Tomer Gabel

Too lazy to set up OBS or whatever, but between the EVA suit puzzle in SQ5 (just, no), the duck puzzle in The Longest Journey and the topsy turvy acid trip world in Chronomaster, my cup runneth over

12 hours in, Azure is incredibly high-friction. Obtuse security model (EntraID App, AD SP, Graph permissions... oh my), problematic availability (East US is nigh unusable), broken ecosystem with e.g. Terraform provider bugs...

The only selling point is that customers demand it.

Ah. Our respective countries’ curriculum differs somewhat 😅 is it worth watching for a non-US liberal? (From a strict “is it any good” standpoint)

I’ve never seen Eyes on the Prize, googling….

Niche humor at its finest

The Wave, somewhat ironically

Yes indeed.

D’you suppose he has a GUS?

Well. I can think of several things that happened then, so I’ll leave it at that 😅

1971 could be a few things… probably not the size of a certain FC intro?

Should is the operative keyword there. Plenty of executives make decisions arbitrarily - that’s very much part of the job - and decisions of the “for security/compliance/future” variety are easy to justify when you’re the high authority. Doesn’t make them good (or bad!) decisions, mind

Look at it this way: if CTOs are happy to dunk a ton of resources on K8s unnecessarily, why expect more from the often-even-worse-informed CISOs?

You lost me on the first part of that sentence. Yes, they absolutely are; a sufficiently inept CEO/CTO/CISO may very well preemptively decide on invasive security measures because “they heard it was good,” and those are more common than not.

YouTube video by The Oldskool PC Do you own the rarest PC sound card in the world?

After months of work, I'm happy to release my documentary featurette on a very rare DOS sound card (how's that for niche?): youtu.be/Eeo4INoGyRY

If you have any friends who are into DOS sound cards, the Apple II, music on personal computers in the 1980s, forward this to them; they might like it.

My point is you don’t always NEED these tools. Not every company is in a space where compliance matters, yet they persist in implementing arbitrary policies that don’t even matter in their case. The ones that have these requirements built in have a pretty diverse set of options, too.

Guess what? That, too, is a trade off. If each of your 500 engineers is wasting 5 minutes a day on this stuff, that cost starts adding up REAL fast.

That very much depends on the company, policy isn’t the same as implementation, and there’s ample opportunity to push back on harmful policies that department heads (including IT!) can avail themselves of.

Dear overzealous IT departments: stop dicking around with developer laptops. Your JAMF, DNS filters, antivirus software and machine enrollments don't do much beyond ruin our productivity.

Signed, people who use their machines for more than just web browsing.

Worth a look. Free point and click adventure game, pretty unusual and creepy

If you see this, quote a game with a 10/10 soundtrack.

On a related theme, have you played The White Chamber (by Trophis Studios if I remember correctly)?

New loot!

Maybe, if you mean Ironman 2070Q3

Hear hear

Meh, I have Just Shapes and Beats for that (highly recommended by the way)

Totally with you on that, but bear in mind that almost all of the normies have no idea what you’re even talking about, so statistically I guess it works 🤷

Shame, had high hopes for that one

If anything in my life is likely to get me in shape, it’s Beat Saber

Oh really, Mr. McTechRecruiter? You were really impressed with the work I did at my current company that has nothing to do with the job you're offering me? Well isn't that something.

I need to tap someone for expertise and am happy to pay for it. Specifically I'm looking for working experience integrating a C++ and Python (cmake+pybind11) with a proper local setup (Python project depending on bindings built from local repo). LLVM experience a bonus. Takers?