Did you ever use Atom?

It’s so infuriating to me that there isn’t a way to just encrypt traffic without verifying it’s part of a chain. By all means, give a nag warning in browsers, but ugh, I think that ship has long since sailed. Plus, realistically, you’d need just as many scary warnings to deter the average user that they might be getting MITMed.

Can you not issue your own certificate? I guess it depends on how many devices and what types of devices need to connect. It’s be a one time effort per device (importing your own self signed cert) versus one time effort per service per X days.

Don’t forget the child labor aspect. https://www.theguardian.com/games/2022/jan/09/the-trouble-with-roblox-the-video-game-empire-built-on-child-labour

Last time I checked it out there was a lot of racist spam. It seems better now. Maybe it was one bad actor or the spam filter is better.

They keep saying that but those Bitcoins are still in the dump. (I’m aware it’s not comparable since having the drive in hand versus missing is a huge difference. Just a little joke.)

The more insane, unlikely, and catastrophic the error, the more appropriate an insane, terse, apocalyptic error message is.

git pull
# you see bullshit
git reset --hard HEAD@{1}
git push --force

Solved! Tell your coworker to make their own branch!

Honestly, yeah. I mean, not the best but I definitely am more in favor of comments being a commentary than explaining what’s happening. Explaining why is better than what, but in general, comments where anything absolutely bonkers is happening are useful. Bare minimum, I think some sort of acknowledgement that the person writing the code also recognized their code was weird (necessarily or not) is nice.

Did either of those do banker’s rounding?

This reminds me of a time at work when we got sued. The company was allegedly using (or had copies) of some tool we couldn’t have anymore. Annoying, but fine. However, to check this, they scanned all of our computers for the name of that company. They told us all to delete our entire local Maven repository. Someone who worked there was on the commiter list for a couple of open source projects. I just manually deleted those files because I knew for a fact that our central Maven repository didn’t have some of the versions of our own code on it and I wasn’t confident we wouldn’t need them again. Turns out I was right and needed to grab one later on to upload. Because I manually deleted the files with the company’s name instead of just deleting everything, the scanner thing they were running didn’t detect offending files. (Not that a file listing someone’s email address as a commiter to an open source project should be offending, but still.)

It was a Java project and every class was in a separate Maven module.

“I didn’t steal and distribute your work, I just made a machine distill it down and able to copy everything meaningful about it!”

“Hello, this brand of tools that was specifically made for people to learn about? Yes, you’re no longer allowed to attempt to understand how they work.”

I can’t believe they fumbled their reputation so bad lol

If the project isn’t related to what you do at work

If the project isn’t related to what you do at work, you don’t do it on company time, and you don’t use company hardware, you’re most likely fine.

“Oh, the deep dream stuff? Yeah, those look so trippy. What do you mean poop though? Usually it’s just dogs.”

I may be mistaken, but I really could’ve sworn that a lot of the really strict SLA guarantees Amazon gives assume you are doing things across availability zones and/or regions. Like they’re saying “we guarantee 99.999% of uptime across regions” sort of thing. Take this with a grain of salt, it’s something I only half remember from a long time ago.

Someone asking why isn’t inherently saying no.