I’m sure one will get randomly cancelled for not being instantly the most successful product ever invented before the end of the week given Google’s track record.

Absolutely. That’s why it’s still good practice to include some kind of comment about the article in the post if the content isn’t clearly identified by the headline.

It’s a good idea in principle but headlines are often not in the viewer’s interest. The purpose is to get you to watch the video, not to actually tell you what’s in the video.

Unfortunately there’s lots of good videos with Clickbait titles.

In this case it was a driver holding that thread captive and making an assumption about the hardware eventually responding to a request which never completes.

So yes indeed it was the kernel, and ideally the driver could be written better, but that’s probably easier said than done when the hardware can do weird things.

This was a long time ago, so for all I know the issue has been long corrected.

I used to stick forks in the electrical outlets.

Now I post Linux memes.

How do you determine if a task is unresponsive?

This has happened to me only once on Linux. I still tell stories about it.

It was a CD burning program stuck in uninterruptible sleep! Trapped in a system call into the kernel that can never be interrupted by a signal, it was truly unkillable. The SIGKILLs simply piled up never to be delivered.

I have encountered processes that even Task Manager could not kill.

Not all heroes wear capes. You’re saving their butts, and they don’t know it.

In my experience, the job of a sr. revolves around expectations. Expectations of yourself, of the customer, of your bosses, of your juniors and individual contributors working with you or that you’re tasking. Managing the expectations and understanding how these things go to protect your guys and gals and trying to save management from poking out their own eyes.

And you may actually have time to do some programming.

You know you’re Sr. when it doesn’t even bother you anymore. It amuses you.

Great! Implemented correctly, this should help improve security in snatch-and-run phone theft situations.

Sometimes you even get newer and more interesting bugs!

I’m not sure how AI supposed to understand code. Most of the code out there is garbage. Even most of the working code out there in the world today is garbage.

AI can be a useful tool, but it’s not a substitute for actual expertise. More reviews might patch over the problem, but at the end of the day, you need a competent software developer who understands the business case, risk profile, and concrete needs to take responsibility for the code if that code is actually important.

AI is not particularly good at coding, and it’s not particularly good at the human side of engineering either. AI is cheap. It’s the outsourcing problem all over again and with extra steps of having an algorithm hide the indirection between the expertise you need and the product you’re selling.

My main beef is that I don’t enjoy watching video form content, but having a summary would be more than sufficient to quickly determine whether or not I would be interested in watching anyway.

Strongly agree.

A place full of dark despair.

With banking apps in particular this lock down is ultra-stupid.

Like, I have to use your super secure app, or I can just… visit your page in a web browser running on god-knows-what with whatever extensions in any computing environment or OS of my choosing? But not using Google Play is where they draw the line.

I remember when they first invented memes 👴

Say what you like, but the bar is so low for innovation in the smartphone market that these two are actually doing some original work too.