To be fair, there a lots of interesting jobs out there, you just don’t know they are interesting because they sound boring, or because you only see them if you have experience in some boring job.

If your app uses silver light, VB6 or something like that where modern OSs, browsers etc just don’t support it and there is no upgrade path.

It could also be written in a language that is supported, but you just can’t hire Devs for.

I’m almost always of the opinion that refactoring is better than a rewrite as long as the tech stack is supportable.

Everyone wants to rewrite stuff, because the old system is ‘needlessly complicated’. 90% of the time though, they end up finding it was complicated for a reason and it all ends up going back in. It does allow a system to be written with the full knowledge of its scope though, instead of an old system that has been repeatedly bodjed and expanded. Finally, if your old tech stack is unsupportable (not just uncool, unsupportable) then it can be the most feasible way. It will take ages though with no/little return until it’s all finished.

Refactoring is more difficult, as developers need to understand the existing codebase more to be able to safely upgrade it in situ. It does mean you can get continuous improvement through the process though as you update things bit by bit. You do need to test that each change doesn’t have unexpected impact though, and this can be difficult to do in badly written systems.

Most Devs hate working on other people’s code though, so prefer rewrites.

(Ran out of time to go into more detail)

How.is it providing secrecy and result checking at the same time?

Rich is being subscribed to the financial times?

Dropping as in no longer using, rather than dropping it on the table and walking out.

Good news.

Sounds like the same study in both articles? And the BBC says it was specifically to ‘premium’ plastic tea bags?

The fabric ones should be fine then?

Edit: sealed with PLA which is industrially compostable, but not home compostable : https://www.yorkshiretea.co.uk/our-packaging No mention of how bad it is to consume.

I understand it as the receivers were deliberately attacking their competitors satellites (and that this would effect their performance as it was wasting bandwidth).

Countering in this case would be by making their competitors service as bad as theirs?

I assume in this case it’s DDOSing the satellite,not the other way round?

There is a community for it here: https://programming.dev/c/advent_of_code

!advent_of_code@programming.dev

Has quite active solution threads etc.

I’m learning rust from scratch this year. Already two days behind due to being too busy though

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You laugh at someone clicking it then paste a URL shortener link…

Don’t hold you breath…

From BBC:

The South Korean military says it will maintain martial law until it is lifted by President Yoon Suk Yeol, despite the nation’s parliament voting to block its enforcement, according to the country’s national broadcaster.

Already officially voted down. Not sure about what’s happening in practice though

Edit (from BBC):

The South Korean military says it will maintain martial law until it is lifted by President Yoon Suk Yeol, despite the nation’s parliament voting to block its enforcement, according to the country’s national broadcaster.

Once you have a tower, you can start to upgrade it too. Consoles are all or nothing replacements.

Or things like aluminium smelting/electrolysis.

On crypto, if it’s green energy and there is enough of it, what’s wrong? (It’s not great, and a waste of hardware, but not as awful)

Good for them! Theoretically that should attract industries that need a lot of electricity and everything balances out cost and demand wise.

But by clicking it, you save other people’s attention!

Did you read the article, they address that and how this detects that (apparently)

It does mention that they send some of these in, and sometimes they get responses back that they are fine.

That covers all of your senior engineers that end up spending more time speccing/investigating things than code.

This kind of tool is probably very useful in ‘fiefdom’ companies where middle managers refuse to fire people because then they lose a headcount, or just protect their cronies. Having a central team that cuts across the company investigating that would be a good idea.

Unfortunately in a lot of cases, I can see people being fired off that even though they are doing other work, just because management don’t understand what they do. Or worse because someone sells the tool as being flawless and they just fire anyone it picks up.