klowner

Interpreting disruption as a blanket "good" is a whole ass opinion.

I'm extremely fond of Mikrotik gear, they're capable of pretty much anything and really reasonably priced. They're out of Latvia.

The only thing is they're definitely not designed for regular consumers, you at least need familiarity with Linux networking.

Oh yeah I vaguely recall news reports about how the PS2 was so powerful it could be used for missile guidance or some nonsense?

This sounds like a possible explanation for why I keep getting recommended different AWS client libraries from the boss to "solve instability" of a service that works 99.8% except for when the S3 endpoint (backblaze) has brief mystery issues.

I do know that I would love it if amdgpu would stop throwing null pointer dereference errors when I open Blender settings with my 7800XT.

Yep, kinda drives home the point of how important "third spaces" are for mental health.

This reminds me of the time I was dealing with a REST API that exposed an image thumbnail.. except the response contained a file path, and the response completed before the file was actually written to disk.

They were paying me to work with this, yet they couldn't be bothered to fix this on their end.

What a terrible experience.

Yeah, and how well can the fish climb a tree?

They could happily exist as strings in json if they're just IDs.

I do this for personal projects, that seems like basic obvious stuff, IMHO.

That conservative newspaper Epoch Times run by a Falun Gong dude as well, although my family doesn't seem to care because they like the articles..

Too many companies taking a "McMansion" approach to software and we wonder why everything is constantly broken.

I always considered self directed learning to be less like forcing a child to learn in a vacuum and more like letting the child drive the educatiomobile while you help with the maps.