I fear they might replace him with someone who’s actually competent. Incompetence is currently limiting the evil.

I think EA opting for not having Denuvo poses a much bigger existential risk. If a big player like EA discovers that they’re actually not losing money for skipping DRM and are only getting bad rep for using it, they might consider if it is worth it at all. If a big player like EA goes, so does the rest.

Denuvo has broken their strategy of not interacting with the market at all (they’re not popular after all) due to their controversy actively hurting their sales. If Hypervisor workarounds can help speed it up I’m all for it, but I’m more keeping an eye on what game Denuvo is playing right now.

digital rollercoasters

Excuse me, what!? So you pay expensive fares and stand in line for hours to experience the same thing you can at home with an office chair with a leg missing in front of a TV???

First class

Rear of plane

Hmm…

I can recommend Zojirushi, keeps hot for long and they are easy to drink from.

Here you go:

Sorry, best we can do is rename tasks to work items.

That’s simply not true. The Decathlon HRM Band for example connects to virtually everything that can understand a generic HRM over BLE. And limited in what sense? It’s either sending a heart rate or not.

OpenTracks has integrations with several HR BLE trackers: https://codeberg.org/OpenTracksApp/OpenTracks/src/branch/main/README_TESTED_SENSORS.md

OpenTracks?

As a Scandinavian: Phew.

The SSDs are definitely weirder than they are spinny but otherwise it depends. A 7200RPM weird spinny thing is for example more spinny than a 5400RPM but if you take 3 of the 5400RPM in a RAID, then the spinnines is aggregated, making it more spinny than a 7200RPM. But in doing so, you are multiplying the weirdiness, making it exponentially more weird than a single 7200RPM weird spinny thing. This has to do with how the weirdiness particles flow between the spinny things to make sure that you’ll always be able to recover the weirdiness of one of the spinny things from the other spinny things in case of an untimely demise.

• NAS: A weird spinny thing where you store your data. Both over the network.
• RAID: Multiple weird spinny things working together to recover the lost data if one of the weird spinny things dies.
• SSD: A weird spinny thing that doesn’t spin. Currently prohibitively expensive, so can be ignored.
• SMB: A language that computers use to share files from the weird spinny things or printers with each other.
• ZFS: A method that your computer uses to keep track of how and where your files are on the weird spinny things.

I tried to do that, but some guy ran up to me and shouted something about “desecrating” and graves"

I’ve burned out on software development and swore to never touch a piece of code again. It’s only 5 years since my MSc in ComSci which almost feels pointless by now. I felt like I was screaming into the void when I tried to fix the issues we were creating while we rushed for immovable deadlines dictated by higher ups and gut feelings ignoring the capabilities and competencies of the team. Even my hobby programming took a nose dive and has been sitting untouched for years. Dreams of creating innovative solutions for real problems crushed by the ever increasing weight of ignorance permeating my profession.

I quit my dev job end of December. I had enough. After my resignation I started looking into upskilling myself to project management (yes, my resignation was maybe a bit irrational with no plan) where I feel like I could actually make a difference and be listened to. But even that doesn’t seem like a done deal, so my plan A right now is consultancy work where I can recommend, be on to the next client and project in half a year, and never think about the fallout they’re causing because they didn’t listen to my expertise.

But then I read this article. I have no words for it. Without having decades of history to see what has been and what should be, only the last 5 years of fast track to developer hell, I couldn’t put my finger on what exactly was the problem. But every single word of this article speaks to me. It actually gave me the courage to go to my computer and work on a piece of software I have been putting off for 2 years. Like, right now. Maybe we can turn this shitshow around. Or for me it at least gave me enough motivation to put actual work into my startup idea.

I really hope we fix this shit because development and IT was my passion. Ever since I got my first PC it spoke to me. I understood it, it understood me. I really want to reignite that passion and feel the drive to be solve problems. I wish everyone who wants to move the needle good luck, we all need it.

Thanks for listening to my uncensored ramblings, this just hits very close to me.

I think they’re talking about heatpump driers. Mine’s barely even registering as warm in the tiny room its in. Run it multiple times in a day and the room is quite noticeaby low in humidity. I think in Europe it’s almost the only thing you can get nowadays due to the energy regulations, that’s at least the case in Denmark.

which literally everyone can easily do themselves

Key word here is ‘can’. People can update it themselves, but unless kept accountable for missing something bad, they don’t do it unless a PM drags it out of them. In a perfect world we’d all show enough accountability to share the info that could affect a project in a democratic and orderly way, but even when ignoring a lack of PM experience, people usually feel it’s bureaucratic and takes precious time away from their specialisation.

A PM with a good background will definitely have a chance to be better than a PM without, but being able to contact the right specialists at the right time and keeping the project flowing is what truly matters.

Definitely Danish, it’s a very common saying around here. Basically means that there’s no problem.

What is the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything?

France, while still seeing progress, is heavily car-focused. You’ll see car streets in cities that can barely fit an Aygo. I only know as a tourist, though, so it might be better in areas I haven’t visited.