blue screen... now to find out if this machine has one more reboot left in it....
maybe graphics driver-related? interpreting codes & dumps isn't exactly easy.
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Yeah, but if you're coming from a history of CMMI-negative-three, then project-o-scrum is so much better. https://x.com/allenholub/status/1380231524709113858
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Today's game is "where is that noise coming from" Answer, a tiktok video on one of my 30 chrome tabs.
read this thread, matches my experience. In private sector devs sort of did their own thing with no direction & the project manager got fired. In gov't as maintenance dev, I routinely replaced teams of 6-10 techies (with just me & maybe 1 more!) https://x.com/jamesaduncan/status/1380102360656187392
Any ECS wizards here? If you're using Fargate, any benefit to running each microservice on a separate Cluster vs running all (heterogeneous) microservices on the same Cluster?
Halp, how do you force a docker image backed #awslambda to pick up the new ECR image? Just pushing to ECR doesn't seem to be enough.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66976707/when-using-docker-backed-aws-lambda-how-to-deploy-new-image-with-cli
Anyone want to do this ticket? Anyone? https://x.com/davezen1/status/1379527149489680385 https://x.com/mistersql/status/1379535422745894913/photo/1
So my kvm may have been failing because it was... unplugged! It was pulling all the power via USB?!!
Anyhow, too late, I already upgraded to my quad-kvm setup.
A device that needs to be plugged in, should be off when unplugged. I'm having a hard time blaming myself for not noticing.
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This where "a realistic coding task for a job interview" goes wrong. Realistic tasks are big. https://x.com/kefimochi/status/1379106334751162368
Thinking some more about DynamoDB. My thought is, how would apps change if space was free & you could store everything.
30 years ago, user databases were little more than physical card (think library cards). Now a book store has every purchase you've ever made, ...
which enable recommendations. If even more data is collected & stored, even more features will be enabled. (privacy is a polysci issue, I'm sure East German secret police ran on paper cards at some point)
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Puppeteer & headless chrome failing on the build server? Keep restarting your pipeline while reading the troubleshooting page. After ~3 restarts it works! The key is to be reading the troubleshooting page while the task is re-running. If not, Murphy's law isn't triggered.
IDEA: Fizzbuzz, but you will sit in a realistic 2 hour grooming meeting 3x a week, start work on Fizzbuzz 3 weeks after that, and spend 1/2 the work time dealing with an unexpected problem with the coverage tool & someone else on your team solves Fizzbuzz for you.
I think this problem is economically insoluable. I'd like to see how someone performs over a sprint's worth of work. That is 100% maximal fair assessment & costs a paycheck & 1/2. So we use proxies for performance that take <2 hours to administer. https://x.com/engineering_bae/status/1379107213101432832
Doing a realistic fake problem for 8 hours, 4 hours, same thing, different scale. Also, you aren't being hired to do a task that can be done in 4 to 8 hours, you're being hired to do project work that takes weeks to months, even if you're doing scrum.
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The Google vs Oracle API decision result of
fwiw, I suspect the supreme court is more akin to a complex random number generator, i.e. no better or worse than trial by combat by proxy.
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I better there is some metric for how many buttons/user invocable actions are available on a single screen vs total worflows. When all actions are available on all screens, the concept of a workflow is hidden. In a given workflow there should only be a handful of buttons shown.
I'm looking at you Deltek, tear down this wall of buttons!
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Let's all go forth and implement public API interfaces! Apple BIOS? Are those fair game now? https://x.com/SCOTUSblog/status/1379071916741382144
Large investment funds are speculating on residential real estate, sigh. https://x.com/TaylorLorenz/status/1378712727099637761
Snowpiercer! But with the train run by Biden Democrats. https://x.com/maloonds/status/1378826021038927875
2.5 months until planned move. For favorite school districts:
4- places avail to rent
0- comparable places avail to buy
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There is like nowhere to go
I'm going to try out this quad kvm that can display all four computer screens on one screen with just hardware. This time, I'm going to pay for USB3 and "Made in Taiwan" - Will report back when it arrives.
https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B08W2NRP7R/ref=nav_timeline_asin?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1
My KVM died today. Probably the keyboard was drawing too much power thru USB. And now I notice how short their warranty was (about 1 month or so? Their website make no claims about warranty duration, probably some stories behind that)
8y/o son & I try to translate 1982 BASIC version of war to python. Spaghetti code (& more!) prevents success. So I write a new one from scratch
https://gist.github.com/matthewdeanmartin/5265d9dbee4e9cabbdfa2ad1c2224f04
I immediately generalized to n players because I didn't want to mess with player1, player2 variables. Dict-as-a-object's a big help. Some code is harder without the higher-level concepts being introduced fast.
