#random (2019-11)
Non-work banter and water cooler conversation
A place for non-work-related flimflam, faffing, hodge-podge or jibber-jabber you’d prefer to keep out of more focused work-related channels.
Archive: https://archive.sweetops.com/random/
2019-11-03
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“It refuses to work if you use spaces” That’s a headscratcher
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2019-11-04
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One year ago exactly, I wrote my first piece about a stablecoin called Tether. A year later, uh, wow: From legal action introduced last month: Leibowitz et al. versus iFinex et al., US District Court. A complaint is not the same thing as a conviction. But the complaints are mind-blowing. This is not just “we are upset that we lost our crypto money and we’d like to sue someone”. If these accusations are found by a jury to be true, or even approximately true, then it will immediately go straight to the Hall of Fame level of Largest Frauds of All Time. In terms of monetary evaporation, the accusations here are ten times the size of WeWork, and at least ten times as interesting.
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Modern day Mossack Fonseca
2019-11-06
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Some Robinhood users have been manipulating the stock-trading app to trade with what they’re calling “infinite leverage.”
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Crazy! Checkout the subreddit wallstreetbets if you really want some laughs
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Some Robinhood users have been manipulating the stock-trading app to trade with what they’re calling “infinite leverage.”
2019-11-07
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New github feature?
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Love this feature. People constantly forget to delete their branches after they have merged their pull request.
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Some of them for some reason think they need to hold on to them “just in case” without realizing that everything they worked on is still part of the historical record of the trunk branch
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The following interactive tutorial is a reconstruction of Capital One’s data breach incident that exposed the records of almost 106 million customers.
2019-11-08
2019-11-09
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With its cheap geothermal energy and low crime rate, Iceland has become the world’s leading miner of digital currency. Then the crypto-crooks showed up.
2019-11-11
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2019-11-12
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https://crossplane.io/ when you very very want to use multi cloud, kubernetes and managed services such as AWS RDS, GCP CloudSQL, etc, it looks promising
The open source multicloud control plane.
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I haven’t played with this, but I wanna try
The open source multicloud control plane.
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but Gitlab developers already have playing https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/charts/auto-deploy-app/merge_requests/16
This MR allows options for postgres provisioning via crossplane. > (Based on the discussion from https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/1866#note_228944981) Addition of the options postgres.managed=true postgres.managedClass=”specific class name” to allow the user choice of…
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Also check out the new Microsoft product, Azure Arc.
2019-11-13
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This was shared in #office-hours today: https://sso.tax/
A list of vendors that treat single sign-on as a luxury feature, not a core security requirement.
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Love it!
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Upstream github: https://github.com/robchahin/sso-wall-of-shame
A list of vendors that treat single sign-on as a luxury feature, not a core security requirement. - robchahin/sso-wall-of-shame
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Who’s going to KubeCon? Let’s meet up for a drink!
2019-11-14
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I wish… but probably not. Bummer because it’s just a 2 hour drive away
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“In October, a woman tweeted about her perplexity upon encountering one such faster: “In an instance of the Bay Area being very Bay Area: today was my first day in SF since moving here, and I ran into someone from my [Y Combinator] batch who told me he was on a ‘dopamine fast’ and thus had to cut our convo short (lest he acquire too much dopamine).”
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This is so going to be a topic in the next season of Sillicon Valley (if there is one?)
![Igor avatar](https://avatars.slack-edge.com/2022-03-17/3244104166391_48a8db73944f03735a65_72.jpg)
Already 2 or 3 episodes in
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How dopamine fasting works — and doesn’t.
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I didn’t know there was a buzzword for the reason I cut out most social media & video games. After going home & trying to decompress it felt like I was time traveling to bed & essentially work the next day. I’m guessing there are also issues with short term reward & long term sense of accomplishment. I’ll give it a read in a few
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2 unit tests, 0 integration tests
Posted in r/ProgrammerHumor by u/itzmysound • 819 points and 8 comments
2019-11-19
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Introducing Nebula, an open source scalable overlay networking tool with a focus on performance, simplicity and security.
2019-11-20
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Announcing our Series A funding to unchain applications from the cloud providers.
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congrats to our partners at Gravitational!
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Slack has just recently rolled out a “WYSIWYG text input” widget to its Web browser interface. (Apparently, the phased rollout started at the beginning of November 2019, but it’s just now starting to hit the workspaces that I participate in.) The user experience of using this new input method is really, really, really bad.
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Too true
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All too common in this world
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eh it’s a good feature to add - it just should have been added as an optional feature, not as a change - it should be configurable.
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sean0- 6 hours ago [-]
Supposedly this feature is being walked back now. I just received the following from their support. I’m ecstatic to hear this and hope their Product Management has reassessed the importance of non-WYSIWYG inputs.
We really appreciate your feedback, and we hear your frustration. We’re sorry for the impact this is having on your ability to communicate with your team and on your overall productivity. We made a mistake by forcing everyone into this feature without providing an opt-out for customers like you: people for whom the existing behavior was working just fine. We’ve started working on a preference that will let you return to the previous message composer. We don’t have a specific release date to share right now — it’s this team’s top and only priority, however, and we expect to have it available on the desktop within a couple of weeks, with Android following shortly thereafter. We will follow up with another note when this option is available to you, and we’ll include instructions on how to enable it. Again, we’re sorry for the disruption and we’re grateful for the feedback. We missed the mark on this feature! We will do our best to learn from this and avoid similar mistakes in the future.
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There is hope!
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@roth.andy
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Good response
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Yea it was well said
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the annoying thing is it would make perfect sense for it to toggle with this option
2019-11-21
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Learn by doing, working with GitHub Learning Lab bot to complete tasks and level up one step at a time.
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When you’re ordered to bring your coverage up to 85% when you are currently at zero.
https://docs.sonarqube.org/latest/user-guide/fixing-the-water-leak/
2019-11-24
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@ennio.trojani
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True…
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Well at least, you’ll be de-throned
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yeah, something must be wrong with evolution then
2019-11-25
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My wife put in her preorder! :-)
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I think the cyber truck is rad. Finally a car manufacturer bold enough to produce a car that looks futuristic like the concept cars at car shows
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i’m waiting until they’re actually delivering, but i’ll probably get one too
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I really dislike the fact that superchargers aren’t available on my usual routes. I would fancy a model3
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I’ve got a model x and pre-registered. Not sure it will fit on any Belgian road or parking spot, but driving a mars rover, can’t beat that
2019-11-27
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i feel like the pointy ends on the cybertruck (first mention of cyber i can somehow tolerate) are going to be a road problem for pedestrian injuries. not sure if the car would be allowed on EU roads
2019-11-29
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@timohetzel Neues 16er da. Die „1“ hängt. #onlyApple
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it seems that the 16” mac keyboard is not better after all