[-] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 5 points 14 hours ago

The fact that ipv6 was basically in the process of being rolled out until some IT guy in Chicago or whatever came up with NAT hardware is one of those moments changed history forever. That guy with his little box managed to lock us into ipv4 at just the right time that it's going to be basically impossible to switch now.

[-] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 17 points 16 hours ago

I think they're all starting to catch on that when they talk about him he just gets more popular.

Say what you will about the guy, but he's incredibly charismatic and basically every unc that spends more than 5 seconds listening to him comes away thinking "guy makes some great points"

It's been funny watching Fox try and figure out what to do with him lol. Half the time they just call him hot, and the other half they're infighting over whether or not they should even talk to him like he's a fucking SCP or something.

[-] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

HyperOS is just a wrapper on stock Android from what I can tell. So you still have to deal with the Google stuff and disable whatever factory bloat they install. I can't remember if the Xiaomi name brand stuff comes with the boat or not because that was 5 years ago, but the Redmi one did (just like random apps you can uninstall and some additional Xiaomi system apps)

I've had an 11T for 5 years and just got a Redmi Note 15 and it works great.

The phones come with dev mode enabled, you can also just toggle the bootloader unlock from the dev settings (this may cause issues with like banking apps and such).

While I agree with the sentiment, this is a clear violation of rule 3 and thereby must be ban hammered lol.

(removed comment)I cannot stress enough and I hope that the feds are reading this but if I am drafted I am killing every single superior who is not themselves being forced to be there. I will do it with a knife or my teeth if I cannot get a grenade.

[-] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 34 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Missed deadlines are never a junior's fault. Is always either that the deadline was nonsense to begin with or someone lost something because there was a lapse in communication across multiple people. Anyone who has any amount of experience in a field should be able to recognize that.

Shifting blame is always part of the game in corpo world, but the most effective way to shift it is to flood the zone and not single anyone out because then it becomes an issue. Just offer a series of solutions and ask them to pick one. If you know the solution, but don't want to make it look like you or anyone else messed up (assuming it was a mistake), offer 3 or 4 solutions with the only reasonable one being your solution. Middle management loves multiple choice and it lets them give options to other people making it look like they did due diligence.

I have a lot of control over workflow and procedure where I'm at and I've always found it to be really easy to take a lot of blame on myself and just say something like "we're working on a better workflow for this currently, if there's any other issues you want us to address while we're at it please let me know".

This also works if you did get singled out for something, just don't play the blame game back and deflect with a flood of info.

TLDR: Color TV required a bit more data so they shifted the signal timings.

[-] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 12 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

This seems kinda pointless for anyone that actually needs a boat for work though. You should be reducing the cost of smaller boats or providing direct subsidies/loans if you actually want to help people get boats.

A tax write-off doesn't help someone buy a boat, it just helps people who already own a boat save some money...

(Yes, there are places where having a boat is important, and yes, boats have become wildly expensive, even a small 2 seater fishing boat can be ~$100k right now)

You could absolutely do this right by providing a USDA style loan for a boat (income locked at a very low or 0% interest), then providing incentives to maintain and make that boat more efficient (allow rolling the cost of a new, higher efficiency outboard into the loan).

Limit that program to small work/fishing vessels and there's actually something that could hypothetically help out working class boat owners. Especially if you allowed them to transfer existing debt to the new system and helped them fix their boats to make them less costly to operate and less polluting.

There's no way Katy Perry actually went to space, I know.

When you write 10x the code, you have to maintain 10x the code, and that is 100x the work.

My goal is always to keep everything as simple and barebones as possible. Our entire company runs on like 10,000 lines of Python code I've written lol. I know exactly what ever line does, and have open source libraries I maintain for any glue related code so it can be reviewed by other users of that software.

[-] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 28 points 5 days ago

Yeah, is cherry picked, but a lot of the early USA stuff on that list is like "first geostationary satellite" which isn't really the same level as "first satellite". USSR got the first living being in space, but the USA got the first chimpanzee in space? Fair but also not really the same milestone.

