UglyToad

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   by UglyToad 5y ago

   Out of interest, obviously you can't give too much away, what would happen if the users didn't/couldn't do that? The only situation that comes to mind is delivery drivers needing to get next destinations/mark delive
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   by UglyToad 5y ago

   All the sharding and YAML dark-arts in the world won't save us when the SSL cert renewal fails because the card has expired and the renewal reminder went into someone's spam.
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   by UglyToad 5y ago

   I think, though I might be way off base, your comment surfaces something that drives a lot of the, to me, over-the-top reaction to these outages. And that's the way (for AWS/Azure/GCP/Cloudflare) they reveal how the big
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   by UglyToad 5y ago

   The point that often these services advertise on basis of resiliency is a fair one and I agree with what I think I'm reading into your conclusion which, if correctly understood, is that by increasing the number of dependencies in our s
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   by UglyToad 5y ago

   So I've been mulling this stupid thought for a while (and disclaimer that it's extremely useful for these outage stories to make it to the front-page to help everyone who is getting paged with p1s out). But, does it really matter?
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   by UglyToad 6y ago

   I've done a complete 180 on this too, I realised I was reacting from my default position of hostility to new concepts rather than an honest appraisal. I am writing it up at the moment but I've been working on a 1 person SAAS MVP t
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   by UglyToad 6y ago

   Thanks, I didn't know about this. I've been trying in vain to find something similar for MySQL. I think Lambdas are the killer feature that's missing from databases, you'd basically be able to handle all cache-invalidati
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   by UglyToad 6y ago

   I think you're right about the separation of ecosystems into .NET vs. everything else. I often idly run a find-in-page for .NET/C# on the Who's Hiring threads just to monitor uptake in the start-up world and rarely get more
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   by UglyToad 6y ago

   I've been vegetarian for 2 years now but as soon as this technology is generally available I'm going to eat these products so happily. Meat substitutes are a nice alternative to have but they're nowhere near the real thing. A
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    by UglyToad 6y ago

    I can second this, I'm on the Matebook 14 2020 with the Ryzen 7 I think rather than the Pro. But after a dreadful run of luck with the XPS15, the Matebook (so far) is an amazing bit of kit for almost half the price. It feels like if th
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    by UglyToad 6y ago

    I don't think you're right about heroin, addictive, yes, but actually far safer than say paracetamol. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2001/jun/14/drugsandalc... Either way, a public health
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    by UglyToad 6y ago

    England's experience with it should probably serve as a warning too. We had a law change that meant office blocks could be converted to housing without planning permission. Having lived in 1 that was converted into studio flats at the
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    by UglyToad 6y ago

    I do and thank you for taking the time to reply. I know my gut reaction to all things IP and copyright (and US) law causes me to lose all rationality, but I'd imagine there's a case to be made that test code is exempt through fair
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    by UglyToad 6y ago

    Do you know of anything that might be applicable here for arguing a distinction between test cases and actual source code? It's a silly example but bringing a replica weapon through airport security is legal, I imagine, if done to test
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    by UglyToad 6y ago

    I think OS discussions often become a breeding ground for people to feel offended because people have different preferences but: I just don't find Linux (or Mac) a compelling alternative. I can do everything I possibly need on Windows;
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    by UglyToad 6y ago

    I was pleased and a bit surprised to see this post talk about a database level approach to this problem. As important an idea it is at the application code level where most posts discuss it, especially in the context of type systems like Ha
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    by UglyToad 6y ago

    I'm glad I'm not the only one with this confusion, my friends mock me relentlessly based on past discussions we've had. Since on some designs the smaller button cannot be pressed separately and therefore corresponds to a big
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    by UglyToad 6y ago

    This is somewhat formalised in the UK with the agent of change principle, basically you can't just rezone and complain about the nature of the neighbourhood https://www.citymetric.com/business/uk-planning-system-fi
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    by UglyToad 6y ago

    I'm curious about the "glorification of suicide bombing" you mention. I mostly watch Al-Jazeera in the UK and my understanding is that Al-Jazeera English should be considered an almost entirely separate entity from the other
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    by UglyToad 6y ago

    I've written a little overview of the open source options for text extraction available in C# https://dev.to/eliotjones/reading-a-pdf-in-c-on-net-core-43e... At some point I need to port PdfTextStripper from PDFBo
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    Zoopharmacognosy(en.wikipedia.org)

    3 points by UglyToad 6y ago|0 comments
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    by UglyToad 6y ago

    Ah OK thanks for the clarification. I will definitely consult an accountant once I'm moved and settled.
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    by UglyToad 6y ago

    Luckily since the tax year ends in February (?) it should be possible to take almost the full year by having it split into 2 half years over the tax year ends without having to change any tax stuff, I don't think the non-resident impli
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    by UglyToad 6y ago

    As the other poster says you continue to pay income tax in your home country and you're also forbidden from working for any Barbados company since they don't want people taking local jobs. However this may have tax consequences in
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    by UglyToad 6y ago

    I fear death a lot and it sort of ties in to my weird concept of memory. If we take the idea of consciousness as experienced by the mind as it functions in the present moment, the past does not exist at all. It has never existed. This conce
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    by UglyToad 6y ago

    I think your post gets to the core point. My view is that 90% of the code is fine without tests (assuming a crud app and some way of catching type errors). It's just plumbing to get data from a to b. There's around 10% that it&#x2
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    by UglyToad 6y ago

    You can have C# Jupyter Notebooks but if I remember correctly the same behaviour is displayed in the immediate window in Visual Studio when debugging. Doesn't seem like a language problem as much as working in a REPL environment issue.
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    by UglyToad 6y ago

    Yes, though being an enterprise friendly language there's a bit of a lead time in most of the places using it, but NET core on Linux is increasing adoption. Just this week I built and deployed a new C#. NET core API running on a Micros
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    by UglyToad 6y ago

    I think with the Rowling Forstater case there's a nuance that her contract was not renewed, rather than being drummed out of the office in the middle of the day [0]. When you have a job representing an organisation there are expectatio
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    by UglyToad 6y ago

    I agree. I think it's a strong indicator when someone takes the most absurd or niche demand of a movement of millions of people seeking justice for some of the worst oppression and state violence as a way to dismiss the whole of that m