A foot and a half of Subway sandwiches and two bottles of pop is $29 in my country

2000: Big/Fat Pipe

2010: Web 2.0

You got a Bully Dog tune on that thing?

Why wouldn’t you use AI as a shortcut if you can? Can you actually replace senior devs with AI? I’m sure that depends on the company and what they consider a “senior dev”. Maybe there’s some not-so-senior senior devs that should be worried.

It isn’t. Nonprofits don’t have a ton of money, and implementing strong security controls takes money and time away from other activities. Small businesses have a lot of trouble for the same reason.

Good. There’s a lot of non-programmers who are now bad ones and are using AI to make their ideas real. It’s made programming way more accessible to people who would never learn before.

So let’s say you own an insurance company, and you want to offshore all the profits. You establish a reinsurance company in Bermuda to underwrite all your policies and charge your insurance company billions for the privilege. Now it’s a business expense so it doesn’t count as income for the insurance company. You have successfully offshored billions of dollars.

Sure, but how many foods are we talking here? This sounds like probably <20 rows on a sheet, with columns for ingredients.

Tracking a single cat doesn’t seem like DB work

Why wouldn’t a simple spreadsheet and some pivot tables work?

Propane, but I’m pretty sure natural gas uses regular NPT.

Putting more than 256MB of ram in a Windows XP machine. People think that the jump from HDD to SSD was big, but imagine Windows actively using the HDD as virtual memory. It would grind your PC to a halt. Going to 512MB made your computer feel like a Ferrari.

S3 xplorer

Czech Republic A4, Czech Republic A5, Czech Republic A6…

Local files, s3 sync on a 5 minute scheduled task to a glacier flexible retrieval bucket with versioning. Then I have an s3 sync app on my phone to make it all work like dropbox.

Gary Bettman puts ketamine in the water bottles.

Colloquialism is the best word.

He just wants mineral rights

No shit, that’s the whole point of what he’s saying. It’s hard to be convinced becuse that’s part of the strategy.

There’s really only two classes: People with “fuck you” money and people without “fuck you” money.

Who would have thought that simply robbing an entire nation and giving all the proceeds to your corrupt friends would lead to an inability to manufacture practically everything? TIL