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It spells "leet" - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leet
You're too young to have used BBSes :)
How many Intel engineers does it take to change a light bulb? 0.99999999
As somebody who worked at a mid-tier company trying to run databases, I can attest that RDS was a godsend. Trying to hire both a DBA and an Ops team that knew how to write the chef cookbooks for a proper multi-node cluster postgres was a nightmare. Like, we never succeeded, and something that's ootb with RDS
You must not forget that also, many (most?) companies that run things themselves do not do it right. Like, with proper off-site backups that you're regularly testing and know you have options to easily spin up replicas or restore point-in-time backups
Jeff Atwood's been saying this from the initial SO podcasts from 2008. If you have the right people who are motivated, and provide the right equipment and resources, you've always had the opportunity to have lower TCO doing it yourself
I have since moved on to a small top-tier company and still prefer to "outsource" my DBA work by way of using Aurora. Yes Aurora is more expensive. No, I don't have the mental or monetary budget to hire up a proper ops team. I know my limits
You're supposed to install a specific version of python in a specific place, with a specific name. Say, /usr/local/python-3.10.6
Use pyenv to use that python. Control that by creating a `.python-version` file that says 3.10.6
You now have a project that uses 3.10.6. Unless, of course, somebody installs a different version in that path - at which point you've got bigger issues
Using pyenv to use `/usr/bin/python3` and hoping for the best misses the point
It was a complaint, definitely not a compliment. She said programmers listed things out in bullet points and bluntly to-the-point. She complained they were dry, intimidating, and she hated dealing with them
I still write concisely and with bullet points, when writing to other programmers. But I now expand things when talking to everybody else. And I've found I get better responses
If there's an HN policy violation in this post, I'm legit curious what it is
I was on Digital UNIX so I didn't deal with VMS or Windows much. But Digital UNIX couldn't get out of their way with object file formats (COFF vs ELF and whatever else), on top of the compiler inefficiencies
A recipe for disaster when the MS company employee doesn't want to do it in the first place, and you give them an artisan product that's hard to use properly
DEC sued MS due to Cutler's contribution to NT. DEC thought they could sue themselves into MS's good graces. They had embroidered polo shirts saying "Strategic Relationship", and saw several employees wearing them, and the phrase was repeated often
DEC couldn't figure out why Office performed worse on Alpha than x86. They sent an employee to MS, only to find MS had a single build server stashed under some desk. MS was compiling Office with -O0, obviously doing the absolute bare minimum to check a box and move on with their lives.
Source: I'm a former DEC employee
Raymond Chen has a tangentially amusing story that I just found while trying to google the win95 screen: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20160419-00/?p=93...
Not sure how you get "irrevocably bricked your system" from "encrypted my file", but you do you, I guess
You should also let the OP do the OP. They said they made a mistake. Simply, without complaining, and they do something else now. It's that simple
You're outright admitting you can't understand the post, or the point of the post, as you want to steadfastly hold to the original premise
If the reply post talked about the petroleum and other natural resources used to extract and transport the sodium hydroxide et al to your home, would that placate you?
Fold a piece of paper into 10 equal parts perfectly. Easy?
No typeahead while a previous command is running, like you can do in UNIX et al
However, alcohol is quite an irritant and (along with caffeine) is the first thing a doc will tell you to cut out if you have intestinal problems
Speaking (only) from personal experience, it can be such an irritant that it more than outweigs the benefits of other probiotics and "good foods" -- even in small amounts (e.g. 1 drink)
I believe that's called "survivorship bias"
> It's all just a lot of waste motion over some dream that someday we'll find value in sitting and looking at this old stuff again.
I have 2 monitors, and drag the zoom controls to the non-presenting screen
Getting a headset with a physical mic is probably your best bet
Side note: noise-cancelling headphones are way more useful than you'd think. I delayed for 5 months before buying them, and regret every minute I didn't do it earlier. Doesn't help with the mic, but I didn't realize how much extraneous household noises contributed to my malaise.