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dpcx··on Turn the radio volume down for adverts and DJs talking
Matthias Wandel said it pretty plainly in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEMb4yc3t3M

> And ads on YouTube seem to be getting a bit too much lately. Just use an ad blocker, don't feel guilty about it. Enough is enough!

(this taken from the description of the video)

dpcx··on Rust: State of GUI, December 2022
You can, but its documentation is (was?) a horrid mess of C examples that make it quite difficult to navigate.
dpcx··on Ask HN: What's your proudest hack?
At a previous job we had a process on a server that was connecting to a third party system, but the third party system was speaking a version of SSL/TLS that our process couldn't connect to (I seem to recall there was an F5 load balancer between us somewhere?). Since we couldn't change our running system to support that SSL/TLS, we stood up another machine with mitmproxy and pointed our process to that. Took about 3 days of trouble shooting and 1 hour of resolution.
dpcx··on Complete Rewrite of ESLint
From my reading, it's more that if written in Rust, even if it starts off slower, it can be made to be extremely fast, but that they're already bumping up against the limits of what the JS system can provide in terms of speed.
dpcx··on Last.fm turns 20
Only 72k for me, but there was a time for several years where I wasn't listening to any music on my computer. Something that working from home has seriously changed :D
dpcx··on Moving Away from UUIDs (2018)
Even they shouldn't need to be concerned much with collisions. Wikipedia suggests[0] "generating 1 billion UUIDs per second for about 85 years". Is it possible? Sure. Is it likely? Not really.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_unique_identifier#...

dpcx··on Over 16k people still use a Pebble smartwatch
Well, the threat of the service going away is a pretty big one. Until we have devices that can work from our own hosted systems, this will always be a concern.
dpcx··on An account was suspended
My $.02, he's raging not about losing something that he wants, but instead about the double-standard. If this account posting links is getting banned, why is it that Twitter seems so hell bent on leaving all the fake Elon accounts that are spamming people to get free crypto?
dpcx··on What are the problems with process gates?
How does one not process-gate something like PR reviews?

Example: several times we've had mid-level devs do work in code that could have been handled by a language function, or built out a portion of the system without thinking about how it impacts another portion, or doing work without writing tests... all things that we've attempted to stress to everyone on the team repeatedly. Other mid-level team members who are already performing reviews aren't calling out these things, so the only thing that seems to work is adding a process-gate where some of the more senior team members are required to approve.

I hate it, but nothing else has seemed to work.

dpcx··on Go: Redefining For Loop Variable Semantics
English native, and I parsed it the same way. The OG comment to me reads as if "go.mod never would have existed", not "go.mod didn't exist at this point in time."
dpcx··on Discover Kentucky Archaeology
Also Louisvillian, Danny Macs imho.
dpcx··on If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel (2014)
I do wish that this contained Voyager data - if for no other reason than to show just how far out "we" have actually gone.
dpcx··on Dark Sky iOS app will no longer work from Dec 31
Care to share what kind of automation you had?
dpcx··on DOE announces breakthrough in residential cold climate heat pump technology
I thought it was Doe-Anderson (a local ad agency) first... I am not a smart man without enough coffee.
dpcx··on If OpenSSL were a GUI
I really wish AWS had the ability to generate this for any piece of my infrastructure. Either the `aws` command _or_ the relevant CFN script.
dpcx··on I've locked myself out of my digital life
For those that follow the "take a backup drive to a relatives house" - how do you actually do the backups in that case? Do you have two backup jobs running, one for "the important stuff" and one for the rest of the system, and the important stuff just goes to the other disk? I'm trying to get better about this, but this is something I've never fully understood.
dpcx··on Plain Text Calendar
This has been my only issue with using Taskwarrior. There are a few android apps (the quality of which I cannot speak to) but not having an iOS app means I end up missing lots of things. https://github.com/blampe/taskwarrior-reminders was probably the closest I got, but it had some issues with some of my tasks. I miss having a single good place to put all my tasks.
dpcx··on What One-person SaaS Healthchecks.io uses for hosting, hardware and software
Compared to the office buildings leaving their entire office illuminated all night even though the parking lot is empty, this is less than miniscule. In the grand scheme of things, yes, it matters. But start with the big fish and you'll be less hungry.
dpcx··on The other kind of staff software engineer
I work for a tech company (healthcare related, but everything is tech), and we have staff positions. They're mostly meant as someone who has a decent understanding of the entire system they're working on... even have Staff Architects who understand the global system being worked on.

It's almost as if each of our underlying teams are their own firms within the parent organization.

dpcx··on Apple Maps location scan spikes WiFi latency every 60 seconds
I just tried this myself and can't replicate on a 2019 i7 running Big Sur. I wonder if it's related to the number of Wifi networks in range (mine is the only one)... Also, the Apple Maps thing didn't seem to change anything for me, either.
dpcx··on Four Eras of JavaScript Frameworks
I came here looking for this comment; it seems prototype is always forgotten about as part of the "before frameworks" discussion. I remember bringing up using prototype to my coworkers in 2006/2007 (the director was a stickler for having clickable buttons that had a specific width on the left and right of the text, so I proposed using prototype to set that automatically). I recall my coworkers being mostly confounded by it and how to use it.
dpcx··on The 0.5 MB of nothing in all Apple Music files (2020)
With the advent of streaming music as popular as it is (and surely Apple had to see that becoming the trend), this seems largely like a non-issue from a storage perspective. In fact, it's really only costing Apple more money in bandwidth because they still have to transmit that data - though I'd bet it compresses extremely well.
dpcx··on A short conversation with a bank
Anybody got a link to that github repo that the article alluded to? ... asking for a friend :)
dpcx··on CD sales grow for first time since 2004
Damn Millenials, ruining the digital music industry! /s
dpcx··on This app does not support the App Store’s private and secure payment system
Microsoft was forced around Internet Explorer not "just" because theirs was pre-installed. It was more that Internet Explorer had become so baked in to the system that it literally could not be removed without breaking Windows. That was the thing that caused rulings against Microsoft.
dpcx··on Foobar2000
I remember setting up AudioGalaxy on my home machine and using their UI so that I could download stuff "from work" and have it available when I got home. It was great for my use!
dpcx··on Examining the covidtests.gov architecture
DynamoDB has DynamoDB Streams[0] and Kinesis Streams[1] which it can hook in to.

0: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/developerg... 1: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/developerg...

dpcx··on ‘Dancing molecules’ successfully repair severe spinal cord injuries
Do I want to know how they get mice with severe spinal cord injuries to test on? I'm guessing it's exactly what I think it is, but I'm wondering if there's another way that it happens.
dpcx··on Amazon recruiter invites CTO of Azure to apply for SDE II
I had an AWS manager reach out to me last year to discuss working some Rust related stuff (and they knew that my Rust experience was very limited even before reaching out to me). They decided after an interview or two not to go ahead with it because I wasn't willing to relocate.

Can't imagine why they might be hurting for hires...

dpcx··on What caused all the supply chain bottlenecks?
I haven't played Factorio, so maybe I'm missing something... but if you don't have buffers and suddenly whatever that produces something essentially goes away, what happens to all your just in time pieces? Seems pretty certain that they'll all end up idle.
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