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Nice theory. In practice all this does is make it harder to onboard new people. Quick test: It's your 2nd week on the job. Some core system just went down, and you've been assigned to figure out what service is causing the trouble. What makes for easier, more transparent reading of error logs, the name "ServiceRouter", or the name "Trainstation"? It's not just a matter of the name being perfectly descriptive for any and all responsibilities, in zero-context situations it can be good just to give a hint that yes, this is a service, and yes, it at one point handled routing, so it seems like an okay place to start. The more obscure the name, the longer I spend reading about some obscure same-named repository and wondering how it's related to the issue at hand.

That said, I think a certain degree of whimsy is definitely acceptable (necessary?) in the workplace and should be encouraged. I can support silly names for the sake of having fun. But maybe if it's something important, foundational, try to remember it may not be as fun for someone 5 years down the line at 2AM.
Probably because it appears they are fishing for a political fight, and they are referencing their own vaguely related post from four days ago as if someone else wrote it ten years ago.
They’re both right, of course — the author and his colleague — and this blog post makes an excellent point as to why.

I will switch from descriptive to cute once I’ve reached a certain level of abstraction. That level can best be defined as the level where I will need to start advocating for the idea with other engineers.

A new ssh wrapper for automating access to the manufacturing robots? example.factory.sshtool

A log file parser for extracting text-only errors across multiple robot.log lines into structured error objects? example.factory.logs

A quarter-long project to build a new abstraction over all our thirteen different categories of manufacturing robot we have deployed on site that replaces a bunch of shell scripts written by the former CTO, and then actually replace all those shell scripts with the new thing, with tests? example.factory.duckling

I’d promote it as being named after how ducks imprint on their mother and follow her lead. Kind of a nod to the robots, but also to the former CTO. Cute names can feel a little saccharine but it really helps build advocacy obviously — it’s ultimately a branding / marketing exercise.

If you do that day-in day-out at the level of the ssh tool or the log parser — projects that should ideally have a low level of controversy compared to the shell script rewrite — then people are going to get annoyed with you.
Yes, they put a cost on everything. The solar panels, the capture, water electrolysis, Sabatier reaction, etc... All very predictable. And how much they'll be making per year selling their gas at market prices. And they already signed a contract with a gas company. They are making money as soon as they start producing. In a year or so. What seemed impossible is not.
There's flirting and then there's flirting. There's a smile and some harmless smalltalk/jokes in an interaction that lasts under a minute, then there's making compliments out of left field, suggestive jokes and innuendo.

One is completely within the realm of normal everyday interactions, and the other can come off as creepy in those situations.

Everyday interactions can feel flirty if you're high from adrenaline and the person happens to be attract(ive|ed) to you. The key is not to try, just be yourself, and interpret it as real flirting that could lead anywhere; they have a lot of these interactions on a daily basis so they usually forget them within a few days.

But the fact that's these interactions are so ephemeral doesn't mean you can't derive a little confidence from it. Small moments like this can make a substantial difference over time, just like even short regular walks with little to no incline have been proven to make a substantial difference to health, even if it won't turn you into an athlete.
When a bunch of those names accumulate, you pay a high onboarding price, not only for newcomers, but also for people who don’t read your changelog.

- Oh, _gfuby_ can now monitor my instance in production in addition to being a code versioning system!?
Perhaps but I'd blame the executive team that decided that this was the "right" thing to do more. There's a a difference in the responsibility of the person who took the decision vs. the one who was hired to do a job and did it.
* One reason i enjoy actual buttons on car devices, is that I can feel them when driving and not looking at them.

* I bought a new Xbox just last Xmas. I bought the physical discs, but still had to download 100GB in data, which took a couple hours, to play the game.
Probation is more symbolic these days.
6 months is also the length of time you need to hold a job to get a mortgage or sponsor a partner's visa.
Another multi-user UNIX-like OS clone, maybe it is time to actually explore other ideas?
You really think a name is going to hold anyone back from this?
I’m lonely and depressed in my first job. What can I do?
Is it okay if I snickered? Because I did snicker.
I think this is a common feature (set) of modern game engines.

Unity and Godot do support 2d games development, so Fyrox, attempting to be a competitor in that space, supports it as well.

It's definitely going to take a lot of work, but the feature itself seems a modern standard, to me.
Limited in size as URLs encounter size limits:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/417184/768795

I wouldn't consider state in the URL fully general, as data can easily exceed that for many apps; but it's a useable technique where it fits.

Meaningful individual parameters are preferable, but similar size limits apply either way.
Yeah but surely there is a directory somewhere that explains this?

