@hazelweakly this blew my mind a bit. I've spent a lot of my career working in the financial industry, and the situation is almost inverted there. The first department-wide e-mail I got on my first job out of university was the CFO celebrating the successful decommissioning of 300 Excel sheets 😅. Some of them were chonky multi-100 mb things on a shared drive, that took minutes to open.
So what you're telling me is that people just hate Excel on some BS nerd-cred grounds? Honestly should have known, but stupidly assumed they had more practical reasons 🫤
@spoltier yup! There are absolutely times when you should use a real database, but so many people out there are building massive complicated databases in order to handle a system that does 100 queries per second. If that. On .... 6000 rows of data
That is well into "this could probably just be one table in Excel if not entirely one JSON fuckin object" territory
But no, multi year project, tons of engineering effort. For no reason
cursed idea: it might be possible to hack the firmware of a normal, off the shelf micro SD card such that it wirelessly leaks files to a distant server using LoRaWAN
Custom FW on uSDs: https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/on-microsd-problems/on-hacking-microsd-cards/
Transmitting LoRa 250m by toggling GPIOs on various uCs (without using a "real" antenna): https://youtu.be/eIdHBDSQHyw
*deep breath continues*
Low code isn't trash, you're just bad at building tools your coworkers can use
"Technical user" doesn't mean "I use vim". The people from $NOT_ENGINEERING are fuckin awesome, stop refusing to acknowledge they exist
Your ETL pipeline could've been an excel spreadsheet if you weren't elitist about it
Your whole startup could've been a pivot table + some visual basic, honestly
Algorithms™ aren't all bad, you just hate being reminded that you're susceptible to feelings
@grimalkina You may be interested in the Volts newsletter and podcast from David Roberts. Interconnection queues, reconductoring, grid storage (including his favorite, "hot rocks"), and other stuff https://www.volts.wtf/podcast
*deeper breath*
The amount of "I think logically without emotion" tone policing that goes on is absolutely outrageous. Especially when it's targeted at women and not all the people that fork every single OSS project at the slightest hint of disagreement
"Communication skills are useless" says person who just spent 12 days reading the documentation wrong because they feel less manly if they ask for help
"Irreplaceable" and loud toxic people suppress invaluable and quiet brilliance
Vaguely remembered learning juice as zumo a million years ago in Spanish class but have mainly heard it as jugo, with all other jugos than naranja being jugo de <something>.
tired: MAU
wired: MPU
Once again: folks should probably consider switching to Firefox. Especially if you, I don't know, rely on ad-blocking to navigate our glutted-as-shit modern internet, for instance?
Signal strongly opposes the newest #ChatControl proposal in Europe.
Let there be no doubt: we will leave the EU market rather than undermine our privacy guarantees.
This proposal--if passed and enforced against us--would require us to make this choice.
It's surveillance wine in safety bottles.
See more: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/majority-for-chat-control-possible-users-who-refuse-scanning-to-be-prevented-from-sharing-photos-and-links/ @echo_pbreyer
"In Berlin-Mitte gibt es eine Veteranenstraße. Sie führt 300 Meter steil bergab. Daran schließt sich die Invalidenstraße an. Sie ist fast zehn Mal so lang. Das ist wenigstens eine ehrliche Straßenführung." - #taz zum geplanten Veteranentag https://www.taz.de/!5969381
I can't figure out if this is a good blogpost topic or not, but I've been thinking about how many conversations I see about human behavior in software overindex on like, differences between people* and not within-individual variation**
Overall malleability of our own traits and states over time is fascinating and underexplored in a very essentialist kind of culture***
* "all managers are like x"
** "some days I am like x and some days I am like y"
*** I find tech to be very essentialist
We spent half a day in #Lausanne. The Palais de Rumine was cool. Like a bunch of smaller museums, all free. A wonderful multitude of stairs.
“On his death, Gabriel de Rumine, son of Russian nobility, left the city of Lausanne 1.5 million Swiss Francs to erect a building for the use of the public.”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palais_de_Rumine
code / data wrangler in Switzerland.
Compulsive reply guy. Posts random photos once in a while.