DrBazza

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by DrBazza 3y ago
It is getting coverage from the MSM in the UK. The BBC's angle is teenage sexting and premeditated teenage gang attacks (especially one that ended in murder). Of course those things should be prevented. As usual with the UK government
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by DrBazza 3y ago
Yes. My g-grandmother was born in 1880 and died in 1979.
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by DrBazza 3y ago
Whoever wrote that headline for the nytimes clearly hasn't heard the quote 'The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.' I doubt it's historically accurate if it's 'recognizable'. Jus
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by DrBazza 3y ago
> Microsoft really needs to take a real hard look at Windows and figure out what its place is in the world. I wish it would just quietly die in a corner. As a developer Windows has brought us such highlights as: * backslash instead of f
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by DrBazza 3y ago
I did ditch Chrome. I also ditched Windows. Been using Linux and Firefox as my daily driver for 5 years or so now without any problem. Windows 10 was another nail in the coffin. Windows 11 was the final nail. Trying really hard to figure
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by DrBazza 3y ago
In the early 00's in the banks (and other places): Perl was everywhere on the server side, and generally horribly unmaintainable because of TIMTOWDI. On the client side Visual Basic was everywhere. The stars aligned: on the server Py
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by DrBazza 3y ago
In the UK, the move to WFH saved me £7000 per annum (the cost of a annual rail season ticket), the equivalent of £10,000 gross salary (taxed to £7k net).
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by DrBazza 3y ago
> I’m ecstatic about it., ..., and I basically have it to myself most of the time And how did you feel when it was crammed full?
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by DrBazza 3y ago
I have no idea. I haven't used bugzilla in many, many years. I'd be happy for neither though. Markdown's origins were such that you could write plaintext files that could not only be easily converted to html or some rich fo
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by DrBazza 3y ago
Again, that's a company and process problem. No one in my company does anything like that, thank goodness. Though I'm sure others do. If we get '@here'd it's an actual fix-it-now production problem. Then again, m
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by DrBazza 3y ago
> give me a dedicated desk A dedicated *office*. I neither want to see, hear, or smell the guy at the open-plan desk next to me eat his lunch at his desk.
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by DrBazza 3y ago
One of the arguments I keep seeing for going back to the office boils down to 'I don't know something, being in the office means it's easy to walk over and ask someone'. I can see at least two problems: your company cod
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by DrBazza 3y ago
I used Mingle once. Management loved it. That's all I have to say.
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by DrBazza 3y ago
I've never used a 'fast' version of Jira at any company I've worked for recently, self-hosted or cloud. Search is atrocious. UX is awful. It's 2023 and whatever version I'm using, it still doesn't accept
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by DrBazza 3y ago
You're giving them money because they're serving you ads in the first place. I appreciate advertising money pays the salaries of people in such companies, but there are other less intrusive ways. Since I've grown up with t
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by DrBazza 3y ago
Indeed. Ever increasing prices of UK property is desirable to keep entire sectors of the economy in work, most working with percentage fees of the property prices: estate agents, legal and conveyancing, house builders, plumbers, decorator
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by DrBazza 3y ago
If this were even remotely true, companies like Hitachi, Skanska, Bechtel and so on, would never have received contracts. Given that the contract bidding process is publicly recorded, you'd think the newspapers would be all over it if
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by DrBazza 3y ago
We don’t do viaducts over streets or houses. We have to tunnel under tunnels, and so much bureaucracy. Newts on the site? Need to be moved. Some other animals? Need to wait a year to move them. Bats? Careful there. Well motivated n
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by DrBazza 3y ago
Hs2 is going through the most densely populated part of the Uk, and in tunnels. And in addition to queuing, we also seem to enjoy bureaucracy. There will have been a decade of planning employing dozens if not hundreds of people before a sh
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by DrBazza 3y ago
It's good that there's progress being made on Parkinson's, even if there's no cure. My father had it, and he's a definite data point for it being caused by trichloroethylene, as an engineer that worked with metal an
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by DrBazza 3y ago
All modern UK governments have been largely indifferent on protecting British industry, and when they do it normally blows up in their faces. It's now a case of 'fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me'.
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by DrBazza 3y ago
Except that the Commons is only the start of votes. Then there is the Lords. Then there are legal challenges.
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by DrBazza 3y ago
Except they haven’t. Party members continually voting against the whips. Party in fighting and 3 PMs. And so on.
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by DrBazza 3y ago
That's how infrastructure projects are prioritised in the UK. Return on the pound. The south east returns something like 10x the investment versus the north of England. Just look at HS2 - everything north and north east of Birmingham
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by DrBazza 3y ago
ML works well, when it is only trained on correct data. ML trained on all the things ever written about programming is going to get things wrong quite a lot of the time, and you'll only have the context of its reply to you, for you to
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by DrBazza 3y ago
Journalistic hyperbole.
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by DrBazza 3y ago
TSMC buy the fab equipment ASML based in the Netherlands.
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by DrBazza 3y ago
You raise an interesting point. For large companies, they'll use this as an opportunity to push salaries down. This happened in banks in London over the 90s and 00s. At each 'crisis' (IR35, LTCM, credit crunch, etc.), they m
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by DrBazza 3y ago
I know senior people that have taken the management path after being software developers, and they're definitely 'we need to collaborate'. I've yet to meet a senior developer that wants to collaborate in person more t
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by DrBazza 3y ago
I choose when I want to 'do the laundry'. I can't choose when Janet or John taps me on the shoulder whilst I'm in the middle of something important.

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