♡ 1 ↻ 0Python's lack of a break for nested while/for constructions means you *must* add functions or the "simpler" code with no functions is hard to reason about & will just have bugs (break doesn't do what you think) or complexity (ad hoc flags)
♡ 1 ↻ 0Also, all these for loops, should be converted to list comprehension patterns. And the dict should be upgrade to a real class. Each of these makes the code "simpler" at the cost of needing another concept you might not have learned about as an 8 y/o coder
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bash is a trap. Normally, for a 5 lines-of-code application, you don't lint, have a build script or unit tests. But bash is 250 5 line scripts spread across a dozen microservices, dockerfiles and gitlab-ci.yml files. So 5 lines at a time, it adds up to pain.
The MD vaccine site fixed the site! They now just take your preregistration instead of threatening you with legal action for line jumping.
https://coronavirus.maryland.gov/pages/vaccine https://x.com/mistersql/status/1373681059175538697
AS a project manager
I WANT to send a signal about fairness
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Riker's got a question for fed workers. https://x.com/RikerGoogling/status/1377715787524268033
<how>
<i>
<feel>
---
- echo "# I'm so happy!"
- echo "### but *xml* should wrap yaml that wraps bash with MD in the echo's"
</feel>
</i>
</how> https://x.com/mattrickard/status/1377666516078878721
Not how I visualize people in Chantilly, VA. https://x.com/jmichaliga/status/1377684467867865090
"We'll do our first ever PR to a java repo... how hard can it be", let's check what my twitter feed says https://twitter.com/wootnik765/status/1377636624473985027
Use dynamodb for
(starting to look like dynamodb & the like are for things that could grow huge)
Ah, security by implementing whatever stupid idea someone told you.
I just got two emails, one with my user name and one with my temporary password. So much security.
Disabled paste into password field, the security is intensifying.
Now for account recovery questions made up of public information about me and questions with only a few common answers (favorite primary color with 4 chars or more?)♡ 2 ↻ 0
attention at meeting as a function of attendee count, a=attendees, h=hours
DynamoDb training video:
"This is an integer. Those are numbers. This is a letter, 'a', can you say, 'a'?"
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next training video
"OK, let's discuss how to solve Petabyte data problems that you don't have"
Can't tell if this is PR astroturf or satire of astroturf. Tempted to create an account that will be satire of satire accounts that mock astroturf accounts. https://x.com/mini_kishu/status/1376676695093215236
Am I the only one that doesn't see any security distinction between development & production cloud accounts? The asset to protect is the cloud account, worth more than any crappy data you put into your prod account
Onprem analogy- what if you set up your data center so prod was behind a locked door & dev/test was set up in a room where everyone has access if they can get past a bored guard. (Shoot that's real DC buildings, that lose batches of laptops every few years)
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Shiva discovers terraform
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Plan: 0 to add, 0 to change, 2^63-1 to destroy.
I suspect I need, we all need, for WFH... a better microphone.
Roundpoint is reporting to the credit agencies that my mortgage is paid off but still aggressively pursuing me for "late payment" (my payment were not late, I paid off the whole mortgage years early.) Shady business.
Hey you ordinary wage earners in MD, are you "certain taxpayers" who can now wait until July to pay your taxes?
https://www.marylandtaxes.gov/RELIEFAct/docs/TAX_ALERT_2021_EXTENSION_03-11-2021.pdf
Thinking about parallels between evolution & democracy. Evolution can evolve solutions too far from current, no evolving wings for humans. Democracy works best when folk generally already agree on policy, & can perfect policy by finding something that works best for most.
A democracy with one group dedicated to the complete suppression of the other can't find a policy that works best for most.
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