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BossingAround··on Amazon and iRobot call off their planned acquisition
In what ways? The Roomba J7 I'm using is pretty amazing at what it does; the only thing I'd appreciate would be a remote control for some manual cleaning. The automatic stuff is pretty great.
BossingAround··on Oh My Zsh
I hate very few things, but PS1 is one of them.

Would recommend using a PS1 generator, e.g. [1].

[1] https://bash-prompt-generator.org/

BossingAround··on Launch HN: Diversion (YC S22) – Cloud-Native Git Alternative
If you had already committed, `git reflog` should have still found your changes (even after you deleted the commit and restored the local working tree) unless you deleted and re-cloned the repository.
BossingAround··on The man who coined the word "robot" defends himself
In Czech, "robotnik" meant "serfs" and "robota" was the work that the serf was forced to do. Of course, nowadays, "robota" took the meaning of "a job" but that is not relevant to the etymology of the words.
BossingAround··on Flipper Zero: Multi-Tool Device for Geeks
In other words, Chinese brands still have IR blasters. I don't know I would trust Chinese-brand of phones though.
BossingAround··on Free and Open Source Alternative to Airdrop
Honestly, I've been having excellent experience with BT (and headphones) with modern devices.

For example, my Lenovo T14s (2023 AMD version running the latest kernel) connects to my (5.2 version of BT) headphones really well. Similarly, my android phone connects to the same headphones and whatever device sends data, that's what I hear.

Similarly, my Steam Deck connects to two of the headphones I'm using (Sennheiser and Apple Airpods) seamlessly.

BossingAround··on The growing inequality of who gets to work from home
> It’s 2024- it’s really easy to do either one

It's easy if you earn $100k+ of course. It's not easy with $40k in a two-bedroom house with a toddler as a single parent.

"But then, she's not supposed to have that job if she can't do it," I can already hear you say. To that, I'd say sure, you could do that, if you're willing to pay for a several year long maternity leave from your taxes until the parents can place their kids in kindergartens.

BossingAround··on The growing inequality of who gets to work from home
> If her manager were to “secret shopper” call in, how much kindness and grace would they show for being forced to sit though a children’s cartoon while quoting 5-figure invoice numbers back and forth?

Hopefully the identical amount? I don't know why the answer would differ in any meaningful way.

BossingAround··on Culture Change at Google
Just wondering, is it because 3 * 0.5 + (-1) * 0.5 = 1.5 - 0.5 = $1M?
BossingAround··on The growing inequality of who gets to work from home
I totally understand the reaction. Then again, people with kids have it hard enough, let alone those that with low paying jobs. When that happens to me, I get annoyed, but then, I remind myself that I get to exit the call while the other person has to stay in that environment, trying to hustle for money, and I try to show them as much kindness and grace as is possible for me in that moment.
BossingAround··on The growing inequality of who gets to work from home
Surely, occam's razor applies here.

Low level workers have the highest chance of getting injured while operating heavy machinery -> highest chance of being drug tested by the police in such cases -> the management would rather spend money on drug testing than on the lawyers later on.

High-paid workers have a pretty small risk of injury -> very small risk of the government testing them -> management is not incentivized to spend money on drug testing (and possible hiring costs later on).

BossingAround··on The growing inequality of who gets to work from home
I think the assumption you're missing in the circular argument is that gay people could be blackmailed against other entities than the FBI. For example, "give us this FBI file or else we'll release a scandalous photo of you and this gentleman to your wife" kind of a thing.

Of course, as being gay becomes more normalized and less of a secret, FBI wouldn't need to take it into consideration.

How true or not that thinking is, I have no way of assessing, but it does make sense if you consider the premise of blackmail to 3rd parties true. The same could be probably considered for gambling (e.g. "we'll tell your local church group how much you gambled away in your drunken stupor on this weekend").

BossingAround··on A million ways to die on the web
Ah that makes more sense, I can't read. I thought that the project stopped working all together, hence the startup was finished. I didn't realize it meant that they simply lost enough customers to go under.
BossingAround··on A million ways to die on the web
How..? Was there no local code on any of the dev machines? No git? I'm asking because for example if Github is vaporized today, my product would lose roughly a day or two's worth of work, since we have like 30 computers having a repository copy.

Of course redeploying every single thing would not be seamless because of course, there might be some configuration stored in services, or something similar, but I'd say that ~90% of our automation is stored in Git.

BossingAround··on Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998)
Oh I get the same now, perhaps a temporary failure?
BossingAround··on Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998)
Funny, because the Amazon link returns an error for me.
BossingAround··on When am I "allowed" to quit and not be labeled a quitter?
Sounds like South Korea.

