Time for the yearly barrage of "Setup CI"..."Fix CI" commits.

That is my experience with basically every CI service out there.

You're quite bold to assume that linux users haven't built their houses with doors instead of windows.

Remove the battery Wait, you can't do that these days...

I actually like this. This would allow reuse of all the infrastructure we have around XML. No more SQL injection and dealing with query parameters? Sign me up!

Everything seems to be way faster on Linux than on windows for some reason.

On one occasion I tested a build that took ~10 min on windows, in a Linux VM installed on the same machine, it finished in ~1min.

I have searched around for an answer for quite some time now, I could not find any definitive reason. Some say that process creation is slower on windows, some say IO is inefficient. Still struggling to explain 10x increase in throughput.

Here is a funny instance: https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/17783/why-does-emacs-take-longer-to-start-on-windows-than-on-linux

Go: Why is your every second sentence a caution?

You have rust.

You get a horse and arrive at the castle within seconds but the horse is too old and doesn't work with the castle.

You remove the horse, destructure the castle and rescue the princess within seconds, but now you have no horse.

While you're finding a compatible horse and thinking whether you should write your own horse, Bowser recaptures the princess and moves her to another castle.

Replacing "Programmers:" with "Program:" is more accurate.

::: spoiler spoiler Tower of Hanoi is actually easy to write program for. Executing it on the other hand... :::

I was confused for a moment, because intuitively a CPU fan would look in the same direction as it blows air, so it should look into the heatsink. The fan looking away from the heatsink seems weird to me.

Or the owner installed the fan in the wrong direction.

How I lost a Postgres database:

1. Installed Postgres container without configuring a volume
2. Made a mental note that I need to configure a volume
3. After a few days of usage, restarted the container to configure the volume
4. ...
5. Acceptance

Even worse, they connected cables.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plugboard

...hope...

The code had not been unit tested before

Because the smoke test procedure on our staging environment is currently a completely manual process without any automation.

Why do we have to keep learning to test and automate our tests as hard lessons?

Why do software engineering lectures not teach us about testing? If I were asked to teach software engineering (which TBH I shouldn't be qualified to do just yet) I'd start with testing.

Not caring about privacy is one thing. There is also a network effect; that is caring about privacy leads to poorer contact with family, friends, and people they care about. Privacy has been correlated with disadvantage.

The sad thing about it is that none of it is natural, the big wigs have rigged it this way. Sometimes I feel like the only winning move is to choose your peers, and if you cannot choose your peers, you cannot win this game.

Hmm... Maybe I should adjust my priorities.

That's too much effort. Just advertise the CVE fix and let a paying customer do the effort.

Together we can make this happen!

All these are just silly stereotypes that almost nobody fits into.