I mean - the problem is not the number of names but the number of services. A new hire still isn't going to be able to work out what a service does just based on the name, regardless of how whimsical or apt it is.

"policy-engine" might seem to be a good name for a service, but it's only one level below "kevin" in terms of opaqueness, especially when there are probably several policy related services.
What? You don't want to sift through hundreds of pokemon and anime characters names totally unrelated to the variables and functions of the API you need to use for your job? I'll just write "not a team player" in your annual review.
I just include a screenshot. It’s not that hard.
This is incredible. I would use this for actual music composition if it was a plug-in for Ableton
It's a transcription of a podcast, not an article on itself.
While scope expansion is a potential issue, a service by its nature should not inherit scope outside of its core responsibility. If it does (an auth service with some type of user information is clearly taking on more scope than it should), a practical name will reveal that right away.

The issues with practical names mentioned in this article are pretty small when compared to the very real issue of understanding cute-named services. If AuthService goes down, I know what that means. If Balthasar goes down, I now have to understand what that is, look up documentation, find the right team, etc.
That, and the usual style of stacking all closing parentheses together at the end of the last line of a sub-expression / statement / whatever. People sometimes do this in Java and it's just as unreadable.
too-long don't-read
> ChatGPT search getting better than Google even 50% of the time should be enough.

That’s a bit tricky because wrong results in Google are easier to spot due to metadata and context. With ChatGPT you have neither. In worse cases you ended up with a confidently incorrect statistical mode who think’s it’s infallible
I can almost see both sides here... But ultimately when you are using someone else's resources, then not respecting their wishes (within reason) just makes you an asshole.
Literally everything. They’re using it to help with math homework. Putting together copy for a slide presentation about the history of Pepsico (why? I have no idea). Writing a silly story about an ape man who dominates the world through vicious conquests. “Now write a sequel” apparently works really well.
There are two laws of interest here [1] (in the original authoritive source .gov.uk release)

One law applies to both England and Wales (not to Cornwall, Scotland, or Northern Ireland).

The other applies to England alone.

Neither applies to the whole of the United Kingdom.

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/news/millions-of-homeowners-an...
I agree it will be a process but the motivation to game the lists, comparisons and evaluation in the "natural" result parts will be enormous.

If I search for "recipe for an apple pie" google (and the internet), has the information/technology to give me the one paragraph exceprt from my grandma's cooking book that would make me happy.

Instead I get bloated spammy pages filled to the brim with ads.

Maybe I'm cynical to not believe that Microsoft just scoffs at all those opportunities to get squeeze out extra money.

In fact I hope I'm wrong.
I had some fun with it long ago (I think they were still a start-up then), then switched back to hotels once the novelty wore off.

It was obvious -- even back then -- that I'd eventually run into a _really_ bad time. These kinds of new businesses basically operate -- and get rich on -- an "all the benefits, none of the responsibilities" model, glossed over with good marketing ("we're disrupting ESTABLISHED_BUSINESS_MODEL_X, aren't the new possibilities exciting?!").

As others have mentioned, your bad experience doesn't effect their business (at least not yet). Kicking up a storm about some injustice in the hotel lobby however, effects the hotel's business, and the employee's work, which is why it rarely will escalated to a storm.
Thank you for the reply! I'm eagerly awaiting the 1.0 release. Good luck to you regarding the new nest and well as the new venture!

> I also don't think there's a "right" way to use Pijul. The magic of algebra means that you can't possibly break the associativity and commutativity properties of Pijul patches, so you can do whatever you want, I'm sure it's fine.

There is a certain time to 'internalize' the concepts of a tool like git or pijul. It took me years with Git and I'm only starting to be confident about my git skills recently. I haven't had that much time with pijul and I haven't absorbed its concepts yet. Despite that, pijul feels like a concept that I can learn much faster. That causes this 'sunken cost' fear. If it was so easy to learn a VC tool, why did I take so much time with Git? That's what I meant with that comment.

I'm a big fan of pijul. I even have a plan in a future project to manage editing history using pijul concepts (or library).
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>Yeah but surely there is a directory somewhere that explains this?

No, there's 5 different directories in 3 different formats compiled across the last 8 years representing the state of 80% of terms at the time it was last updated, half of which disagree with another version.
No, that is how REPL worked on Xerox workstation environments, and was also copied into ETHZ Oberon based workstations.

Nowadays PowerShell is the only experience that ships in the box that is somehow similar to that.

