I’ve wondered about that.

Even in rural towns, the midday sun in India feels “dimmer” on a clear day. Even for the winter, this seems odd as the relatively lower latitude should make for more direct sun.

It feels like the soft warm filters used in photography… Outdoor sun normally bothers me greatly, but there sunglasses don’t even seem needed…

Not sure what proportion is coal dust, dirt, or wood smoke but something major is definitely going on…

AUR and similar repos for other distros scare the hell out of me.

Tutorials using them are so widespread… Start feeling like a weirdo for not wanting to give an unknown rando full indefinite root access to the system, with virtually zero peer review… all to install one version of a package where updates are undesired or infrequent…

So the most exciting feature is not some architectural improvement for higher performance or greater efficiency…

The most exciting feature is now cloud providers will be able to charge for the specific amount of energy used by the CPU for each workload ???

All the while leaving out energy costs associated with GPUs, RAM, storage, networking …

Surprised they didn’t take a page from Apple and paint it fluorescent orange or such…

I’ve heard product managers proudly proclaim their firmware was signed using the corporate internal signing service (good).

Of course, the question explicitly being asked (related to internal mandate) was if the firmware was signed — not if the firmware update process actually checked the signature (it certainly did not).

I once came across a similar "solution". The signing algorithm was directly executed from the update package. How would we otherwise be able to update the signature algorithm? Worst part was that it was correct at some point. It was an introduced regression because of a signature change due to " post-quantum safe" signatures now being required by the security team.

By the time post quantum matters for things like firmware packages the thing they've build, even if done well, will have been broken anyway in some other form. But rules are rules, thy must obey and introduce more logical errors and bug in the process.

I'm surprised someone named BobbyTables2 wouldn't go straight for the proper way to check email PGP signatures...

The gifted ones seem to manage to intelligently babble for the beginning part while simultaneously forming the real answer.

An occasional “um” is one thing. But utterly exhausting when every response in an interview starts with it…

Could this work on resumes too?

It bugs me even listing on the radio when the radio announcer or talk host suddenly transitions into an advertisement.

Feels like the scenes in the Matrix when ordinary people suddenly morph into agents.

They'd stop talking, there would be a pause, and in that brief moment I was bracing myself for the lame shift into advertiser voice. Anticipating it was putting me on edge and when I realized that I knew there was no enjoyment in it left for me.

Call me biased, but the CS degree always seemed like the “general studies” of computing fields.

The interesting areas involve some sort of domain expertise- medical, physics, civil, electrical, chemical engineering, etc. or even pure math in the case of data science.

CS lacks all of those, including a strong math background.

Sure, for plain “boring” software development, CS is perfectly fine.

But in terms of one’s personal education and career trajectory, why not aim higher?

Algorithm analysis and numerical analysis are nothing BUT math.

Seems to me shady providers were already highly skilled in upcoming without AI or any other technology…

And we were able to able to kill people with projectiles before we had guns but ffs we don't use that to shut down every conversation about what guns can do.