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  • I had an appointment booked at my GO. Get there 10 mins early. Everything’s normal, one other person in the waiting room.

    Other person gets called in. Still normal.

    Receptionist walks through the waiting room, locks the front door, then shuts the shutter to the reception desk. “Uh what”

    20mins pass, haven’t seen another soul. Not tooo unusual to wait 20mins.

    40mins, sunk cost fallacy sets in. Can’t leave anyway as the front door is locked.

    50 mins later, receptionist comes in “the doctor will see you now, sorry for the wait we had our weekly staff meeting”

    You fucking what. You booked me in at the time you have your fucking weekly staff meeting?!

  • I used to love ‘the cloud’. Rather, a specific slice of it.

    I worked almost exclusively on AppEngine, it was simple. You uploaded a zip of your code to appengine and it ran it at near infinite scale. They gave you a queue, a database, a volatile cache, and some other gizmos. It was so simple you’d struggle to fuck it up really.

    It was easy, it was simple, and it worked for my clients who had 10 DAU, and my clients who had 5 million DAU. Costs scaled nearly linearly, and for my hobby projects that had 0 DAU, the costs were comparable.

    Then something happened and it slowly became complicated. The rest of the GCP cloud crept in and after spending a term with a client who didn’t use “the cloud” I came back to it and had to relearn nearly everything.

    Pretty much all of the companies I’ve worked for could be run on early AppEngine. Nobody has needed anything more than it, and I’m confident the only reason they had more was because tech is like water. You need to put it in a bucket or it goes everywhere.

    Give me my AppEngine back. It allowed me to focus on my (or my clients) problems. Not the ones that come with the platform.

  • What kind of bizarre trinket cabinet did your teacher have.

    “And today kids I brought in Howard. His job is to measure tolerances on every B22 lightbulb to come out of the local GE lightbulb factory”

  • I doubt it’s /just/ smoke ventilation. Sure, it’s primarily there for fire safety.

    But it probably provides ambient ventilation for the tunnel too. Tunnels with trains get hot. Most things, living or inanimate don’t like heat.

    And if it’s always ventilating, it’s also might be expelling brake and metal dust from passing trains.

    But all speculation. I’m not a train engineer, so I’m probably wrong.

  • Because you’re only ‘exposing’ the port on the peer to peer network.

    You “publish” a port to holesail, then clients have to create a local proxy via holesail before they can access it.

    I agree, It’s a dumb pointless claim. But I don’t think it’s misleading.

    It looks like holesail is just tailscale, but on a much smaller scale. It’s not networks, it’s just ports.

  • Put each character in a spans with random classes, intersperse other random characters all over the place also with random classes, then make the unwanted characters hidden.

    Bonus points if you use css to shuffle the order of letters too.

    Accessibility? Pffffft.

  • I would like TVs to offer a custom scale. Where the minimum and maximum values are reasonable, but the numbers are proportionate.

    Legally mandated support for:

    • Odds only
    • evens only
    • primes only
    • Gould’s sequence (too quiet? You’ll double the volume at some point)
    • Bernoulli Numbers (too noisy outside, the TV will make it quiet)
  • It’s a poorly worded article that (intentionally or not) ends up sowing resentment between the have nots, and have nots with a family home. (As opposed the haves, with a rental portfolio, holiday home overseas, trust funds, etc)

    Makes the boogeyman the people that are seen, the peers in (relative) poverty. While the actual boogeyman can hide away out of sight. Be it overseas land barons, corporate landlords, or just straight up wealthy living in their large secluded properties.