snlnspc's comments

Thousands (USD) for a drink or two, tens of thousands for a bottle or two. It's a very well known scam in some parts of Tokyo, and similar forms exist in many parts of the world.

Long and short, don't let someone on the street talk you into going into a bar or tea shop or whatever, and especially don't follow them to a second location.

> I think I’m a unicorn. 14” M1 Max, triple displays, albeit with two cables. We also have an M1 Pro in the house ...

you're not a unicorn - both the M1 Max and Pro explicitly support multiple external monitors.

the base M1 laptop model that was released only supports one internal and one external. if I close the lid of the laptop, I can only use one monitor even with two cables.

check out the comments, it's racial slurs and swastikas all around

I'm not suggesting otherwise, merely that it is, in fact, a gui

seconded, bandcamp has been my primary source of music for quite a while. I admire the company very much, use the site daily, and annoy people with my frequent pitches.

that said, I have to disagree with you about the app. in particular, the cache seems to be the source of my woes. it's difficult (impossible? I don't even know) to deal with any payment or cart related features through the app.

my main problem is that songs regularly get stuck in a bad state, only starting the songs at random points instead of 0:00, and the only way I've discovered to fix this once and for all is to delete all data. sometimes songs just won't play, and I retreat to youtube to listen to something that I've already purchased.

it's a gui!

This is my take as well. There are a lot of lines that would be right at home in anything moderately jazzy or progressive, and plenty more that I would have a great time using as a starting point.

I think this is a fair point, and I cannot disagree with what you've said. But, I must reiterate, the tone of this piece changes dramatically if "some random person" becomes "a junior developer".

As far as the company wide/normal schedule goes, at my previous place of employment, major changes were routinely performed (by me) off hours on a Sunday with only relevant personnel on hand. This was primarily for B2B reasons where the vast majority of our clients were doing mission critical things from Monday to Friday. I don't feel that this was the case in these circumstances, which is why I completely agree with what was really said here, and with your reply was well.

I suppose my personal experience in this industry leads me to believe that small snipes like that uncover much deeper contempt than is revealed on the surface.

This was my main takeaway from this post as well.

Linus has also seen and written about a lot. Would you say that he was justified in his tone prior to his apology for his tone?

Granted that his tone and her tone were very different, but, imo, as a reader of her posts, this wasn't necessary. Educating junior devs is more productive than considering them randos.

This comment thread originally consisted of one single reply by someone who, apparently, was not aware of Rachel by the bay and her wonderful blog. That post concluded that calling a fellow worker a "rando" was toxic, and that they wouldn't want to work with the author.

While I agree with Rachel here at a high level, and have been a dedicated follower of her blog, I completely agreed with that comment. You shouldn't be shipping things in the manner described in this post, and you shouldn't be considering your coworker "some rando" and looking down on them for not having the same schedule as you.

this is not a technical position managing security. most tech writers at major news institutions are likely not tested with technical interviews - they are writers with domain knowledge, and there is nothing inherently wrong with that.

if you look up some info on this writer, I think you'll find competency was not considered

at one point, I assumed hard coding IP addresses and paths to /home/user/whatever/ was a just a web dev thing

spoilers: it is not just a web dev thing

That's good to hear! Admittedly the main issue for us is convincing others that 1 user at $50/month is justifiable.

Pulumi would be perfect if the community edition was simply self hosted without support vs free with a single user only. At a stingy small org, I have no hope of ever using it instead of simply installing Terraform when the starter edition excludes secrets management and the API.

> 1. Lower cost -> You're just pushing that cost to the employee.

This one does seem to be a relatively common thing, at least in recent job posts I've seen. I can imagine it's not all that common if you take a step back, but quite a few companies have given what I consider very generous monthly stipends for use in personal offices or (co-)workspace expenses.

I agree with the rest.

This is so minor but it slows me down working every day. If I didn't select it, don't copy it. If I clicked in the center on a specific spot, drop the cursor right there instead of selecting a section.

I do not believe that screen would be compatible. If you look through their store, certain parts are specifically labeled as for Pro/not compatible with the original Pinebook. Posts in their forums imply that they will be supplying parts in their store that will be the higher quality Pro parts, including an ANSI keyboard.

The warning about dead pixels did scare me a bit at first, but I wound up taking the plunge anyway based on the price and other reports of Pinebook screens being fine. The free (for early adopters/forum users) upgrade to 128GB eMMC will offset the cost of swapping to an ANSI keyboard.

wouldn't it be better to go to the other side and use a lunar pulley system?