Android developer @ Somnox
Compare this with Bangalore airport.
I don't remember ever spending more than 10 minutes at checkin or baggage drop Always minimum of 6 counters. Same with passport control. 5 minutes is the norm. Because dozens of counters.
It is not that BLR airport doesn't have any automation. It is that it is being used in moderation, where it makes things more efficient. For passengers (not just for operators!).
One clear example of "Automation != Efficiency" is seen at airports. I spent 35 minutes in baggage drop queue (after already checking in online) at Amsterdam airport today. Reason: only 2 counters for this category (for an A380!).
Also only 2 counters at passport control. But several self-scan counters for passports that have that feature.
Do you know what part was still efficient at the same airport? Security check. Lots of counters. Took barely 5 minutes.
Sent a pull request to Audacity fixing a crash bug I'd been running into frequently. The cause was an out-of-bounds memmove. Classic C++ areas.
Anyway I got a fucking copilot review on my PR which left two comments, both completely wrong, one of which suggesting I reintroduce the out of bounds memory access. I'm furious!
@zsmb13 TIL about "cubic light year"
When management says, "It works, why refactor?" ask why bridges need maintenance when they’re still standing. Ignore upkeep, and both infrastructure and software eventually collapse.
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I'll be in Rotterdam for 2 weeks starting 16 June. Does anyone in my network know of any developer events? Or anyone up for a couple of drinks?
Also, I'm pretty sure I've said this before, but I'll say it again:
Part of your job as a senior is to tell your juniors about your fuckups. The embarrassing cringe reckless and lazy bullshit that you did when you were new, and the various times you brought down Prod. We ALL did it sometime. And then tell them: the moment you realized you fucked up, I know, the impulse is to try and cover it up, but don't do it. Come to the seniors you trust, and they'll help you unfuck it, and fight management tooth and claw like mamma and pappa bears to defend you from any shitheads in management. Because that's what our seniors did to us.
Unfortunately the #OpenStreetMap wiki is very slow today. We are fighting an aggressive web scraper bot. 10,000 of IPs involved. Randomised User-Agent. Ignoring robots.txt #aibot #ddos
Update: Fixed. We've been able to mitigate the bot traffic. #fail2ban
I'm not sure what to make of this.
https://browsercompany.substack.com/p/letter-to-arc-members-2025
On @compiler_explorer URLs and Google product lifetimes:
Servo's final policy that refuses AI-generated pull requests. Multiple reasons, but reason #1 is the maintainers absolutely refuse to bother with this BS. https://book.servo.org/contributing.html#ai-contributions
Announcing: https://justaqrcode.com.
Tired of "free" QR code generators that are full of ads and trackers, that share your data, and that want to sell you something? Me too. Here's my act of resistance: I made a one-page site that works entirely in your browser to generate a simple QR code. And that's all it does. You can download the HTML page and run it locally, even. Read the source; nothing up my sleeves. Just a QR code.
My offer to you -- I will continue to pay for the domain name and web hosting for it, myself. If you find it valuable, you can pay it back by creating your own useful thing for the world and releasing it for free. Let's take back the friendly web, one vexingly-monetized utility at a time!
@botteaap the version upgrade thing was a nice usecase. On the other hand, generating Compose previews wasn't. I often want specific combinations of input states in my previews, not random inputs, nor every permutation of inputs!
one fun* thing about needing a job as a programmer at this exact moment is that it feels like literally half the jobs are "We're a fast-moving team that want you to come help us build the next Coal-Powered Plagiarism Torment Nexus"
@ryan and to think that none of this is an oversight. On the contrary all of this is very intentional. There were people in a meeting where this was discussed and decided on. People probably got promoted for this
@msfjarvis that's just the tip of the iceberg. You're in for unlimited delight with Xcode. Welcome!
