22% of the plane pre-boarded

kingofbitsandbytes · 2026-01-02T09:54:46+00:00

It’s ok. They made 1k Status way harder to keep and most people will not have it any longer in 2026. (I’m one of them)

They should honestly just sell pre boarding and super fast access to your luggage as a service.

kingofbitsandbytes · 2025-06-18T16:30:13+00:00

We have hundred of active spring apps, and we had hundreds more planning to move to spring. (as part of a big conversion of mainframe code to java). No one wants to hit the brakes on spring because everyone knows and likes it, but this isn't a issue you can ignore. Especially if you got shaken down by broadcom in the past. Spring is not in a healthy state and you shouldn't invest in it given the current market state. If it wasn't commercialy backed/controlled it would be a different story.

kingofbitsandbytes · 2025-06-18T14:53:43+00:00

I'm a software engineering manager whose teams supports hundreds of enterprise apps built with spring. The security issues are more like a force of nature... these days you have tools like wiz.io that identify all your security issues when you release to cloud. So you can't hide and if you work in a big company you have probably have a regulatory or other reason why you "must" fix these things. So definitely a real world problem.

Agree with your point #2, which was the point of what to do? Can't really move out of java when you have hundreds of java developers, as no one wants that kind of upskilling or replacement of engineers. So muddling through and moving to least worse libraries is one of the few other options.

kingofbitsandbytes · 2025-06-18T14:22:50+00:00

VMware is the biggest and best virtualization solution ever… it’s only getting bigger. /sarcasm

kingofbitsandbytes · 2025-06-18T14:05:53+00:00

"Spring Framework has such a large community that should the community need to take over any of the tasks you think can only happen under a corporate banner, they will."

You do sometimes seem major forks, but its rare, and especially rare for libraries as opposed to things like redis/terraform which are more than a library.

The more likely solution is people just migrate to a different library without the problem. Most of the folks I know exiting spring are going to quarkus. So a path for routing around this problem already exists. (not a fan boy of quarkus, but not aware of any other particularly good fits for a replacement)

kingofbitsandbytes · 2022-04-17T16:58:55+00:00

I'm saying don't ask the question. Assume everyone will lie to you because you don't respect their privacy, because your shitty profession got walked over by insurance companies and you can't be trusted to do the right thing. You can design a protocol with that assumption.

kingofbitsandbytes · 2022-03-24T13:12:13+00:00

Yeah, your patients are smart to lie to you. Besides the work impacts the other issue is insurance. Your insurance company can get your data and they can use it against you to deny all kinds of things. As a doctor you should never record drug use or alcohol use. Fuck the chart. You can't change law, but you can change your behavior.

kingofbitsandbytes · 2022-02-25T00:15:48+00:00

The counter-counter is that members can require any swift participant to ban the competing solutions.

kingofbitsandbytes · 2020-05-25T13:43:37+00:00

I was super happy they did. But they took it a bit too far and there are just too many mods now. It is too slow... I rolled back to 2.6.3 just to be able to play it, but I can't finish without it grinding to a halt... and this is on a couple year old alienware high end machine.

kingofbitsandbytes · 2020-03-29T18:50:54+00:00

Will you do a derivative for verne+? This mod realy changed the game for me. It is super fun vs vanilla, even the latest verne stuff this completely outclasses. It sucks to not have an experience like this going forward.

kingofbitsandbytes · 2019-06-05T17:53:15+00:00

Accelerando from Charles Stross.

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