How would you clean one of those? It seems impossible to get at.

a thumb drive with a handwritten password

How shitty is the encryption if the password was handwritten?

This line of thinking is why binaries today are like 800 MB. If you can cut cruft as you go during development you shouldn’t have to go back and say “it’s only 1.5 MB”. You should’ve been in the habit of writing DRY, clean code and not importing libraries that do nothing but add bloat.

I’m sorry but I’m sick and tired of this attitude where I work (web development). We are blowing thousands/millions of dollars per year on resources because people no longer believe in optimizing anything. I’ve lost count where I’ve pushed back and said “we need to figure out how to do this with less memory” rather than simply handing shit more and more and more.

It might seem nitpicky as fuck at first, but if you start designing with good processes these wins become more automatic.

Background apps typically don’t take up memory/CPU on modern mobile OSes. You don’t need to spend your time manually quitting them.

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Why are we constantly linking to Yahoo’s news wrapper here?

The same items at my local Ralphs (Kroger) are constantly (like 4+ years) out of stock because they just face over the holes. Whoever is putting inventory into the computer must absolutely suck too because this shouldn’t even be happening; but having worked at Walmart I’ve seen firsthand how people roll their eyes when the numbers are off.

Oh for fuck’s sake. If you manufacture something cheaply it’s cheap for the manufacturer. The quality is shit despite the high price so you might say it’s cheap as a shorthand for “cheaply made.”

I literally see and hear this usage everywhere. I’m not sure why it’s suddenly a mystery.

I’m a native US English speaker and use both definitions. I’m on a Swiss instance because I don’t like hosting my data in 14 Eyes countries.

If I think your product is shit, I’ll oftentimes call it cheap — especially if it looks like you manufactured it cheaply and then sold it for a high price for a huge profit.

I take cheap to mean poor quality and/or cheap for them to buy or produce (versus the customer).

God, this reminds me of when I used to disable the shortcut icon on the actual icon in Windows. Fucking annoying.

I’ve been seeing this headline more or less my entire adult life, it doesn’t necessarily do any good when people vehemently against it keep getting elected.

For me it’s starting to feel very draining. I’ve worked on small teams the past several years but now my current internal-only project is picking up steam and we’ve got a product owner and manager on board.

The amount of planning, discussing, iterating, changing requirements, etc. is absolutely demanding. I’m starting to miss just programming. The overhead is what starts to make all this feel soul-sucking after a while.

just let me read my articles in peace.

Your articles? This sounds really entitled.

Yes, along with nearby Orange County.

They get violent really quickly don’t they?

The FBI training I’m forced to take at work suggests replacing characters in that manner. “Just use a $ instead of S!”

But back in like 2006 I brute forced a dump of 20 Windows passwords in that style on my old Dell single core machine in less than two seconds. Every passing year I’m still shocked people continue thinking this would work.

I went from being a typical omnivore to vegan within the span of a week and it was the easiest thing I’ve ever done in my life. So when I see people resorting to eating insects it’s really bewildering to me. Like, you’d rather eat bugs than just eat plants?

This always confused the hell out of me in Mexico.

I VPN to a country whose language I know nothing about and have literally never had this problem.

Yeah seriously, I was like “what else is new?” You can pretty much assume across the board that anyone in this administration is allowing “donors” to control whatever it is they’re supposedly put in charge of.