cool idea. reminds me a bit of SITO's Gridcosm:

https://sito.org/synergy/gridcosm/

wow it's funny how such a trivial post got so much activity. Might be my most commented-on "rant" yet. I should post more such #quibbles. like maybe that block cursors are better than underscore cursors. let's argue about that! LOL.

you could use PM2

@IntrusionCM LOL. Versioning is of course part of the process but that doesn't automatically prevent someone from mistakenly upgrading an application to use a new version of a library that has a new bug in it, a bug that isn't relevant to the new project that motivated the change..

the metaverse is a scam, so your managers seems wise.

"Getting programmers to write documentation is almost as hard as getting them to wear ties."

- Larry Wall, et.al, 'Programming Perl'

Yup. Never let them know what you can do, or they'll keep asking you to do it.

yes and yes. otherwise might as well just be a investment banker or some other evil shit.

@iiii that's your opinion. i guess we need to just agree to disagree. :)

@iiii that answer is the kind of worldview i'm complaining about.

@iiii my quotation marks were meant to question why you think altruism is a strategy. because "strategy" implies that you hope to get something out of it. but the very idea of altruism is that you're doing it for others. it's not for you. it's not attached to a "return on investment" or any other bullshit that seems to be drilled into everyone's heads by capitalism now. you just do it cuz it's the right thing to do.

I would advise you not to read them. Not a single one.

@iiii "strategy"?

@iiii work for what?

@kiki freedom and altruism are not mutually exclusive.

Actually, usually people that work toward minimizing suffering are doing that for its own sake, and then happiness comes to them as a side-effect. They're not "chasing" it. Definitely chasing happiness in any way is likely a doomed effort. One should pursue meaning, and in the process you may be happy.

Recruiters are spammers. It costs them very little to just blast out feelers to a huge list and if one out of 1000 reply, great. Compared to the time it would take them to read all of each profile and think about it. Labor is just a resource to be mined, even in highly paid skilled positions. And the miners are not your friends.

there are lots of tutorials on the subject. I remember there was a great post on the Joyent site about it that really helped me a few years ago, but it seems to be 404 now.

I'd say the most important thing is that when an error becomes enduser-facing, it should be as clear and user-friendly as possible, and the interface should give the user an easy way to recover, work around (if possible), and move on.

CERN is in Switzerland, IIRC.

@ess3sq thankfully `git blame` let's me know if it was me, though there might be a kind of github Tyler Durden situation going on, for all I know...

oh gawd you sound like one of the contract devs working for me, i hope i'm not "that guy"... lol...

You mean you've never hit the "Ballmer Peak"? You need to drink more!

Unless of course you write software for nuclear reactors or something else that actually matters...

yes, always cd to "/" before doing anything, so that if you accidentally type "rm -rf *" it will do the most damage. ;)

that software (not an AI) would just sit there waiting for input forever because the other player isn't going to go first and let it see their play.

Eventually whoever wrote it would be given a terrible performance review and fired. His computer would be turned off and the program terminated. End of story.

@netikras exactly! kinda the same reason I still use vi instead of emacs or some other fancy shit. it's always gonna be there.

the tiny one that's part of my laptop is all i need. i've tried but never really benefitted from having more, for coding. for video editing, sure, but not for coding.

it happened for me because my organization is very very small ( i was the only paid tech person), and i convinced my boss that i couldnt do all the development work that needed to be done, so we hired more people, and i was the one who knew the most about the business logic and organizational stuff, so i had to manage the other devs. we're still quite small and so i still get to do a lot of coding myself, and i actually kinda enjoy looking at the big picture and directing others, delegating tasks, etc. Except when there's a bad or lazy dev, and then it's worse than just doing it all myself.

and its corrollary: your failure to spec this feature a year ago doesn't mean we can add it now without shifting the launch date.

Maybe this site could get sponsorship from some online therapy service. LOL.

@deadlyRants exactly. In fact I always remembered the quote as including the words "to the uninitiated", but when i looked it up to get the phrasing just right, that wasn't in there. perhaps i just editorialized it in my memory, years ago....