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_RPM··on Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick
> I will never buy a major appliance from any other retailer

That's called stinking thinking.

_RPM··on Codex Security
Honestly, the README leaves something to be desired for a billion dollar company.
_RPM··on Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets
The culture of cheating is normalized in Asian culture.
_RPM··on Costco is the anti-Amazon
You can sign up online, which you should have done, the guy you were taking was doing his job.
_RPM··on Meta confirms 1000s of Instagram accounts were hacked by abusing its AI chatbot
Probably some product manager pushed back on security considerations raised by engineers.
_RPM··on Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown
i used notepad for the first time in a decade, and it's awesome. mine supports markdown, and tabs.
_RPM··on The Debian PHP team includes hard coded telemetry
This is a hard coded telemetry that phones home to telemetry sury org. It is hard coded at compile time.
_RPM··on Reasons not to become famous (2020)
This guy seems like a sociopath
_RPM··on De-Escalation Keeps Protesters and Police Safer
Have you ever been outside the US?
_RPM··on You can't just rename your IT Ops team and call it DevOps
I worked at 2 companies since graduating. The first company had a DevOps guy that was strictly not programming (setting up AWS things, CI, etc). It was clear that programming wasn't his skill. Although he was able to learn it, he wasn't hired to write code. The second company I worked at, DevOps engineers were software engineers/computer science majors. They could immediately switch teams to a write-code-only team and be qualified.
_RPM··on Show HN: Layoffs.at – helping people laid off find work
To me, this looks like an email collection form. Do you actually have a product built, or are just testing the market?
_RPM··on Google SVP Hardware: I'd disclose smart speakers before guests enter my home
Not exactly a listening device, but I was in an AirBnb once. Every time I would open the door, I could hear a notification being played in the upstairs unit. It wasn't the back door that caused the notification, but the actual door the apartment I was staying in. It was displeasing.
_RPM··on PHPAlgorithms – PHP algorithm and data structure library
Have you ever heard of Composer?
_RPM··on Talos: OS for Kubernetes
"legacy operating systems"
_RPM··on US military is a bigger polluter than as many as 140 countries
People don’t remember Pearl Harbor much. Or even 9/11 anymore. Is the US supposed to bow our heads, and be vulnerable to attacks?
_RPM··on 500 days of Duolingo: What you can and can’t learn from a language app
You might be able to speak colloquial phrases, but you will not be able to write correctly. For example, perhaps you will be able to order food from a restaurant, or say hello to a stranger.
_RPM··on How And Why We Switched from Erlang to Python (2011)
Is it common for an intern to get such an impactful project?
_RPM··on 80% of the Web Powered by PHP (2017)
Not in a few years. Does the maintainer value backwards compatibility?
_RPM··on 80% of the Web Powered by PHP (2017)
PHP is very fast. The tooling is great, and it's very easy to get started. VSCode with the right extensions makes PHP development fun.
_RPM··on 80% of the Web Powered by PHP (2017)
This is slightly off topic. But PHP has a great devloper experience, in general, now with vscode, and autocomplate, find all references, etc. But the best framework out there is Laravel. It's great, but the maintainer doesn't seem reliable. Every single release has some type of backwards incompaitible change to it of which they don't document all the changes. So it's basically a blackbox if you are to upgrade your laravel/framework version.
_RPM··on Nginx Quick Reference + Printable Nginx Hardening Checklist (@ssllabs A+ 100%)
https://github.com/trimstray/nginx-quick-reference
_RPM··on Google says Nest’s built-in mic not listed in specs was not meant to be secret
And most of the rich people in my neighborhood have complete voice devices in their homes, Amazon’s device and Google’s I refuse to have these devices in my home regardless of how cool they seem.
_RPM··on Facebook Referred to Kids as Young as Five as “Whales” for Its Monetized Games
Zuckerberg is so full of crap. He’s still the same creepy person he was in college, but now he has a money printing machine.
_RPM··on Why Do Rich People Love Endurance Sports? (2017)
> Maybe it's just because white collar people are forced to sit at a desk all day,which is unhealthy and takes a very obvious toll on the appearance of your body

You're joking right? Have you ever talked to or a seen a real labor worker?

_RPM··on Burnout, stress lead more companies to try a four-day work week
Unfortunately we only branch on release. We don’t have separate branches. Consider it as everyone working on master, and no merges m, just code reviews.
_RPM··on Burnout, stress lead more companies to try a four-day work week
If you’re at a startup this is my experience, but working for a stable company, I have not had a fire drill in my two years here.

I write software only though, I’m not doing DevOps. DevOps probably handles the fires.

_RPM··on Burnout, stress lead more companies to try a four-day work week
I like to work from home when there isn’t much work to do, so then I can have my laptop.

It’s common for us to have a code freeze, where we do not have any items in our backlog.

_RPM··on Burnout, stress lead more companies to try a four-day work week
So then I have confirmed it. I read about browsing the internet and generally no one working 8 hours a day it they work in software. Some days I literally don’t have work to do, so I browse the internet. Sometimes it’s nice to work on tasks around the home if I am working from home that day.

Management must know this. I consider it an unwritten/not talked about fact of working as a software developer.

_RPM··on Get the Font
And what great enthusiasm with the “!” they have
_RPM··on Ask HN: How do large companies handle access to critical databases?
That sounds like a terrible work environment. On site security guards?
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