This was a plot playing out in the background of the film Rat Race. I seem to recall a scene where foreign businessmen were wagering on how long maids could dangle from curtain rods or something.

I'd read somewhere that there is a measurable increase in foreclosures and divorces correlated with the legalization of online sports betting.

I have an LG C3. The old jailbreak no longer works.

I keep avoiding the upgrade to keep the possibility open. At some point they force upgrade your firmware.

Right. The author is non-technical and said so up front.

Kubernetes with production workloads allowed companies to finally realize the "fail fast" ethos.

With Kubernetes this hated it must be boring enough to safely start using!

It's boring, alright. You're gonna curse this moment when you realize you've become a yaml engineer.

Actually, I bet AI is pretty good at creating those damn manifests. It's mostly regurgitation after all.

Low code solutions like PowerApps I bang out stuff like this all the time. If your use case is limited enough, it makes lazy developers very productive.

I would make the case as well that software underwent demographic shift as the demand skyrocketed and the barriers to entering the profession with languages and tooling dropped.

80's/90's dev teams were more weird nerds with very high dedication to their craft. Today devs are much more regular people, but there are a lot more of them.

Definitely. There’s pluses and minuses to that shift.

I agree with it, but it's a wild world we live in when the best spreadsheet has default behaviors which will fuck your data pasted into it when you're not paying attention.

Yeah, its also awesome when you open a CSV with long numbers like tracking numbers or IMEIs and they get converted to scientific notation and lose "precision" when saved in Excel format...

Exactly what I'm talking about. I'm sure there's other gremlins in there, but this one bites me the most often, and the hardest.

The one failure mode is so fucking insidious where it zeros out your last 2 digits, but otherwise it looks like it pasted OK!

You may want to revisit all those historical texts, because we did not fail to enforce our laws, we chose to because it benefitted us.

The people calling for reform do not seem to understand the literal costs of doing so.

We’re saying the same thing. I merely phrased it in the negative to underscore the contrast.