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New comment by dingdongditchme in "Tim Davis – Probabilistic engineering and the 24-7 employee"

dingdongditchme — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 08:54:22 +0000

learned a new word today: "slopcoded MVP", love it! Thanks.

New comment by dingdongditchme in "Human Accelerated Region 1"

dingdongditchme — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 12:43:03 +0000

Corn, albeit not an animal has been pretty successful in terms of number of individuals. Their bi-pedal underlings have cleared swathes of land and take meticulous care of their well-being so they can bask in the sun undisturbed.

New comment by dingdongditchme in "Human Accelerated Region 1"

dingdongditchme — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 12:37:35 +0000

Is that a big concern? I've been pretty happy with my vagus nerve functionality until now... although I have not given it much thought to be fair.

New comment by dingdongditchme in "Good sleep, good learning, good life (2012)"

dingdongditchme — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:49:56 +0000

Hopefully you made it out of it, but I have to say that was a hilarious read! As not a stranger to pseudorandom sleep cycles I can relate.

New comment by dingdongditchme in "Dependency cooldowns turn you into a free-rider"

dingdongditchme — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:25:28 +0000

Yes. But also infection with a malicious package. I don't want anybody to be hacked and also don't want everybody to be hacked at the same time. If I am managing multiple software components with different levels of reliability requirements I certainly would stagger updates and updates to dependencies using "dependency cooldowns". I don't fault anybody for using them. As it stands I am very conservative with dependencies/updates in general and not using "dependency cooldowns" yet.

New comment by dingdongditchme in "Dependency cooldowns turn you into a free-rider"

dingdongditchme — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 07:27:49 +0000

Having skimmed the article I understand the title. While I agree on some level I wholly disagree on another: to me "dependency cooldown" is a way to automate something as old as time: the late-adopter-laggard. Although I am a tech-nerd and like the latest stuff. I have almost always let other people try it out first. I've missed out on some things because of it but if you are more conservative in your actions it just happens naturally. I think it is OK to have a dependency cooldown, in fact not everybody should update to the newest stuff right away. It's good to have cascaded updates. See the crowd-strike incident in 2024. If some people want to be later in the chain so be it. They will also miss out on important security updates by their cooldown time. I'd advocate for the feature despite never having used it. So "collectively rational" in my mind.

New comment by dingdongditchme in "My minute-by-minute response to the LiteLLM malware attack"

dingdongditchme — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 08:04:10 +0000

Wait, what? You sent a single email being in a company for ten months?? Or was it the first external email?

New comment by dingdongditchme in "Arm wants a bigger slice of the chip business"

dingdongditchme — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 07:26:47 +0000

What do you mean by "IPR focussed design"? IPR = Intellectial Property Rights? So they should keep making designs but not compete with their customers?

New comment by dingdongditchme in "Heathrow scraps liquid container limit"

dingdongditchme — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 12:21:46 +0000

Interesting. I can only speak for FRAports Terminal A where the Lufthansa flights go and they use the new bag scanners where I just need to get rid of my coat and belt to be scanned by the infamous "Nacktscanner". The first time I went through I thought liquids were allowed from all airports in the EU until I found out it was bag scanner dependent. Smaller airports are usually OK because queues are short and then I have the time to walk TSA through each individual item personally. FRAport has started adopting the "snake-through-duty-free" before the gate (pioneered by Stansted as far as I can tell) which is criminal in my opinion (it's not as bad as Stansted yet). Commercial workflows are thus not always better when the optimize time customer has to spend "not buying" overpriced meals and consumer garbage.

New comment by dingdongditchme in "Heathrow scraps liquid container limit"

dingdongditchme — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 09:31:30 +0000

it has been such a godsend flying out of Frankfurt where they have the new scanners and you don't have to empty out your bag anymore. So much smoother. Then I fly back and get all annoyed at the other airports. I was told Oslo airport is holding out until it becomes regulation to use the new scanners. Security-Theater is still what it is. It is super weak imho, despite never having seriously attempted a heist or trying to get contraband on a plane. I miss the good old days where you handed your luggage to a guy just before boarding the plane.

New comment by dingdongditchme in "Is Software the UFOlogy of Engineering Disciplines?"

dingdongditchme — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 15:10:50 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_C, Software Engineering is also codified imho.

New comment by dingdongditchme in "Doorbell prankster that tormented residents of apartments turns out to be a slug"

dingdongditchme — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 07:44:41 +0000

I went through several emotions reading this article.

It has to be said, that I probably have the habit of most people: skim the title, skip to the comments, skim the article, skip back to the comments, and maybe if I am intrigued enough (as I was this time) read the article.

Well, the more I skipped back and forth the funnier it became. Realized it wasn't the UK started trying to find that abandoned feral children apartment and what not. Then I decided to the read the whole article when a depressing thought mixed with indignation hit me.

The article reads like the following llm prompt: "translate this article from BILD to english make it short and funny" voilá. I still hold the Guardian in a little higher regard than other online media, but this ended up being a small gut punch. But I had fun, thanks chatgpt.