where fighting a monster is always a drain on your resources and basically never a good idea

Thank you. I wasn't able to put my finger on why I hated it so much, after awhile.

In my explore and fight monsters game, I want to be rewarded, not punished, for fighting the monsters!

Yep. Same.

And of course there's a relevant XKCD:https://xkcd.com/1181/

Nice.

That's enough to make me reconsider signing. Thanks!

On GitHub, the account that pushed the commit is already fairly evident.

Commits pushed from my GitHub account are differentiated from commits that are not.

I don't want huge centralized Git infrastructure, but while we have it, signed commits are less compelling.

And I'm not saying I love the current state of code authorship verification, either.

This is adorable. But I guarantee that the first draft mentions the Boston Harbor.

At first glance, wow.

But on second look - I know, in my heart, that I'll never be quite as self-reliant, or as fun to hang out with, as the person who built their own pallet pool.

I don't sign my commits.

Though I'll admit I'm not making a moral judgement, it was just a pain in the ass to setup last time I had the time to try it.

Great read.

I agree about the culture problem. People want to slap extra encryption into things, like a spoiler on a hatchback.

The core issue is that the problem being addressed by signed commits is already solved.

Did MajorHavoc write this commit?

If it has my username, on GitHub, you're confident it's my commit.

Alternately, it could be someone with so much access to my SSH keys, or to GitHib's infrastructure, that they could easily sign commits as me, anyway.

Signed commits might become more compelling when we start to favor fully open source federated git solutions. At that point, if I'm famously trustworthy, and the repo I submitted a signed commit to is not, then my signature could mean something.

But even then, there's the risk that someone interprets my 4 minute typo fix as my having some clue whether the repo is actually safe to use...

This sounds like a job for a team wide code review process.

If you don't say anything, it won't get better. Up to you whether that's worth the hassle, based on your team and your situation, of course

I'm at the same job, but yes to the bump in pay.

My work life balance is pretty solid. I like and trust my director a lot. I enjoy what I do.

The surreal part for me is that I've kept my team intact this year. As a manager of developers, retaining talent makes my job so much easier, and my team so much more productive.

I like to imagine the reason I've kept my team is I'm just that good of a boss.

But I suspect the real reason is big companies who used to routinely steal my talented staff are more routinely fucking up their public image by doing layoffs during record profit years, and are asking people to visit in-person offices to spread Coronavirus and the Flu.

But anyway, it's possible for two things to be true, so I might also be a great boss.

Edit: I daresay developers have long memories, and I may continue enjoying the "fuck those guys" boost to my own hiring for about the next decade. But, of course, Activision's will rise from Ataris, and Nvidia's will rise from SGI's - so I'll try not to get too comfortable.

Thanks, at least in part to a strong perception of a bad hiring market for programmers, I've not needed to hire for the last three years.

I say perception, not to diminish those having a tough time, but because everyone in my contact list who changed jobs this year had a tough time, but wrapped their search with better pay and benefits from the role they were laid off from. (And the known numbers indicate that all the highly publicized layoffs put a fraction of a percent of a dent in the demand for programmers.)

So something fishy is going on, and it is coordinated market manipulation by the CEOs of the big employers.

The effect, is real though. My lack of need to hire this year is completely opposite of the previous decades, when I needed two or more rounds of hiring per year, to replace the folks who left for higher salaries.

So, manipulation or not, the market for programmers is probably the coldest it's been since 1980. By which, to be clear, they're changing jobs much less frequently and for mere 25% pay increases, rather than their historically frequent 50% to 200% increases.

That said, everyone predicting the end of the "programmers are hot" trend are too new at this to remember when "programmers are hot" ended forever in 1970. And in 1986, and in 2000, and in 2008.

But I heard it's real this time because anyone can write code with C, BASIC, C templates, Visual Basic, now that Visual Basic for Applications is built into Excel, Modern Code Generation Tools, Web Frameworks, small scripts using Microservice APIs, Artificial Intelligence.

I be fearing the media executives may decide my DVD purchases be cutting into their plans to sell me streaming services. If they keel haul DVD sales, I've no mind what I could be doing about it. Arrr. It be a mystery as deep as the high seas.

Silly fluff piece.

Self-check out is there by customer demand. People suck to interact with, even underpaid, underappreciated people who are being asked to stand all day and deal with shitty customers.

Shareholders were promised other savings on pure speculation, and didn't get it.

Yes, CEOs and shareholders, you get to pay for the machine, then pay someone to maintain it, and pay someone to watch it, and pay someone to help me when I can't work it.

In return, you get one more day of staying in business.

Suck it up, buttercup. Self checkout is here to stay.

True, but it's muddled - if I recall correctly, he takes a lot of weird risks that a loving spouse wouldn't, while saying the expected things.

The manaquin is of a character who recruits young children to fight in a war under merciless conditions.

::: Spoilers for Evangelion

The war turns out to be unecessary and largely driven my one maniac's unchecked lust for power.

:::

I'm curious too. The closest I've seen are services that read RSS and cross-post.

No joke! A friend told me it was "the year of the Linux desktop", because of all the recent breakthroughs in drivers and usability.

I love how this story doesn't even remotely let you guess what year it was.

Telnet is disabled in many contexts for security reasons.

But yes, you can send email with bash: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57410259/how-to-send-an-email-using-sendmail-command-in-linux

And with Python: https://docs.python.org/3/library/email.examples.html

Heinlein's "The Door Into Summer". Both beacuse it reminds me that I might never find what I'm looking for; and because it taught me to never give up on looking, anyway.