fullstackchris

...how is the JIRA server mission critical? is it tied to CI/CD somehow?

But why would they leave the same artifacts over and over again? Seems like a pretty boring existence for a "god". We've got blackholes, magnetars, pulsars, binary stars... and... that's about it... Seems much more likely these structures are the end result of some fixed set of physical rules than insane gods trapsing around the universe.

Also agreeing with one of the comments above about how mind bogglingly massive space is, we've been effectively "listening" to space for only about 100 years, which creates an effective "listening sphere" of 4.188×10E6 light years^3, or 0.000524% of the milkyway's EIGHT TRILLION cubic lightyears in size (even if we could listen to all directions simultaneously, which we can't!)

I mean, we've been listening to the Wow! area for 50 years now, which also hampers the kind of electromagnetic 'sweep' we could possible be doing in the meanwhile.

My overall opinion is that it's just simple not been enough time of listening.

Actually this idea seems quite interesting, it would be cool to do the calculus to figure out our effective "increase" in contact intersection as each consective second, minute, hour, day, and year goes by as we "listen" to space. Infinite overlapping spheres in an infinite 3D space... hmmmm

Presumably if you are a super-advanced civilation, you would get power from what would appear to us mere primates as essentially thin air, in a fashion we can't even fathom.

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

I'm right here with you, love the haters too that downvote you. The real takeaway is simply this: we don't (and can't) KNOW what type of energy advanced civilizations will have (and we might not even be able to understand it if we saw it!), and collective scientific time is much better spent on things that we DO know, like searching for bio markers similar to earth.

Always have to comment on the meme Dyson spheres posts with the following: has anyone ever thought, for one second, that a civilization capable of building these massive energy systems would actually be capable of generating energy in other different ways that we can't even imagine? This whole "Type I, II, III" civilization crap is stupid because it is based off one paper, of one guy, who had a creative idea. Props to him for the creativity, but millions of scientists every day have possibly creative ideas about space fairing civilizations. Its like sci-fi novels creeped into real science. Literally ape brain to just "wrap a star and capture its energy!"

I think most people "like" the idea because it's so tangible. But that doesn't make it any more or less likely that it actually exists or makes sense.

Perfect, thanks!

What is ES? For those reading, DDD is Domain-driven Design, and CQRS is Command and Query Responsibility Segregation. But what is ES?

Ah, yet another chilling reminder why Black Mirror doesn't have to make any new episodes.

I can say from experience that teaching / tutoring is extremely rewarding, even when you do it for free. Harkens back to those days when we were starting out and getting super frustrated. Try and be the teacher you wish you'd had back then and watch the lights go on when they finally grok a concept :)

Now that's what I'm talking about! Buy now, ship free by April

lol, this leads to a 404

I'd argue it in a more adult way than just punishing those who are different from you. Just do away with the masking and social distancing regardless. As soon as we were throwing out the first doses of expired vaccine, the choice by every american to get vaccinated or not had been made. If the hospitals are overrun, it will be the unvaccinated, so they'll be punished anyway - no need to legally do it.

Also you need to update your Sam Harris stats, its not 40% unvaccinated anymore like some outlets continue to harp on, check CDC numbers, its closer to only 20% of the population remaining.

The successful launch (and subsequent deployment steps) that went of without a hitch restored my faith in humanity.

I'm so pumped to see what science and images the Webb produces.

Could 2022 be the year we find an exoplanet with conclusive biomarkers?

Exactly my thoughts. OP needs to read _Thinking, Fast and Slow_ and/or _The Scout Mindset_. Actually COVID as a whole has been yet another revealing of the amazing ability of the irrationality of humans and our failure to understand statistics, numbers, and growth rates, large and small.

I disagree harshly with the idea that social media _isn't_ an echo chamber. I mean, look at Reddit over the past few years. They've slowly (and successfully) removed nearly every conservative leaning subreddit on the site. It's clearly a hive mide ultra-lib circle jerk and anyone who doesn't see that has been drinking the blue reddit koolaide too long.

The only thing left really is r/conservative which is at best made fun of on the rest of the site - and even they have been debating going private.

