IanCal

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by IanCal 5mo ago
That's not true as a simple statement, many business people really do care about quality and process, and you may find you care much more about them than you think. How often have engineers decried yet another rewrite that some project
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by IanCal 5mo ago
Fundamentally you need to start with "what am I trying to do?" and "given that goal, where is my time best spent?". I made a checklist for my kids to stamp off items after they get back from school (sort bag, get changed
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by IanCal 5mo ago
Also even the more complex things will have a lot of simpler code in them.
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by IanCal 5mo ago
Importantly “last” means that it will have at least 80% battery capacity left.
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by IanCal 5mo ago
I mean I use it and then it seemed like everyone was acting like it it was a weird llm only word.
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by IanCal 5mo ago
I felt like this with the word delve. Seemed like nobody had ever heard the word before, and that the only possible way it’d be written was if an llm did it - but it’s just a nice word.
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by IanCal 5mo ago
I get what you mean, I think what I'm pretty stuck on is what is the centralisation solving? Federated messages dealing with lots of things flowing back and forth and live updates, etc is one thing - but what is it about GH that makes
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by IanCal 5mo ago
Refunds and compensation are different though aren’t they? I would not see being refunded for the billing as compensation, compensation would be something more like $x extra to make up for the inconvenience / to say sorry essentially.
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by IanCal 5mo ago
I think the fair side of this is that you have to make tradeoffs when you design things. Scaling problems are design problems, but whether they were mistakes or not really depends on how predictable that scaling was. Car analogies are typic
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by IanCal 5mo ago
> central role Isn't this the massive problem? You're trying to do everything, and you can't, and you're trying to do it for everyone all at once, and have tied it all together so much that scaling up gets worse. If i
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by IanCal 6mo ago
You can definitely print Lego pieces that work, I’ve got some.
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by IanCal 6mo ago
Buying hardware is paying a "random corporation". Make the massive hardware purchase after finding out if you have enough demand to buy rather than rent,
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by IanCal 6mo ago
Which applies if you were to do this to invoices submitted to you, rather than ones you created, or if you have any way of user info getting into your invoices.
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by IanCal 6mo ago
Csv doesn’t have a schema, it has a barely adhered to post-hoc “not a specification” and everything is strings. That you can solve some of these problems by using something as well as the csv file is not anywhere near as helpful, and it’s
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by IanCal 6mo ago
It is a good faith argument, my point is exactly that the actual scripting was not part of the relevant thought any more than the interpreter would have been.
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by IanCal 6mo ago
And even less than someone who wrote an interpreter for the script, less than someone who also chanted times tables while doing it. More thinking isn’t a simple good thing. Given a limit to how much thought I can give any specific task, add
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by IanCal 6mo ago
It depends if the interesting part of the solution is the website for you. Maybe it is and that’s fine but for others it isn’t. Maybe they’ve got a cool backend thing and the ui isn’t the key part. If it helps compare, you might have a full
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by IanCal 6mo ago
This seems very weirdly exclusionary to me. Don’t you care at all about the users trying to use your site?
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by IanCal 6mo ago
I had a look and knew they seemed to be about £15 here, I couldn’t easily find second hand ones in the uk (though they’re not uncommon at shops). For £40 I can get a 7.5 inch black and white screen setup (trmnl byod xaio https://
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by IanCal 6mo ago
It's both of their faults. CSV is not blameless here - Excel is doing something broadly that users expect, have dates as dates and numbers as numbers. Not everything as strings. If CSV had types then Excel would not have to guess w
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by IanCal 6mo ago
I disagree, they are absolutely related to CSV in that these are all problems CSV has. Other formats can have these problems, but CSV is almost uniquely bad because these issues compound and it has a lot of them. > They are a general p
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by IanCal 6mo ago
The other explanation is that often these are just mistakes that occur with a team of experts in their field but not data management, without a budget for building a more robust system, manually doing a lot of things with data. It's so
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by IanCal 6mo ago
CSV occupies, even years after moving away from more raw data work, way too much of my brain is still dedicated to "ways of dealing with CSV from random places". I can already hear people who like CSV coming in now, so to get some
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by IanCal 6mo ago
Systems have been caught out that review pull requests, that’s a simple and clear one. The more obvious to me for most people is anything you do that interacts with your email without an explicit approve list of emails to read.
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by IanCal 6mo ago
The overall speed rather than TTFT might start to be more relevant as the caller moves from being a human to another model. However quality is really important. I tried that site and clicked one of their examples, "create a javascript
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by IanCal 6mo ago
These are vastly different scales though. “If North Korea wanted to, they could spend a lot of money and get into your system” is wildly different to “anyone with a few bucks who can ask ‘please find an exploit for Y’ can get in”
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by IanCal 6mo ago
You’re not getting a worthwhile sla on a subscription at this rate. What are you going to get? A few dollars? An sla isn’t useful unless it actually bites for the provider and actually compensates the customer. And it costs money - how much
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by IanCal 6mo ago
Do you mean L? ml to me would be millilitres and one fluid ounce is ~30ml.
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by IanCal 6mo ago
I think it’s always good to dig a bit deeper on these things. This seems ridiculous to you, compared to a very obvious win with a Lego sorting vacuum. Lego isn’t niche, and the explanation isn’t a weird technical thing that only experts wou
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by IanCal 6mo ago
Case studies are done with consent, typically. That’s pretty different.

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