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  • I did not find old books to be any less well written than new books. In fact, I prefer to be able to go through the whole series instead of waiting for each book. Old Man's War were one of series that I put off for a long time thinking it's old but turned out to be one of my favorites.

  • There are already some attempts but I don't think it will work, harmful even. Best case scenario, the AI can understand the code as well as a senior engineer from another company. All they can know without the context is what was changed, which is useless. We need the reason why the commit was made, not what was changed. The info is not there in the first place for the AI to try to extract.

  • Let's say YouTube has a video and 2 ads:

    1. The video is served from videos.example.tld/video.mp4.
    2. The first ads is served from videos.example.tld/ads/ads1.mp4.
    3. The second ads is served from ads.company.tld/ads2.mp4.

    PiHole will be able to block only (3) because DNS applies at domain level, as in videos.example.tld. DNS requests only send the domain part and re-use the response for all addresses using that domain.

    Browser extension, on the other hand, sees a request to .../ads... and block it since it handled each HTTP/S request and know the full URL.

  • How star reviews, especially on PlayStore, is not what most people think. Reviews are given weight so that one star means almost nothing, unless there's no other ratings. Remember that app stores have interest in apps staying highly rated to attract users. Nobody want to see an app store with mostly below average ratings.

    This also applies to any rating system where the service has interest in keeping them high, such as Amazon shopping. The way I combat this to use 2 stars to make my impact on the rating much higher.

  • Please please please, God, Allah, Buddha, any god or non god out there, please don't let any engineer bringing up branchless programming for a AWS lambda function in our one-function-per-micro-service f*ckitechture.

  • Lindell was ordered to pay $5 million to a man who won a “Prove Mike Wrong” contest at his 2021 “cyber-symposium” where he challenged experts to examine his data, which he claimed proved Donald Trump really won the 2020 election.

    It didn’t, and one expert who looked at the data demanded the prize.

    Lindell refused to pay, so the case went to court, where he lost.

    🤣

  • I worked as engineer for 15 years and then management for the last 2 years. The urge to go back to engineering never stop. What keeps me in management is seeing how I can create the environment where engineers are able to do their work.

    If I go back to being an engineer, I won't be able to make sure product requirements are clear, priorities are correct, team members will have a chance to practice skills they don't get to do at work. At the minimum, protecting my engineers from stupid back to office policies that were enforced just because the CEO felt lonely one day. Would someone who has not worked as an engineer understand the feeling of stairing at the screen for 8 hours not able to start anything due to burnout is the worst feeling ever? Will they hear the grinding wheels when soneone used the wrong term during meetings?

    There are just so many things that I can do for MY engineers, exactly what I wanted when I was still an engineer. I don't trust others to provide that so I take it on myself to do it. Granted, I need support from upper level for this to happen so it's an important aspect for me when I apply for jobs.