[-] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 32 points 5 days ago

If you think the USSR was so egalitarian, explain to me why only the USA has killed both men and women with cost cutting measures in a rushed shuttle program smuglord

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There has been some discussion here about a community where artists can share their work. This community seems like an obvious place for that, but it is currently mostly people sharing art that they appreciate.

I was thinking of possibly doing weekly threads where people could share their art without having it show up in the main feed, but I would also like to open up a discussion on it.

Since I had totally forgotten that I was a moderator of this community since it's never generated any reports, I also went ahead and set the banner and thumbnail to something random. (Last art image on my phone and the first post ever in this comm). I will pick replacements from this thread that get the most upbears.

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net to c/videos@hexbear.net

I miss Trevor Moore

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The reporter won't let him speak, and they literally just cut his responses whenever he correctly calls this a defensive war for Iran.

For once the YouTube comment section gives me hope. Everyone's calling them propagandists and pointing out how collected and professional the FM is compared to literally everyone in the western power/media structure.

This is the end of liberalism. There is no mask left.

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The muse of Python thinks Claude is his friend/colleague :(

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Arcpy (hexbear.net)

Anyone here have experience with arcpy? I've been working on a wrapper library that tries it's best to bring in into compliance with the Python data model and would like some testers.

I'll dm you a link to the repository if you have any interest. It's still pretty barebones and focused mainly on simplifying interaction with file databases and project files.

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So I'm helping a local tech non-profit refurbish some old Chromebooks for distribution to halfway houses and immigrants that need computer access for legal stuff. The current need is basically a rock solid platform for getting to websites, reading email, and editing mostly shared Google docs.

Issue is that the hardware is no longer supported by Google.

We've gone ahead and got Coreboot flashed on all 40 devices and have settled on using Fedora-Onyx (Atomic distro with a Budgie UI).

We need to install some flatpaks on each machine and set up a base configuration. Easy enough with rpm-ostree and some manual configuration, but I was wondering if anyone here has had more experience with managing the atomic distros.

Basically I want to have it so the volunteers just need to plug in a USB installer stick and get a fully setup instance. Is there an easy way to take a tree and transfer it to another machine that isn't using something like clonezilla? I'm assuming we could just maintain an image and rebase to thatafter installing, but I'm not fully aware of the easiest way to accomplish that.

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Back Seat (youtu.be)
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Shells (hexbear.net)

Which shells do you guys tend to use the most?

I've been trying to get into fish lately, have also used xonsh because I'm really comfortable with python so why not use that instead of bash and just inject subshells into my python scripts

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Typopy (github.com)
submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net to c/programming@hexbear.net

I got bored today and made a little python script that takes text and spits out a version of it with typos that maintains readability.

The algorithm is really simple (shuffle all runs of ASCII letters and maintain the first and last letter). Added some options to preserve double letters and prevent the shuffling from moving letters to the other side of the word.

I don't think this has any real world applications beyond maybe messing with text on your site when you detect a bot. ChatGPT can pretty easily decode the typos from my initial testing, but I'm not sure if it would do as well if it's training data was polluted with this type of text obfuscation.

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I've been having to occasionally do interviews for the past couple years at my job since I'm one of the most senior developers/engineers. I try to allow people to utilize direct experience first, but our industry is pretty niche, so we've only had maybe 1 or 2 people ever apply that had any knowledge about what we do.

My tactic tends to be just showing people how to do things and making it clear that they can ask questions, then asking them to do what I just did. It seems to work pretty well, at least at finding people who have good communication skills and are comfortable asking questions. My only real requirement is that you at least attempt to figure it out.

Is that a bad way to do it? So far we've become a weird little engineering shop that's staffed mainly by underemployed local service workers. That's what I was before I started here, so I think my process might be a bit biased.

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30 minutes = 1800 seconds

There are 8.2 Billion people

That means there are about 4.5 million farts per second across the globe. And that's just for humans.

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