DrBazza

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by DrBazza 5y ago
Acceptance tests: "As a user I want to XYZ" vs. "As a product manager listening to what I think a user said, they want to ABC" That's what happens when developers in large companies are not allowed or do not want to
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by DrBazza 5y ago
> Nobody at Microsoft who has decision-making authority actually cares. > Acknowledging this is the first step. The second is figuring out what would make them care or how to remove them so someone who does care can take over. That&#x
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by DrBazza 5y ago
> Nobody at Microsoft who has decision-making authority actually cares. I don't know if it started with Ballmer, but they do care, but it is just about sales, and making money. It's not as if selling and making money is antith
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by DrBazza 5y ago
In the UK it has been recently realised that ensuring that rivers, upstream, prevents downstream flooding. There's certainly a belief that beavers could help. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/aug&
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by DrBazza 5y ago
> if this hadn't happened then the UK would have joined the euro Interesting. Any links?
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by DrBazza 5y ago
I'd argue that the low-hanging fruit of science has been picked. That's why we're not seeing "Einsteins" everywhere. In fact, there's an Asimov short story (I can't recall the name) where certain members
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by DrBazza 5y ago
"The worst impact would come in the mid-latitudes, including breadbasket areas such as the US Midwest and >> Ukraine <<. Grain reserves would be gone in a year or two. Most countries would be unable to import food from othe
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by DrBazza 5y ago
Eh? France and the UK have enough nuclear weapons to destroy the population centres of Russia. Let's be frank, as much as the Geneva Convention says 'play nice', if nuclear weapons are involved, are you going to use them to
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by DrBazza 5y ago
More nostalgia - reminds of sourceforge in particular and other 90-00s sites and products that were vacuumed up by various companies claiming to "add value" and then essentially destroying the thing. Anything bought by IBM or Emba
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by DrBazza 5y ago
Bury it deep. Either we survive as a species technologically, and will always know where it is, or we become cavemen again and lose the technology to dig down that deep. Win win.
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by DrBazza 5y ago
Yup. More deaths in this one dam failure in China than all worldwide nuclear deaths combined: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Banqiao_Dam_failure
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by DrBazza 5y ago
We'll just see a repeat of the Deutsche Bank laundromat: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/apr/17/deutsche-ba...
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by DrBazza 5y ago
The dollar is free floating, and the renminmbi/yuan is pegged. I wouldn't worry about the dollar losing its status any time soon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renminbi#Managed_float https://en.wi
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by DrBazza 5y ago
My experience of returning to the office a few times already? The same old thing. People eating at their desks - we have a kitchen. People having meetings and "quick chats" around their desk - we have many, many, meeting rooms. P
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by DrBazza 5y ago
It's pretty hard to put a shovel in the ground in London without hitting something old. We've moved and covered rivers (Fleet, Neckinger, etc.), we've covered and uncovered plague pits, built over and through Roman walls, or
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by DrBazza 5y ago
It turns out, unless this has been debunked, that Ukraine supplies neon for lasers for... chip production. So perhaps the TSMC chief is a bit premature anyway, regardless of China. Of course there's a lead time in production. https:
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by DrBazza 5y ago
This is interesting regarding args. https://nullprogram.com/blog/2022/02/18/
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by DrBazza 5y ago
In the UK, at least, one Michelin star (or AA rosettes) is more expensive than a regular restaurant but not by a large margin. In fact, in my area, it’s entirely possible to spend the same at a ‘regular’ restaurant. The only difference is
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by DrBazza 5y ago
It's this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valeriepieris_circle Half the world's population lives with a 2500 mile radius circle centred over the South China Sea. There's a market.
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by DrBazza 5y ago
I worked on a proprietary trading app using flutter for mobile and we had zero issues whilst rendering both ticker prices and charts in real time. How is desktop so different?
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by DrBazza 5y ago
250 kcal sounds pretty low to me.
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by DrBazza 5y ago
Hello world by size - https://drewdevault.com/2020/01/04/Slow.html 439Mb? That's horrific. If I was cynical, I'd say it's in Apple's interests to have bloaty apps, so they can sell more e
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by DrBazza 5y ago
Also, that single dashed line at a t-junction turning from a major into a minor road has the same meaning as on a dual carriage way or motorway where it delineates lanes - if there's something next to you, you have to give way/pri
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by DrBazza 5y ago
The electronics industry has been anti-customer for a long time now. I stopped buying Sony back in the late 90s when all the DVD copy protection started. Then they added Cinavia, and so on. I don't agree with piracy, but I certainly
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by DrBazza 5y ago
> Better to build an entirely new product from scratch. We had bugzilla and a variety of others and they were pretty horrible back in the 00s. Then Jira came along and it was modern and fast (-ish), then I guess they followed the route
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by DrBazza 5y ago
SpaceX vs Skylon/Sabre, feels a bit like the Henry Ford quote about "faster horses". I do appreciate the scale of the engineering problems and neither is easy, but SpaceX and rocketry just seems like another "faster hor
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by DrBazza 5y ago
Yes, you're correct.
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by DrBazza 5y ago
To be honest, that's the UK media in a nutshell - Daily Mail hates the EU. Daily Mirror hates Johnson. Guardian hates the Tories, and the NHS has been at risk since, well, ever. There's a lot of hate and hysteria from all sides
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by DrBazza 5y ago
The rules for pedestrians haven't changed - https://www.gov.uk/guidance/the-highway-code/rules-for-pedes... The "rules" for cars (and cycles) have been clarified, not that most car drivers even know
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by DrBazza 5y ago
No, I'm stating that if you search for crime statistics in London, east and north east come out highest. And I'm one of those statistics.

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