LeonB

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by LeonB 2y ago
On mobile phone, as a reader with photophobia, the pdf causes physical pain, and is illegible, whereas the html is perfectly readable via reader mode (where text can be enlarged and dark mode settings are respected.
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by LeonB 2y ago
I wonder what the difference is? One (admittedly uninformed) hypothesis is that there might have been more detergent, and the failure was caused by detergent residue. If this was true, they could be (possibly) repaired by rinsing with fresh
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by LeonB 2y ago
Ha, well said. Having both of these experiences makes one even more against the tyranny of monopolists.
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by LeonB 2y ago
This fails the asymmetry test. There are effectively infinite variations on any wrong argument, they don’t all need to be tested. There’s no progress gained by having to engage in a war of attrition.
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by LeonB 2y ago
Disney headquarters should be picketed for this, large scale boycotts etc are the only fair response. In a sane world, companies who sell products to consumers should be terrified of ever being caught doing something as disgusting as this.
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by LeonB 2y ago
Here’s a technological concept that deserves all the hype in the world and will never get it: - reliability
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by LeonB 2y ago
I’ve got a small number of links to such things here — (which is how I could track down dogsheep quickly) https://wiki.secretgeek.net/personal-data-liberation
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by LeonB 2y ago
HN user SimonW who created Datasette gave a talk in 2020 on “dogsheep” his tool for harvesting and processing personal data from a series of third parties. https://simonwillison.net/2020/Nov/14/personal-data-w
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by LeonB 2y ago
> So no such thing as a good or bad engineer? Just teams then? Buddy I understood your original points — and once held them myself — but if this reply is how you construe what I’ve tried to share with you, you have not reciprocated with
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by LeonB 2y ago
I think that success isn’t from individual “great engineers” but from excellent teams and collaborations. We over emphasise the myth of the solo genius, for example, as it fits neatly into “stories”. There are many cases where the heroic ge
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by LeonB 2y ago
Well said. Approaching the challenge of looking for a job is similar to the psychology required by salespeople, who face many more “No” responses than “Yes”es. On podcasts I’ve heard salespeople talking about the need to invert your thnking
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by LeonB 2y ago
I once held opinions like that, but overcame them long ago. I came to realise that this kind of stereotype was effectively a narrow minded form of gate-keeping that contributed to the myopic tech-bro dystopia that’s been swallowing all that
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by LeonB 2y ago
Sheesh! Now I definitely won’t sleep, house as I am in this flimsy house, not in any way robust enough to withstand the inevitable rampaging herd.
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by LeonB 2y ago
Pretty much any human presented with a tiny slither of information immediately asks for and or invents a “narrative” to “make sense” of what occurred. The less datapoints you have, the easier it is to make a line that fits. We’re great at p
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by LeonB 2y ago
Unit tests, functional tests, automated CI/CD, etc all apply when building utilities or system software. Things like the DORA metrics are very often applied to “things where if they break they break in a big way” - to help teams design
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by LeonB 2y ago
At the end of every trading day, news reporters confidently state the reason behind whatever stock rose or fell that day. They must be very wise as they don’t seem to interview anyone before making these proclamations.
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by LeonB 2y ago
Hmmm — isn’t it possible that too much awareness of our pending apocalyptic peril at the mercy of the Yellowstone Caldera is what’s arresting your slumbers in the first place?
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by LeonB 2y ago
Parsing iCal was far more performant than parsing JSON as your parser could simply start at the first byte, and follow the spec — whereas a JSON parser would first need to wait for ten years before JSON was invented.
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by LeonB 2y ago
In the Wild West things were easier — “Meet me at high noon!” Was never met with - “High noon? What time zone?”
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by LeonB 2y ago
If I invite you (who lives in Spain, let’s say) to fly over and enjoy my New Year’s party (in New Zealand) it definitely is not going to occur at “midnight local time wherever you are” - Trust me. (Actually there’s a famous missing person
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by LeonB 2y ago
I’ve been thinking about this since writing the gp comment yesterday and quite like the anchor terminology. Entity/object and “aggregate root” bring all sorts of complications/ambiguity. The example you gave of a non-anchor (price
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by LeonB 2y ago
I found this to be a good introduction and a well-chosen domain to demonstrate modelling. The term “anchor” feels kind of weird to me, but the explanation is so concrete/grounded (like an actual anchor) that I guess it works well enoug
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by LeonB 2y ago
It’s quite impressive really — crowdstrike were deploying a content update to all of their servers to warn them of the “nothing but nulls, anti-crowdstrike virus” Their precognitive intelligence suggested that a world wide attack was only m
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by LeonB 2y ago
Programming “via” Visualization — doesn’t scale. Great for demos. Good in limited places. Visualizations “of” a Program — quite useful. Note there lots of different ways to visualize the same program to emphasise / omit different detai
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by LeonB 2y ago
I had to do a double take on this minor detail — The current date is expressed as: 12:07:2024 AD I don’t think I’ve ever seen colons used as a date part separator, only as a time part separator (and they tend toward ambiguity even
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by LeonB 2y ago
Slickrun on windows was pretty handy back in the day. It was made by Eric Lawrence who also made fiddler. I believe he was an MS Employee on IE, then moved to google to work on chrome and came back to Microsoft to work on Edge. Clever chap.
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by LeonB 2y ago
This works: Get-Item | % Name
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by LeonB 2y ago
There would still be some fraud, but since the prices of basic medical care would be considerably lower (as demonstrated everywhere else in the world) the amount of money made from fraud would be considerably smaller thus creating less ince
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by LeonB 2y ago
It depends. I don’t tend to end up with deep object graphs that need to be saved/ reloaded. It might be that we serialize foo and foo has a list of references to its 3 children. The “parent” reference from the child back to foo is mark
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by LeonB 2y ago
(Blogpost with an implementation of IStashy is here — https://secretgeek.net/stashy_gist )

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