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m2f2··on Framework Fatigue: The Real Reason Developers Get Angry About New Tech
Most frameworks are still there (requiring everyone be fluent in all of them) just because no meteorite killed that specific dinosaur.

Every framework starts from scratch pretending all done before belongs to the trash can, much like that multi-year discussion re: Raku being better than Perl just because has "say" instead of "print". The net outcome of that? the complete irrelevance of both.

Dear nerd-framework author, can you all invest 5 minutes in a cross compiler/converter, strive for compatibility and not reinventing the wheel when native JS performs the very same thing?

m2f2··on Russia is being set aflame by arson attacks
Let's talk about the Italian-speaking people in Italy and neighboring countries peddling utilities with bills 2-3x the cheapest, or scamming people altogether.

When phone companies agree not to take bribes from criminals, and publish the real phone number instead of fakes - well it would be a great day.

m2f2··on Autocorrect in Your Keyboard Firmware (2021)
I guess it can be used also in other ways, especially when you hit a wall.

E.g. my Italian windows key map does not have tilde nor backtick available, and it's just a pain to type the usual alt 126 thing on a modern laptop keyboard, where even the HOME key requires some Fn shenigan. Dell and MS, wow!

m2f2··on We know where your car is
Is this another instance of "my external contractors need access my data but I cannot ask them to install an authenticator app on their BYOD mobiles"... Nor manage proper authentication for my randomly built BI suite?
m2f2··on FBI: Largest homemade explosives cache in agency history found in Virginia
How about building some government you trust, check on their actions, ousting madmen from politics, and strictly regulate this 2a nonsense once for all?

Unless, of course, you really trust Trump less than any random wacko....

m2f2··on My Colleague Julius
Just ask Julius, then....
m2f2··on My Colleague Julius
;)
m2f2··on SQLite changed temp file prefix after McAfee users called devs to complain (2006)
while I sneer at the unwashed masses clearing temp stuff by hand in 2024, I'm in the same boat trying to declutter stuff in my Mozilla/Thunderbird profiles :( ...
m2f2··on Australian government approves AAPowerLink project to export solar to Singapore
Significant turning tables moment when big bully China aims at being the sole APAC superpower. That might explain why Singapore are interested and why 4200km of cable aren't such a big issue.
m2f2··on Meta has run hundreds of ads for cocaine, opioids and other drugs
And counterfeit number plates, and no takedown as everything is OK apparently
m2f2··on Let's stop counting centuries
Talking about standards let's not pick and choose.

First, let's get rid of miles and feet, then we could even discuss this.

m2f2··on John Deere announces mass layoffs in Midwest amid production shift to Mexico
You compare economies where one gives full rights to workers vs another that simply doesn't. No wonder labor cost is lower elsewhere. Also in the US we had slaves. Now these slaves are called different names, and work elsewhere.

Oh BTW the 2nd in rank, Case New Holland did exactly the same.

m2f2··on Agricultural drones are transforming rice farming in the Mekong River delta
You mean picking each ear/grain by a single device? rofl
m2f2··on Fern Hollow Bridge should have been closed years before it collapsed
Same stuff for the Genoa, Italy bridge (Ponte Morandi). Everyone running on that would feel vibrations and "repairs" were just lipstick on a ugly face, until it finally collapsed, with 43 dead.

Surprisingly, or not so, no one was found guilty, not even the inspectors that didn't report the ongoing damages, just because "it would be too costly to rebuild it, and profits of the highway company (1) in charge of it would be zero".

(1) the company name is Atlantia, fully owned at the time by the Benetton family, yes those of the sweater chain

m2f2··on Italian streets that don't exist on any map (2022)
True

Here at least no one sues the government over free tax filing though...

m2f2··on Ask HN: How to transcribe 1000s of handwritten notes
BROADCOM?
m2f2··on The fishy death of Red Lobster
VMWARE CA (Computer Associates) CITRIX ...
m2f2··on Magic Numbers
Agreed. But please consider my efforts to have my network team to move out of the default MTU and deploy jumbo frames.... because it's always been 1500 and we feel safer keeping it in 2024.... :(
m2f2··on Csvlens: Command line CSV file viewer. Like less but made for CSV
TSV are far superior to CSV as the separator is a TAB and not commas, semicolons or other weird stuff depending on your locale. Same for single and double quotes. Only thing to be aware are tsv created by Excel with newlines embedded in text fields, which are a huge PITA for almost all parsers.
m2f2··on Mars Cyclers
Way more distant if you consider how poor would be life on Mars.

Unless you think of it as a giant experiment to travel outside the Solar system, further down the road, when the Sun will eat up the entire solar system. In that case, though, you'll need a larger cycler with a much different shuttle for you to board/unboard it...

m2f2··on Solution 26370: Removing a new Texas Instruments calculator from the package
Which markets DON'T require tamperproof packaging ? Kids only?

:) -- or, better, :(

m2f2··on The boiling frog of digital freedom
Sad but true. Same thing as millennial/genZ authored websites who check for Chrome, and throw a tantrum/refuse to work otherwise.

I'm looking at you, vivaticket, booking, and many others I can't keep count of

m2f2··on Police Seized Innocent Peoples Property, Kept It for Years. What Will SCOTUS Do?
Yup. And that's not the only reason.
m2f2··on Why I use the D programming language for scripting (2021)
Given that D Go Rust etc. are all Turing complete, there's no difference on their ability to compute (perform) a function.

The only difference is how easy is, and how much cr*p you need to suffer in the process.

Yet I see here people patting themselves on the back just because they re-re-rewrote the algorithm of the day (git, computing the day of the week, etc) using all sorts of programming languages to claim they were there first.

So before anyone comments that they rewrote nginx in D, let me say that we don't need D or another language on top of all others we have, and that we have plenty of problems for which there's NO solution to.

Can't we focus on these please, instead of being proficient at elementary level in 40+ idioms?

m2f2··on VirtualBox 7.0.10 download links have disappeared
... so far ...

Stay tuned for more changes as soon as Broadcom takes control

m2f2··on All the exciting media outlets are dying – what comes next?
If you know the topic at hand you can somewhat believe you're good at finding the Expert.

If you don't know jack about topic X, you'll end up trusting another newbie, or a charlatan.

Or, you can go around talking to lots of people, go search professors and professionals and ask them. Here you are, welcome to Journalism.

Oh and the same works for photographers (my 24yo son is one of them).

m2f2··on The end of a myth: Distributed transactions can scale
Something like Oracle Exadata perhaps?
m2f2··on Insulin is way too expensive. California has a solution: Make its own
Finally!!!!!
m2f2··on Broadcom to acquire VMware for $61B
Not at all. Broadcom is well known to pimp up license and maintenance prices for all their sw portfolio while cutting fat and flesh in the process.

Disclaimer: forced Broadcom customer here

m2f2··on As the old guy at a startup
New job? Collect as many jargon words as possible, find their standard English equivalent you're accustomed to using, and place all s/text/jargon/ in a script.

Pass your emails thru that file before hitting SEND and... instant success!

s/todo list/backlog/ s/prototype/mvp/ s/delay/priority adjustment/ ...

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