@kims

Now that's an excellent, if hard hitting story. lesson. parable?. Thanks for that.

@kims

oh man, I totally need a TV wife that's a great idea.

I'm sure that $172 #Airpods working as hearing aids is/will be a good thing. But apart from that, every #Apple keynote / launch thingy I am reminded of this oldie:
https://youtu.be/FL7yD-0pqZg

_They could take a brick, and slap the Apple logo on it and call it an iPhone._

@kaia ew no. and scratch the durable bed liner?

How can you tell your sw team has no experience designing REST APIs?

`/Endpoint`
`/EndpointButWithSpecial`
`/EndpointButSpecial2`
`/EndpointButSpecial2Int32`
`/EndpointSpecialNegated`

What's the difference between `/ESpecial and `/ESpecialNegated` - wait, don't tell me it just does the opposite. _Yeah_. Why didn't you just add a optional `inverse=true` parameter to the DTO? Now I have to document a whole new endpoint and in swagger etc.

_Uh_.

A: because they were _lazy_ is why.

@jeffowski in fact, when they talk about Phelp's physiological advantages they couch it in terms of "this man has evolved to be the perfect swimmer".

I don't see why it can't be that Imane hasn't evolved to be the most perfect woman pugilist. Imane is awesome and people are being completely dumb about this.

At #Crowdstrike right now there is a disgruntled stressed out #QA person who TOLD the #ProductOwner and #projectmanager "we haven't fully tested this week's patch yet. We're under staffed and the release train is too fast, we're falling behind." and they were told "Bah! Its fine! We have to deploy the WhizFlam feature to make our quarterly numbery line on the $money $chart go up! SHIP IT"

@multiverseofbadness lol, Bush admin. That IS the way it USED to happen back in the .com days - if you had a _pulse_, could turn on a computer and knew _any_ programming language a valley tech firm would throw $80k at you fresh out of college.

I havent been on Reddit since the revolt last year. I poked my head back in.
Seems to be going well. This is the shitty official app.

What the actual fck.

@mcc Hadn't thought about it but hey yeah, noone ever talks about nines anymore. I think its because its all about security not availability.

Your service being available for all but 12 seconds a year is nice and all, but when you have an unconfigured proxy or documented backdoor account with unchanged default password `password` and all your users data is tied up in ransomeware, it doesn't seem so important. I'd rather have my backend down for 12 hrs a year to apply security patches thanks.

@mcc We can still brag about how many *digits* our Slashdot ID had (5).

@mcc Its funny - my main source of scroll-news up until 2010 was Slashdot. It was on Slashdot that I found out about this hip new thing called Reddit... in a post about the demise of Digg.

I bailed on Reddit a year ago because fuck Spez and now Im back on Slashdot (although most scrnews is here not there.)

@mcc @grumpasaurus I am tired
you are tiredes
he is tired
she is tirede
nous tiredons
vouz tiredez
ils tiredent
elles tiredent

@WarnerCrocker And of all the hills to literally die on.

Commercial grade food pasterurization was prooven by Appert in 1810, so I know there's only a measly 210 yrs of experience and knowledge on this one, but the envidence is overwhelming - pasteurization is GOOD. Makes food safer AND keep longer. How can you possibly look at it and go naw, this is clearly a brain control ploy by THE MAN.

What's next, sanitization of surgical instruments? Oh pls do, I hear sepsis is deliciously painful.

@emmecola ah. So we can use chat gpt to decode the captchas blocking signups for chatgpt accounts. Just keep forking account sign-up scripts until all chatgpt does is chatgpt sign-up captcha. The chatgpt captcha event horizon!

@SrRochardBunson @BeAware Ah yes. Rage Against The Washing Machine.

And here I thought it was a printer.

@RickiTarr I live in mid southwestern Ontario Canada. We're a ~90m train or drive away from Toronto which is nice, but we're just far away to not have megatropolis woes like Ultra-Traffic to deal with. While I live in a mid-sized metro area of about half a mil, twenty minutes in any direction gets you into farm fields where they all talk and behave like Letterkenny, which frankly is more accurate than most Canadians want to admit.

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@RickiTarr While there's a bunch of nice things about Canada (like not paying for healthcare, still a rather progressive (freedom and rights) and protective constitutional, legal and legislative system) and we have gobs of nice nature to enjoy, we like some of our cousins south of the border are fighting a wave of conservative populism that is (trying to) dismantle a lot of the good things for $profit$. And while we don't have quite the same money in politics problem,

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@RickiTarr we still give our big corporations way too much leeway (oil+gas, groceries, residential income trusts) and in the past 20 years especially they've been gouging and screwing us and our environment. Unless we bought our homes in the mid 00s, noone I know under 50 can afford to buy a house anywhere practical.

But, all things considered, still not a terrible place to live.

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