Not only you have structured data, by having first class access to .NET, COM and DLLs, it means any OS API or modules from other applications, are directly accessible for scripting, besides some type declarations.
Delegate.
You don't like hiring? Ask people in the org who wants to do it and take more responsibility.
Don't want to worry about capacity? Hire an engineering manager who will take care of it (or again, maybe someone in the org wants to pick it up).
Focus on things where you can bring the most value to the company.
> Often eating is a chore for me, and I’ll push myself to do other things until I am absolutely starving

I'm pretty sure some people (like me) get endorphins from food and get actual enjoyment from the process. These people have issues with overeating and eating too often because food tastes GOOD.

Then for others it's just that boring time when you have to chew and swallow stuff for your stupid body not to die. These are the folks who could just sustain themselves with Soylent Green and be 100% happy.
Do they? How does Google earn money then if nobody is willing to pay them for ads that link to their products?

> give you exactly what you need so you don’t need to go anywhere else.

For free? That seems a incredible altruistic…
I do dinner canceling one or two times a week for more than ten years now. And I am still enjoying it. No reason to drop it.
If we are defining value, I would not say that value is equivalent to intrinsic value, or else the phrase "intrinsic value" would be redundant.

Nothing has intrinsic value, value is a relational and marginal property - I value things differently than you, and you value the first litre of water differently than the thousandth. And even then the value of something is not fixed and may change over time, you probably now value things differently than you did as a child.
Baby, meet bathwater. "Names are hard to change" is supposedly the reason to give things meaningless random names. Great, now you get the worst of both worlds, the meaningless name is now synonymous with a purpose (the very thing you tried to avoid, well, tough luck, that's not how human psychology works!) AND newcomers to the company/org will have zero idea what "galactus" and "goatpen" are or what they do.
Overall I feel that the dangers are overstated and most people are unwilling to apply themselves. The reasons given are illustrative. Just sharing a road with cars isn't dangerous. Being overtaken by a large truck isn't dangerous. Psychologically intimidating for novices, yes. A sedentary lifestyle, heart disease and diabetes are more dangerous. Having poor awareness of your surroundings is dangerous generally.

The social status/conspicuous consumption angle is important. Among other factors, an expensive electric car signals the driver's ideological values in regard to climate and their ability to consume. A bicycle, not so much. People may not want to do thrifty and practical things in public view. Some cultures would view that as demeaning. That's the cultural difference.

Another aside, posters here have expressed that they are uncomfortable or socially unable to deal with simple interactions on public transport. They need the isolation of their automobile like a safety blanket. Chance eye contact or casual conversation could be traumatic for them. No amount of infrastructure can address these issues.

We might see city councils attempt to emulate bicycle infra of NL, but in practice it may be unusable for transportation purposes. Frequent crossings of traffic at separate bicycle/car intersections would be an example. Sure the bike trail might be designated for cyclists only and off the main road, but you have to stop every block at an intersection where drivers aren't looking. There are too many nuances to cover.

Just not practical at all. Usually planned by people who would never do regular rides. Next the locality will ban cyclists from the perfectly usable road, because they spent X dollars on the trail system and bicyclists make drivers 'uncomfortable'. Then a lard-cop will stop you from riding on the road and instruct you as to "how we do it around here".

The end result is usually a linear park. That's just my experience with what actually happens when cities and villages start with the high ideals of building cycling infrastructure.

Where people are already using bicycles, it is logical to make further concessions to cyclists in a well executed manner. But starting from a standpoint of the title, 700 units of carbon if everyone changed their lifestyle, commute distance, cultural values and addressed their social ineptitude...

I'd first like to see some basics, like a willingness to ride to the store for errands.
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Interesting, cute even. But I will stick with boring law firm names.

Firstly when I was a so-called manager cute project names were a nightmare - who could remember what "project mayhem" was - lift and shift half the the data centre or was it refactoring the stupid accounts hack. Project refactor-accounts-monthly-charge is something at exec level everyone can remember. It's fine for project-negotiate-possible-sale-of-dutch-office to be called project mayhem, because powerpoints get acciendetaly shared, emails get read, but there aren't many of those.

Secondly Sam used to be called Sam Smith because he was the smith. If he becomes used for something else people will create a directory (in their heads or in reality). And that's the key here.

Directory services are way easier to manage
I read too much pop culture references in the article, not enough engineering. At the risk of sounding cruel to the hard working folks in the project: Hype is fine if there’s really exceptional chops behind it, and a string of successes. If not - keep quiet and plug at the technical stuff. Sounds like the parties were premature.
I've seen a bit of that as a result of people "boosting" (re-posting) posts from people on other instances, but if you groom your follow list (as I have, over a couple months), you see mostly what you want to. In my case, I've learnt of so many new bands from all over the world (Bloodywood, Znous, Slave to Sirens, Pentagram). That's what floats my boat.

