Marazan

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by Marazan 3y ago
The main thing I miss about the tech of usenet ( as opposed to the communities I've found and lost along the way) is that the most basic 3-panel usenet client is vastly superior to any web based forum or discussion system. The splittin
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by Marazan 3y ago
That's rather unfriendly for a social game.
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Sure, but then you look at Carrier Command on the ZX Spectrum vs the Commodore and the jealousy fades awy.
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I didn't say a system doesn't work in one specific company or situation. I said it isn't universal and cannot be universal.
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How is that different from saying "My team will be migrating everyone to the new system this quarter"
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There isn't a system, new or otherwise, that works across the industry. The belief that there can be is a root cause of bad systems like OKRs.
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How do KRs help you migrate faster?
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by Marazan 3y ago
"You can't manage what you can't measure" is the _fundamental_ fallacy of management. Management involves soft skills and subjective judgement. You cannot eliminate that and pretending that you can kills companies.
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Is it to create a set of easily gameable measures so that you can get your performance review bonus?
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by Marazan 3y ago
Who'd have thought that workers who have the security of being able to walk into any other job don't like inflexible, cargo cult management workplaces
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by Marazan 3y ago
That said the EBS bandwidth credits complaint is very very valid. Anything beneath a db.r6g.4xlarge get "up to" bandwidth which means credits. The RDS docs are not explicit about this as we didn't get bit by it but we could
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> When you’re storing a large time-series table (say 20 million rows) Stares at 4.4 billion row Aurora Postgres table and thinks.
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Tidal power involves harnessing the power of corrosive sea water. Once we work out how to do that in a cost effective way the UK is in a brilliant position. But until then it is an active area of research.
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I'm going to talk about political gambling but I'm not going to talk about PredictIt. PredicitIt is irrelevant to the conversation. It's high fees an miniscule limits completely distorts what is "rational" or &quot
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by Marazan 3y ago
On Betfair, which has miniscule fees compared to predictit and effectively unlimited wagering caps, the same "You can bet on Joe Biden to win the election weeks after Joe Biden won the election" phenomena existed. Political Marke
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It's an excellent book which I have worked through twice, once in Python/Numpy and once in Pico-8
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Old Twitter employees managed to make media on my my timeline take less than 60 seconds to load. New Twitter, not so much.
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What simple procedures are you doing every year to reduce fraud?
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by Marazan 3y ago
The sad slow death of Google Search is close to genuinely upsetting. At one point it felt like Google cared about defeating SEO spam. Now it feels like they actively encourage it.
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Look, if at judge warns me that I have published information that may be used to identify an person who's identify is under legal order and I continue and repeatedly publish further information that may be used to identify the person
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by Marazan 3y ago
Craig Murray identified complainants who's identity had been protected by court order. What did you expect to happen?
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One of the bugs in the system was that one of the data entry screens which postmasters recorded their takings would routinely freeze. If you hit "Return" again whilst the screen was frozen it would silently submit the figures aga
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An astonishing poor decision from the SEC.
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You can hand clock a Z80. It is kind of magical.
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The Heathrow Express is extremely expensive. I imagine most people tube, bus or get dropped off by car.
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https://twitter.com/KenneyNL/status/1738549235119751531
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FAFO
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As in navigate the menu system.
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Or numbers that add up to over the size limit of what ever byte/int/long type you are using. There's a surprising amount of depth to adding two numbers.
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Other majors had slightly less than Sony each - just under the 5% threshold.

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