I don’t really understand why voting machines are complicated enough that there are feasible vulnerabilities. They have one job, and it’s to count. It really shouldn’t be too tough for a crack team of competent devs to write the software required to make them work securely. No network access, a memory safe language, and strict business rules should be relatively trivial to setup. Double that will external audits and you’ve got yourself a stew.

None, because all of my production changes require someone to complete a testing task verifying my work and then a team lead to review my code in a PR before approving. For certain apps, there’s more extensive UAT required as well. Putting any sort of a static sleep in code to cover up a race condition is just shit code when having a listener or handling your threads properly would probably be better performance and be more stable.

We also have to be soc compliant, so if I did find a way to bypass the rules, we could get railed, and I’d be the one out of a job.

I have a lifetime pass and there is remote streaming without needing to setup of a bunch of technical stuff for me and my user base. If I was only using for myself, I’d use jellyfin, but I have over a dozen users that aren’t going to setup tailscale or something similar to access it. Also, I’ve personally never had any issues with the platform. Yes it’s enshittifying, but it hasn’t reached a threshold where I need to do something about it.

So by that logic we just just cull all creatures because they require resources to live.

I guess I can’t really relate. Games usually launch within 3-5 seconds for me. Sometimes it can take longer when it has to do whatever it does with vulkan shaders, but that’s usually only first time launches or after some updates.

Do people have issues with steam launcher being slow?

Pretty much nailed in. I’ve been away for probably 4 years now and honestly I have no interest in the game at all. I was at a bar with friends a few years ago when some of their friends were doing a fantasy draft and was wearing a pair of Packers shorts. A Bears fan came up and started giving me some gruff and I just told him I hadn’t been following the NFL anymore so I was current on events. He just kept trying to give me shit, so I went ahead and returned the favour as a Packers fan to a Bears fan. Afterwards I was telling my buddy that while I don’t watch or care anymore, I will always take the opportunity to dunk on the Bears.

I used to go to at least one game at Lambeau every year for about a decade. I do miss the excitement of being at a live game with 70k other people, but I just don’t have any desire to go to another. I would absolutely tag along for the tailgate though and hold down the fort as everyone else went in.

I absolutely loath how ingrained it has become in sports. They have specific segments during half times about betting odds and there are banners everywhere for the various betting site.

To a lesser extent, I also hate what fantasy sports have done for various sports as well, mostly NFL. I don’t think it’s as bad as explicit gambling, but I just dgaf about anyone’s fantasy scores, teams, or whatever. That they take time out to cover that shit is annoying and is amongst the various reasons I no longer watch the NFL after 30 years of watching the Packers religiously. The product as a whole is just not enjoyable anymore.

Yes, that’s what I was meaning. You’re right, it would be tough to make enough money without already having something if a following doing furniture.

I’m thinking more a person that builds furniture, then sells the completed piece. There’s definitely possibility of plan changes part way through when doing custom work, but a solo wood worker either doesn’t have to do custom jobs or can take payment (or partial) up front and not deal with it. I also don’t consider change requests as micromanagement as annoying as they can be.

If you work for yourself, the only micromanager is you, and that’s your own fault.

The original reason that Geek Squad employees wear clip on ties is in the event it gets on pulled into a printer, it won’t choke them. At least that’s what I was taught 15+ years ago when I worked GS.

The AI reason is enough, but if someone has their own shop, then there aren’t micromanagers either.

You don’t like AI when it takes jobs from people, but if your friend isn’t capable of creating a thumbnail themselves, they’d have to hire someone. Also, the LLM was trained on other artist’s work, so it’s fucked to use it anyway.

I think what makes this worse is that their deficits are in the 10s of billions compared to most other startups being in the millions, even if the revenue to expenses ratio is better.

If I start a tech company and I spend 100 million dollars but only pull in 10 million in revenue, that’s not great having a 10:1 expense to revenue ratio and 90 million in debt. In the leaked openAI financials from earlier this year, it was something like 13 billion revenue to 33 billion expenses, or about 3:1 expenses to revenue, which certainly seems better. However, the magnitude in actual costs is so much bigger at that point and the risk so much higher for investors. A billionaire can stand to lose on a 90 mill dollar investment, but it hurts a lot more on a 10 billion dollar investment.

And also, what’s their path to profitablity? The premiere models are already expensive and getting more expensive. They’d have to charge significantly more to start breaking even, and people just won’t pay for that. The cost to continue building and maintaining new DCs is t going to lessen the expenses either. I just think at some point investors are going to realize they aren’t going to get an ROI on their investment and either cut back or drop out all together.

I don’t think that’s what’s being said. More like the complexities of the solution are taking a while to understand because it is a complex solution using complex math. Even the smartest people in their fields can’t always look at a solution and at a glance understand everything without truly digesting what they’re seeing.

Your rule 2 doesn’t say anything about common sense. It says 'One’s own sense of justice…". If someone’s sense of justice is in line with Code of Hammurabi, does that mean they get to go around and rape rapists, steal from thieves, or go vigilante style killings against murderers? And what about people that don’t line up with that? Who’s justice prevails?

It’s just the way work has played out for us right now. A couple servers are being decommed at the end of the month, so it’s priority. I work on team of about 14 people and we use Azure dev ops for work items and sprint planning. The way we do it is once you finish a task, you grab the next available item in sprint rather than cherry picking. I’ve just been a bit unlucky in my timing. We do have some projects in the works that will be hitting us soon, and some new implementations, so I yea, it’s likely I’ll be writing actual code again in the near future.

I really enjoy programming, and i don’t mind all of the planning, mentorship, and working with stakeholders to formulate solutions. But for the past few weeks 90% of the work I’ve been doing had been around deployment, migrating services to new servers, and fucking with azure resources. I haven’t written a line of code for 3+ weeks. That has been draining.

Couple that with picking up work items that are poorly written with way to little information on what needs doing and it’s also frustrating as hell.

At my company, we have dozens, probably over one hundred different repos that we maintain, and no less than 30 actively worked on projects. It’s bitter sweet in that I get a good mix of work to break up the monotony of working on the same project, but at the cost of not being able to master any of them. I’ve only been in my role for 6-8 months coming from a non programming background, and it’s been tough to learn and keep up with the pace required. Being full stack is nice but shitty at the same time.

I don’t like food hot enough to burn my mouth, but I definitely far prefer food that’s intended to be warm to be warm. I don’t hate cold food though and in times of pure laziness, I will eat straight from the fridge instead of heating it up and be fine. Something like a cheeseburger, there’s zero chance I’m eating one not at least warm, or like a fettuccine Alfredo where the sauce congeals after it’s chilled, hard pass.

I’m the opposite on coffee and tea. Definitely prefer both really warm, but not hot, I don’t like either cold, but I like cold coffee less than I like cold tea. I will finish them as a punishment for letting them get cold though.