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> initialisms are not a subset of acronyms

https://www.dictionary.com/e/acronym-vs-abbreviation/

"Initialisms are types of acronyms."

> looking for initialisms, not acronyms

Imprecise wording, initialisms are a case of acronyms, it's not either or.

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/page/abbreviations-acronyms-initia...

"an initialism is an acronym that is pronounced as individual letters"

https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-fiction/abbreviat...

"As such, acronyms are initialisms."

In the Java world, we rely heavily on Maven which uses the BOM concept.

" CVE-2023-36033 Microsoft Windows Desktop Window Manager (DWM) Core Library Privilege Escalation Vulnerability CVE-2023-36025 Microsoft Windows SmartScreen Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability CVE-2023-36036 Microsoft Windows Cloud Files Mini Filter Driver Privilege Escalation Vulnerability "

Indeed, onward: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0708414/

Side note, we seem to have observed the end of responsible grammar in communication in recent years as well.

> There is no reason that AI can't be better than humans at requirements elicitation and communication.

Actually there is, one really good reason, even if AI became sentient, it's still a machine, not a human with a soul who can reason and feel passion for a requirement and its solution and implementation.

"Nobody understands how large AI models work."

I do not possess a degree, I do possess a lifetime of common sense which is the lens I used to review the good Dr's video.

We will become the Eloi.

Yeah but GraphQL sucks to use as a developer.

The best resume is one started with vi or Notepad and written in your own words, not using a template, not reviewed and edited by someone, certainly not one which involves AI in any capacity.

Before GitHub, even before git, we just emailed or irc'ed a patch request to the team. Somehow, "pull request" caught on as a term.

I had to Google this, apparently pwsh is the incarnation for PowerCrap I mean PowerShell.

Last year George was a football star. George was injured in a big game. George learned to code YAML+Python scripts. George is now a DevOps rock star.

Vendor lock-in hence the evil plan:

https://dev.to/pwd9000/how-github-actions-can-improve-cicd-a...

"While GitHub Actions is an open platform, it is still tied to the GitHub ecosystem. This can be a concern for teams who want to maintain flexibility and avoid vendor lock-in."

https://gsilvapt.me/posts/moving-to-github-actions/

"Actions are a Vendor Lock-in Mechanism"

"But are you really sparing that many lines of code? Ultimately, you’re going to have to declare what your environment needs so other developers can contribute to the project anyway, so why not simply write a bash script to take care of that for you?"

Those are the very things that makes IPv6 anti-privacy. We lose all control at the router level. Users are served up like lambs to the privacy slaughter.

> IPv4 conservation charge

It's stunning, the hypocrisy that permeates Amazon now. I left AWS Lightsail for Oracle Cloud. When they announced Prime members would be shown Ads in movies and shows, we cancelled Prime.

IPv6 is a privacy nightmare, no privacy technology designed to fix IPv6, fixes it.

Oracle Cloud does. Linode did, I don't know if they still do. I believe Vultr may. It would take some time for someone to research all cloud providers.

Yes, see my reply to the other commenter above.

> So far as I'm aware IP addresses exist out of a functional need, not a moral imperative, but if you have a source with regards to that I'd love to read it.

OK

https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/19/16792306/fcc-net-neutral...

"For Licklider, this wasn’t just a new technology, but a new way for human beings to exist in the world."

The Reddit commenter who said "Everyone is charging for IPv4, except AWS (until now)" is uninformed or lying. I've been on Oracle Cloud Always Free selfhosting my mail and web services for months now including free IPv4 public addresses.

It's great there are companies focused on delivering great Linux hardware.

For context though, every Dell and HP laptops and desktops I've had the past 12 years has been really great with Linux.

The several Lenovo laptops I've had the past 12 years have been great with Linux.

Wow, so, you're not a DBE or DBA but are applying indexes across a database without concern because...a computer model spat out that you should?

One point to make about thrown together solutions, in the following video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmhQCQr_DCA at time 8:32 he changes Units Sold column from Decimal to Whole Number. For the trivial example, it would probably be fine but it could also be a costly mistake in other scenarios.

Boy howdy, I'd like to be a fly on the wall at that meeting.

Virtual feces removal and pipe laying, that pretty much sums it up.

I understand their position, I recently had a chat with a guy in DevOps, I'd made a request I knew would take at most, 5 minutes. He said he'd try to get to it by the end of the week. That would potentially have caused my story to carry over to the next week.

I opened a Teams chat and asked about it. He said his manager told them to manage expectations. He said he'd cut me a break since I was technical and would understand and got it done in 2 minutes.

If a meal is returned by a customer, the restaurant doesn't go out of business.

If a C programmer forgets a break statement, the entire western half of the US loses phone connectivity for several hours: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34665023

> A seasoned brawler/street fighter will seem uncouth and may have some unorthodox habits but they will be more successful in the day to day than most theoreticians who aren't out there applying what they're learning.

That reminds me of my favorite Bing Bang Theory scene, on the way to Comic Con their car breaks down. Leonard asks if anyone knows anything about automobile engines. Everyone (theoretical physicists or astrophysicists) raised their hands enthusiastically. Then Leonard asks, OK, does anyone know how to repair an automobile engine? Everyone lowers their hands.

I'm not degreed, been working with and for PhD's, people with and without degrees for 3 decades including several stints at valley startups and never heard anyone use the term backpressure outside of a mechanical engineering context.

> We have cushy and sedentary jobs that many could do and even more would die to have.

Wrong, are you a manager in disguise?