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chrisandchris · 2026-05-17T05:57:34 1778997454

But the internet does, and it is 12% for gambling, against 15-25% for tourism (whichever source you believe).

[1] https://timesofmalta.com/article/the-15-billion-question-is-...

[2] https://www.emcs.com.mt/emcs-tourism-malta-economy/

chrisandchris · 2026-05-16T07:44:27 1778917467

I have a Volvo. Twice a year when DST changes, the schedule is afterwards one hour off. Been this for 3 years now.

chrisandchris · 2026-05-14T06:37:28 1778740648

I'm really happy I live in a country and company sizes where you could leave your wallet on your desk and nothing happens. Glad I don't need to secure my mug to my desk.

nkrisc · 2026-05-14T10:14:40 1778753680

Even in the safest country I would never intentionally leave my wallet at my desk.

chrisandchris · 2026-05-10T21:24:42 1778448282

Can't count the times a "nuget restore" in our CI fails with 401, just to succeed on a 2nd attempt a few seconds later. Seems like the IP range is somehow flagged, so there's definetly a downside to it.

chrisandchris · 2026-05-03T07:10:47 1777792247

That was my thought too.

> The Word Gem Puzzle is a sliding-tile letter puzzle. The board is a rectangular grid (10×10, 15×15, 20×20, 25×25, or 30×30) filled with letter tiles and one blank space.

Just last week my superior asked to implement that for a customer. /s

Maybe some real, real task would be good? Add sone database, some REST, some random JS framework and let it figure out a full-stack task instead of creating some rectangles?

PunchyHamster · 2026-05-03T10:23:18 1777803798

giving real relatable task like that is memory excercise, not any reasoning excercise. The training dataset have tens of thousands apps like that

chrisandchris · 2026-05-02T20:56:07 1777755367

And I could tell you the opposite about 1Password. About half of the time, the extension does not realize ond which domain it is and autofill is broken.

To each their own (bugs).

muppetman · 2026-05-02T21:52:53 1777758773

Fair point - I've had no issue with it but I certainly don't use it as much as I do Bitwarden.

chrisandchris · 2026-05-02T07:46:14 1777707974

That really sounds line the US is the only country in the world. Considering the world is bigger, I would call Spirit maybe regional, but not small. Ask some europeans, basically no one will know Spirit - as US people may not know e.g. Wizz.

chrisandchris · 2026-04-26T19:31:56 1777231916

And then, someone added IAM so you could actually restrict your credentials from deleting your database.

First mistake is to use root credentials anyway for Terraform/automated API.

Second mistake is to not have any kind of deletion protection enabled on criticsl resources.

Third mistake is to ignore the 3-2-1 rule for backups. Where is your logically decoupled backup you could restore?

I am really sorry for their losss, but I do have close to zero empathy if you do not even try to understand the products you're using and just blindly trust the provider with all your critical data without any form of assessment.

chrisandchris · 2026-04-20T04:56:33 1776660993

That would be consistent, which is not something Microsoft is capable of.

chrisandchris · 2026-04-20T04:47:08 1776660428

But you end up with 1 already large, foreign provider getting all your critical infra, at once?

jeffbee · 2026-04-20T05:34:32 1776663272

Honestly yes. What's your threat model here? You don't want your systems held hostage by ransomware gangs. At local levels of government this is the main problem.