeds into an anxiety loop. (There's a tiny sliver of the pie that does, but it's easy enough to talk m…

> There's something very, very wrong in the way we write programs nowadays. I largely agree, but... > ... the database is you main source of invariants. I guess my upbringing throu…

> If your unit tests have some overlap on your integration tests, that's nbd especially seeing as you can run your unit tests in parallel. Exactly. Another upside I've run into whi…

> The only thing enforcing these invariants in production is the interplay between your database schema and the queries you execute against it." I'm unsure that I agree. The two ex…

I think it's probably worth mentioning that the principal concern for tests should be proving out the application's logic, and unless you're really leaning on your database to be, …

Starlark is Turing-incomplete, which makes it somewhat unique among embeddable languages. It's definitely a draw for me for something I'm working on.

It was! I've, however, gotten way more use out of saddling whoever is most senior with the role of making sure the team as a whole is on track. This way, it's a little more familia…

I'll push back in defense of Scrum, but it probably bears a little explanation because my conceptualization of that framework is very likely a lot different from yours. (As somethi…

cmd.exe is largely still concerned with starting processes and hooking them together in much the same vein as Bourne shell, so I tend to use it for that. (I actually use Yori[0], b…

"A depressed person often wants to be depressed ..." I'd caution against expressing it this way. It's less a want and more a ground state . I am one of these depressives, and I def…

In practice, at least in my experience, only up to 13. (Though, I have the sequence memorized up to 21 because of a sign outside Chattanooga[0], which is what gave me my "hey, wait…

Fossil ( https://fossil-scm.org ) is actually a proper grow-only set from what I can tell: merge conflicts upon synchronization are encoded in the DAG as forks of the history at th…

The larger problem in my mind is that a lot of asset purchases bestow a lot of tax deferment privileges because of how the tax code is presently written. Consider someone who holds…

"It felt like procrastination, a tech version of a bullet journal." There's a lot out there that certainly falls under what I call "procrasturbation," but the Bullet Journal is iro…

I'm not and never have been NSA, but I nonetheless have a sordid past with what is arguably a related line of work. This is how I manage my passwords. In environments where regular…

I'm not sure I agree, particularly given that there's some incentive for us to get our relatives using these messenger protocols and clients. The Web made it work because everyone …

I don't see any practical difference between "it depends" and "no" here.