What's the term for when a failing service causes the users of said service to use it more to complain about it failing? Because it sure seems like that's happening to some extent.

In gaming terminology, those users got taunted. [1] https://leagueoflegends.fandom.com/wiki/Types_of_Crowd_Contr... or [2] https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Taunt

thundering herd really only happens at 'web scale', whatever that means. There was an article on HN recently showing how even a distributed/replicated system can fall to the thundering herd.

Assuming the computer talks over a standard protocol like serial or parallel, I don't see how it wouldn't be fairly straightforward to move it to a newer machine. Might even be able to run it on a virtual machine for better compatibility.

Should've just used a rock instead. Free and you can argue about whether expensive European mountain rocks work better.

I had a coworker that I tried to help out, but he barely knew some common programming terms like what a type was, or how he had to declare something beforehand in order to use it. We never really found out why he didn't know these things because he was so softspoken and shut down at any attempt to understand why he was having trouble. I don't talk to him much anymore due to some team restructuring, but other coworkers still see the same so I don't know if he can be helped honestly.

> but he barely knew some common programming terms like what a type was, or how he had to declare something beforehand in order to use it. We never really found out why he didn't know these things because he was so softspoken and shut down at any attempt to understand why he was having trouble.

I had the same when applying to several jobs as web developer, bother me a lot, since they were making money, but had no idea how to explain the most basic things, such as that React is a library not a framework. It's literally on the landing page.

Second thing for applying for a job is... if I don't get accepted I want to know how to improve, but I haven't heard anything.

Interesting, how does he pass performance review? Usually ppl get some help to pass the bar. The bar doesn't need to be high. But if he is not up to the task he will be put through pip then fired

The only reason I made a blog and a post was because it was something to learn with and get some of that sweet sweet Hacker News front page traffic. It did work by the way.

I've heard good things about the NanoPi.

There are some posts where Twitter is the primary source. Banning Twitter outright isn't a solution for this type of situation.

A talalay latex pillow. Memory foam sucks forever for me now.

I’m looking into getting one. Could you recommend a model and retailer?

I got mine from Brooklyn Bedding, a high loft one since I sleep on my side.

I'll second this, it's immensely useful when I can't wrap my head around a regular expression.

regex101.com is my go-to, because it supports regex flags and Python regexes.

Going to add regexper.com which is really good for explaining RegEx patterns.

Pros: I haven't done anything.

Cons: I haven't done ANYTHING.

Are you hiring? :)