Daniel Quinn @ danielquinn @lemmy.ca

Canadian software engineer living in Europe.

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If you build for a containerised environment, standing up your service in Kubernetes with HPA gives you all the scalability (and potentially cost) benefits of serverless without all the drawbacks.

I'm not sure I'm comfortable with the phrase "time theft", but I largely agree. The real benefit of hybrid work is flexibility, and I'd never want to take that away from anyone. I just object to the constant parroting of this lie that remote necessarily means more productive. I've never seen it, but I've seen many many cases of the opposite.

Working from home sucks. Yeah I said it.

I'm a software engineer, and yes, there are days that working from home really does help with concentration and focus on a particular project, but unless you're a contractor, tasked with "build this and come back when it's finished", building anything is typically a collaborative process. You know what sucks for collaboration? Working from home.

There are no tools that can sufficiently replace what the office offers: interaction, chance conversation, camaraderie and socialising with the people with whom you're trying to build The Thing. It's why people still go to actual conferences and no one cares about gigantic Zoom calls masquerading as real interaction. Slack sucks, Jira sucks, Teams suuuuuuucks. They'll do in a pinch, but they'll never offer real collaboration. For that, you still have to be in the same building.

That's not to say that offering remote work isn't great. There are people who work best in isolation, but that's not all of us. I'd argue that it isn't even most of us, and headlines like this "working from home makes us thrive" aren't helping. They're objectively bullshit. Having been in software development for 25 years, I can categorically state that the more remote the team I've been in, the less organised, the more disjointed and disconnected it is.

And don't get me started on the whole "overemployment" trend, where people try to hold down two jobs by doing neither well at all. Yet another "perk" of remote work I guess.

It's maddening that this is considered so novel and cutting edge. The fact that this hasn't been a standard for research for a hundred years is a mockery of science.

"Oh hi! Here's some code. I didn't write it and don't understand it, but you should totally run it on your machine."

I honestly remember it being good... in the 1980s. The doughnuts were gloriously big and fresh.

Does this mean we can finally ditch all those memory-hungry Electron apps?

I love it, and have some feedback of you're interested:

• As your puzzle grows, the area onto which you drag your shapes shrinks. This means that there's comes a point where your finger is obstructing the shape and target completely. There were many frustrating moments where I got the placement wrong because I couldn't see what I was doing.
  • Suggestion: an zoom feature when placing a tile when things are at a given scale, or maybe allowing the puzzle to expand off screen and slide around?
• When the above happened, I was surprised that there's wasn't an undo button.
• Some music and sound effects would be nice. Something chill, like this would be nice.
• A confirmation when hitting the "back" button would be good when doing so would exit the game as well. I lost a rather impressive build out 'cause my finger slipped and it exited the game, wiping everything.

There is no appeasing a tyrant, only resistance.

Ahh yes, agreeing to respect international law: the lowest bar of effort. How sad is it that this feels like something we must celebrate?

Oh I'm not defending China. They're oppressive assholes who are jamming their populace into the gears of capitalism even faster than the Americans. Fuck those guys.

I just think it's a bit rich to try to make the argument that we should defend an industry that profits from building things we don't want so they can run over more kids, ruin more cities, and make a shittone of cash and then cry poor and demand a bailout.

Personally, I wouldn't buy one myself, but then again I try to avoid cheap Chinese crap as much as possible and I don't want a car. The "BuT sLaVe LaBoUr!" Argument would be great, if anyone seemed to care about that when buying phones, or solar panels, or basically anything else, but when it's invoked to defend American car companies, it's obviously not in good faith.

This would be a bad deal for Canada the big car companies that have been producing massive, dangerous, filthy, wasteful monster trucks instead of smaller EVs thanks to protectionist policies.

FTFY

Am I the only one who thinks this might be a Caretaker reference?

It still feels a bit much like a CW series, but it's Star Trek, so I'll give it a shot.

Also, I'm dying to know what The Doctor has been doing for the last thousand years.

Oh noes! Whatever will we do if we can't keep building ridiculous emotional support trucks like land rovers??

I fucking haaaaaaaate cars, but I'll take a fleet of smaller, cheaper EVs over the filthy, dangerous, antiquated, artificially propped-up monstrosities we're dealing with now.

The way to do that would have been to send our military to escort the humanitarian flotilla through the illegal blockade and protect our citizens delivering that aid.

This... is just performative.

Honestly, it looks like I'd be served better by re-watching A Knight's Tale for the 30th time. Now that was a good film.

The bit of information you're missing is that du aggregates the size of all subfolders, so when you say du /, you're saying: "how much stuff is in / and everything under it?"

If you're sticking with du, then you'll need to traverse your folders, working downward until you find the culprit folder:

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$ du /*
(Note which folder looks the biggest)
$ du /home/*
(If /home looks the biggest)

  

... and so on.

The trouble with this method however is that * won't include folders with a . in front, which is often the culprit: .cache, .local/share, etc. For that, you can do:

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$ du /home/.*

  

Which should do the job I think.

If you've got a GUI though, things get a lot easier 'cause you have access to GNOME Disk Usage Analyzer which will draw you a fancy tree graph of your filesystem state all the way down to the smallest folder. It's pretty handy.

Plus the FF extension is really full-featured. I can clip in different formats or even take a screenshot if the webpage makes clipping hard.

I didn't even know there was a Firefox extension! I might give it a look.

I'm afraid I have no idea what an RCS is, but maybe that's a network/region specific thing? I'm in the UK using GiffGaff (O₂) and the phone, SMS, and data works exactly as well as everyone else's... which is to say perfectly in most places and sporadically on the train due to the dead zones on the route.