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by Psychlist 5y ago
I think what makes those work is being part of a small team. It's not so much that if Bob releases bad code you can go over and punch Bob, as that no-one wants to be responsible for waking their teammates up in the night to start with.
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by Psychlist 5y ago
WTF, you're on call when on holiday? That seems awful. I'd say "do teams really do that" but obviously they do. That's just terrible management IMO, and a real incentive to take up hiking or anything out of cellphon
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by Psychlist 5y ago
My current on call setup that page would count as one hour worked of my weekly 40. Ideally I'd be paid extra as well (I get about an hours pay a week as an on call allowance). What makes it work is that I'm the senior dev on the p
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by Psychlist 5y ago
Nah, it's trivial. They're called recumbents. More usefully, upright bike saddle fit is largely about the spacing of your sit bones. There's tutorials online on how to measure that, and some saddles tell you what spacing they
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by Psychlist 5y ago
Don't ever try a Rohloff or Pinion. Just say no and walk away. I did not know that and a couple of thousand dollars later I'm never going back. All the gears you want, any time you want them, and a great deal of "it just work
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by Psychlist 5y ago
The author was comparing carbon to steel, and that's very different. Steel yields gently so most people have learned to tighten things until they feel the bolt start to yield, then stop. With aluminium that's harder, and with carb
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by Psychlist 5y ago
I loved the "hydraulic brakes are different and hard to maintain"... that's changed in the last few years, they're now common, reliable, and plug'n'play. I have been fitting them to my bikes as upgrades because
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by Psychlist 5y ago
I love claims like this headline that rely entirely on our inability to observe the clock after the stated interval. We can be pretty sure that the clock will not be working at all, let alone accurate, but we can't be certain. At least
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by Psychlist 5y ago
> Claim "Ads don't work on me! I never buy things based on ads!". The thing is, they're all wrong. All you've said is "A big industry does this. Therefore it works on everyone". Which doesn't follo
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by Psychlist 5y ago
He has had personal issues, loved ones dying and so on. Plus he had to basically bin a year's work when the US elected Trump and suddenly his "satire" seemed tame and boring by comparison. Near future fiction is prone to that
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by Psychlist 5y ago
Some forums used to have a "block for a while" option, usually hours or days. But that dropped out of fashion for reasons I am not sure of - I suspect most users discovered that actually it was just annoying to repeatedly re-bloc
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by Psychlist 5y ago
There's not enough satellites to be useful yet, terrestrial astronomy is still possible. They'd need to have ten times the current number to stop it, and that's not due to happen for a few years. I reckon if they put their mi
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by Psychlist 5y ago
Imagine if all those desperate engineers in Bangladesh decided that rather than nuclear weapons to match India and Pakistan, they wanted them to build an Orion ship. A really, really big one. Think lofting 100M Bangladeshis into space. And
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by Psychlist 5y ago
That's true for gas fired plants so I expect it would be the case for light liquid fuelled ones. You wouldn't burn petrol in them, because that fuel is very specific to piston engines (turbines don't need toxic anti-knock add
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by Psychlist 5y ago
I have magnetic connectors for USB-C in both varieties. The circular one I normally use just has two pins and is great because I put my phone down near the cable and it usually leaps across and connects. The multipin flat connector supports
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by Psychlist 5y ago
clang-tidy will ask that you put in the full set. Foo() = delete; Foo(const Foo& orig) = delete; Foo(Foo&& orig) = delete; Foo operator=(const Foo &other) = delete; Foo operator=(Foo &&other) = delete;
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by Psychlist 5y ago
> People will often make mistakes when a function has 3 or more ... of anything. This is why non-compatible numeric subtypes are so valuable. Code like "quantity_sold = price" should not compile. You can do the same thing for o
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by Psychlist 5y ago
It's such an amazing looking device, so shiny and polished and professional looking. The craftwork is so well done that it's a bit of a shock when it wobbles so much in use. I never thought out that before... and now I understand
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by Psychlist 5y ago
Windows Settings lets me choose an app, but not choose no app/remove an app. So that's not entirely useful (the obvious "just use notepad for everything" is also an obvious tell) I'm not wildly keep on manually edit
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by Psychlist 6y ago
> Freezing and archiving the VMs used to build a particular release is also a pretty nice trick. An essential trick if you have long-lasting products. I've been able to (and asked to!) make fixes in ~2015 to code that was written in
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by Psychlist 6y ago
Also: different NAS hosts, RAID cards, etc. Those have correlated failure modes too. My personal backup strategy of buying a different backup drive every time seems wiser the more I learn. At work we have two different NAS setups, each full
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by Psychlist 6y ago
Virtual machines have been a huge win, and still are. Spending 2-5 days setting up a development environment, then archiving a copy of the whole VM made some of the crappier setups usable. Back before rented software (including the OS) that
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by Psychlist 6y ago
I prefer non-IP cameras so they can't be plugged into the internet. Yes, it's annoying to get a feed other than locally... but that is the whole point. If you need nurses to remotely monitor patients that's fine, there&#x27
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by Psychlist 6y ago
Often it's more that it is hard to avoid having that account. And management don't see the point in making it so that they need to get two underlings working together to jump through hoops to trace through the whole stack and work
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by Psychlist 6y ago
Remember back when you could get "free" dial-up internet by accepting ads? And later Facebook did much the same thing? I see the whole personal data/tracking industry as that model. You can get a tracking-supported smartphone
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by Psychlist 6y ago
I just bought a 3+, shipped to Australia via a friend in Austria. I'm glad to hear that your 2 has lasted, albeit the phone I replaced was also about 5 years old (a Samsung, from the days when those had replaceable batteries and uSD sl
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by Psychlist 6y ago
Perhaps they mean "I don't want to get into the specific politics, I'd prefer to discuss the generic position from big tech that they help governments suppress news of human rights violations". In other words, "shou
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by Psychlist 6y ago
I've had one job where they pulled that. One week a month I was "on call", which meant waking up at 3am most nights and working through to office hours babysitting/bullying the system. In theory we got time off to compen
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by Psychlist 6y ago
> Extra compensation or time off is usually a bad idea for on-call responsibilities, because it puts the wrong incentives in place. I sort of agree, because yes "just throw a little money at it" is the wrong response. But more
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by Psychlist 6y ago
Working from home was ugly until I bought a 4k monitor with a pair of smaller ones to go each side. I initially thought I could get by with the 2.5k monitor and a single secondary one but ... yeah, nah. 4k is surprisingly easier to read, an

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