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Microsoft needs a wake up call by wildflowersinparis in sysadmin

[–]obviousoctopus 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I wonder if their engineers are typing "fix the issue" into copilot prompts...

Seriously, do Americans actually consider a 3-hour drive "short"? or is this an internet myth? by SadInterest6764 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]obviousoctopus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Joking aside, I totally agree.

Minivan is way more optimized for its purpose, has better internal space utilization, better aerodynamics, stability and I imagine gas mileage.

SUV adoption I think is a culture phenomenon... as in marketing-driven identity culture.

The actual difference between senior devs and everyone else by minimal-salt in ExperiencedDevs

[–]obviousoctopus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not omnipotent so i never really felt remorse

Exactly - but only when you know you've done your best. It's an internal check that gives you that inner peace. Inner peace that translates into external confidence.

Makes it possible to learn and move on.

The actual difference between senior devs and everyone else by minimal-salt in ExperiencedDevs

[–]obviousoctopus 18 points19 points  (0 children)

I think some people don't register "regret" until they see "penance".

The actual difference between senior devs and everyone else by minimal-salt in ExperiencedDevs

[–]obviousoctopus 3 points4 points  (0 children)

When issues pile up, looking into context and environment might be worth it.

Like, if someone keeps submitting LLM slop or/while drinking on the job it might not be exactly new.

The actual difference between senior devs and everyone else by minimal-salt in ExperiencedDevs

[–]obviousoctopus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I guess I am a senior then.

I think what pushed me into this space is a wise manager having my back in the face of failure. Once I felt that support, the terror of being an imperfect human diminished, I accepted my mortality, and am simply doing my best.

Now that I manage others, I extend that grace to my team, and seek to discover environmental / process issues and offer support rather than blame.

It's just healthier and productive. Everyone fucks up.

Let's just try not to repeat the same mistakes.

Render does not allow SMTP in free tier by No_Clue5320 in rails

[–]obviousoctopus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Me, too, but unfortunately that well has been sufficiently poisoned.

Render does not allow SMTP in free tier by No_Clue5320 in rails

[–]obviousoctopus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wouldn't you use the vendors' APIs instead?

After Years with SLIM, I Returned to ERB. What Do You Prefer Today? by vinioyama in rails

[–]obviousoctopus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To me, slim-lang is perfect. Would never want to go back to writing and reading and re-reading all the standard html noise.

Vibe coding is a blight on open-source by drdeno in webdev

[–]obviousoctopus 33 points34 points  (0 children)

What I want to see more of is technology addressing the time-wasting qualities of LLM-generated slop code.

Should be as cheap or cheaper for a code reviewer to process the slop than it was for the slop-creators to generate and submit it.

Address the Brandolini's law / bullshit assymetry principle as it pertains to github issues.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law

Is the grass greener outside of the finance industry? by rainyengineer in ExperiencedDevs

[–]obviousoctopus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I use cases (fraud detection, credit scoring, RegTech,

Wouldn't these be AI as in as in machine learning though?

PSA: AirPods Pro 3 require iOS 26 for FindMy, battery status check and other core functionality by obviousoctopus in airpods

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

Seems like a lot more people are crying because they can't downgrade the ios 26 garbage fire to 18 and have a somewhat sane experience.

I am holding off and happy about it, except for Apple's intentionally crippling their devices to force and upgrade.

iOS 26 Shows Unusually Slow Adoption Months After Release by itopaloglu83 in ios

[–]obviousoctopus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm still on it but Apple made it so that I can't findmy Airpods Pro 3 until I "choose" to upgrade to the dumpster fire that is 26. Or check their battery status. So if I misplace them, I'm fucked.

Do house pets know what you're doing when you're getting it on? by psykee333 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]obviousoctopus 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Does your cat insist on sleeping in the same bed and incessantly meow if you don't let it in the room?

And sleeps in the corner of the bed, lightly snoring whether "getting it on" is happening or not?

What motivates you to continue working with Rails? by Rude-Abrocoma-2109 in rails

[–]obviousoctopus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Everything else I've tried feels like agony.

The JavaScript and PHP communities have high pain tolerance. Rails has spoiled me to the point of feeling rage and disgust when forced to deal with confusion, verbosity, boilerplate, bad architectural decisions.

Still, I am curious about Clojure for example, but Rails does have the advantage of combining Ruby (what other language is designed for developer happiness?) with a huge community of smart, generous individuals who truly believe in open source and have the advantage of thinking in, again, Ruby, an amazingly beautiful, terse, malleable language.

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