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by bartread 2y ago
In my younger and more foolish years I worked for a company called Redgate and, whilst there, I had to do some licensing jiggery pokery that stopped people using our tools if the licensing code had been tampered with or removed. I didn&#x27
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by bartread 2y ago
> This is interesting to me. It does make some evolutionary sense but at the same time, i wake up every morning and look at my girlfriends face, hopefully that does not subconsciously trigger the same response. Yeah, exactly. If my adult
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by bartread 2y ago
This has cool and has made a grim, grey Tuesday morning feel a lot more fun. I would love to hook it up to a Spotify/Amazon Music/Apple Music playlist generator.
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by bartread 2y ago
Sorry, but this stinks to high heaven, and what it stinks of is bullshit. If the cargo is Russian and you legitimately want to dock for repairs, then why try Tromsø, Klaipėda, and then anchor the ship off the UK coast? If you legitimately
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by bartread 2y ago
Oh, yeah, very familiar with Agent X and Chronos. I remember getting Chronos back in the day and, bearing in mind it was a budget title, being absolutely blown away by the music.
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by bartread 2y ago
This is pretty crazy - even the ZX Spectrum beeper is supported. Is there some Z80 player code allowing the music to be played on real hardware?
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by bartread 2y ago
> There are certainly issues with "agile", but it never really says much other than keep-it-lean-and-iterate: it really is "let engineers build software the way they think they should". Yes, we all know that, and ever
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by bartread 2y ago
Stop drinking the koolaid, will you? I didn't get into software development to spend my entire time focussed on fixing broken processes. I'd bet almost none of us did. I got into it because I like building software and, more than
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by bartread 2y ago
This is one of the shittiest pieces of behaviour by an employer I've ever read about. Just awful. Whilst this will make the square root of no difference, I don't want to support Mozilla with this sort of behaviour going on, so wha
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by bartread 2y ago
> It's designed to be a more customizable and privacy-respecting alternative to Grammarly. Kind of a shame it says it’s specifically for Chrome then. Where’s the love for Firefox?
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by bartread 2y ago
I share your distaste for "content". To me the word speaks of a lack of interest, understanding, or even respect, for what creators are making. To some extent it does serve a useful purpose in that it makes it clear that it is in
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by bartread 2y ago
In the context of certain YouTube communities - a couple of examples I'm aware of are synthtube or watchtube - "content" is also an advertising term for advertising, since this is really what many of the demo or "review&
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by bartread 2y ago
I don't know that there are that many downsides to apps for users . Certainly as an iPhone owner I get little anxiety about installing apps from Apple's app store[0] and, for the most part, they offer a good experience - often be
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by bartread 2y ago
I get a lot of value out of ChatGPT but I also, fairly frequently, run into issues here. The real danger zones are areas that lie at or just beyond the edges of my own knowledge in a particular area. I'd say that most of my work use of
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by bartread 2y ago
I don't know that "confabulation" is right either: it has a couple of other meanings beyond "a fabricated memory believed to be true" and, of course, the other issue is that LLMd don't believe anything. They&#x
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by bartread 2y ago
I feel like this is a really different experience to my own current experience of Twitter. My timeline notably isn't full of right-wing propaganda, whereas I know plenty of others who complain that this is the case, and who have even l
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by bartread 2y ago
I agree, and suspect the majority of people do. There's another article on the front page at the moment about grepability as an important metric for codebases. Similarly, I think Googleability is an important metric for company, servic
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by bartread 2y ago
> If compliance or braking a law is simply some S3 buckets with a different latency and “zone” then breaking the law becomes trivially easy to do. And devilishly hard to check. It's always trivially easy to break the law and not get
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by bartread 2y ago
In my last role I was CTO of a ~650 person multinational. I agree with almost everything in this piece, perhaps even absolutely everything (although I admit to skim reading it quite quickly so I may have missed something). A lot of this is
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by bartread 2y ago
> With that out of the way I just want to say that in decades I've never had a "quick call" which wasn't a humongous waste of my time. I don't know about that. I tend to find that incoming "quick calls"
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by bartread 2y ago
I suppose it's an underlying principle of good faith discourse. And good faith discourse is an absolute requirement to have a meaningful conversation or debate that moves (whatever) things forward. Part of the reason that political dis
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by bartread 2y ago
I thought the same. As ever, most of these people seem to get caught because they get greedy (possibly I've been listening to too many episodes of Darknet Diaries recently).
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by bartread 2y ago
Yes, it's clear it happened out of town. His Strava route is shown on this article: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/son-of-mike-lynchs-trag... . He was most likely trying to cross the road to continu
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by bartread 2y ago
If you look at his Strava route he was running along the riverside footpath. His route ends where it meets the road to the south east of Stretham: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/son-of-mike-lynchs-trag..
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by bartread 2y ago
I've been using (GitHub) Copilot and ChatGPT since they've been widely available. I started using ChatGPT for coding after 4 came out. I was an early advocate for Copilot but, honestly, nowadays I really don't find it that us
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by bartread 2y ago
That remains, in some ways, one of the funniest videos on the internet[0], but the dog owner was and is an absolute moron. Imagine letting your dog off the lead near a herd of deer. That incident took place in a literal deer park. They&#x27
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by bartread 2y ago
What is this world that some of you seem to live in where interactions with other dogs are, apparently, incredibly problematic? Dogs encounter eachother all the time when you're out on a walk and it's... fine (again, I'm talk
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by bartread 2y ago
> "My dog is off leash because I want them to have freedom" is a profoundly selfish decision if you're in a place to encounter other dogs. This is cultural, I think. In the UK at least it’s often the norm for dogs to be of
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by bartread 2y ago
You have just very eloquently expressed why I left a career in biochemistry behind after undergrad. Realistically I had no business doing that degree in the first place: I simply don't have the patience for the lab work grind.
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by bartread 2y ago
Excellent, thank you!

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