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It also has you define a manifest with logos, so they can be pinned to the taskbar and stuff, like apps. The Instagram app is one.

@FreeMan There's a thing called PWA that essentially makes websites work "offline". Essentially, it caches things and retries as needed, which is great for semi-static content.

Goodnight :)

Yeah, you too :)

I feel like I talked your ear off now :|

Anyway, it's bed time for me. Been fun talking to you.

I found a cool blog (acoup.blog) by a history professor who discusses all this kind of thing.

They can finally do all the weird combat tactics that didn't used to be possible because the commander essentially lost control of units once they were committed to the fight, either because of literally no way to contact with them fast enough, or because there was no good way to extricate them once they made contact, or a number of other reasons.

With drones, it's even more exciting. They can do double assaults on a position firing toward each other and stopping just before the second prong of the assault comes into range.

There's positioning, communications, movement, stuff as seemingly minor as light control. People are getting killed now because they light a cigarette.

They don't even want that, though, because there's way more to infantry combat than firing a gun.

There's a range 10 minutes from me, LOL.

Ironically, from where I live, I'd probably escape the nukings unscathed, other than fall out.

I don't even have any volunteer skills to go help over there or anything, at that point. No military training, no truck driving license... I'd just get in the way.

True that.

I'll face that when it happens, and who knows, maybe Putin will send nukes my way first.

But, I guess that existential crisis is still several months down the road, so...

I have my horse, and she's nice, but she doesn't need me the way my dog does.

And once she's gone, I don't really have anything to work for anymore.

I have my pets, but my dog is getting old, and I probably have 18 months left with her, tops.

But contracting work doesn't give me that anymore, even though I still don't really have to do anything but keep my head down and work.

I liked my previous job, because I didn't have to play politics as a non-architect, but there wasn't room for growth, and I jumped ship when the company sold. And turns out I made the right choice too.

That used to be RD. I used to go into flow state almost every day working on it.

Sometimes I wonder if I'll eventually burn out hard and not find the will to work either. I just hope I pay my house off before that happens, so I can take a break if I need.

Not that I don't believe in the community, but because I've been struggling to commit to any non-work projects.

I was in the chat for a while, but I could never find the will to actually commit to contributing.

Codidact seems to still be around, although I'm not sure how much active development it's in.

The worldbuilding chat keeps being shut down, even though it's a main room.

Yeah, and I switched jobs in November '19 :)

It seems to have settled down a bit, but a lot of communities still haven't recovered, from what I can tell.

I would have guessed a bit over 3 years, TBH.

I thought it was before COVID...

Only two? I thought that went down shortly after I switched jobs back in 19...

You actually probably know him from the mod chat.

Yeah, I should check that out. Before the whole Monica thing went down, I was chatting to a mod from Worldbuilding (James) who did it as a hobby.

I've also watched a few episodes of Forged in Fire. That's a neat show, although it would be more cool if it showed the details of forging instead of just the most exciting parts of banging on hot steel and quenching and a little bit of grinding.

I read a couple great autobiographies lately. One by Ben Rich (Lockheed engineer), and one by Robert Fortune (botanist who "stole" tea from China and brought it to India).

Do you like reading much?

Documentation is for the birds, anyway. I write up a readme file with the basics, and the code is self-documenting. (Well, my code is...)

We also have dedicated DevOps teams, so I don't get to touch that stuff.

We have a good CI process. We even have a system that we tell it a repo name and type, and it creates the GitHub repo with stub code and sets up PR/CI pipelines automatically.

So, this would actually be great. I could definitely do 2 or 3 classes over the summer, and see how it goes.

So, he basically told me to offer to help other people instead of that, but I've also learned that too many people on a given ticket doesn't help, so normally I just go do something tech-related, like read a blog or book or whatever.

I've actually been scolded by my boss before because when we run out of planned work I would go work ahead, but that was irking some people because we didn't have the full discussion on those tickets (which was fair).

And I work just as fast as I did here, so I literally have 4-6 hours each day free and still keep up with the team.

You know, this summer would be an awesome time to start taking my masters. My client told us we basically aren't going to have deadlines, and we're just going to be meandering toward our goal of adding some new features to a v2 product so the next time some clients renew their contracts they can shift them onto it.

My employer has us get certs and stuff every couple years, so I'm off the hook for a bit. I really like learning, but actually going for a cert is stressful.

It was more a data science cert than an actual ML cert.

I just got a certificate in machine learning. We basically learned logistic regression, loess, random forest, and a few other things over a predefined data set.

I should really start doing that; the courses are only 9 weeks long, IIRC.