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New comment by mc4ndr3 in "Return to office mandates had senior employees jumping ship"

mc4ndr3 — Tue, 14 May 2024 19:56:34 +0000

C levels can't survive a day in the trenches.

CEO goes to submit timesheet.

Corporate issued hardware explodes in face.

IT support hotline: Remember to turn the timer off and on again.

Middle manager: I need the task done yesterday. Yes, I know it's a holiday. Yes, I know the assignment breaks two DNS specs and several hundred federal and state regulations. Just get it done. No, you're not allowed to use utensils during working lunches, that's against company policy.

New comment by mc4ndr3 in "The Endangered State of Normality"

mc4ndr3 — Tue, 14 May 2024 19:52:01 +0000

Exactly the wrong sorts of people will take this to mean we should remove access to important resources for anyone struggling.

The last paragraph seems to present a reasonable suggestion. But Hansson forgets that struggle occurs on a spectrum. There is no single, visible, hard line between normies and certifiables.

He should probably read a book or five about neurodiversity.

New comment by mc4ndr3 in "Seeing Like a CEO"

mc4ndr3 — Tue, 14 May 2024 19:47:56 +0000

Anyone can cut costs.

It takes a pioneer to increase revenue.

New comment by mc4ndr3 in "SoftRAM95: "False and Misleading" (1996)"

mc4ndr3 — Tue, 14 May 2024 19:45:07 +0000

See so mamy products like this.

If the product genuinely worked, it would make a natural candidate to upstream into the operating system. Better to wait for the feature to arrive there. Than to risk scams and bugs meanwhile.

New comment by mc4ndr3 in "Crit: Port All the Things"

mc4ndr3 — Sat, 01 Apr 2023 16:09:01 +0000

`crit` loops over `cross` target triples for Rust projects, generating binaries for dozens of platforms. Now your users can enjoy more ways to install your apps.

Crit: Port All the Things

mc4ndr3 — Sat, 01 Apr 2023 16:09:01 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/mcandre/crit

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35401378

Points: 1

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New comment by mc4ndr3 in "Docker is deleting Open Source organisations - what you need to know"

mc4ndr3 — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 16:26:12 +0000

Imagine if everyone actually did this. Then we would have a myriad of base images hiding even more malware than we do currently.

Not to mention vertically integrating the entire Docker layer set defeats the whole point of using Docker in the first place.

New comment by mc4ndr3 in "Docker is deleting Open Source organisations - what you need to know"

mc4ndr3 — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 16:21:21 +0000

That's a fair point, and when someone with a working brain mentions the fallout throughout the Internet that would result, I expect Docker Inc. will reverse course and embark on a PR campaign pretending it was all a mere tawdry joke.

New comment by mc4ndr3 in "Docker is deleting Open Source organisations - what you need to know"

mc4ndr3 — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 16:19:59 +0000

I am confused by the meaning of Docker's announcement. They keep saying "organizations" will have Docker images deleted. Does that include personal FOSS images or not? Because the vast majority of Docker Hub images are uploaded by individual contributors, not "organizations."

Too bad about their poor relationship with the FOSS community. I've applied to them for years, and actually merged some minor patches to Docker to help resolve a go dependency fiasco. Zero offers.

I guess the next logical move is to republish any and all non-enterprise Docker images to a more flexible host like the GitHub registry.

New comment by mc4ndr3 in "You shouldn't use Kubernetes as a startup"

mc4ndr3 — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 17:00:30 +0000

You can go beyond Kubernetes into serverless, but other than those two, your tech department would be deviating from industry standards and paddling upstream by hand.

New comment by mc4ndr3 in "10x Faster sort than C++ std:sort"

mc4ndr3 — Fri, 03 Jun 2022 15:19:42 +0000

100x faster: Don't sort.

New comment by mc4ndr3 in "Elon Musk's New Second-Gen Starlink Satellites Are Too Big for Current Rockets"

mc4ndr3 — Fri, 03 Jun 2022 15:18:14 +0000

We need to go back to the days when satellites just blinked and everybody panicked about the end of civilization, when men were men and Bugs Bunny was a transvestite and you could smoke over the operating table.

New comment by mc4ndr3 in "US has over 750 complaints that Teslas brake for no reason"

mc4ndr3 — Fri, 03 Jun 2022 15:15:07 +0000

My Mazda 3 also "smart" brakes for no bloody reason.

New comment by mc4ndr3 in "Managing multiple Node.js versions on Windows can be easier"

mc4ndr3 — Fri, 03 Jun 2022 15:13:23 +0000

WSL + nodenv.

Or get a Mac and use nodenv.

New comment by mc4ndr3 in "[dead]"

mc4ndr3 — Thu, 02 Jun 2022 22:51:32 +0000

bruh his entire dream is to remote manage a martian colony wth

New comment by mc4ndr3 in "Yes, I Got That Reference. But Who Cares?"

mc4ndr3 — Thu, 02 Jun 2022 22:50:23 +0000

People don't make jokes anymore. They make references. "That reminds me of..." Yeah, yeah very cool, you're using metaphorical reasoning like an early ape.

"It's like when..." Probably not, but the comfort one derives from a pretense of continuous thought must keep the blood pressure down.

New comment by mc4ndr3 in "Microsoft Purview: Additional classifiers for Communication Compliance (preview)"

mc4ndr3 — Thu, 02 Jun 2022 22:47:28 +0000

Having employees is a big potential liability. Having a corporation is a big potential liability. Drinking water is a big potential liability. I guess just don't do anything at all and then recalculate your risk metric.

New comment by mc4ndr3 in "Rust Is Hard, Or: The Misery of Mainstream Programming"

mc4ndr3 — Thu, 02 Jun 2022 22:45:55 +0000

Rust isn't hard. Programming is hard. Rust just points out failure states before you encounter them in production.

New comment by mc4ndr3 in "To Promote Public Safety, Michigan Authorizes Cops to Rob Travelers at Airports"

mc4ndr3 — Thu, 02 Jun 2022 22:42:54 +0000

That reminds me, time to sell off USD for Bitcoin.

New comment by mc4ndr3 in "RCE over ham radio – Reverse shell via WinAPRS memory corruption bug"

mc4ndr3 — Thu, 02 Jun 2022 14:17:23 +0000

What model of station? Do you have to PTT out WiFi layer 2 packets by hand? Is the attacking station using a wired Ethernet connection?