Startup I used to work at fueled Cingular's mobile storefront and distributed those J2ME games along with ringtones and graphics. Those were the days...
Never heard of Talos before now. That looks pretty cool and I might start playing with that on my home lab. Can't use it at work for reasons, but good to keep on top of tech (even if I am a little behind)
That's a pretty privileged take there. No, not everyone gets to choose what makes them happy when they have obligations to others or even to themselves if they want to eat that night or not. Glad you do, but don't assume everyone does.
A few issues I see. First is what does it do when you come across a no-haggle dealership? Next is does this negotiate the value of your trade-in? Finally, the initial negotiation up front on the sale price (and trade-in value if applicable) is only the first hurdle. When you have to come in and sign the paperwork and get your keys, that's when a lot of dealerships really try to tighten the screws. Oh you need an extra warranty! Or you need paint protection and nitrogen filled tires! How about that one-time fee for lifetime oil changes and maintenance?
Currently on a production promotion outage right now and reading this while we wait for some caches to be purged to see if it fixes things. Not quite the same and consequences here are much less than what those guys had to do. Still sucks either way...
Fascinating that we're still getting useful science out of almost 50 year old tech. I think New Horizons is the only other probe that's expected to go interstellar.
I really dislike this take and I see it all the time. Also I'm old and I'm jaded, so it is what it is...
Someone decides X technology is too heavy-weight and wants to just run things simply on their laptop because "I don't need all that cruft". They spend time and resources inventing technology Y to suit their needs. Technology Y gets popular and people add to it so it can scale, because no one runs shit in production off their laptops. Someone else comes along and says, "damn, technology Y is too heavyweight, I don't need all this cruft..."
"There are neither beginnings nor endings to the Wheel of Time. But it was a beginning.”
If 1.2 billion dollars in valuation was destroyed in 49 days because the CTO wasn't there, there's something to be said about the CTO's inability to delegate and ensure they have a team that supports their decisions and vision and can carry on without them. "When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all."
I've never been a fan of JRPGs, preferring things like BG3, Mass Effect, Dragon Age (not the new one), and Skyrim. But after 800 hours in BG3, I think it's time to try something else and this looks like it might be that.
I still love my Jenkins Pipelines, Groovy shared libraries, and Bash scripts. It may be old, the UI may be a little crusty, but it's well understood, it just works, and I don't think much about the tool anymore.
I loved playing No One Lives Forever 1&2 on my Voodoo 5 5500. That was the height of my PC building days. Now as a wizened old man, I'm stuck with these Apple Macbook Pros/Airs and they do well enough. But I do miss building my own machines...
That 128Kbps on ISDN was the like the gold standard back then! I knew some sysadmins who had that installed to their homes so they could be available at any time. All paid for by the company they worked for.
In other news, old man yells at cloud. I don't care how many days he fucking works in the office.
Seriously though, if he's working 7 days a week in the office and can't get a hold of someone, I hope he's planning on paying them his salary. Hell, I'd come in the office 7 days a week for the multi millions of dollars he's worth. I'd do it for a year, retire, and live happily ever after.
Same. Lost both smell and taste for a few days after I got COVID in 2021. My taste came back quickly, but my sense of smell took longer to come back and is still probably about 50% diminished. I can't smell things from a distance, only up-close or if it's really strong. Like I can't tell if my house stinks because my garbage needs to be taken out, but I can smell it up close. I've just relegated myself to not being able to smell much anymore which I guess is better than some of the other Long COVID symptoms out there. I do miss smelling things though.
That's interesting. I use BBEdit for that purpose and VSCode for code editing. I really don't like BBEdit's layout except for log viewing and unsaved snipets/notes. I might have to try Sublime now...
As a DevSecOps/SRE whatever, I just gotta give props to the Subaru team for getting it patched within 24 hours. While it's just a small internal admin dashboard without real customer usage, the fact they acknowledged and fixed the issue so quickly speaks well of at least that part of Subaru IT.