And then managers go “why does shadow IT exist?”

…you have my condolences

As someone who works, flatpak’s solve a bunch of problems, freeing me up to continue working.

Security issues are just a class of issue; no more or less important than other issues

Yep, being familiar with the data model is 98% of the effort.

The remaining 2% is the query

I disagree unless the tests are reasonably high level.

Half the time the thing you’re testing is so poorly defined that the only way to tighten that definition is to iterate.

In this sense, you’re wasting time writing tests until you’ve iterated enough to have something worth testing.

At that point, a couple of regression tests offer the biggest bang for buck so you can sanity check things are still working when you move on to another function and forget all about this one

He said Linux Subsystem for Windows, which I took to mean the opposite of Microsoft’s Windows Subsystem for Linux

(for reference, look at the difference between WSL1 and WSL2)

First version: attempt to reimplement the windows API on top of Linux

Second version: give up and embed Windows inside a VM

I’m pretty sure Tesla cars dont run on Windows…

It’s an acquired taste. Back when I was a starving student and everyone was drinking cheap alcohol and living off 2-minute noodles, I acquired the taste

Tux racer go b…r…r…r

I only had access to ex-corporate office hand-me-down motherboards as a kid. This was about 1 potato per 3 seconds of rendering performance (I’m 34)

Well, theres been a push to get more women into Tech so that works in your favour.

Your job is now to lure them away from the Microsoft bros

Yeah, but, like, I use Arch btw

Wow, and here I was trying to set breakpoints using the devtools debugger and faffing around with sourcemaps.

Wish I knew about this 10 years ago!

I turn UAC off before it nags me for the 10th time.

The only nag I want to see is the one right before it gets turned off.

I hate things that just throw up nag screens that users get desensitized to and just click through anyway. It hasn’t increased security at all.

Looking at you “do you trust the authors of the code in this workspace folder” VSCode. Yes I effing do, that’s why I opened it to begin with!

That would make for a long ass movie night

Well, as far as I’m concerned Skype for Business set the benchmark for terrible. Teams isn’t even close to being that level of bad

Teams is relative.

At a previous job (Microsoft shop but in the public sector so 10 years behind), the standard messenger when I started was Skype for Business.

In case you’ve never used Skype for Business, it’s “Skype” in branding only and actually has nothing to do with the Skype software that Microsoft purchased and is more like MSN Messenger.

Compared to that, Teams is a huge step up.

Also, at a Microsoft shop, you have to use what Microsoft provides even though it’s usually balls.

It’s 90% of the reason I now refuse to work anywhere that’s bought into the Microsoft ecosystem. It’s just so… mediocre

Is it system32 or SySWow64 these days?

Is it r-unit, or run-it?

I’ve read it as r-unit for so long and now I’ve only just realised that run-it makes far more sense

Canonical is like the Microsoft of the Linux world