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by another-dave 2y ago
Think you should rename some of the keywords to more naturally suit their positioning. Like, rather than [condition] if <code> [condition] else if <code> else <code> if you hav
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by another-dave 2y ago
> Depending on policy, you might not be allowed to transfer it to a personal device. That's true, but it makes it all the more reason that you want to get that squared off ASAP while you have infinite access to HR/a manager to
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by another-dave 2y ago
Irish is the same — you count with the singular noun, but use plural nouns elsewhere
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by another-dave 2y ago
Minor drug offences could also fit that though — possession or even someone dealing weed mightn't be directly involved in any violence at all
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by another-dave 2y ago
I think there should be definitely higher standards around things in the industry in generally (especially anything that touches health, money etc). But the real culpability here are the upper management who said "we don't believe
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by another-dave 2y ago
> If you are asking "well we could build this in 2 hours with low-code or 8 hours with rails" - then you are not the target market for low-code. To be able to build a rails app in one day takes years of skill and education and
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by another-dave 2y ago
Exactly my point — compare the feature set of this, vs the experience you'd expect from an airline or hotel booking site. Stuff like entering a date range or showing additional info inline is impossible (colour-coded availability or pr
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by another-dave 2y ago
To me, I think this is where HTML standards went off the rails. Rather than working on, say, the vibration API, give us built in web components that are stylable but also accessible by default. In 2024, half of the things in Bootstrap or Ta
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by another-dave 2y ago
It'd work well for both ends of the spectrum (spam callers & friends) but think would kinda fall down in the middle though — kids' school, doctor's office, plumber coming to service your boiler. Where you are expecting a
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by another-dave 2y ago
The OP was saying that having any spending limit would be antithetical to enterprise usage because it could bring critical services to a halt. My point was, if that's a reason to have unbounded spending, why allow me to spin up a servi
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by another-dave 2y ago
> What do you do when people hit their hard spend limits, start shutting down their EC2 instances and deleting their data? Yes, why not? I don't see the problem here? If you didn't want that, you could set a higher spending li
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by another-dave 2y ago
> Almost no level of accidental spend is worth creating downtime or data loss in a critical application. That feels like a bit of a red herring — if that was their ethos, then you'd _have_ to choose burstable/autoscaling config
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by another-dave 2y ago
If you do a search for "person-is-an-object-study" it seems to be a phrase from the original author (appearing in other quoted material that hasn't edited "he" to "he or she")
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by another-dave 2y ago
I'm definitely faster at typing than writing though — especially so when it comes to something like code that often requires in-place editing, shuffling statements around etc. I do like to work with paper & pen but moreso for ideat
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by another-dave 2y ago
Yeah I think that's their rationale for doing it now alright but I mean rather getting into a big rigmarole of AI checkers & plagiarism checkers just trust students initiative to do the work, or not, and let the chips fall where th
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by another-dave 2y ago
> Such as? We need an answer now because students are being assessed now. When I was in university (Humanities degree), we had to do lots of mandatory essays throughout the year but they counted little towards your overall mark, maybe 10
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by another-dave 2y ago
> That works out to 2,53 Euro per kg. So cheaper than euro cents. The cents are free though, cause they're legal tender — just deposit them instead of having to sell 2nd hand
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by another-dave 2y ago
Lots of soft Gs around, like gentleman… though Gif isn't one of them!! :)
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by another-dave 2y ago
> If you're successful at causing amazon to crumble and they lose their job, would you really feel good? This feels like a bit of a straw man — if Amazon start losing potential sales because people don't like how they're t
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by another-dave 2y ago
And you get graded on a Bell curve
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by another-dave 2y ago
I thought my manual binary search off the top of my head in 16 guesses was probably poor but if it beats a coded version, I'm happier now lol
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by another-dave 2y ago
What do you mean by legacy code here?
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by another-dave 2y ago
In London I often see people thanking the driver. At least outside of rush hour & outside zone 1
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by another-dave 2y ago
I don't think he wants a passport photo, just saying any picture as a seed — just enter a photo of a dog (so long as it's not your "first pet" with a personalised name tag round her neck)
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by another-dave 2y ago
Or you could do like a ancient Greece where serving in the Senate was more like jury duty & people are appointed by random ballot. I think representative democracy is fine, it's career politicians I'd do away with.
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by another-dave 2y ago
Though I'd primarily see this as a feature for the REPL or manual scripts where I'm not going to mind doing a `nvm use X`. For production use, I'd still put my TS files through a build pipeline as normal
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by another-dave 2y ago
And it doesn't even need to be in the "can kill people" bracket to cause serious harm cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Post_Office_scandal (Obviously the blame for this issue isn't solely o
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by another-dave 2y ago
They'd also have feedback in the sense of "an update was pushed out and none of the updated machines have given us an ACK of 'health: OK' after rebooting".
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by another-dave 2y ago
> It sounds nice, but does this in practice mean that whenever anyone has an idea to improve security, at the expense of UX, consumer prices, etc, you still implement it? Because that is what it sounds like. Does it sound like this? If a
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by another-dave 2y ago
> There's a gender gap in waste disposal and kindergarten teaching, but there's no "Girls in waste disposal" or "Boys in Kindergarten teaching". * Building a Gender-Balanced Workforce: Supporting Male Teache

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