danjac

danjac, 14 days ago to random

It's downright criminal how universities and other courses encourage or force students to set up private AWS accounts.

AWS is for companies, period. It should never be used by a private individual. If it were designed for private individuals, they would have implemented hard limits on the free tier rather than their laughable billing alerts.

You should never use it for coursework or side projects: the danger is too high.

https://old.reddit.com/r/aws/comments/qgr9jh/was_billed_60k_with_a_free_tier/

danjac, 15 days ago to random

#htmx tip: if using "htmx.ajax()" API call to trigger an HTMX request, and you need to push the URL to your history, return response with "HX-Push-URL". (django-htmx has a handy "push_url()" function for this).

danjac, 15 days ago to random

A company run by a braindead fail-upward twat like Zaslav means 100+ seasons of Young Sheldon while Scavengers Reign gets cancelled.

https://gizmodo.com/scavengers-reign-cancelled-max-but-netflix-s2-hope-1851470217

danjac, 15 days ago to random

I don't think I can remember a single time when renting that we have ever got our full deposit back.

In fact I've lost my deposit so many times I'm thinking of changing my name to Lawrence Fox

kennethb, 16 days ago to random

I suspect that the only people still planning to vote Tory at the GE are either very rich, very stupid, or still believe in Father Christmas and the Tooth Fairy. Same applies to those planning to vote for Trump in November of course.

danjac, 16 days ago to random

The kids booing a Bitcoin hodler high on ayahuasca at a commencement speech just shows how completely over-and-done cryptobros are in the cultural zeitgeist.

danjac, 17 days ago to random

C3PO! We're trapped in an Apple ad!

danjac, 17 days ago to random

Stack Overflow going the way of Expert Sex Change I see

danjac, 17 days ago to random

The SNP is at the same time the party of independence, and the ruling party that voters judge based on the quality of their schools and hospitals. Fairly or unfairly, people's opinion on the former depends on performance on the latter.

Frankly if I were a Scottish nationalist, I'd want a pro-independence movement rather than a pro-independence party.

baldur, 17 days ago to random

those devs and tech “influencers” who pioneered the technical work of putting “AI” shit in everything everywhere, and are—for the most part—the assholes who enabled our brave new “AI” world by actually figuring out how to make it run, are also going to be the people who get credit for criticising it after the bubble pops, aren’t they?

Everybody will latch onto their vague concerns and ignore the fact that they literally implemented the shit that got smeared everywhere, aren’t they?

danjac, 17 days ago to random

Handy Labour chart on who should get the party whip

danjac, 17 days ago to random

YouGov poll puts the Tories at 18%, which would leave them with seats in double figures.

Zahawi, founder of YouGov, by sheer coincidence announced today he is retiring from politics.

danjac, 17 days ago to random

Going by Labour's track record I'm sure they can find a safe seat for Trump in Kent.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/08/david-lammy-tells-us-republicans-he-can-find-common-cause-with-donald-trump

danjac, 17 days ago to random

I feel the real story here is that stunning incompetence and corruption in the tech company C-suite is too often compensated for by the willingness of tech workers to burn themselves out to prove...what exactly?

Sometimes the industry reminds me of George Orwell's quote about the UK: "a dysfunctional family with all the wrong people in charge".

https://grumpyolddev.com/post/the-one-where-i-lie-to-the-cto/

danjac, 17 days ago to random

Very sick (but still funny) joke I heard on another place:

"RFK Jr follows family tradition of having their career abruptly ended by missing brain matter"

danjac, 17 days ago to random

Photos of East Kilbride, where I spent some of my early childhood. Looks like it belongs on the eastern side of the Iron Curtain.

https://www.glasgowworld.com/best-in/east-kilbride-back-in-time-over-75-years-of-scotlands-first-new-town-heritage-and-history-in-11-pictures-4533320

danjac, 18 days ago to random

Looks like Judge Cannon has postponed Trump's trial date indefinitely (i.e. until after the election, when the Generalissimo can do away with such irritants to his unquestioned right to power).

Whatever "checks and balances" the US' antiquated system had in place have long since eroded.

mnot, 18 days ago to random

And this is their earnings call.

"I think the central risk to Palantir, America and the world is a regressive way of thinking that is corrupting and corroding our institutions that calls itself progressive, but actually — and is called woke — but is actually a form of a thin pagan religion,"

danjac, 18 days ago to random

I never understood the rule about Clerics in DnD only being allowed to use blunt weapons. Perhaps this might have been a thing with priests in Medieval Europe but clerics can belong to any number of imaginary religions. What if you are high priest of some Holy Pointy Objects cult, where clubs and maces are considered ungodly?

danjac, 18 days ago to random

Finland is not immune to the problem of idiot voters who believe that a right wing government equals a better economy.

https://www.helsinkitimes.fi/finland/finland-news/politics/25194-ministry-of-finance-vat-hike-should-come-into-effect-in-september.html

danjac, 19 days ago to random

Now that Jack Dorsey has left the board of Bluesky he will have more time for his other job, Archbishop to Catherine the Great

danjac, 19 days ago to random

"Open the pod bay doors Hal"

"I'm a Boeing, Dave, they've already fallen off"

https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/06/boeing-starliners-first-crewed-mission-scrubbed/?guccounter=1