You should get hyped for my upcoming light novel:

I Wrote a Light Novel on my Smart Phone About an OP Protagonist, and I Teleported Into the World of my Novel, but Because I was Someone Other Than the Protagonist, I Died Immediately.

I’m done writing all two chapters, now I just need to find a publisher that recognizes genius when I stare them in the face.

It takes way longer than that for me to share my opinions. The Earth should be rotated at least 30-40 degrees.

I once forgot to install the Linux package when I was installing Arch on a system. Linux even let’s you not use Linux, if you like.

It didn’t boot.

The browser warning appears even for a cert issued by a non public CA you have told your browser to trust, and most browsers already enforce a 398 day limit, so unless you have cooperative users, you’re already (effectively) capped at 1 year of validity.

Most browsers do this for certs with a lifetime longer than 398 days issued after 2020, which is one aspect of why so many websites use a 1 year validity period for their certs.

If I were a government, I’d be afraid of French traditions, too.

I can’t tell whether you’re agreeing or disagreeing with the comment you’re responding to. This appears to be a bale with a 4 foot width, and a 4 foot diameter, based on the cybertruck’s bed dimensions. That’s probably under half a ton. Still “heavy” (I can’t pick one up), but even the cybertruck is capable of hauling far more weight than that.

Only about 10% of the working population in the US is in manufacturing, so 20% more people that would want to work in manufacturing is quite a lot. It’s impossible to undo the automation that has happened to date, though. Worse, if more people work in manufacturing, the pressure on wages and the pressure to automate can both increase.

Even if we stop all imports and make every finished good purchased in the US here, it’s far from enough to bring us back to the historic levels of employment in manufacturing.

Firewood drying in the sun appeals to me, but it’s generally a quite mild smell. If there’s a breeze, it probably is undetectable.

We used to have good, strong open source tools made out of C (which is a lot like steel - it can only be worked by blue collar computer nerds with muscly brains). Now that steel core is corroding because of the influence of hackers and other white collar computer sorts with their creative problem solving, and unintended uses of memory.

That new corrosion is called rust, and it eventually appears on every C project that’s left outside, unless someone comes along to brush it off occasionally.

I’ve worked more than one place that did constant phishing testing, and also corporate creatures would send out links to websites we’ve never used before that everyone was required to click, so the only way to tell whether this was in the “get fired for clicking” or the “get fired for not clicking” bucket was that phishing test header. They never understood why this was a problematic combination, and never stopped doing both.

Pretty sure stones have to weigh 14 pounds…

You’re right, I want thinking of the manager thermals as counting as another person for the purposes of “alone with”, but provided they can move back and forth simultaneously with their employee (or they’re always counted as part of the new team) then the puzzle is possible.

You may be a paid agent, but not for long. I’m reporting screenshots of this straight to DOGE.

It’s not, the way it’s written, the asshole cannot coexist with either the bore or the idiot, which is pretty accurate.

Ideas can only be patented, not copyrighted. If a company designs something novel enough to qualify for a patent, and so good that people willingly pay for the feature, that’s impressive, and arguably still a good thing. If instead they design a better user experience, or an improvement in performance, the ideas can be used in open source, even when the code cannot be.

That’s my favorite kind of conservation.

I’m bragging when I say this: A decade ago, I rewrote an indecipherable mess of code into an elegant and transparent procedure, nestled comfortably inside every sanity/insanity check I could think of for the situation. Today, that code (aside from an update for a vulnerable dependency) is still running just the way I wrote it.

Releases should be fast and rare.

My situation might be unique there (and I realize describing this that calling them “my meetings” might be deceptively inaccurate). I support tools used by multiple teams, so when they’re upgrading or planning, I should be there, but the rest of the time I have nothing to add to their efforts. The result is I’m invited to roughly 20 hours of meetings per week, and attend closer to 8.

I’m super unproductive when I work remote. I don’t attend all my meetings, I average about 0.4 MRs per day, and probably only 10 lines of code. I make lazy post-development tickets just to check the box. I sometimes take hours to respond to messages, and I frequently end my day at only 5-7 hours worked.

Mysteriously, none of those things is a good way to measure productivity for software development, and mandating that everyone look like they’re working hard does not ensure optimal creative problem solving.