Calamitous

Honestly, I think Weird Al would be the best choice anyway…

I’ve been thinking about getting into drones as a hobby (and a way to help manage parts of my sprawling property), but all these privacy stories lately have me spooked.

Is there a “safe” vendor of drones, or has this turned into another “all smart TVs are wiretaps by default” situation that we’re expected to just accept?

Another person learns a hard lesson about trusting Google.

This was literally my first thought. If this works at all, it will quickly be ruined.

Who wants to be the first to teach congress to use git?

Then why do I still get texting spam on my iPhone?

If it makes you feel any better, I did the same thing, but I live semi-urban, and it was similarly egregious.

I don’t have a firebox, but I suppose it kept the recycling man in business.

Maybe it’s most principled not to hate anybody at all?

Clickspring: https://www.youtube.com/c/Clickspring

He does beautiful, calming videos of his meticulous machining work. He recently worked on recreating the Antikythera mechanism.

The framework makes me wish I was in the market for a laptop.

That’s gotta be a big list.

Goodbye, frying pan. Hello, fire.

Yep! Now I have something to (re)read over my long weekend. Thanks!

This puts me in mind of the Twinkies experiments… in the 90s a couple of Rice students documented a series of experiments on the early web (I remember the “resistivity” test being especially entertaining).

Unfortunately it looks like it’s vanished sometime in the last 30 years.

I’m curious, in what way do you feel that “Rust's decision-making committee lacks integrity”?

I’m curious why you think no one here would want to hear it?

I’d be curious what stuff you feel works well, in the federal government?

(I’m not being snarky, just genuinely curious)

Interesting, what command line calculator do you use?

I’m more curious how it started.

I disagree that they go down the path they do because they think they’re going to be FAANG-sized, but rather it’s a case of cargo-culting, “we’ll use these tools/architectures because the best companies use them, therefore they must be the best tools/architectures.”

I think “smell” was not intended as a value judgement, but as a way to emphasize that there’s probably something wrong nearby, even though it’s hard to articulate.

100% this. Folks see the cleanliness and simplicity of the front end without realizing the mountainous costs on the back.

Heh, that beats the ratio at my current job: 7 pages and ~45 unique services.

Same as Google, afaict. It has a slightly better permissions model, imo (I can create a doc with a password and share the link freely, or I can give specific permissions per user, like Google). Same editing/commenting/viewing interface.

My collab needs are pretty light, I only work with a few family and friends, but I haven’t run into anything I wanted to do in Synology that I couldn’t.

For Google docs I switched to using a Synology server. Very nearly as good (better, in some ways) and I don’t have to worry about what Google is up to.

The up-front cost and setup time is a stiff investment, but I’m much easier in mind now.

The other side of the coin is my wife’s gmail, which is going to be deleted come May. So... we gotta figure that out.

We’re inching ever closer to the day when HTTP 418 is no longer a joke.

Yep. As soon as the layoffs start (or even reliable rumors), I’m polishing my resume.

In my experience, the industry is focusing on developer happiness at the expense of developer satisfaction.

...and I didn't see any pay raises because of all the money companies were saving by no longer leasing, stocking, conditioning, and maintaining office facilities. Your point is?

It's not that they _can_ price everything higher, they _must_ price everything higher. Everyone getting paid more includes the stockers, managers, bakers, truckers, farmers, everyone involved in getting (eg.) groceries to you.