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Re:The Most Dangerous Email (to my career) I've Sent on Friday August 30, 2024 @08:49PM (#41405852)
I was in this position. Either advance to Staff Engineer (with 0% coding) or leave the group. The group I was a part of did not realize that not all good developers make good managers.

I've always firmly believed that I am not good in a people leading position, and that I excel as an IC.

I never ended up finding a new group in the company, as a company-wide layoff of software engineers ended my relationship with them.

I just found a new role as an IC, and I couldn't be happier.

Re:$9/Hour Software Engineers Cost Boeing Billions (2019) on Friday August 23, 2024 @09:41AM (#41328934)
But if you present your badly written requirements to a person who has the culture to ask questions, you at least have that safeguard. After all, it's a collaboration.

And when you work with an offshore team, quite often as contractors, you have the issue that you don't get top quality.

The in-between company will do its very best to hire low to maximize profit.

The good quality developers work either on local grown software, or leave the country for better opportunity.

And you are now working with a group of developers whose livelihood depends on saying 'yes' or not saying 'no.

And because of this you will not know whether there is an issue in the requirements until x time later and the plane goes down.

Re:Thunderbird.net Has a New Look on Friday May 17, 2024 @02:30PM (#40392887)
I cannot set a random outgoing From: address when sending an email in iOS. In many ways I understand applications not wanting this feature. Non-technical people will see it and wonder: What if I put in someone else's email address here?
This reminds me of working at a company in Brussels during eBays heydays. Their URLs looked like http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?...

And the filter saw .dll and denied my request.

Does that mean I can talk with my Nest Thermostat without paying $5?

Edit: yes, seemingly. Good, now I can get rid of my Honeywell/Resideo thermostats that came with the house.

If you ever had a Nest (one that learns how long it takes to heat up a room and preemptively shuts down heating) you'll never want a dumb one afterwards.

Hold on. She's not locked out. She couldn't share it with someone else . Completely different.
When I signed up for Hotmail it was 2MB.

Then on April 1st, 2004 Google launched wasn't an April 1st joke... GMail with 1GB! I remember getting a beta invite and inviting others.

Re:Jellyfin 10.9.0 on Sunday May 12, 2024 @12:15AM (#40332247)
The problem I find is that whatever comes after 24.04 and before 26.04 will not be supported by Jellyfin.
But VPNs are sold as the solution for when you are on an untrusted network, like at Starbucks.

But, because of this someone can have a Pineapple with a Starbucks SSID, push option 121 and capture a WHOLE bunch of traffic, even though the person using it has configured NordVPN on their iPhone with the killswitch on.

> I’m baffled that so many people who sell coffee for a living, think they know a lot about it, and act like coffee snobs, don’t seem to understand what cold brew even is.

Anecdotally, this is something I've experienced in the USA more than in Europe. When I ask a question in store a lot of times I get the feeling that the person answering considers themselves an expert and quickly make claims that I know for a fact are false.

It's like in the USA saying "I don't know, but let me get someone who does" isn't allowed.

Re:Flags Are Not Languages on Sunday May 05, 2024 @11:49PM (#40270987)
The 文 also appears in the Google Translate icon on iOS [0], which is why I always attributed it to a machine translation, not a version of the article written in another language by a human.

[0] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/google-translate/id414706506

Re:Debian 64-bit-time transition on Sunday May 05, 2024 @09:40AM (#40264826)
> 64-bit architectures are not affected by the y2k38 problem, but they are affected by this transition.

I read the article with my limited knowledge and I couldn't find an explanation for this statement. Can someone elaborate?

Thank you so much! I owe you a <insert-drink-of-your-choice>!
I know there is the famous Target case where Target sent pregnancy related ads to the living-at-her-parents daughter. That's how the dad found out.

I remember a podcast about this. Maybe Reply All. But I cannot find it anymore.

Okay? What kind of range hoods were tested?

