pinball_wizard

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[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 hours ago

"almost right, but critically broken in subtle ways" turns out to actually be more than good enough for many people and many purposes. You're describing the "success" state.

Exactly. The consequences are at worst a problem for "future me", and at best "somebody else's problem".

AI didn't create this reality, but it's certainly moved it into the spotlight and to "center stage."

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 hours ago

Yes. Exactly. In my experience, there's more code shops that ship shit than that catch their mistakes.

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

They get a lot of things wrong but there's so much usable that you can save a ton of time over doing everything yourself from scratch.

Your experience with Junior devs has been quite different from mine.

I work with Junior devs because someday they will be senior devs who owe me a favon, even though they've always only costed me time.

Edit: I also work with junior devs because sometimes a tiny corner of my job is both mind-numbingly boring, and also weirdly difficult to automate away.

I assign that work to junior devs because I don't want to do it.

In doing so, I am wasting the boss's money, since I could do it faster.

But I consider it but just another part of the price of hiring me, because it keeps me happy.

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 hours ago

Interesting. I wonder if the exact method may become common knowledge, helping force Walmart to consider paying a living wage...

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 hours ago

Can't have eggs, bacon, Spam and sauage without tbe Spam - it wouldn't be eggs, bacon, Spam and sausage, then!

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 hours ago

Sneakers is the best hacker movie ever made.

Correct.

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

ani.social is...weird

Yes. It's like they've never heard of tagging.

I block them to keep myself from posting the "if those kids could read" meme each time someone asks them to use tags.

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 hours ago

If the customer isn't running the same debugger i am, i have no sympathy for them. (I'm joking!)

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Nice! Classic skit, perfectly applied.

I tried again, still didn't work for me. Could be my layers of VPN, or I might need to update my Lemmy client, though.

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 1 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

It won't load for me, but I assume this will link to Monty Python's "Every Sperm is Sacred"?

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 13 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Wha-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pow?!

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 6 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Nice. I also like how Kristen Bell never gets to be Princess Anna (who she voiced) on Halloween, because one year her daughter wanted to be Anna and didn't want to match, and another year her daughter wanted to be Elsa, and demanded that they match.

 

I've been de-googling, de-microsofting, and de-Amazoning my life.

One thing I still use for self hosting is AWS Route 53 for Domain Name Services (DNS).

I don't feel ready to self-host DNS.

Do you all have recommendations for reliable and ethical DNS hosting providers?

Or is self hosting some DNS records less of a big deal than I'm imagining?

Advice on either would be welcome. Thank you!

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