> More importantly, quitting would change the way I view and value myself. I wanted to see myself as someone who performed their fair share of service back to society, and not a parasite.

This is an insanely sad thing to read. You pay taxes, unless you're in an active war, you don't "owe" anything to the society.

BossingAround··on Show HN: #!/usr/bin/env docker run
It turns a Dockerfile into an executable script, so that by executing the Dockerfile, the shebang invokes docker to build and run the file.

Pretty neat if you're using Dockerfiles, but also highly non-standard so you wouldn't use it in your company repo (unless you want to increase the "what-the-fuck" level of your repo).

It's more of a "look, this is cool" kind of a thing if you're a Linux and container user.

BossingAround··on Exploring Podman: A More Secure Docker Alternative
Honestly, I trust Red Hat a lot more than Docker.

After the first two or so sentences, you don't mention a single specific thing in your comment, so it's difficult to understand what you mean.

BossingAround··on Exploring Podman: A More Secure Docker Alternative
You should be able to use podman with docker compose though (https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/podman-docker-compose)
BossingAround··on Exploring Podman: A More Secure Docker Alternative
I still don't really understand why Red Hat invests into creating a Docker alternative, but I really like it. Podman does pretty much everything Docker does, but it has more features (e.g. pods) or the way Podman does it tends to be better (e.g. daemonless container spawning process).

The main issue to a common developer would be Docker compose I suppose, which if you use simple compose files, there's actually a podman-compose script that attempts to be compatible with the Docker compose spec.

There's also using Podman as a backend for docker-compose [1]. Overall, in 2024, I see no reason using Docker at least on Linux boxes. Not sure how Podman fares on macOS or Windows.

[1] https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/podman-docker-compose

BossingAround··on Exploring Podman: A More Secure Docker Alternative
> Plus, unlike Docker their containers bow to SELinux definitions

Isn't that great? You want SELinux if you deploy containers on prod.

> I have repeatedly struggled with containers unable to access mapped directories.

Use the `z` or `Z` flag, e.g. `podman run -v mydir:podman_dir:z nginx` to get SELinux labels updated automatically (and temporarily) by podman.

BossingAround··on CLI user experience case study
From my experience, interactive CLIs are the worst of both worlds.

They are not as pretty and intuitive as GUIs, since the user has to learn terminal idiosyncrasies (e.g. unable to ctrl+c, or edit text in the middle of the sentence by mouse).

And, at the same time, they tend to be pretty bad for automating things (in the worst case, even unsuitable for automation) since now, you have to map the interactive commands to the non-interactive ones.

BossingAround··on AMD Reveals Next-Gen Desktop Processors for Extreme PC Gaming
Folks confused here about the word "extreme" and seeing an iGPU might be missing that Steam Deck exists, and the market for handhelds is huge.

Of course, you won't be putting a 65W CPU into a Steam Deck, but if it scales down nicely, it's an amazing news. Steam Deck already enables playing the vast majority of current gen games (it was my Baldurs Gate 3 machine when BG came out); jumping in power so that I can enjoy some better graphics would be excellent.

BossingAround··on AMD Reveals Next-Gen Desktop Processors for Extreme PC Gaming
Sounds like next-stage capitalism: feel the immersion of Mario jumps due to actual free fall.
BossingAround··on Google lays off hundreds working on its voice-activated assistant
Well, this particular tech hasn't panned out yet, I agree. But with that outlook ("just use buttons"), you'd never make any changes, which is even worse.
BossingAround··on Google lays off hundreds working on its voice-activated assistant
I empathize with this POV, and I largely hold it myself. That said, there is something incredibly insulting about having a layoff when making billions of dollars.

Look, if a company is going under, everyone can understand they have to lay off huge number of folks (otherwise, they'll lay off everyone). But laying people off when you're profitable just because you want to be more profitable..?

We need some regulation for it, the problem is what regulation. But I don't think it's controversial to say that this behavior shouldn't be encouraged (despite the fact that it is not illegal, and very few would say that it should be illegal).

BossingAround··on Google lays off hundreds working on its voice-activated assistant
Sounds like all we needed were really fast horses too.
BossingAround··on SSH-Snake: Automated SSH-Based Network Traversal
You should always inspect a script before executing it. You can even pass it to AI and query the AI about it.
BossingAround··on Samsung forecasts 85% drop in profit as chip sales falter
Funny, from my experience, over here (Europe), Samsung TVs tend to be more expensive than LG TVs.
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