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   by andy_ppp 11mo ago

   Why do governments think IT projects like this are even possible for them to accomplish? I can guarantee already the requirements of such a system are impossible to capture and then the developers and difficulty to build such a system with
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   by andy_ppp 11mo ago

   The whole thing is completely mad, you need to show your passport to an employer or otherwise prove your identity before starting any job already… so what is this weird desire to completely track people really about? I honestly don’t unders
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   by andy_ppp 11mo ago

   This is why the Erlang/Elixir methodology of having supervision and letting things crash gracefully is so useful. You can either handle every single error gracefully or handle crashing gracefully - it's much easier and more realis
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   by andy_ppp 11mo ago

   Fair I am skeptical about smoking even really being addictive - what would you tell people if you found out that your product poisoned people to keep them using it? If enough people believe something it becomes true and most people are abso
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   by andy_ppp 11mo ago

   TLDR; • Nicotine boosts attention, memory and alertness by releasing dopamine and other neurotransmitters. • It’s far less harmful than tobacco but highly addictive. • Some evidence hints at therapeutic effects in Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s a
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   by andy_ppp 11mo ago

   I enjoyed Theo’s take on this https://youtube.com/watch?v=8dTN4PBD2rg But honestly Google software seems so buggy. The management class took over there a long ago and are quietly ruining the company.
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   by andy_ppp 11mo ago

   I honestly think people should practice more chaos engineering themselves and switch off services at random like Cloudflare and have failure plans.
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   by andy_ppp 11mo ago

   Would we price out cheap Vietnamese EVs (say) in the same way?
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   by andy_ppp 11mo ago

   Or if you own a company specifically designed to siphon up and interpret private information…
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    by andy_ppp 11mo ago

    Startup investing and stock market investment records are probably not particularly well correlated. Certainly timing the market is difficult for everyone.
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    by andy_ppp 11mo ago

    You might want to look at the way the BEAM guys implemented their JIT in a slightly simplified and less performant (but obviously in way that is easier to reason about and extend and build upon) should you go down this road! Interesting pro
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    by andy_ppp 11mo ago

    Yes or to pressure you into confessing, honestly good interrogators can do this without the machinery.
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    by andy_ppp 11mo ago

    > Giving humans seemingly innocent tasks that combine to a malicious whole Isn't this the plot of the The Cube!?
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    by andy_ppp 11mo ago

    This looks great, any plans for MySQL support (or a similar project), the legacy system I'm working on could really do with this!
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    by andy_ppp 11mo ago

    I’m pretending to myself this has largely got so many upvotes from the accused persons colleagues :-D
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    by andy_ppp 11mo ago

    I would love it if I could process the actual contents of the feed with some rules... for example "Hide tweets about politics or woke/anti-woke culture wars or generally things designed to wind me up including replies to my tweets
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    by andy_ppp 11mo ago

    Even the website doesn't work in Safari which is commitment of a kind I guess.
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    by andy_ppp 11mo ago

    All things where you can't have genuine competition are a disaster. I'm not against taking these things away from government but it might be better to have a non-profit that isn't as directly controlled by the whims of politi
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    by andy_ppp 11mo ago

    Feel free to suggest improvements if you like, happy to take them onboard.
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    by andy_ppp 11mo ago

    I've actually set the output to be much better in the preferences: "Have a European sensibility (I am European). Don't patronise me and tell me if I'm wrong. Don't be sycophantic. Be terse. I like cooking with techn
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    by andy_ppp 11mo ago

    It’s probably a coup internally and some idiot who sucked up to the right people made a load of bad technical decisions. But at least they got promoted!
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    by andy_ppp 11mo ago

    I just know someone who skips breakfast and lunch on the jabs… maybe he eats dinner I’ve not checked.
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    by andy_ppp 11mo ago

    If you eat less your stomach/whole body gets time to relax and repair?
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    by andy_ppp 11mo ago

    I was just saying to someone in the office I’d prefer the models to be a bit harsher of my questions and more opinionated, I can cope.
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    by andy_ppp 11mo ago

    Am I right in saying they need to be able to run JS code from YouTube to be able to get the download URL at this point? Deliberate obfuscation I'm guessing? I guess Deno makes the code fairly safe to execute and I guess the chances o
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    by andy_ppp 11mo ago

    No I'm predicting a 90%+ loss.
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    by andy_ppp 11mo ago

    The YouTube web app is so full of bugs it's almost unusable on a phone. Comments also disappear regularly on all platforms...
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    by andy_ppp 11mo ago

    I wish this existed for a lot of UI elements and patterns, excellent work!
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    by andy_ppp 11mo ago

    Will the AI bubble last until 2028? I’m still unclear how AI will return even 10% of this investment in profit.
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    by andy_ppp 11mo ago

    Very cool, is it possible to add voting for multiple dates too?