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afilina

@afilina@phpc.social

Legacy software modernization, project rescue, architecture, test automation, public speaking.

I'm supporting a tactical unit in Ukraine directly. You can help me do more: https://afilina.com/donate/ua-supplies

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linuxgal, to Starwars
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afilina,
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@linuxgal Bortus and Klyden would find the aroma most pleasing.

afilina, to random
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Doctor Cyber

grmpyprogrammer, to random
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Between people asking me if I have ever been tested for adult autism and being called “needy” over the past two weeks I start to wonder how much I know about myself anyway

afilina,
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@grmpyprogrammer When I was getting my kid diagnosed, I kept thinking "hey, that describes me perfectly."

geordie, to random
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Remember: April is Procrastination Awareness Month

afilina,
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@geordie I'll try to think about next month though.

ramsey, to random
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What’s up with 19.2 fl oz beer cans? I mean, I like the size, but it’s not an even amount of anything. It equates to 567.81 ml.

Yes, I know American units are wonky, but sometimes they’re weird because they actually equal to an even metric number. For example, they sell 16.9 fl oz water bottles because that’s a half liter.

So, what gives on the 19.2 fl oz / 567.81 ml measurement for these tall cans?

afilina,
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@heiglandreas @derickr @ramsey Could this be as simple as the size of a container traditionally used to pour pints?

afilina,
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@derickr @ghorwood @heiglandreas @ramsey That was an enjoyable read, thank you.

afilina, to random
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"We had one universe, yes. What about second universe?"
https://youtu.be/6akmv1bsz1M?si=5OV8pCU6xizro3pu

afilina, to random
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Site XYZ: Real people, real reviews, 100% verified.
Someone else on the web: buy reviews on Site XYZ.

afilina, to random
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Wow, my bank starts to really suck. They blocked a transaction and delivered the SMS that was meant to unblock it with a 40-minute delay.

I called them, but there was a 1-hour wait, so they offered to call me back, which they did after 3 hours. When connecting, I still had to wait, but then the agent had to direct me to a more specialized one, so I'm still waiting 15 minutes later.

I tried 4 banks before settling on CIBC, and now I see that the enshittification caught up with them as well.

afilina,
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Ahaha! The agent told me that the recent spike in problems was because "new features are coming". What this tells me is that they're struggling with modernizing their legacy. I've seen this pattern too many times. I should send them my company's offering :P

anthony, to retrogaming
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Saw someone say that the more save games you have on a battery-backed cartridge the faster the battery will deplete and I honestly can't tell if they're trying to trick people into wiping their cherished 16-bit era game saves or genuinely believe that. Like, how is that even possible? Whether you're holding a specific flip-flop high or low, doesn't that take the same power? Why am I doubting myself? Intuitively it makes no difference, does it? What the hell? #SRAM #RetroGaming

afilina,
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@anthony You could just ask them for their reasoning, or see whether someone else (reputable) wrote about it. There are too many people out there who try to tell us what to do with our things, and it's often not based on facts. I try not to pay attention to that stuff.

afilina,
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@anthony Every search result seems to point to the fact that SRAM needs a steady power supply when idle (not accessed), but that this consumption is negligible compared to actually accessing the data. If that is indeed correct, I wouldn't worry about consumption at rest.

https://www.diffen.com/difference/Dynamic_random-access_memory_vs_Static_random-access_memory

afilina,
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@anthony Oh and I doubt that the intent is to get people to erase things. Maybe they do believe it. That said, some people just provide "scoops" for attention. They have to come up with things to say, especially if it's new or unique. Some people made entire careers out of this! Not that this is the case here. I just wanted to provide another option.

sarah, to random
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Well, I’m under two thick blankets and still have chills. I’ve been nauseous all day and I’m thinking I have the conflu.

afilina,
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@sarah I have about a 70% chance to catch something at a conference, including a pneumonia. I hope you'll get better soon.

afilina, to random
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"it is estimated that Russia has breached nearly 400 international treaties since 2014 alone"
https://united24media.com/anti-fake/negotiating-with-a-liar-why-dialogue-wont-stop-russia-11

noelreports, to random
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Yesterday, Russia struck Odesa with a missile containing cluster munition. The moment of arrival was recorded.

video/mp4

afilina,
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@noelreports @derickr Russia's 1st law of motion: war crimes continue unless acted on by opposing firepower.

sean, to random
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Web developer: my dynamically typed language is now faster than that other dynamically typed language. Sometimes. By a small amount.

Also web developer: SELECT query in loop.

afilina,
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@mwop @sean Indeed. Whenever someone comes to me saying that something is extremely slow, I usually start by logging the query count.

I did occasionally had horrendous CPU-related issues. For example, I saw unnecessarily deeply-nested loops over huge data sets. Those are rare, and also not the language's fault. Slight refactoring led to a 10,000x improvement.

afilina, to random
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I rejected the cookies in the banner, but Microsoft still created 19 cookies. Not sure you need more than one cookie to remember my banner selection.

heiglandreas, to random
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Current Status: Reverse Engineering emails with ICS invitations.

Because who needs standards when outlook and google have their own ways.

afilina,
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@heiglandreas Feel free to ask me questions on this topic. I think I made every mistake there is and uncovered every email client constraint back in 2020.

afilina, to random
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Shout out to league/csv for continuing to be an awesome library. It's intuitive, a breath of fresh air after a long week of fighting every single tool. This one doesn't fight you. It just helps you without getting in the way.

afilina,
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Link: https://csv.thephpleague.com/

afilina,
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@cabbey @kboyd What do you mean "variable data"?

afilina,
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@cabbey @kboyd That would be pretty useful. It's worth asking for this, as I've seen several useful new features in the last couple of years. It's actively improved.

While you wait, I think that something can be done using addFormatter where you merge your row into a default row (which has full column count).

afilina, to random
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I'm trying to make a simple file upload form in React, but because each component interferes with every other component, it's an infinite rabbit hole. I spent more than a day on forums. I want to burn this codebase to the ground.

afilina,
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@iCaspar I'm not against using JS when it's needed. I just don't like massive frameworks that do a whole bunch of magic that requires incredible internal knowledge. As soon as an app starts to have any complexity, all that magic starts to break down.

I feel like things were much better in the times of jQuery. We still had heavy lifting to do, but at least it was honest about it. Today, we end up doing more work, and with 75 levels of indirection. I can't even imagine upgrading with BC breaks.

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