RockingGoodNite

The air con term reminds me of my time in Asia getting used to saying air con instead of AC.

I tested this recently, my 6 year old Dell runs Ubuntu 2022 and has 16G RAM and nVidia with 4G VRAM. It runs a 2G VM running Ubuntu 2022 running Apache, Dovecot, postfix, MySQL and Postgres, for multiple domains. The host also runs all of those for local email.

Both the VM and the host runs Docker and containers. The host also runs k3s (Kubernetes single cluster) continuously for me to do various container running comparisons vs plain Docker.

With me logged in watching Netflix in a browser full screen it gets around 1.5 - 1.75 hours.

I guess if I were to just stream full screen without the VM running it'd run somewhat longer.

I could earn probably double, maybe even triple my salary and then I read your comment and realized it's true. If my salary now were halved, it'd still be more than the average US income earner. I Googled "US population average salary" and they have a nice graph.

As a side note, get ready for the pitch forks, it started going up as we approached the then potential Trump era in 2016.

Productive developers don't necessarily make good managers. Been doing this stuff for a long time and never came across the acronym IC, what is it?

It's a commonly accepted view that backend developers know databases. Until it is fixed, there are two major realms now due to Google (Angular) and Microsoft (TypeScript), backend and frontend. I was once a full stack developer but refuse to touch Angular gargabe or TypeShit.

Fine craftsmen are very picky about their tools. Companies that rely mostly on hiring "natural ignorance" will have representative software stacks.

People who can manage and code (architect, etc.) are truly rare. I'm not quite at the same age and only play the guitar. Like the article author and where we differ, I am very skeptical of new technologies, if I can't find a use for it in my personal software projects without having to hold my nose, there's no way I will recommend it for work.

I'm almost at this point as well. Using the Not Interested and other tips helps but it's not long before the stuff rolls in not remotely matching my interests.

Then we are having to play games (not the fun ones), like we did in the AltaVista days.

Agreed, mostly a Quarkus is best post. Spring Boot and no functional programming are where Java and enterprises succeed in my view.

> ...schools have been preferring Python as a first language which I think is far more appropriate. My teacher used to argue Java is good for beginners because it's a strict OOP language and teaches good habits, but I question how true that is. For one, it falsely assumes OOP is a good approach for an application that asks you to enter your name then prints, "Hello [name]".

I weep for the world of programming.

"I prefer my commits to all be buildable at least, and ideally also pass the tests (so new code + new tests for it should be in the same commit); but that is subjective"

In my view, it is not subjective. All commits locally must pass unit, integration and e2e tests, and be locally tested by the developer, every...single...one.

The sound of it from the article reminds me some of https://trac.edgewall.org/

Squash and rebase are doing it wrong.

How do you eat an Elephant?

That was a sort of passive aggressive way of dismissing the parent comment as the enemy.

Agreed, except I'd like to see iron batteries small enough and efficient enough to replace lithium ion in vehicles but until then, I would like to see Hydrogen/Stirling Engine hybrid vehicles and iron batteries for power plants to reduce their on cycle time.

"existential" The F-bomb of the current admins. Oh but let's raise the bar with "true enemies" and top it off with "people that don't care and hate you and your beliefs".

I generally feel it's mostly loud types trying to score Twitter points or Reddit karma; very few would genuinely get truly mad over something that was years in the making, by the whole population of the planet, and will take the whole population years to fix.

I'm a software engineer, I voted for Trump. Glad to see someone saying if it's real, then let's really all get on board with figuring out how to fix things.

It was a great movie except for the bits making Republicans and Nixon out to be bad. They're no worse than any Democrat. Other than than, great movie.

It's funny I've been down voted for speaking my mind about observations I've made over years of using my current phone and the trend is true for my past android phones. I've had 3 other android phones.

The last one, Nexus 6, I dropped and the gorilla glass cracked really bad, figured it was a loss and got my current LG phone and it has been great except for the suspicious slow downs which cannot be attributed to wear of the storage. I say that as someone who has been a technological person for 5 decades and a paid software engineer for almost 3 decades.

The one before that, Nexus 4, the thing was charging on my desk, I looked over and saw it bulging like it was going to explode.

The one before that, Nexus One, I still have, had to stop using it when the hard wired paltry amount of system space and increasing OS size made it unusable. Glad they stopped that practice of forcing the OS into a tiny space.

I like my LG so it's too bad they got out of or announced they are leaving the phone business.

I've traded several thousand of my dollars to Google for their phones since they started making them. I never owned iPhone, have no plans to either.

My phone is about 5 years old, not getting cool updates any more. I'm about 95% sure there are many moments when the OS inserts a fake pause in various places to make me think the phone is getting slow and it's time to upgrade.

I reviewed the article, people pay for SAP? And ... "Developers can create their own database tables using the SAP interface." - everything is fine though because users can create their own forms!

Bookmarked the article for later but isn't SAP like just a more powerful version of Workday?

RISC-V wasn't that bad. Lol. /s

I wonder if NASA would be interested in my 1980 Timex Sinclair 1000?

Google "is email delivery guaranteed", it isn't.

Wow that is a wonderful link, they really seem to be improving on interacting with the public in these matters.

"Wouldn't surprise me if Linode were entirely blocked."

I'd be very surprised. I hosted email on Linode for years without issue.