Bobby Turkalino

I wish I could work somewhere like your first paragraph. My career has been your second paragraph, probably because I’ve only worked on medical devices and we gotta have higher standards than a lot of developers. It also got taken a bit too much to the extreme tho

You worked places with style guides? Did… Did you have a real testing environment that wasn’t prod too?

Yes, and the style guides reached far beyond things like “use camel case”. I’m talking guidelines for how whole blocks of code should be formatted. Also weren’t allowed to throw exceptions at all even though we were using up-to-date modern C++. Some guidelines had good intentions and others were just put in by OCD control freaks that no one felt like opposing.

And yes, we had a testing environment, although we mostly depended on manual QA rather than software tests. Medical devices can’t test in prod, fortunately

I wholeheartedly agree with you that code can be art but I was never able to express myself on that level at my corporate jobs. I was always limited to writing code that aligned with the company’s rigid style guide, and never allowed to implement new design patterns that would’ve improved things but deviated from the way things were done in the existing codebase.

Thus, I’m not too miffed about being forced to use coding agents at work because writing corporate-sanitary code already felt like a robotic process before LLMs existed. Personal hobby projects and open source contributions are where we can express ourselves freely and create our art the way we want to. They’ll never be able to take that from us.

FM radio is jam-packed with ads and most stations don’t even have human DJs anymore. I don’t miss it

I feel like this could be a use for LLMs that isn’t slop. It’s not going to catch everything of course but I imagine it would be a whole lot better than nothing

I would also like to know the answer to this.

I have a water-cooled PC and I only add water to it about once a year when the reservoir is around 2/3 full. My loop is water-tight, not air-tight, so water is slowly lost to evaporation.

I would think enterprise loops would be air-tight but perhaps the cost of implementing that is less than paying for water to be added

I like them too but a lot of the hype around them is unfortunately pretty cringe. Microtonal music is ancient but it took a couple of dudes in wacky outfits to bring it to the attention of normies and music journalists who act like it’s some crazy new thing they invented

I use Quickbooks Self-Employed for my software dev contracting business

When I first started out, I added my vehicle because I was silly enough to think I might need to log miles as a programmer, but of course I never did. Every single year when I go to file, Turbo Tax chokes because I have zero miles logged and it makes me manually fill out every single vehicle-related tax form (it won’t let me leave them blank). Worse yet, there’s no option in Quickbooks to remove a vehicle.

Also, it somehow completely fucked up the reporting of state estimated taxes this year, even though I had all my payments accurately recorded in Quickbooks, and I had to follow up with the state to get it corrected.

This is software I pay for btw

Companies like Flock really should be forced to do some due diligence on whether a city ran a publicly-known vote before they fulfill an order for cameras

It means that multiple devices which are connected to the same TV can all control each other.

For example, say you have a streaming device (e.g. Amazon Fire Stick) and an audio receiver both hooked up to the same TV on different HDMI ports. With CEC, you could use the volume buttons on the streaming device’s remote to control the volume on the audio receiver. You could also use the power button on the TV remote to turn all three devices on/off at the same time.

How’s HDMI-CEC support in Linux? I remember that being a sticking point last time I considered building an HTPC

Nah it’s something they do intentionally for attention. Won’t be too long before you get an “ackchually” reply from them explaining what the character means

despite having had 2 prior assassination attempts made

Which also makes the fact that someone was able to sprint through a security checkpoint very strange. You can’t even do that at Disneyland

I don’t have any doubt that the profit will come soon. Virtually every CEO is pressuring their employees to use AI as much as possible. Anthropic just has to crank up their prices to 11 and companies won’t really have a choice but to pay since they will have become so reliant on AI

Is the Claude Code extension for VS code also using a compromised dependency? Or just the npm package?

Just use the first number the user enters as their age

I’m 58008 btw

Sony bit the dust? I bought a Sony OLED 8 months ago and it’s fantastic

Secure Boot and TPM are not Windows-only technologies. I’m secure booting openSUSE right now

I was talking specifically about major version upgrades, e.g. openSUSE Leap 15.6 to 16.0. But yes, I currently use openSUSE Tumbleweed and upgrades have been smooth

I’ve used a few different distros over the years: Debian, Ubuntu, Neon, openSUSE Leap

Never once has a major version upgrade ever gone 100% successfully. Even on a bog standard system with no 3rd party repos or niche hardware. I don’t know why it’s still so difficult