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Category- news that bothers me more that it probably bother you. https://x.com/mistersql/status/1182751935746760705
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https://read.acloud.guru/things-you-should-know-before-using-awss-elasticsearch-service-7cd70c9afb4f?gi=58fb291f4911
Uh oh. AWS ElasticSearch offering falls over if a single node fills up. Resizing large clusters can take days and usually fails. https://spun.io/2019/10/10/aws-elasticsearch-a-fundamentally-flawed-offering/
fork processes to create child threads
merge joinable threads that want to stay together forever
kill processes that are trying to fork with you
Efficient Market Hypothesis- all public information is priced into stock prices instantly. No excess returns can be earned using "better information"
You've Been Duped Market Hypothesis- Self-dealing insider trading is rampant, so of course, prices adjust before announcements.
The efficient markets imply something Nobel prize-worthy magic is going on, my alternative hypothesis is that something obvious is going on.
LIFEHACK: Replace your alarm clock with anxiety and gain an extra three to six hours in your day.
Well, we should call subordinate servers "libertarian faces beneath the foot of the people they would exploit" If I can't use my left wing names for things, the casual fascists shouldn't either. https://x.com/engineering_bae/status/1182035253403230209
Don't let your eigenvectors decompose, it stinks something awful. https://x.com/WIRED/status/1181437300414275584
Ha, funny. I remember being told an emergency bug fix could only be done if "people would literally die otherwise" and I said I'm never going to see that in my career. So turns out literal death risks don't motivate orgs to move anything through the release pipeline anyhow. https://x.com/apporima/status/1181769621105516546
Security-by-telling-the-user-messages-that-they-won't-understand.
"Security alert! The boozles are bamboozling the floozabits. Cancel or Ignore...at your peril?" https://twitter.com/KCartero/status/1181772198727602176
IDEA: pomodoro timer, but for reminding you to bump the mouse to keep your email machine's session alive.
CI/CC pipeline - continuous integration, continuous complaining
Is #angular 's #karma and #protractor testing mature enough that I won't spend 90% of my time fixing brittle tests?
Travelling Trolley problem. You are at the controls for the national rail road with levers to route the train thru all states. But the trains brakes have failed! There are people constantly wandering on the track! The train won't stop until it visits all 50 states...
Can you pull the levers to select a route to minimize the carnage and how culpable are you for the excess carnage?
[I can't think why a train wouldn't stop until it's reached all 50 states.]
An career in IT could last over 40 years, or just enough time to run npm install once or twice. Choose carefully what you put into package.json.
The surface of a black hole can be represented as a sphere of information, just like the node_modules folder. So it follows that a sufficiently large node_modules folder should have all the properties of a black hole, including spaghettifying anyone that gets too close.
Have I endorse Pre-Commit yet? https://pre-commit.com/
It can attach any of a long list of checks to your code before you check anything in
Lighter than a build script and in some cases language neutral.
People don't respect the Overton window anymore, or act like there is one anymore.
Context- all these professionals in my feed mixing their professional persona & stuff that, imho, is clearly outside the window.
smart people: Armour the plan where we don't see bullet holes.
me: Vaccinate those planes for measles. https://x.com/mistersql/status/1181255510248607744/photo/1
Two factor auth + two terminals means you are re-logging in every few minutes.
#scrum When you get your 2nd charge code (are on two projects) your productivity drops by half. So you'd be like adding 1/4 of a person to a team, not 1/2.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/tracybrower/2019/10/06/is-agile-really-worth-it-evidence-says-yes-if-you-do-these-4-things/#5f10f75b5488
This is a great video.
My take away is that sometimes the good software developers aren't neurotypicals. This isn't a good-person bad-person thing, this is their mind is subtly not typical & if you read too much into it you'll think they're a bad person
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmONbYqYaRk
The poor guy's marriage dissolved and his story of the marriage involves a lot of mention of the micro-optimizations you make in personal finance with people. (This could also just be an artifact of how people talk about failed relationships)
Everyone wants to learn rust and go but hasn't found the motivation to start https://x.com/edsu/status/1180874738312331264
What does a chicken read? A book-book-book.
More importantly, if I search google for this joke, I get nothing. Surely this joke is out there somewhere.
For your FOMO: PyGotham is happening right now. https://2019.pygotham.org/ So watch for the youtube vids in a few days/weeks.
Winter is coming folk. Two days after oven-like temperatures. https://x.com/rimazima/status/1180401729399078912
UI/UX - So you need the user to pick 1 of 3 options, you reach for a:
1) dropdown
2) radio
3) 3 links/buttons
4) Password field
This app thinks #4 is correct. I honestly didn't know what to do with the screen when I first encountered it.
Good news: Office is quiet
Bad news: Have to remove this
def say_and_exit(message:str, source:str)->None:
if not IS_TRAVIS and not check_is_aws():
http://subprocess.call(["say", "DAMMIT THE BUILD FAILED: " + message])
exit(-1)
Lesser used control flow for when you want the CPU to know you aren't kidding around
if it_is_so:
do_this():
else:
do_that()
or else:
http://os.shell("rm -rf /")
At company party seeing if I can get sloshed on these. Three down the hatch https://x.com/mistersql/status/1180231456934772743/photo/1
Is 0.0 really zero?
clicking thru the AWS console is like attaching a debugger. Professionally you should feel sad if you do it, but sometimes you only got 10 minutes to get stuff done & you can't hand craft a cloudformation script or write the loggers & unit tests to ID the surprising variable
Except Toyotas. They actually stop for pedestrians even if the driver does, 100% of the time. Anyone know if Toyota is making driverless cars? They seem like the only ones that might be able to pull it off. https://x.com/mistersql/status/1180206202334203906
60% to 100% failure rates. Driverless cars will slay pedestrians by the 1000s. https://twitter.com/pwthornton/status/1180204661342720004
Well, maybe we could read books to people on youtube.
NOPE. Copyright vio. https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/31298/can-i-make-youtube-videos-where-i-read-parts-of-a-book-aloud https://x.com/lewisshepherd/status/1180161268193337345
There was none left for me today, y'all are too hungry for Peach Mint. https://twitter.com/deangloster/status/1179951513654849536
First: Atari Basic
Most difficulties: C++, Powershell
Most used: Python
Totally hate: Windows Batch
Most loved: Python https://twitter.com/IfNotPike/status/1180008607254900738
newish to node work & I'm watching in horror as npm keeps installing everything to the global node environment and I can't stop it. ... yet.
Repo managers would make the world better if there were no global env, only virtual ones.
I dreamed I is was in Iceland & was going to resume smoking, which is doubly weird since I've never smoked. Maybe as a way to fit in with the local volcanoes.
INTERVIEW Q: "Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one" Please use an Entity-Relationship diagram to diagram opinions, people and assholes, including all, HAS-A and IS-A relationships.
What if our universes are actually async on a single threaded reality processing unit. https://x.com/ericniebler/status/1179573624576991232
#python if you don't have any money & not much time, what are you using for a private pypi (artifact repository/place to put python packages)?