Another annoying example: its frequently "fine" for liberals to say stuff like "I hope those who didn't get vaccinated die", which I've seen extremely frequently in things like r/politics and others, but when its the reverse (r/nonewnormal) it causes an entire ban of subreddit?

Not that I condone either side of these ignorant comments, but if you're going to take stuff down, at least be fair to both sides about it.

But hell, even centrists critiques like these are made fun of nowadays - gotta be a part of that extreme echo chamber to be cool, right?! So who am I kidding...

One of the many side effects of what is known as alcohol.

the end is nigh!

That's brilliant. It puts my general vibe of software basically for the past 10 years (maybe longer? for me mostly the advent of the app stores and near serial release of hundreds of thousands of apps) into a single sentance.

I disagree, I think it is a fair argument here. Sure, "full stack" as a pure definition would probably only mean at least one part display layer, one part backend layer... but in a framework sense, it's fair to include all these other important capabilities (translation, background jobs, etc.).

> You don't need React for your landing page.

Stop this. Just stop it. If you're any company worth it's salt with a decent landing page, you're going to need things like internationalization, a contact form, maybe even a light / dark mode if you want to be hipster. How are you going to do form validation? Min / max length of message? Email validation? The list goes on and on... These things become 100x easier with a framework like React.

_Yes_, you can do this all with vanilla JS and HTML. But eventually you're going to make a mess. You don't have to use React either - many choice frameworks can help you with all these things.

My quick two cents about programming and writing is that to be great in either (and not just good), it's far more complicated than just a simple set of rules.

Agreed with all points. I only read into the first few paragraphs and immediately found it to be overly simplifying the processes of both writing and programming. Good advice for beginners perhaps, but definitely not rules to live by.

I think that's a bit disingenuine considering the US government couldn't even put up a healthcare signup website without it crashing.

With such a track record, you really think they could just "tap in" or "modify" any given crypto protocol so they could audit every transaction?

Give me a break.

...Or you can use a cryptocurrency like NANO (I'm sure there are others very similar), which is feeless and has nearly no delay to transfer. If there is a scam hiding in there, I've yet to find it.

Honestly I've stepped back from the entire crypto space for a while now, the whole space pisses me off, it's all hype and no progress. Or rather, the work that was needed to be done has now been done (feeless, near instantaneous, anonymous, and consensus based transfers of money) is now possible, and yet I still hear the screams about bitcoin daily. It's an outdated technology. A paradigm shift for software for sure, but a now long outdated one.

I'm sure bitcoin maximalists will reply in rage, but I can't convince you to see the truth through your speculative emotions, so I won't even try.

Easiest auth I've found is Netlify identity: https://docs.netlify.com/visitor-access/identity/

It's usually a one liner to add to apps.

Reach for Auth0 when you need authentication a bit more down to the metal.

storing files

Classic programmer easter egg? :) Not sure how probable it is from a first glance at the code...

Red Rising is great, I love the whole capture-the-flag esque storyline - it might be my most favorite out of the whole series.

... but netcup is just another cloud offering? What are you getting at here? I mean, it always makes sense to shop around and look at pricings before choosing one, but my unresearched guess is that there are so many providers nowadays that the pricings across all of them are within cents / dollars for the same service (based on RAM, storage, etc)

All this analysis and commentary and he can't see the forest from the trees. He breaks one of the most important rules in writing: when using an uncommon acronym, in this case "RC", one should _always_ provide the full name for it first before using the acronym, i.e. in this case writing "Recourse (RC)", then one can continue to use the acronym. I shouldn't have to click RC to figure out what it is. Infuriating.

I'm finally gonna rant about Vim here. Gets way more credit than it is worth! ("but it's soooo coool! I'm superfast doing find / replace! You just gotta learn the crazy syntax, haha!") My response: "are you sure? I wouldn't rely on those fancy commands... best to use a statically typed language and rely on an abstract syntax tree for renaming tasks than an editor to do that."

Like everything in the software world, because some Google engineers used it, it became world wide famous. There's a saying in german that I love, basically amounting to, "they also cook with water". In short, there is no real tool that has "secret sauce" or is "super magical". It's an editor, that's all.

Say what you will but nano is is fine for me via SSH, VS Code for everything else.

Looks like many of the comments take a similar stance, which I'm actually surprised at.