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  • Wanting to and actually doing it are two different things.

    The problem is that open source devs also have to be their own project managers, but those two jobs have very different skillsets.

    In regular software development, it’s the PM’s job to deal with the drama, filter the idiocy out and collect concise and actionable user stories, and let the developers just write code.

    In open source, you tend to deal with a lot of entitlement. All kinds of people, who never gave you a dime, come out out of the woodwork to yell at you over every little change. The bigger and farther reaching a project is, the more this happens, and it wears you down. I can only imagine what it’s like working on a huge project like GNOME.

    And the toxicity feeds into itself. Be kurt with one person, and suddenly it gets out that you’re an asshole to users. Then people come in expecting hostility and react defensively to every little comment. And that puts you in the same mindset.

    At the end of the day, you can’t satisfy everyone. Sometimes you gotta figure out how to tell someone their feature request is stupid and you’re not gonna work on it, especially not for free. And a lot of people need to learn to try to fix problems themselves before opening an issue. That’s kind of the whole point of open source.



  • At this point, no. But it’s still incredibly annoying and a little spooky when I’m laying in bed and I see my computer screen light up in the next room when it’s not supposed to.

    It’ll even wake itself from sleep when it wants to update, but it won’t start it automatically, I think because it hits the lock screen.

    I’ll probably try Linux on ir when Windows 10 hits EOL.




  • It definitely tastes different from the bottle than from the fountain.

    I think out of the fountain it’s gonna be a little watered down for a couple of reasons:

    • I can only imagine franchise owners set the fountains to run a little light on syrup to save money
    • the ice is gonna start melting as soon as the soda hits it since it’s not chilled below freezing, and the dissolved syrup will lower the freezing point of water like salt does

    The bottle has also likely been sitting around for a few days to weeks, and more of the carbon dioxide will have converted to carbonic acid, which will affect the taste.

    The recipe may actually be a little different for the fountain syrup vs the bottled stuff for these reasons.

    If you’ve never gotten a fountain drink without ice, it’s worth trying. It goes warm quicker but won’t get watered down. I used to think people who asked for no ice in their drinks were just picky. However, I recently started ordering my drinks that way because I’d sometimes notice a chemical taste as the ice melted and it’d sour my stomach pretty badly. That never happens when I get my drinks without ice.

    I don’t think any of this is unique to Baja Blast though. Pretty much every soda tastes completely different between bottle and fountain, and also with or without ice.





  • Technus@lemmy.ziptoHome@lemmy.zipLemmy.zip Turns One!
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    A former coworker would constantly pitch Ansible whenever a discussion about an ops problem came up, in a kind of joking-but-not-joking way. It eventually got rather annoying to keep having to shoot it down.

    I spent thirty minutes reading the website trying to figure out what the hell Ansible actually was and what you could do with it, and I still didn’t have a straight answer.

    As far as I can tell, it seemed like it was created as a tool to automatically SSH into servers and run commands, but through one of the most egregious examples of scope creep in software engineering history, it was eventually extended with modules that could do everything from provision cloud resources to, idfk, control smart home appliances or whatever. It’s like the poster child of “if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.”

    By comparison, the value proposition for Terraform is immediately obvious. It certainly has its own drawbacks, but I could instantly understand exactly what it was and what I could do with it.

    I hate dev tools that try to do everything at once, because most often they don’t do a single thing very well at all.






  • I ran up like a $5k bill over a couple weeks by having an application log in a hot loop when it got disconnected from another service in the same cluster. When I wrote that code, I expected the warnings to eventually get hooked up to page us to let us know that something was broken.

    Turns out, disconnections happen regularly because ingress connections have like a 30 minute timeout by default. So it would time out, emit like 5 GB of logs before Kubernetes noticed the container was unhealthy and restarted it, rinse and repeat.

    I know $5k is chump change at enterprise scale, but this was at a small scale startup during the initial development phase, so it was definitely noticed. Fortunately, the only thing that happened to me was some good-natured ribbing.



  • Technus@lemmy.ziptoMemes@lemmy.mlHow American
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    Yeah, even the actual sentiment of the video is more like, “it’s not great but it’s the name that stuck and there’s solidarity behind it.”

    The problem, as always, is lumping people together when they didn’t ask to be. Most of the newer, more “politically correct” terms are even more generic and alienating, and, once again, being forced on them from outside.