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chachacharge··on Ask HN: How do I give back to people helped me when I was young and had nothing?
when mentoring most people its true. but not always true. some asses need to be "karate-sized". this, by definition, requires effort, intelligence, and denial of all passion. of course, you can alternately find a different mentor if resources are not so limited. Otherwise its time to sweep the legs of those who doubt the power of this fully functional linux operating system.
chachacharge··on If the moon were only 1 pixel: A tediously accurate solar system model (2014)
sit back and relax for my 1px review

tedious=true, basicallyLame=true, is1px=false

chachacharge··on Ask HN: Selling software to company I work for as an employee
or just help a friendly, reputable, firm handle it and take a commission or other favor later
chachacharge··on Ask HN: Selling software to company I work for as an employee
you can help to hire a firm you are friendly with and let them win this time. this is what i do when im in this situation. at least someone wins then
chachacharge··on Show HN: Genetic Boids Web Simulation
Green light is perceived as brighter than other colors because human eyes are most sensitive to it. This sensitivity is related to the wavelengths of light that our visual system responds to, with green being at the peak of our vision
chachacharge··on Dyson PencilVac [video]
dyson is hot garbage. whenever i dry hands on their hand dryer it blows water back onto my body, my clothes, etc, making water stains on my expensive clothing. their vacuum cleaner air outlet blows air directly onto my arm (gross) and much more dumb dumb design... and now we have a pencil vac that requires a whacking motion to clean. nasty. does mr garrison design all their products?
chachacharge··on How to live on $432 a month in America
yes, Massena and Ogensburg. Plagues of flies and mosquitos. Frozen car batteries. Snow plows. Rust.
chachacharge··on Wheel Reinventor’s Principles (2024)
colleague of mine wrote a json parser in sql when the rdbms already had a json parser... guess where all the errors came from
chachacharge··on The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance Is a Stone-Cold Masterpiece
Gizmodo and all of gawker media= useless waste of electricity
chachacharge··on Scientists crack how aspirin might stop cancers from spreading
Rectum!? Damn near killed em..
chachacharge··on Apple's Software Quality Crisis
I thought only MS was doing that. I have over 25 admin on/off switches for copilot in the M365 ecosystem that were forced ON in the last year. On the power platform- The authorized consent to move data between regions for ai was AUTOMATICALLY set to YES also and it was sending prod data around to read it and give advice. I guess they sneak it in with some EULA update.. When I open tickets I always get sent to the wrong copilot team because they cant keep track of it and I have to go through a forced AI agent before opening tickets also now. The rushed updates broke a lot of their own JS and its been a bad bad year with over 200 hours wasted on this since last year where I normally spend less than 40 hours a year with such nonsense.
chachacharge··on DARPA project reveals one person can control dozens of robots
WE REQUIRE MORE MINERALS
chachacharge··on Wends of Texas
Plenty of Swedes also. Creating churches and schools. German/Swede congregations helped each other. Later it was the Irish who renovated, buying up old neighborhoods, creating today's hospitals and universities.
chachacharge··on What can strong engineers do that weak engineers can't?
well you said it was "insane busy work" and I do not see how that is possible unless applied incorrectly. 90% plus coverage is some smoke ,for example. I don't use code coverage on most of my projects though because the teams are just one or two people, and the projects only live a few years without ever being updated. The teams would have to be bigger the updates more frequent, and the project life span longer.
chachacharge··on What can strong engineers do that weak engineers can't?
what? like Tony Stark?
chachacharge··on What can strong engineers do that weak engineers can't?
Or I can be trained to meet a standard also - regardless if I want to improve or not, if I do not follow my training and checklists, I will eventually lose my job. I will deliver perfection and leave work on time or else...
chachacharge··on What can strong engineers do that weak engineers can't?
I recommend that book and also "Coders At Work". I got gud after reading those two books.
chachacharge··on What can strong engineers do that weak engineers can't?
Code coverage should be easy. if it's costing time, you're doing it wrong. if you're trying to apply it to an old project that did not use code coverage from the start: This is one way to do it wrong. you couldn't hold a gun to my head and make me do that. you can have a little bit of code coverage in this case, but not 85% - no. The moment it proves that it will be costing more time than it saves is the moment you can count me out.
chachacharge··on Want to book a Ryanair flight? Prepare for a face scan
To RA: scan my ass
chachacharge··on Tokyo is set to introduce a four-day workweek for government employees
I worked for this company and they are a sponsor of NPR, but thanks for the link? Was the study conducted and audited by 3rd parties? I had to print from outside the office during PTO sometimes also.
chachacharge··on Tokyo is set to introduce a four-day workweek for government employees
I kind of doubt this will be adopted practically in Japan. The old people get time off and leave work early in Japan by privilege and the young break themselves and any rule they need to permit it. The young would even lie about taking time off to make the boss look good, even taking less pay to sell the lie. Who can have kids when you already have to change everyone's diaper.
chachacharge··on Get me out of data hell
Schemas require domain knowledge. When domain knowledge is unclear or lacks ownership, it can lead to a range of issues that impact both data integrity and system functionality. Things that screw this up in the financial world include: working in different countries, acquiring new branches, new hires, and leavers. And people who think they can insist the database schema be protected somehow. A manager told me to add the last reason, it wasnt my idea and makes little sense.
chachacharge··on We can now fix McDonald's ice cream machines
so glad we can hack these machines... now i can inject semiglutides into each cone at home
chachacharge··on An amateur historian has discovered a long-lost short story by Bram Stoker
Pro search tip- its Stoker not Stroker
chachacharge··on Show HN: I made a site to quick identify any plant and learn how to care for it
File a GDPR complaint to test if that is working