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New comment by DJBunnies in "How Complex Systems Fail (1998)"

DJBunnies — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 20:53:37 +0000

Is it not merely an example of such failure?

New comment by DJBunnies in "uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook"

DJBunnies — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 17:02:38 +0000

Birthdays, bachelor parties, random poker nights.

It's far easier and has further reach than doing it manually.

New comment by DJBunnies in "The AI Situation in Software Development"

DJBunnies — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 17:01:38 +0000

I'm not so sure. I think it's fair to say that only people who can output good art / code are qualified to evaluate the output of ai.

It's like how product people / C levels have absolutely no understanding of what makes for good code or a good engineering shop (aside from perceived costs.)

New comment by DJBunnies in "The AI Situation in Software Development"

DJBunnies — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 16:43:37 +0000

It's kind of like folks wielding gen ai and calling themselves artists.

Questionable output, generally shunned by artisans.

But possibly good enough for some.

New comment by DJBunnies in "uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook"

DJBunnies — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 17:02:17 +0000

Some of us plan events / engage socially.

New comment by DJBunnies in "FFmpeg 9.0"

DJBunnies — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 14:14:09 +0000

And these examples are not niche?

New comment by DJBunnies in "When random.bytes() runs but doesn't work"

DJBunnies — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 15:47:05 +0000

The "right thing" here is subjective.

If one uses a good source of entropy (e.g. dice rolls) then one will not "get screwed."

> I don't know why anyone would keep their wealth in something that requires so much technical excellence.

It's not for everybody, for sure.

New comment by DJBunnies in "JEP 541: Deprecate the macOS/x64 Port for Removal"

DJBunnies — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 17:31:48 +0000

Lighten up, friend. Oracle dropping Java support does not an e-waste make.

New comment by DJBunnies in "The death and rebirth of my home server"

DJBunnies — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 23:08:00 +0000

I had more than my fair share of SD failures running pis off their official power supplies.

It really is a high failure rate.

New comment by DJBunnies in "Prefer duplication over the wrong abstraction (2016)"

DJBunnies — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 16:49:24 +0000

Except 9/10 times microservices end up wildly dependent on each other, yielding a distributed monolith. Better to use service oriented architecture and just ship the monolith, you can test easier and skip the extra layers of serialization / deserialization.

New comment by DJBunnies in "Learn PHP in 2026 (Yes, Really)"

DJBunnies — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 01:29:50 +0000

You're thinking of == which type coerces the non-empty string to boolean true.

PHP is not the only language that has this type of behavior.

New comment by DJBunnies in "The solution might be cancelling my AI subscription"

DJBunnies — Sun, 31 May 2026 15:48:28 +0000

Playing with legos is fine if you can afford them.

New comment by DJBunnies in "Colorado Amended SB051 (Age Verification Bill) to Exclude Open Source Projects"

DJBunnies — Thu, 21 May 2026 04:41:28 +0000

Parenting problems require parenting solutions.

New comment by DJBunnies in "To my students"

DJBunnies — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:52:47 +0000

How do you know they didn't? My college professor was formerly at NASA, where this stuff is important.

I recognize not everyone's work is [as] important, but we should still strive for excellence (and safety.)

New comment by DJBunnies in "Someone bought 30 WordPress plugins and planted a backdoor in all of them"

DJBunnies — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:48:00 +0000

Might as well eliminate the attack surface entirely, and ban computing.

New comment by DJBunnies in "Viktor Orbán concedes defeat after 'painful' election result"

DJBunnies — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 19:50:11 +0000

You can just move on instead of furthering your own point.

New comment by DJBunnies in "DOOM Over DNS"

DJBunnies — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 14:36:01 +0000

And the cycle won't be complete without such a meta "analysis."

New comment by DJBunnies in "CT Scans of Health Wearables"

DJBunnies — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 19:16:28 +0000

A battery. Which can catch fire. Around your finger?

New comment by DJBunnies in "Don't become an engineering manager"

DJBunnies — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 15:09:43 +0000

Totally agree, completely different skillset. Every engineer I've seen "promoted" as such becomes miserable, and frankly is not very good at their new role, effectively making it a double loss.

New comment by DJBunnies in "AI is making junior devs useless"

DJBunnies — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 15:15:50 +0000

Not in my experience. They just regurgitate code, and juniors don’t know if/why it’s good or bad and consequently can’t field questions on their PR.

“It’s what the LLM said.” - Great. Now go learn it and do it again yourself.