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Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week
  • Just to give an outsider perspective to anyone reading this. I live in the Seattle Metro, have worked for Microsoft, and now work at a unicorn. I have a list of skill and experience that any ops department would drool over. Amazon is is one of the companies I won't even apply to unless I'm desperate for a job (and even then I'm not planning to stay).

    And I know I'm not the only one.

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    Exploding Whale 50th Anniversary, Remastered! [VINTAGE]
  • You know someone pitched the idea as a bullshit excuse to use a bunch of dynamite and everyone jumped on the bandwagon. For anyone who does not know, Florence OR is this little seaside town with not that much going on.

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    Mythbusters
  • We need less entertainment that runs forever and more that has a plan for how long it should be.

    In this case it ran as long as it was feasible, then a little longer and then they where done.

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    Freedom rule
  • When I was taught it it was not pure left/right. Rather a method to differentiate levels of Libertarianism form other branches of liberalism focused on social justice (rising tide and all that). Any idea where you read it? Poli sci wonk phrasing being included into more popular literature is always fun to see.

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    systemdeez nuts
  • If your installing, or deleting something and your package manager is modifying more then a few packages: stop, read and think about what your about to do.

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    After 30 years, I'm finally going to see a total solar eclipse. Also, Potato World is a thing.
  • I'm in a similar boat. Flew across the country because after "missing" 2017s I immediately felt regret. Now I'm debating Europe in 2026.

    But the colors. Can someone who understands this stuff please explain to me why a simple reduction in light in the lead up to (and following) totality makes all the colors seem "wrong"?

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    Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads
  • Id say if it's in your budget - get one. We have no other apple products in the house but that. The biggest annoyance was making an apple account (for some stupid reason they require it...)

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    Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads
  • +1. We are a household of sysadmins/engineers. Sure I or my wife could design a PC for media in an afternoon - but I don't want to deal with it.

    An apple TV was a no fuss, no headache media box that can interface with the servers that store my media.

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    [Solved] Docker not accepting environment variable
  • I assume there is nothing in the database? Delete the file under volumes and relaunch. At a guess your database for initialized without a user and is now just in that state.

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    [Solved] Docker not accepting environment variable
  • As others have said, remove the # to uncommit the line.

    Commits are a special type of line in many languages that allow us humans to stick info (generally for humans) inside the code that the interpreter skips over. From the machines perspective this block looks like:

    environment:
        POSTGRES_PASSWORD: HDFnWzVZ5bGI
    

    Note that the entire line is missing.

    As a side note. Please change the password as it's been posted to the Internet.

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    Any tips to help a scientist become a better programmer?
  • Along a similar vain to making a git friend, buy your sysadmins/ops people a box of doughnuts once in a while. They (generally) all code and will have some knowledge of what you are working on.

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    Don’t learn to code: Nvidia’s founder Jensen Huang advises a different career path
  • Let's be clear - current AI models are being used by poor leadership to remove bad developers (good ones don't tend to stick around). This however does place some pressure on the greater tech job market (but I'd argue no different then any other downturn we have all lived through).

    That said, until the issues with being confidently incorrect are resolved (and I bet people a lot smarter then me are tackling the problem) it's nothing better then a suped up IDE. Now if you have a public resources you can point me to that can look at a meta repo full of dozens of tools and help me convert the python scripts that are wrappers of wrappers( and so on) into something sane I'm all ears.

    I highly doubt we will ever get to the point where you don't need to understand how an algorithm works - and for that you need to understand core concepts like recursion and loops. As humans brains are designed for pattern recognition - that means writing a program to solve a sodoku puzzle.

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    Don’t learn to code: Nvidia’s founder Jensen Huang advises a different career path
  • There is more to a program then writing logic. Good engineers are people who understand how to interpret problems and translate the inherent lack of logic in natural language into something that machines are able to understand (or vice versa).

    The models out there right now can truly accelerate the speed of that translation - but translation will still be needed.

    An anecdote for an anecdote. Part of my job is maintaining a set of EKS clusters where downtime is... undesirable (five nines...). I actively use chatgpt and copilot when adjusting the code that describes the clusters - however these tools are not able to understand and explain impacts of things like upgrading the control plane. For that you need a human who can interpret the needs/hopes/desires/etc of the stakeholders.

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