Imagine that on the end of your phone charger

Yep, I'm starting to see how useful studying psychology would have been.

I'm 15 years into a tech career and it's becoming increasingly obvious that the hard problems are not usually tech problems...

Me too, the red band on the left hand side

It's like rebrands.

Most rebrands occur because the average marketing person is pretty average and "rebrand" looks good on your CV.

A couple of million later, half way through, customers hate the new brand and the marketing people who started it have already left for greener pastures

Redesigning a perfectly good design that everyone is used to allows you to put "designed Netflix user interface" on your CV, and since management has to spend a ton of money on it, suddenly your team is worth something

I disagree unless the tests are reasonably high level.

Half the time the thing you're testing is so poorly defined that the only way to tighten that definition is to iterate.

In this sense, you're wasting time writing tests until you've iterated enough to have something worth testing.

At that point, a couple of regression tests offer the biggest bang for buck so you can sanity check things are still working when you move on to another function and forget all about this one

He said Linux Subsystem for Windows, which I took to mean the opposite of Microsoft's Windows Subsystem for Linux

(for reference, look at the difference between WSL1 and WSL2)

Is the joke that the main river in Paris is so polluted that swimmers would need to wear protection?

Never mind that the swimming events would be held in a pool instead

First version: attempt to reimplement the windows API on top of Linux

Second version: give up and embed Windows inside a VM

"Fuck off Jesus" memes (or equivalent) are the best

I'm pretty sure Tesla cars dont run on Windows....

Is this a typo? I'm sure lemmy.nz has been around longer than yesterday