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Especially since all OP seems to do is churn these out and exclusively only post them? Ugh, these AI thought leaders...

Yeah when I worked at Deloitte Consulting, we had similar training that said something to the effect of "don't put something in an email that wouldn't feel comfortable as a newspap…

I believe the bigger failure mode in that scenario is the fact that the site was storing user passwords in plaintext (either directly or effectively). Users tend to reuse passwords…

Well, there's nothing as permanent as a temporary solution...

Oooh now I'm wondering if this may have contributed to their Docker image distribution service getting disrupted earlier today... https://status.redhat.com/incidents/jn6r256zc62c

Wow, why do you think the communication was so off? (I don't know much about French) My guess would be that the intervewing manager was just translating English sentences directly …

I can easily remember a few multi-hour AWS incidents from the last few years, since I've had to handle the resulting fires at my various employers at those times. Not sure how you …

Page 68 of this PDF ( https://covid19.public-inquiry.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/05... ), section G2 titled "Testing and Operations Data" has some high level information. I know the…

The core data platform for NHS Test and Trace was not Excel based at all. It was a reasonably simple but solid AWS setup using S3, Glue and the smallest Redshift instance at the ti…

Standard BTF nonsense. (BTF = Blue Tick Fucker, an initialism I'm trying to get to take off, primarily in my WhatsApp groups where there's loads of self-proclaimed geopolitics expe…

Yeah I can see that, even when a recruiter contacted me a few years back for a data engineering position, they were looking strictly for experience in JVM-based languages.

I tend to bounce around between Ubuntu Mono, Fira Code and Comic Mono. Comic Mono is not amongst the participants in this game, and my finalists were Ubuntu Mono and Fira Code, so …

...or you keep fighting forward with the migration, because if it's seen as a failure then some pretty big heads will have to roll...

Just fyi, myopathy is a general term for diseases that affect some types of muscles, while myopia is short-sightedness -- assuming the latter is what you were going for!

Baffling to see this, in every place I've worked at that used Lotus Notes, it was an absolute dog on the system. Clunky, slow, and ground everything else to a halt. And this was th…

> Doesn't pay attention to plot > Claims plot is terrible People who complain about aspects about movies they didn't like should all be as forthright as GP in explaining why exactl…

"He says it like it is! No wait, here's what he actually meant..."

Reminds me of this post: https://dannorth.net/blog/the-worst-programmer/ Discussed here a couple of times as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37361947 , https://news.ycom…

That's beautiful, I'd love a monospaced variant of this to replace Comic Mono in my IDE/Fira Mono in my terminal. IANA font expert though, would that even be possible?

> If you work in technology, you are part of this force, whether you like it or not. Disappointing to see you downvoted. I agree with this partially, but only because I think it ap…