Do you leave auto formatting on and deal with Confluence making bad decisions, or leave it off and have to manually set all the formatting?

I go for the second option, but I’m not sure it’s less irritating or not.

GitHub tickets are fine.

Jira is complicated because PMs want it to do everything. It can, but there’s no good reason for it.

I get to say that I’ve truly made it as a programmer. The reason is that I wrote around 75 lines of Rust, came back a year later, and I could see exactly how it works.

In case you’re wondering, it’s a command line Slack client for sending notifications. Colored highlights and everything.

My company sends out emails like “vibe it up” with links to their vibe coding workshops.

I’m getting the impression that people need it explained that “vibe coding” is not supposed to be a complement.

Take Titanic, where the movie is a romance that happens to be set in a historical event.

Now imagine that instead of a director who really loves the ocean, it’s a director who really loves blowing shit up. That’s Pearl Harbor, and you would be correct for avoiding it with violence if necessary.

Why are all my variables suddenly named after SS officers?

Meh. Even hosting static files in a RAM disk over localhost, you’re 99% as good as you can be by using the sendfile() system call. The kernel can copy data from one file descriptor to another faster than any userspace program can. Implementing the Length header is a stat() call.

If you’re not on a RAM disk and not on localhost, then disk access or network throughput will predominate.

Assembly is not magic go faster sauce.

It’s unsustainable to keep prices lower than costs. The Amazon example didn’t have low prices forever.

Sorta. Maybe best to ignore advertising quotes.

Producing beef outputs a lot more greenhouse gases than pork, and chicken is less than either one. Fruit and vegetables are less than any of them.

None of these are better than the others for how they treat the animals. Unnecessary brutality all around. It would not cost that much to treat them with some level of ethics, and if that small cost reduces how much meat people eat, that’s probably a good thing.

My question is if we could attach an induction loop to a standard T8 bulb. If a bulb has burned out its electrical contacts, perhaps it could still be reused as it is.

I’d guess that even if it were possible, it needs a lot of special electronics. Not worth the effort compared to getting an LED bulb.

Fucking NAT. Never should have been allowed to escape from the lab.

Car thermostats for the radiator. You don’t want the coolant flowing when the engine first starts, because it will run like shit. So you have a cylinder filled with wax that expands with heat. That controls a valve to set the flow of coolant. Low tech, works fine, no particular reason to change it.

There should be a Poison Ivy movie of basically that.

Possibly the opposite.

There were plenty of little Nazi groups around the United States before and after WW2, but they weren’t allowed in polite company after the war. Not even among conservatives. Some of them stuck around using anti-communisim as a cover, but they were usually asked to leave if the mask slipped too much.

The Greatest Generation fought Nazis, and they weren’t going to let overt ones have any political power. They may not have had sophisticated ideas about what a fascism is (Ur-fascism wasn’t even published until 1995, most people still haven’t read it, and it’s not even the final word on the subject), but they weren’t going to ally themselves with overtly ideological ones.

The Greatest Generation is also dead enough that it no longer has much political power. Just the situation the mask-off fascists have been waiting for.

Almost like sleep mode on x86 is impossible to do correctly. I’m not even sure Windows does better or worse than Linux on this one.

It’s not that bad. This is an actual technique in use, and it drastically decreases how much storage you need.

The biggest problem has been convincing capitalism to do it. They’ve been building solar like nuts because that’s the cheapest per MW of anything on simple Excel spreadsheets. More mathematical nuance would show that if everyone does this, it’s just going to cause overproduction and wasted potential on very sunny days. You need all three, and toss in some hydro and geothermal, as well.

Wind kinda has to go big for efficiency. It’s hard to beat the laws of physics on this. Not really feasible for individuals to do in a meaningful way unless you have a whole farm.

Solar panels are workable-ish. Residential rooftop is OK, but the real cost benefit is from filling big, flat fields with racks. Homes have to be a boutique setup every time, and labor cost adds up.

If you want to be (semi-) independent of traditional power utilities, the way to go is co-ops. You and all your neighbors go in on buying a field and putting solar/wind/storage on it

Yeah, they do, and they pretend to be wise adults while doing it. Like they’re the only ones who thought of this.

EVs, too. No, we don’t have to wait until they can all do 1000 miles and charge in 5 minutes. 350 miles and 20 minute 10-80% charge is fine for the vast majority of the market.

No, none of that has much to do with CO2 output besides transportation.

Nuclear power needs a lot of concrete. Concrete releases a lot of CO2 during production. It does eventually reabsorb it as it cures over a decade or two. IIRC, it might even be CO2 net negative eventually.

What you do is get weather data for sunlight and wind. The two combine to cover some of the lull in the other. From historical data, you can calculate the maximum lull where neither are providing enough. Double that as a safety factor, and that’s how much battery you need.

Doing this is by far the cheapest way to get to 95% clean energy everywhere. That would be a total game changer.