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by bartread 1y ago
> And, of course, they never even bothered to make sequels to The Matrix. Like you, this is the reality I choose to inhabit. The Matrix was an incredible film, still stands as an incredible film, but that sequel tease at the end? Should
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by bartread 1y ago
Yeah, and the channels that are available... well, here's an example. I'm a member of a couple of professional WhatsApp groups... both of which are so notification heavy that I've permanently muted them, and therefore never v
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by bartread 1y ago
This is the kind of situation where feeding your code through an LLM can actually be helpful: they're really good at spotting the kind of errors/typos like this that have a profound impact but which our eyes tend to all to easily
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by bartread 1y ago
> These days the idea someone can span that range is seen as an impossibility. I don't know about that, but in many/most organisations it's actively discouraged so you simply don't see it. That naturally occurs in lar
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by bartread 1y ago
They have (or had) bus services somewhat similar to Greyhound in the US. A friend and I took a trip to the Iguacu falls from Asuncion (more than 20 years ago, granted), which was an overnight bus trip with a brief stop in Ciudad del Este. I
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by bartread 1y ago
There's a Behind The Bastards two parter on Stroessner: very much worth listening to. They cover the underage girls issue, for which I'd say the accusations are more than credible, but he was an absolute scumbag for plenty of othe
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by bartread 1y ago
> that is something that actually did improve in 2025 Aye, but the old skool way fits the overall aesthetic better. They've even got a few animated GIFs. I actually really love the way this site looks - I miss the days when most web
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by bartread 1y ago
Ah, yes, DB: I am aware of their reputation and, sadly, they also run some services in the UK where reliability and timeliness of service is also already shaky enough without their further assistance. You have my sympathy.
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by bartread 1y ago
I wondered this as well. I must admit I’ve not yet written a command line tool (in Python) where I’ve needed what the author describes, but I did wonder if adding multiple exclusive groups with --notimeout as a member of all of the groups w
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by bartread 1y ago
Being completely frank he does a very good thing. He's got through to our eldest about how important it is to do things correctly, and be systematic and detail oriented, in a way that her mum and I have really struggled to. The irony o
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by bartread 1y ago
I haven't by any means been keeping count but it does feel like there have been a lot more incidents that usual this year, and certainly a lot more fatalities. What I can't work out whether that's recency bias, or because I&#
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by bartread 1y ago
If during your takeoff roll you lose one engine on a twin engine jet below speed V1[0], you reject the take-off. V1 is calculated for the aircraft such that above that speed you are able to safely take off and execute a go-around in order t
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by bartread 1y ago
Yeah, I think I might wait for the MentourPilot take on this one. I can't see any benefit in speculating. Horrifying that it came down in a residential area with almost all its fuel still on board though. The aftermath is beyond belief
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by bartread 1y ago
Changing the type of the column is no big deal per se, except on a massive table it’s a non-trivial operation, BUT you also have to change the type in everything that touches it, everywhere it’s assigned or copied, everywhere it’s sent over
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The company where I did my stint as CTO I turned up, noticed they were using 32-bit integers as primary keys on one of their key tables that already had 1.3 billion rows and, at the rate they were adding them, would overflow on primary key
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by bartread 1y ago
They weren't too lazy to avoid it. Depending on other peoples' packages was actively encouraged within the JS community during that period, and the perceived benefits of doing so were loudly trumpeted.
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by bartread 1y ago
Yes! Thank you! That was it. I still use pug in a side project because it works really well and would just be way too much hassle to untangle and migrate. I just looked jade up on npm and it's still there, so the company that wanted Fo
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by bartread 1y ago
Thanks: I love comments like this. I print them out, and get them framed and wall-mounted. They make me stronger and more virile.
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by bartread 1y ago
> Although a lot of the ire around left-pad was programmers using a library for something so trivial, but that's a different conversation. Very true. Although, from 2012 onwards, up to around the time of the leftpad incident, the tr
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by bartread 1y ago
Yeah, but this also happened to a colleague of mine who created the pug templating package. It's so long ago now that I forget what it was originally called but, basically, he'd chosen a name that infringed somebody else's tr
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by bartread 1y ago
> Not driven by logic, anger... I don't know that I fully buy this either, at least not the anger part. I can look back on all this with wry amusement nowadays but I remember it being pretty frustrating at the time. It sort of felt
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I think this is the biggest irony of it: the kik package, which kik where so desperate to have, is basically sweet Fanny Adams. Also, Kik turn out to be negligent and pretty scummy. There was some controversy with them involving crypto, but
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by bartread 1y ago
> This might come as a surprise to you You're right: TIL, so thank you. I've done no more than dip my toe in the water on betting exchanges. That level of expert tax seems... rude. Really rude. But I wonder if some goes to the
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by bartread 1y ago
No, let's say I bet £100[0] on an exchange. That doesn't guarantee the bet will be matched. Maybe only £10 of my bet is matched. And it's the counterparty or counterparties to the bet that are on the hook, not the exchange. I
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by bartread 1y ago
Ah, yes, now that's interesting. In the UK you do not pay tax on winnings from gambling so, assuming the government gets a cut, this might be in lieu of tax that they would otherwise not accrue from the professional/expert gambler
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I would guess this is not true for betting exchanges where backers and layers are directly connected to eachother and the exchange takes a small cut of every transaction regardless of which side wins or loses. I wouldn’t have thought it wou
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by bartread 1y ago
> This is fake news. Builder.ai, like any other dev shop, had clients and was building apps using developers in India, pretty much like Infosys or any other Indian dev shop. Nothing wrong with that. Yeeeah... that's a fairly disinge
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by bartread 1y ago
This is not news, or at least not fresh news. The FT reported the collapse ~9 days ago and it was discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44080640
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by bartread 1y ago
I got around this by keeping the slides simple but dumping all the supplementary information, including most/all of the presentation content, into the notes section of each slide. That way if I sent people the deck they'd still ha
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by bartread 1y ago
> constantly management approaches me telling me to use the corporate template, stick to the template, use the template elements, etc. It sounds like the best policy is to carry on ignoring them.

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