I’m a software engineering developer from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Except that AWS is (for better or for worse) a tier 1 network solutions provider, in part because of advertised uptime. Due to that, it is possible for a minor AWS outage to result in lack of 911 service in an area, for example. Hopefully they have the common sense to try out these new things on less critical nodes though.
Just the historical Russian ties, which is enough for some people/organizations to avoid them. The biggest practical reason is the dependence on tooling. Kotlin is a great language, but loses a lot of its allure when you can’t use an IDE for whatever reason. It makes sense, given that its developed by a company whose main product is IDEs; but it can still be an issue in some circumstances.
Good clarification, thank you. I guess it would still require some extra care when interfacing with plain Java libraries, but so does e.g. Kotlin. Cool implementation.
There are many valid practical reasons to avoid Kotlin in certain circumstances (not the least of which being Russian ties). More tools for Java isn’t necessarily a bad thing. However I don’t really think it works. It reminds me of this blog post: https://www.javacodegeeks.com/2017/02/elvis-not-visit-java.html which I think accurately reflects many of my thoughts about null-safety in Java.
My embarrasing case of this was when I accidentally started using “up in this bitch” as part of my vocab. As a tenth grade white kid at a private school in Ontario. :/ It legitimately got to the point that I was abbreviating it as UITB (pronounced like You Whitby).
I decided that at my scale, NixOS is easier to maintain. So for me its just a `systemctl status <thing I host>ˋ
Thats exactly what I so often find myself saying when people show off some neat thing that a code bot “wrote” for them in x minutes after only y minutes of “prompt engineering”. I’ll say, yeah I could also do that in y minutes of (bash scripting/vim macroing/system architecting/whatever), but the difference is that afterwards I have a reusable solution that: I understand, is automated, is robust, and didn’t consume a ton of resources. And as a bonus I got marginally better as a developer.
Its funny that if you stick them in an RPG and give them an ability to “kill any level 1-x enemy instantly, but don’t gain any xp for it” they’d all see it as the trap it is, but can’t see how that’s what AI so often is.
The Cluefinder series, Minecraft beta from 1.4 to 1.6, BOTS, Secret of the Solstice, Realm of the Mad God, Skyrim, Mindustry, FTL, and currently CS2 and PokeRogue. Though I’m sure I’m forgetting at least one.
500km… About 4 hours. Was never home though.
Any of the cluefinders games, or gizmos and gadgets. Plenty of other edutainment classics do it too. Outside of edutainment, only NHL2000 and Halo: CE come to mind.
Thanks to Elections Canada it’s actually a lot better than the states. We also get answers sooner. There’s nothing like an American election to make Canadians thankful for Elections Canada.
Dvorak with caps lock as a dead key here. No programmer’s Dvorak despite being a programmer… Never quite made the leap
I grew up in Durham region (Bowmanville specifically). This absolutely checks out. Luckily some of Bowmanville is somewhat walkable-ish (about all you can hope for in Durham), probably because of the sizeable Dutch immigrant population of old Bowmanville I’d guess?
I think self hosting the proxy with the services at hobbyist scale mitigates most of the security risks. The single point of failure risk is another matter. I once had to effectively reverse-hack my services by uploading a Jenkins test job through an existing java project to regain access. Ever since then, I maintain a separate ddns address that’s just used for emergency ssh access.
I’m the bottom, so is my wife. Only difference is she does it DURING the movie. It can be pretty annoying, hard to get used to.
I believe it stands for Free/Libre Open Source Software. I think the idea is to explicitly indicate both free as in beer and free as in speech. However, to me it just sounds like throwing in a romance term for the sake of it. But maybe I’m just ill versed on the whole free/libre divide?
Ada, hands down. Every time I go to learn Rust I’m disappointed by the lack of safety. I get that it’s miles ahead of C++, but that’s not much. I get that it strikes a much better balance than Ada (it’s not too hard to get it to compile) but it still leaves a lot to be desired in terms of safe interfacing. Plus it’s memory model is more complicated than it needs to be (though Ada’s secondary stack takes some getting used to).
I wonder if any other Ada devs have experience with rust and can make a better comparison?
Sadly front end, like “High Level” is a very relative term. For example, in compiler design, the bit that parses code is called the “front end” since the “back end” is what emits machine code. I think that’s what they mean here, the “front end” that understands D3D8 code has been added, presumably there is also a “back end” that converts the parsed/analyzed D3D8 code into valid opcodes for consumption by GPU/CPUs.
In the other direction, a UI/UX is sometimes called a “back end” when it is part of a more complex embedded project where physical controls are the “front end”.
That’s one of the reasons I love my wife so much. She’s the one in the meme (self proclaimed “beverage goblin”) and I used to regularly go 1-2 days without drinking just cause I forgot. Now she waters me like a plant. :)