You are my spirit animal. On the other hand, the whole post was a satirical blast. Lower case "i" is a code smell.

Really? I just searched "Sig Sauer SP2022 cleaning" and got pages of hits with very clear instructions for disassembly and cleaning.

Preach it. I've been bugging my younger coworkers about how to navigate IntelliJ when I watch them show me their coding problems. Ugh! Stop doing a Find. Stop looking at your tabs. Command F12, Command E, Command O, etc. Not to mention they don't map the F keys as default.

I would like to see some group inspect those cookies and domains to see which ones aren't using the feature properly through encryption, timeouts, etc. Nothing wrong with cookies and sessions. Who would want to login constantly, but there's a right way and wrong way. If any financial institutions aren't managing sessions properly, we should know who they are.

The Dr. Jerry P. from Byte magazine?

But they do require a shit ton of water, thirsty bastards. Also we have hit peak almond with some orchards being cut down.

That's not going to end well. I do realize this is non-US, but just the concept is fraught. How would these retail investors know about valuing the company? How is liquidity created?

That brings me to the general suspicion of all of it though I'm curious to see it play out. Without proper market makers I would imagine bid/ask spreads to be quite wide. If another crypto operator does the same thing, will there be pricing parity? I love the smell of arbitrage in the morning. Seems problematic in many ways.

So "clean coal" is a real thing?

This is where AI replacement of humans is probably for the good. Way to go Slashdot. Keep on curating.

My Model Y cost about the same as a well equipped Camry or Accord, but still most expensive car I've ever owned.

If you're right, then carry on India.

I love having a car that doesn't spew exhaust. I know the energy to power it could come from many sources of various pollution, but in the zone where the car is, less exhaust is a good thing.

Perplexity has been very useful for me. I keep a diary of questions and input around blood glucose management and diet. I just used it to help tweak a recipe from New York Times and give me a shopping list and accompanying dishes. I use it for all kinds of things. I also use the general AI tools learning which is best for which situation (is there an AI to help me choose my AI?)

When I am asking random questions that are ephemeral, I use duck.ai from Duck Duck Go. Not expecting miracles or perfection, the AI tools are a great addition. And sometimes, I want a general web search to a site which is still useful on DDG.

Back when Twitter was a good thing with a robust API, he wrote TTYtter, a command line Twitter. It was the bomb for early addicts. I'd keep an active feed going in a terminal screen. He wrote the damn thing in Perl and I would try to grok the code the best I could. I miss the days of open APIs working with established commercial products.

My work was blocking integrations but you could still go to a Chat GPT or similar and still get the code snip you wanted. Not me of course. We seem to have settled that out at the corporate level. Fine. I will follow the rules as long as current tools are available.

Still, what gets me is the tech screens I do for interviews. It's comical when a question requires some thinking. Gets very quiet. Then the eyes wander (remote Zoom interviews) and suddenly, nirvana! a solution - I think we should use the "leaky bucket algorithm." Interviews need to go back to whiteboard.

Just put the name in the headline. We don't need suspense. California City is the name of a city in California that has nothing to do with this post.

I've never been in a company using SAP but have read enough stories about it like this. My work uses Workday for "some things" though I'm not exactly sure what. It's kind of employee information and it holds payroll and time off workflows. I've never seen such arcane interfaces post year 2000. When I need to print my paystubs, I get a popup that says I will be notified via email when it's ready. A paystub! I thought the predecessor ADP was a bit old and dated, now I miss it.

And don't get me started on Salesforce. It's part of every company I've been for the past 15+ years, yet it always seems more like a burden than a benefit.