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Re:Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored actors on Sunday February 01, 2026 @10:00PM (#46851907)
So what mitigations should the end user be doing? How do we know if anything compromised?
wait so under ventura, im going to get prompted everytime i plug in my dock or usb to hdmi adapters for my monitos?
Re:Ask HN: Is it just me or is 5G strictly worse than LTE? on Saturday January 28, 2023 @11:23PM (#34564900)
Locally 3g was the most reliable. I think we're working backwards in accessibility of the network. It seemed just a few years ago, all we needed was a tower every so often, now we have towers and microcells. Is it a capacity issue or have we pushed into a spectrum that is more suited to dense cities rather than less dense towns?
Re:Code Lifespan on Friday January 27, 2023 @04:23PM (#34552074)
It’s accurate. Q&D stuff seems to have long lifespans.
Re:Buy Hi-Resolution Satellite Images of Any Place on Earth on Saturday January 21, 2023 @01:54PM (#34469087)
Custom mouse cursor, how 90s.
Post the salary, ditch the take home assignment. We're engineers, busy people, not students.
Re:HackerRank (YC S11) DMCA'ed the SymPy Docs [fixed] on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @08:00PM (#31091008)
Insane. Common person has to own the burden.
Re:SoftBank's Sale of Arm to Nvidia Collapses, Arm to IPO on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @12:19AM (#30255173)
ARM has been here before. I owned stock in Arm, before it sold.
Re:We need to reclaim our attention on Sunday January 02, 2022 @02:19PM (#29772527)
I feel my attention at work has gotten worse, the ability to focus has decreased. Sure, part of it is caused by my phone (gotta keep the music/background noise going oh and might as well glance at reddit) but ALOT of it is being a senior engineer.

It is my place to be asked questions throughout the day and I'd rather be asked questions than not. It takes me out of the zone and Sometimes it feels as though my mind is juggling 3+ tasks at once because of the questions I've been asked. I've learned through interaction with reality that some programmers need a bit more guidance when it comes to tasks, some will dig down the correct paths, some will dig down the incorrect paths, and some will just stop and wait for help (which is ok). I feel that at times I've done a poor job of guiding some people.

There have been days where I might actually start work on my individual tasks 5-6 hours into the day and staying late after everyone leaves is key to getting back in the zone and solving a problem.

Re:Professional maintainers: a wake-up call on Saturday December 11, 2021 @03:23PM (#29523956)
There are big discrepancies in the US alone. I'm comparing mine (L6+) to those.
Re:Professional maintainers: a wake-up call on Saturday December 11, 2021 @02:43PM (#29523621)
Side note: dang there are salary discrepancies in the SWE community.
Re:Japanese Dome House on Sunday November 21, 2021 @08:41PM (#29301777)
Too much volcano!

Was going to comment a link to his video as well.

Sigh. Stuck in between corporate squabbles again.
Re:In software, when an engineer exits the team on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @11:57PM (#28703014)
When I first saw this I figured it was going to be about what it does to the team, that managers don't seem to get. I was told once, after losing half the team, that they didn't want to lose momentum.
Re:Leaving the Apple ecosystem behind on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @08:06PM (#28623688)
My problem with macOS is that I bought a mac expecting free OS updates. However since my macbook is my desktop killer, I have multiple external monitors connected with USBC to HDMI adapters. Everything I have seen since Big Sur indicates external monitors are iffy in big sur. I'm sorry, I'm not wrecking my environment because apple hasnt seen fit to fix external monitors in over a year.
Re:90 Hours a Week and Loving It on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @03:01PM (#28461591)
Yep. My favorite was the standard rotation for employee of the quarter or whatever.
Re:90 Hours a Week and Loving It on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @08:50PM (#28451643)
Meanwhile company rakes it in.
Re:90 Hours a Week and Loving It on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @08:27PM (#28451491)
Water bottles, hats, shirts.

Team: "What are we accelerating to meet?" PM: "Just because, do I need to talk to your manager?" Team: ... PM: goes home at normal hours

Re:90 Hours a Week and Loving It on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @08:23PM (#28451467)
Milestones are treated as property lines.
Re:Has Agile Become Addiction to Instant Gratification? on Monday September 06, 2021 @04:30PM (#28437720)
I just feel exhausted with scrum. Everything feels like yet another status report and "Why isn't it done yet?" I think we all may have bit into agile as process that revolutionized process because we have this natural tendency to value process and think that is getting us closer to if not the product.
Looks like it’s all just in time for delta
What was the last good version available for download? Gotta give the new fork developers time to get off the ground.
So this is for the YoutubeTV and not the Youtube app right?
Re:Made my personal site into a desktop environment on Sunday November 29, 2020 @02:34AM (#25243587)
I remember something similar to this back in the late 90s/early 2000s, cool modern version!
If they'd just fix the googlevideo CORS errors.
Why the "Checking your browser" part? Seriously, its a wordpress blog.
When they cost as much as they do, is it really a surprise that a good portion of people don't want to replace them every other year? I would like to be one of the people replacing theirs every year or every other year and while I could afford it, I can't justify the expenditure. Add to that the fact that most phones purchased within the past couple of years remain performant enough for most people.
Re:What's My Color IQ? on Sunday June 17, 2018 @01:43AM (#17331059)
Perfect score and I am supposedly slightly colorblind in the blue/green range.
This seems to be one of the more negative opinions. Its in the top 4 or 5 Star Trek series IMO. Individually, in my book, some of the episodes rank with the best Science Fiction. Everyone will have their own opinion but here is what I think the best episodes have been so far.

ep 4 - "If the Stars Should Appear"

ep 5 - "Pria"

ep 10 - "Firestorm"

ep 11 - "New Dimensions"

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