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Bummer. He should have used microservices.

Then the problem at least would have been isolated to that part and the rest of the system in 100% good shape.

You weren't trying to make fun of people, but it's a good one: https://xkcd.com/1053/

I really like Bluetooth.

I just wish it would "just work". My bluetooth devices (high end) don't always connect properly and I have to disconnect them and reconnect them.

It's a minor inconvenience I know, but after 23 years I'd have hoped that those oddities would have been rounded out.

In the year of a good harvest

I shall take

A bunch of fruits

And another bunch of sugar

Everything will boil

Jam will be made

> horrible dev experience

That's an understatement. It was soul destroying awfulness.

A thermostat is certainly simpler than a PID controller. But it can't solve the problem that a PID does.

Wanna bet how long until they start using own API for DNS lookup? I say 2 years.

Stakes are 1 karma point.

Second all of that.

Driven to Distraction or Delivered From Distraction. But not both, they're effectively the same book.

In similar category but for playing music together, check out Jamulus and Ninjam.

https://jamulus.io/

https://cockos.com/ninjam/

Stuff like this can unfortunately happen. This is a reminder not to use use obscenities or jokes in your test data.

Remember Mr. Rich Bastard: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/dear-rich-bastard/

I was once working with an engineer so hell bent on splitting everything up into microservices that at one point logging became incompatible with his solution.

He then argued that our banking solution didn't need logging, because it was so well tested that failure rates would be extremely low.

I'm not making this up.

Correct!

I remember the Sony MiniDisk audio recorder/player. You could record digital audio, but couldn't transfer it to your computer in digital format.

Due to the possibility that you might not have had license to record what you recorded, then you couldn't have a digital version of it on your computer.

This was the end of my relationship with Sony.

This is why I like reading the comments on HN. I'd never heard of Grobots, it's brilliant!

Making something that only you can repair can be quite a lucrative business. This documentary is quite interesting:

McDonalds Ice Cream Machines Are Always Broken: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrDEtSlqJC4

It's not "used in some very specific circumstances", it's the very definition of bare metal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bare_machine

No, what I'm talking about is usually referred to as bare metal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bare_machine

"Bare metal" is running a program on the bare metal, without an operating system in between.

I agree with what you say, but:

> The maintainers would probably do some things different with the 2to3 conversion if they had to do it over again.

Saying that "probably do some things different" is quite an understatement.

Python 2 to 3 was an articulated train collision in slow motion that spans a decade. I'm sorry to say that, but it was monumentally awful.

I really, really wish that it didn't happen because I think it kept Python back at least 5 years.

People got really burnt by this upgrade process, and the answer was "we said we'd do backwards incompatible changes". "And what, are we going to have this every few years?" one might have though.

So, it isn't enough to tell people to "stop complaining about Python 2to3" and things might be done differently in the future or past.

I opened it in a new tab. By the time I looked at the tab it was in full epilepsy induction mode. Thankfully I don't suffer from it.

Perhaps don't start the game until it receives a focus.

Amazon used to be my #1 shopping place (save for groceries), years ago but I rarely use them anymore.

Last hard drive I ordered from them came wrapped in factory issued static plastic bag, and NO padding inside the Amazon issued cardboard box. I of course returned it after confirming it was broken.

That's not the only reason I gave up on them. Searching is getting really hard, reviews are meaningless due to fake ones, counterfeit products, ...

To me it looks like they've decided to run the business to the ground and cash in a monumental amount of money.

There are 1 billion iPhones in current, active use. A dollar from each of those is 1 billion dollars.

That's a nice bonus, no matter how much the needle moves.

https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/01/27/there-are-1b-ipho...

Hey, hadn't that a look before, thanks!

Yes, Terraform/HCL can sometimes feel like the instructions for the holy hand grenade.

I'm interested in your point number 2. Do you have any links that back it up?

I felt your pain when I read that.

If it's of any help, I can promise you that creating a Terraform configuration to set this up will improve your life, happiness and general well being in the future.

Yes, Terraform has a learning curve, but it's also a black magic effery for the cloud.

My boss once tried to reason his way out of a contract with me. When he couldn't, he simply said he just wasn't going to honour that clause in the contract.

It's amazing how you can annihilate years of built up trust in 3 seconds, by uttering that phrase, "I'm not going to honor it".

A week later he wanted to make an unrelated deal with me. I had of course decided to leave the company.

He was flabbergasted when I asked him if he would honour this new deal that he was offering.