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MajorHavoc

@ MajorHavoc @programming.dev

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  • Free sample only $9.95

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  • Ditto.

    I'm nostalgic for Bonzi Buddy. That's not something I thought I would say. He was a creepy lying spying bastard, but at least he was kind of useful. The modern Internet and App ecosystem isn't as cute.

  • Discover RSS-Parrot: Your Fediverse-Friendly RSS Reader

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  • Oh. This is seriously cool. Thank you.

  • Sometimes, it's backwards

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  • Fantastic summary. For anyone wondering how to get really really valuable in IT, this is a great write-up of why my top paid people are my top paid people.

  • Childless GOP candidate borrows family for weird photo shoot

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  • This gives off a strong "I have black friends." vibe.

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  • Yeah. That's the difference people don't seem to understand.

    AI is perfect for stuff that's just made up bullshit anyway.

  • Chief O'Brien at Work #31 - Forget Me Not

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  • I had a job like that early-ish in my career.

    I taught myself so much random tech stuff while I was being ignored for 8 hours each day.

    I still love that boss. They were great.

    ...

    I'm just realizing that's probably how Miles emerges as a miracle worker in DS9.

  • Flatpaks in app menu

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  • I'm ignoring this problem, myself, right now.

    Whenever I run certain flatpak commands, it nags me about a setting I haven't bothered with yet.

    I would share that message, but I've been ignoring it.

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  • But what if someone else's government creates the Torment Nexus before ours can?!

  • Wave functions collapsed while you wait [Super-Fun-Pak Comix]

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  • Silence! Or we may wake it from "Normal" mode!

  • After a year of operation, Switzerland's government closes its Mastodon instance

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  • The arbitrary standard for the censorship in Fediverse is extremely bad.

    "The pirates code... Be more like... guidelines."

  • NIST proposes barring some of the most nonsensical password rules

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    1. Don't truncate passwords for verification.

    It needed to be said. Because some password system architects have been just that stupid.

    Edit: Fear of other's stupidity is the mind killer. I will face my fear. My fear will wash over me, and when it has passed, only I will remain. Or I'll be dead in a car accident caused by an AI driver.

  • "What we leave behind is not as important as how we've lived." - Jean-Luc Picard

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  • Even though you're just right, I want to give a little bit of defense of Picard's quote:

    I think the point he's trying to make is that we can't always know the outcomes of our choices, but we can at least examine whether we made the best choices available at the time.

  • Languages

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  • As a Perl user who won't shut up about it... Yeah. Yeah, that's pretty fair.

  • When Autocorrect Sucks

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  • Their out too git us!

  • Languages

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  • This is great.

    If I could make one change, there's so many funnier languages that could have been Esperanto. I would have taken a shameless jab at F#, myself.

  • No Barriers

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  • So the older video games told me the truth! - that the slightest contact with any body of water is instantly fatal from any height.

  • Is it viable to use a gaming handheld as main dev machine?

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  • The big ones that affect gaming are removing and reinstalling various runtimes (C++, .Net, Python, Java).

    In most cases just getting them all installed side by side by side is great for both development and gaming.

    But once in awhile, I just got a favorite game working, and it relies on the exact redistributable that I need to upgrade, tweak or reinstall to try out a new code library.

    After procrastinating a couple times from such experiments, I started running separate gaming and dev boxes whenever possible.

  • If you were setting up your own website, how would the blocking system work?

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  • This also my answer, but better explained than I would have.

  • Software Engineering Documentation Best Practice?

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  • Bare minimum place to start: See if you can get the team to agree that these documents should exist in every project root folder:

    • README.md - What is this even for? Audience: Managers.
    • CONTRIBUTING.md - What steps are needed to build this? What steps are needed to be able to run the tests? Audience: Developers.
    • CHANGELOG.txt - Describes the contents of every tagged release. Audience: end users.

    Stretch goal: pick a spot (readme is fine) and make a list of sources (data in) and sinks (data out). Include contact information for whoever can reset the credentials or fix the firewall.