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New comment by 94b45eb4 in "Heroku Is Down"

94b45eb4 — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 09:39:51 +0000

Should have used Atlassian Statuspage

New comment by 94b45eb4 in "Wacom drawing tablets track the name of every application you open (2020)"

94b45eb4 — Sat, 17 May 2025 21:57:57 +0000

If the user is prompted to give permission for the application to have access to this information then at least you know which ones are doing it and can avoid using them if you are worried about it.

New comment by 94b45eb4 in "The reality of working in tech: We're not hired to write code (2023)"

94b45eb4 — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 03:47:05 +0000

I used to hear this all the time back in the early 2000's. It's far from a new idea.

The version I heard (or at least the one which stuck in my head) was "your job is not to write code, your job is to solve problems".

edit: I wish this was more mentioned more frequently these days. I see junior developers very focused on superficial aspects of code and specific "cool" frameworks these days. Often I find myself asking "what problem does this solve? What are the trade-offs with your approach? etc." and it's just crickets. I think we have made a lot of progress with modern frameworks, tools, etc. but I also think there is something from the "old days" of programming which we have lost, which I think we should have fought a bit more to keep.

New comment by 94b45eb4 in "AMD launches Gaia open source project for running LLMs locally on any PC"

94b45eb4 — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 08:37:10 +0000

looks like “on any PC” means “on any Windows PC”.

New comment by 94b45eb4 in "Tapestry by Iconfactory"

94b45eb4 — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 12:27:06 +0000

Does the new Reeder app count?

New comment by 94b45eb4 in "Dwarf Fortress Adventure Mode – Out Now – Official Release Trailer [video]"

94b45eb4 — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 07:03:30 +0000

Looks like it’s just Windows and Linux at the moment.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/975370/Dwarf_Fortress/

New comment by 94b45eb4 in "Rails for everything"

94b45eb4 — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 03:13:58 +0000

Ruby and Rails anre amazing. I love Rails and recommend it for most small to medium sized projects. What I find frustrating though is the constant hum of people using “Ruby is slow” as the excuse for every problem they have. Everyone I know using Rails is in the process of convincing everyone that they have outgrown its capabilities and need to move onto something “more mature”. I also see a lot of people using Rails but replacing its components with others. A. If part of what makes Rails powerful is that it comes with pretty much everything you need, replacing them without good reason (there usually isn’t one) erodes the value you get from Rails.

New comment by 94b45eb4 in "macOS menu bar app that shows how full the ISS urine tank is in real time"

94b45eb4 — Tue, 24 Dec 2024 23:23:04 +0000

At least it’s got tests … oh, wait …

New comment by 94b45eb4 in "Jaywalking legalized in New York City"

94b45eb4 — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 08:18:13 +0000

So if you are waiting at an intersection pedestrian crossings and getting impatient you can just move over a bit and cross anyway?

New comment by 94b45eb4 in "Generative AI could generate tons of e-waste by decade's end"

94b45eb4 — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 22:30:06 +0000

It’s a race to create an AI good enough to solve the e-waste problem before the e-waste problem becomes such a large problem that it prevents AI advancement.