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I've been thinking about that recently too. The original drive behind the whole "worse is better" movement was that the software should remain simple and solve a simple problem. It…

Yeah, there were a couple good points, but a lot that felt off when I read this article (beyond the fact it was largely LLM-generated). That said, I will say I personally love an o…

It's really a shame. I grew up in a frugal household that venerated Dave Ramsey, and there was a ton of moralizing of finances that didn't need to be moralized. Stuff like "debt is…

This is one of the reasons I like YNAB (both their app and their method). One of their core principles is to align your spending -- including future spending, aka saving -- with yo…

It's not inherently contradictory, just like using a calculator could be considered cheating depending on the context. If you're just learning basic arithmetic, a calculator is che…

Yeah I was getting the same feeling. I wonder if an equivalent request to California police agencies that contract Flock technologies would work though.

Sounds like a similar approach to this service: https://addy.io/ I use it all the time in conjunction with Bitwarden to generate unique emails per site. You can have notes in each …

The 90-90 rule may need an update for a POST-LLM world "The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 9% of the development time. The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the …

No, two completely separate players. There was a partnership agreement a while ago, but that got severed a while back https://www.flocksafety.com/blog/axon-plans-to-sever-apis-wi..…

A while ago when I was working with PowerShell a lot, I got spoiled by the easy inclusion of `-DryRun` flags in all my scripts. Nowadays I still use the technique for a lot of the …

I feel like the distinction between the two is fairly contrived these days. I'm an SRE, and we're constantly building tooling to help us better manage infrastructure, improve relia…

> The best rule of thumb is, if you’re not sure whether something needs to be said right now, hold off and see what happens. You can always say it later if it turns out there’s no …

Nice, that's a big differentiator! I use git sync with my mobile vault, but it's very hacky (using a Termux cronjon) and it's often flaky. Plus I have to open up Termux any time I …

Honestly, not a bad idea. I'd just have to deal with figuring out a good, standardized text-based format. I already use a git-backed Obsidian markdown knowledge base for most of my…

I like having my recipes in digital format, but the lack of notes, annotations, and editing history is a big weakness in most of them. I would love one that offered a git-like inte…

Meh, this was a survey conducted at 4 different companies. It only proves correlation, not causation. And even then, it only proves it at these 4 companies since they didn't use ra…

I have a cheap drawing tablet I purchased for about $20. It works wonders for whiteboarding and diagramming things for my remote coworkers. Especially when used in conjunction with…

Doesn't seem to be a very credible article. There's an awful lot of pontificating about the disastrous outcomes of COVID-era policies without any supporting evidence. The whole thi…

Not the original commenter, but our team has recently been dealing with this exact thing. It depends on the specifics of your use case, architecture, etc., but there is a lot of va…

As a transport I agree. But as a config file format? I'm a little skeptical. The main benefit of a flat file format for configs is that it can be added to source control and edited…

This. Security questions are almost always visible to humans in plaintext, and those humans are expected to be the judge of whether the security question was answered correctly. I …

In my case, I'm running FreeNAS/TrueNAS for storage and a Plex jail. I'd imagine there are a number of people in the same boat considering the popularity of TrueNAS.