First problem is she’s expecting a right boob like me to review her pull request. Second problem is I don’t give a shit.

I’m sure this is a joke but Ubuntu is Debian at the core.

If you’re serious about monitoring your shit this is really the best answer. Zabbix is love. Zabbix is life.

I genuinely LOL’d at this thank you OP.

On the nose. Thank you for explaining it far more eloquently than I was able to.

Security through obsolescence the healthcare way!

I said nothing about the ingenuity and problem solving. That’s not the concern. I also didn’t take any exception on work ethic or intelligence. You’re putting words in my mouth.

There is of course a difference in that you’re talking about artistic creativity whereas I’m talking about programming creativity.

Your example works great for artistic creativity. On my side, not so much. I am fearful of people coding in python who do not know what they’re coding as an example.

Counter counterpoint. Without the fundamentals you will struggle in understanding your capabilities.

You could be a virtuoso in playing the piano but without understanding how to read and write sheet music you will be hampering your ability to learn other instruments. Note I am not saying you can’t. I’m saying it’s harder.

I will be honest as a late GenX it’s going to be interesting as my cohort retires because we were the last generation to remember before The Internet and grew up to understand the technology not just use it.

If you’re my age or older please make sure you’re teaching your young coworkers how to break things and put them back together without the aid of all the tools and resources they have at their fingertips now. Creativity thrives in adversity. Creativity is at risk when tools like ChatGPT are at their fingertips now.

/rant

Delicious irony

The other angle is the majority of Devs are just… Not good…

A good Dev in the situation you mention will design the solution needed now not the one you hope for later.

I’m saying this as someone who has been mired in scope creep and over engineering solutions many times in my life because “what if 5000 people need to use it at once?!”

In most cases all you need is a database, a single thread and a simple API. Build it and then as the problems come grow with them. Try to take into account issues of scale but realize you can’t and shouldn’t solve every scenario because there are too many variables which may never exist.

Of course Perl is in there lol

In the scenario of having to constantly update an fstab yes it is. As an end user I shouldn’t have to keep updating configuration files because something on a lower level keeps changing its alias.

No granted I’m not familiar with this type of mount. Maybe there is a better way to do it that absolves needing to use the UUID but if not that’s shit architecture IMHO.

Anyone else chuckle on the parallel in saying to use the UUID is no different than saying “just hardcore the IP bro”

I’m not hating on you, but it’s an extremely flawed system where you are forced to use a direct ID mapping as a reference.

From what I’m understanding from people you can assign an alias to the UUID that sounds better?

My favourite for myself is garbage man. Shit rolls downhill so it always ends in my lap.

Another good one is fixer like the mob.

The code on SO is rarely specific to what the use case is IMHO. Any code I’ve gotten from there has had to be reworked to fit into what I’m doing. Plus I can’t post some stuff on SO because of legal reasons but can on an internal ChatGPT portal.

Trust me, it’s gonna get a lot worse.

Matter of fact, I look forward to the security breaches of developers posting company code into ChatGPT for help lol. We already had that issue with idiots posting company code into the public GitHub.

I can’t wait for my future coworkers who will be coding with AI without actually understanding the fundamentals of the language they’re coding in. It’s gonna get scary.

I would love AI to replace me and anything I can do to speed that up I would do it.

What’s wrong with a “right-wing” community? I’m not right wing but I’m definitely not afraid of them. Anything can be solved with education. Why would you censor based on what side of the political spectrum you’re on?