Also, one tiny bit of anecdata - just from what I've seen on the instance I'm on - the majority of the political commentary is coming from Twitter refugees.

EDITED TO ADD:

You can also "follow" hashtags which makes the feed more pertinent.
Ethereum is not decentralized. Decentralization is the most important thing in a blockchain. The sooner everyone realizes that, the sooner we can start building momentum on the chains that are viable.
>What about social media, is that a net negative?

Yes, absolutely. While it allows people to keep in touch more easily, the manipulation of society via fake news, targeted advertising, etc. has been extremely harmful. It has made people increasingly vainglorious, and promotes wasteful excess in the name of social status (influencers and other parasites on society). It brings out the very worst in people.

Not to forget the rise of far-right extremism. Look at the Qanon thing, what should have been limited to a few paranoid weirdos eventually led to open insurrection. This disgrace would not be possible without social media.

>Gig economies?

Yes. While it is convenient and can benefit some small percentage of the gig workers, it is an overall negative to most of these gig workers - e.g. with ride sharing services they have successfully offloaded the costs of owning and operating a vehicle fleet (fuel, wear and tear / maintenance, etc.) onto people's personal vehicles. I have heard of a number of cases where drivers have taken out loans to purchase luxury cars to be eligible for Uber's higher-end service, only to be stung by pricing changes and forced to default, leaving them far worse off than when they started.

>Every societal shift enabled by technology comes with significant negatives, but you won't know if it is a true net negative on society until it plays out to maturity.

Cryptocurrency has had ~15 years and the only real successes in that space have been new and interesting forms of fraud and incompetence.
Need some type of system to summarise it.
Thanks for noticing that! The images aren't exactly pinned, but they're constrained based on the nativeWidth as a proportion of the window width, so they can appear to move behind the card but without showing their corners or edges. Getting them not to exceed the bounds was tough, since they're loaded on the fly. One other fun visual gag in this was changing the drop shadow blur amount based on z-order / z-position. But drop shadows don't really track well with 3D CSS rotations, so that was another reason I tamped down the rotating effects in the end.
Yes, thin dexitorious finger build isn’t necessary, but at 14 would have definitely been helpful. The job they were training us for (transcription) was mostly already on the way out anyways.
What is ironic about that question?

I think people just don't know what the word irony means anymore.
It's all about the snowpack, and this makes me happy: https://cdec.water.ca.gov/snowapp/sweq.action
Yes. Unless you are the plaintiff ... :-(
Right? Also, where are the "bloody slavering fangs"? It's just a blog post about whimsical naming. Some people will agree, some will disagree. Hardly a touchstone of "internet communists" or "transhumanists". And a bizarre perspective, considering who is behind recent events in the USA and Brazil.
> A 2000V .001A power supply might give quite a shock on the other hand, and depending upon any capacitance in the supply might just as well prove fatal.

What does the capacitor supply, that the PSU can't? Could it be discharge current?

Before you accuse me of repeating dangerous tropes, please consider making sure to discuss it with the folks at VDE, because this is what it says in their (and the equivalent european) product norms and norms for electrical installations.

When touching the positive pole of a 1V 1000A PSU (I assume DC) you won't have 1000A flowing through your body. It is not the rating current of the PSU that kills you, but the actual current going through your body. And how well that current will flow through your body depends on many things, including voltage, frequency (if we are talking AC), contact resistances, skin resistance, the internal resistance of your body, how big you are, your ground connection resistance, the duration of the current flow, etc.

There is a reason we use high AC voltage for transportation of currents for long distances.
> Most people have never heard of Ethereum

Paris Hilton and jimmy fallon were shilling bored apes on late night tv. Kim kardashian and Floyd Maywether promoted crypto scams. Tom Brady was a big FTX promoter and investor. There were like 4 formula one teams named after shitcoins.

Those names are some of the most famous in the world across a number of demographics. Mass media already pushed the crypto scams on the world. There is no one left to push the ponzi onto.
Yep! We used to ride the rip out on boards as it was easier than paddling through the waves. Dart across once you're out the back then catch a wave in.
Don't forget about Galactus, the all-knowing user service provider aggregator.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ
Been there in 2014 and again in 2016. It’s a wonderful place and I’ve never seen so many different types of orchids together - shape, size, pattern. Wonderful!

Also, it’s BIG!
No it wasn't static, it felt like the 60 Hz buzz that you only get from touching something connected to the electric grid.
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To my knowledge yes