Let's sous-vide a steak for 2 hours, and then throw it in a hot pan with oil, without drying off the steak. You'll get a lot of smoke, which will probably set of any kind of ionizing smoke detector.

Whether you're cooking on gas or electric at that moment really doesn't matter.

What matters is that you have a _PROPER_ range hood. One that vents outside and one that isn't integrated into a microwave oven.

Previous comment about range hoods: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40161811#40163023

This is absolutely great news. You can't even compare 2 restaurants anymore because their fees might be different.

This is also good for places that rent out stuff, but have a fine print like 'mandatory refuel fee of $x'.

If it's mandatory it should be part of the price.

Bring this to AZ please.

... which Ford told us was because radio stations were modernizing "by offering Internet streaming through mobile apps, FM, digital and satellite radio options," ...

AM is free. FM doesn't have the range. Mobile Apps require subscription AND cell service. With 3G and 4G going away range is actually getting worse. Satellite (SiriusXM) also requires a subscription.

So what do we do? Free SiriusXM? That still requires someone to connect to a broadcasting station that sends it up to the satellite, and then the satellite broadcasts it, after which I can hear it on the radio.

AM just makes more sense.

Re:Express 5.0 – Last Push on Wednesday May 01, 2024 @08:25PM (#40231328)
And hapi! I remember switching to that one from express. Learning it was written by WalMart kinda confused me at first.
Re:T-Mobile Completes Acquisition of Mint Mobile on Wednesday May 01, 2024 @08:20PM (#40231290)
I switched away from Mint because of a nightmare after losing an iPhone and having to pay for a new eSIM. You only get 2 eSIMs per year.

And wiping an iPhone via iCloud erases the eSIM. So my phone died, and I couldn't track it. I wiped it remotely. As I had some issues with restoring backups I exhausted my 2 eSIMs in 1 year.

I paid it, and ported out once my plan was up. Now on Visible, with unlimited eSIMs.

Re:Answering Every Question You Have About IMEI Numbers on Tuesday April 30, 2024 @04:36PM (#40216004)
I remember using one of those dongles with a SIM card that you could talk to with an API and use that to send flash SMS. Full screen warnings to friends. Only option was 'OK' and the text was gone afterwards.
Re:Are Ultra-Processed Foods All That Unhealthy? on Monday April 29, 2024 @08:19PM (#40205868)
It's not sugar perse. It's the fact that you have companies cooking for you vs your grandma. Yes, your grandma's cookies had sugar, but it didn't have the other 10 ingredients that are basically pre-digested, making that cookie from the store to be EXTREMELY palatable.
Re:Are Ultra-Processed Foods All That Unhealthy? on Monday April 29, 2024 @08:17PM (#40205855)
Absolutely wonderful book. The 30 grams of cornflakes vs oats is so weird, but when you think about it, yes, I would eat WAY more cornflakes and milk than I eat oats and milk.
SoCal Edison isn't any better.

When I left CA my off-peak cost was more expensive per kWh than my on-peak cost here in Phoenix. And that on-peak is for 3 hours per day.

There is regeneration that happens to burn the soot from the filter, which increases fuel consumption a little bit, but I will still take a BMW M340d xDrive station wagon over a BMW X3 M40i any day.

Except I can't get the diesel here. Nor can I get a station wagon here.

Annecdotaly: I was recovering from hip surgery. Further PT denied even though I was still in pain and didn't recover 100%. I'm 35. Not 75. I expect to get back to hiking 10 miles.

But their denial lead to more pain, and an appeal takes at least 30 days.

There should be a law that says you are guaranteed continued treatment when your appeal is pending. That way they actually have the incentive to do it properly. Now whether that again is a close and deny... yea, not sure what the solution is there.

Using CloudFlare's DNS does not require you to use their proxy service.
Re:How Not to Release Historic Source Code on Friday April 26, 2024 @09:48PM (#40176366)
Because Git sometimes tries to be too smart with line endings.

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