Bonehead

Build her a server, install it at her house, set up some sort of automated DVD ripping mechanism so that she can digitize her own collection, wait for the inevitable tech support call, then go spend a Sunday afternoon fixing her server and digitizing her collection for her while she makes you dinner. You get to call it “quality time”, and you get fed while keeping her happy and her collection as far away from yours as possible. Win/win, everyone is happy.

I forcefully blew air out of my nose.

That sounds like an Apple product to me.

Nothing…that’s just how they perceive themselves.

More stable, has all the required features, but can break down without warning with cryptic messages about what’s wrong. Needs a little more testing and development before moving into the real world. So basically…teenagers.

I learned a long time ago that the manufacturer doesn’t matter much on the long run. They all have a bad model occasionally. I have 500GB Seagate drives that still work, and some 1TB drives that died within a year. I’ve had good luck with recent WD Red 4TB drives, but my 2TB Green drives have all died on me. I had a some of the Hitachi Deskstar drives that worked perfectly for years when no one would touch them because of a bad production run. I currently have a Toshiba 8TB that I had never heard of before, but seems to be rock solid for the last year.

Pick a size that you want, look at what’s available, and research the reasonably priced ones to see if anyone is complaining about them. Review sites can be useful, but raw complaints in user forums will give you a better idea of which ones to avoid.

This is so unrealistic. Developers don’t drink decaf.

While that may be true, this is still likely an automated response built by a script that found some keywords on your profile. I still get the occasional proposition for RPG work, and I haven’t touched an AS/400 in over a 20 years which my profile reflects. I haven’t even touched my profile in years. But the script doesn’t care about that. That’s for the HR rep to filter out later if you respond.

The latter…I have Crohn’s disease.

About 60% of the time, I have to shit at the same time as I pee even if I didn’t feel anything beforehand. It’s like my bladder acts as a dam for my bowels. It’s just safer to sit most of the time.

Of course spez is cashing out. That was the whole point of returning as CEO after Ellen Pao was sacrificed to cleanse the site and make it investor friendly. He just wants to cash out more than the $6 million he got the first time.

The upside to this is that you can still make good money as a legacy programmer. Just look at COBOL job listings.

The rockets are fine. SpaceX has a team specifically designed to distract Musk and keep him away from the actual work on the rockets. Tesla didn’t have that though. That’s how we ended up with that lame presentation with the weird “S3XY” acromin. That was really the point I realized that he was just an idiot frat boy with too much money. He really is his own worst enemy.

We refer to ChatGPT as “just an LLM” because there are weirdos that think it’s Skynet. ChatGPT isn’t going to take over the world. The cyber apocalypse isn’t just around the corner. It can barely string together 2 sentences without one of them being outright false. We are a long way away from it subjecting us, and even farther away from it simulating a realistic universe with artificial life thinking that they are building an interactive chat program that could one day simulate a realistic universe.

it doesn’t.

Oh, ok.

It creates sound waves…

Uh…

There are several cases where you’ll be limited to console only, or log files, or many many other situations. Good coding practices just makes life easier all around.

it’s 2023, any dev / data scientist not using a tool that gives you syntax highlighting seriously needs to get with the times

You say that as if AS400 systems with only console access don’t exist anymore.

Nuke it from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.

Don’t delete printf statements…wrap them in a “if (DEBUG)” function. You still reduce the log storage costs while simultaneously expanding the code base and giving yourself a way to debug the system later.

You can’t do that…Connery would just mount and fsck everything that moved instead of fixing the system.