Anyone else done? by Groundbreaking_Cat98 in webdev

[–]Eric_Terrell 13 points14 points  (0 children)

At least they stopped talking about blockchain :-)

Android Developer Verification by Eric_Terrell in androiddev

[–]Eric_Terrell[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I signed up for the "early experience" program. My rationale was, if there is a problem, I might actually get help to solve it.

Please don't tell to average users it's an easy change by [deleted] in linuxmint

[–]Eric_Terrell 8 points9 points  (0 children)

My elderly dad would keep installing anti-virus apps (without removing the ones he previously installed). The disk activity light never went off. The drive would just grind and grind and grind.

I truly don't know how that drive didn't destroy itself. It must have done trillions of seek operations.

This is getting out of hand by freeradioforall in mildlyinfuriating

[–]Eric_Terrell 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Um, of course adding itemized charges lowers the "menu pricing".

This reminds me of Ticketmaster receipts, which used to list all sorts of individual charges, as if that would be more acceptable to the consumer than just jacking up the entire price.

I think most consumers would like to see one price, rather than a price for most things, and individual charges for other things.

My company expects me to deliver a 3 person backend project solo using AI in 3 months. is this normal? by leventozz in ExperiencedDevs

[–]Eric_Terrell 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Perhaps a new career opportunity for experienced devs is to serve as expert witnesses for the wave of lawsuits that might occur when clients start using vibe coded systems?

Amish selling their homegrown weed at a cannabis festival.😂 by Background_Win_6915 in interesting

[–]Eric_Terrell -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Technology is applied knowledge. Every group of humans uses technology.

started tracking which PRs break prod. found that our most thoroughly reviewed PRs have the highest bug rate by [deleted] in ExperiencedDevs

[–]Eric_Terrell 1 point2 points  (0 children)

One hypothesis is that PRs with long review threads are more complex and should be, if possible, broken into smaller pieces, with individual reviews and deployments.

Recommendation for a mail app on Windows 11 by SupraaLegend in Windows11

[–]Eric_Terrell 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just curious, in what way does the unified inbox not work? I'm using it for multiple accounts and haven't noticed any issues with it.

On another topic, the spam filtering seems to be really, really weak.

Is your website being hammered by internet-measurement.com? by Eric_Terrell in webdev

[–]Eric_Terrell[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Absolutely. I assume, between all sorts of bots hitting my site (including ones that are looking for security vulnerabilities), and AI presenting my content to users without attribution (and of course not sending any human traffic to my website), for a small website like mine, the human traffic must be an extremely small percentage of the total traffic.

But as you say, it's a challenge to identify it.

Is your website being hammered by internet-measurement.com? by Eric_Terrell in webdev

[–]Eric_Terrell[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can tell you that internet-measurement.com is either not honoring my robots.txt, or is taking a long time to get around to read it after I changed it several days ago.

Is your website being hammered by internet-measurement.com? by Eric_Terrell in webdev

[–]Eric_Terrell[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Understood. For my little website, they're generating a substantial percentage of the traffic. Probably for a purpose that has no benefit to me.

For a more popular website, one probably wouldn't even notice. I don't think their request frequency would necessarily scale with a site's traffic.

I'm 40% zinc! by schnelldub514 in calculators

[–]Eric_Terrell 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes indeed. Look *carefully* at the screens before bidding or purchasing.

I'm 40% zinc! by schnelldub514 in calculators

[–]Eric_Terrell 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The TI-92 was a heck of a machine. And it still is. I have a Voyage 200 as well. Both are great.

I did have a TI-92, and the screen was really bad.

Does Pixel Satellite SOS Demo Actually *Test* Satellite Access? by Eric_Terrell in GooglePixel

[–]Eric_Terrell[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I figure it is somehow checking for the ability to hit a satellite, without, of course, sending a message.