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811.
by bartread 5y ago
Ditto: Panther in Cambridge have always been reliable for the 20 years I've lived in the area. Same with the Ely firms. Last time I tried to get an Uber in central London in the early hours of the morning two or three drivers cancelled
812.
by bartread 5y ago
> but I hate driving as it is and welcome any feature that reduces the odds or severity of the inevitable results of the limits of human perception and reaction time. None of this will change the fact that, you, as the driver bear primar
813.
by bartread 5y ago
> the main reason that I break my phone. I'm not sure whether I'm more shocked you have multiple reasons/causes for breaking your phone or that you have enough data points available that you can reliably identify a "m
814.
by bartread 5y ago
> reliable enough Reliable enough for what? Uninterrupted playback (barring from drained batteries)? Nope.
815.
by bartread 5y ago
Indeed. I was particularly grouchy when I wrote that. I don't hate them, but I do find Spotify's leadership deeply frustrating.
816.
by bartread 5y ago
Agree. They don't care about UX at all. Trivial example: the Home button that doesn't reliably take you home. It's some sort of home/back hybrid where you're never quite sure what it's going to do (this is on i
817.
by bartread 5y ago
> it's that having multiple perspectives on the code will lead to a higher quality and more well designed product. Will it though, when those multiple perspectives are enforced through pair programming? Like a lot of agile cargo-cul
818.
by bartread 5y ago
Naming and version numbers together. I still can't get my head around the series of organisational perversions that would be required to go through that whole period (lasting years) of .NET/.NET Core/.NET Standard/craz
819.
by bartread 5y ago
I still rate the layout managers in Swing above anything I've ever experienced with .NET: made it super-easy to build resizeable GUIs compared to, for example, the absolute positioning dumbassery of something like Windows Forms. Flexbo
820.
by bartread 5y ago
This is fair. You need to have somewhere to put it. My generator lives in a small shed outside so that wasn't too hard, and you can get some pretty small UPSs, but if you need to keep things up for longer, or have a lot of kit to hook
821.
by bartread 5y ago
How long are your power outages typically? Is it short enough you put the router and NAS on a UPS? Maybe have a backup generator for core services? I'm not saying this would work for you but for some people, like me, a down and dirty s
822.
by bartread 5y ago
> moreso that Facebook/Meta has very few new innovations and prefers to acquire them. This isn't unique to facebook/Meta though: plenty of companies switch more toward the acquisition of innovation than the creation of it.
823.
by bartread 5y ago
> I wonder if skyiing is safer with respect to head injures. The answer is: it depends. Friend of mine got pretty badly concussed skiing a blue run (easy) without a helmet. I've done both skiing and snowboarding, always wearing a he
824.
by bartread 5y ago
I'd guess modern twist nails have a similar effect on the wood to cut nails, with the hard angles of the twist cutting fibres? EDIT: Aha, no, apparently not, because the alignment of the tapered sides on the cut nail is what makes the
825.
by bartread 5y ago
And why would they care if it did, if the robots are "buying" the properties, implying payment?
826.
by bartread 5y ago
This is great. I regret getting rid of my old computers and manuals. The ZX Spectrum+ manual was indeed a joy, the C64 manual less so, and the Amiga manuals were a bit boring (though a friend kindly gave me some replacements for the latter
827.
by bartread 5y ago
Thanks for the recommendation. Believe it or not I have a pair of exactly those but unfortunately I hate them because they rub my knees nearly raw when worn for prolonged periods. In the end I've bought an old skool rubber kneeler, whi
828.
by bartread 5y ago
I agree. I work in tech and, outside of work, I'm refurbishing my house. I'm enjoying the refurbishment but would I do a trade as a full time job? Hell no. Crawling around in my loft sistering joists is satisfying work but also, i
829.
by bartread 5y ago
I'd go further: for many games the right thing to do is pause execution entirely if the window is minimised or the user switches to another tab or application. Obviously not possible for online multiplayer games, but a good practice fo
830.
by bartread 5y ago
Thanks for posting the archive link. More than down, I get a message saying that the account has been suspended. Perhaps they hit some sort of usage limit with all the extra traffic?
831.
by bartread 5y ago
This is golden and characterises a surprising amount of my experience of communications with large corporations: >> Thank you for your reply. Are you saying that we are not a customer of your organization? It's just so beautifull
832.
by bartread 5y ago
> Another Medium alternative is Papyrus: https://papyrus.so . Right. But even ignoring all that NFT stuff that others are commenting on, isn't your offering with Papyrus just somebody else's playground not owned by
833.
by bartread 5y ago
Here in the UK all too many of them taste like Horlicks (i.e., very malty), but I'd recommend Adnams Ghost Ship alcohol free[0]. There are one or two others that are palatable, but I'm struggling to remember their names: I had one
834.
by bartread 5y ago
> 3. There are now vaccines. There is now a large portion of the population that has vaccine immunity. Yeeeeesss. The vaccines are beneficial in preventing serious illness but it's important not to overstate their efficacy. As I wri
835.
by bartread 5y ago
> It's easy to blame the driver, until you consider whether or not the premise of a "partially automated self driving car" is fit for the road. It is not possible to both "stay alert" to anywhere near the same de
836.
by bartread 5y ago
I don't know. This is a nice piece of thinking, although I did get a bit bored after the first few points, but it perhaps ignores a couple of key realities: 1. Most obvious, people are going to leave, so you need to take that into acco
837.
by bartread 5y ago
No stress - look forward to hearing from you.
838.
by bartread 5y ago
I'm hiring software engineers now. I've enquired with our HR team as to whether your convictions are likely to disqualify you because I've never encountered this situation before. I'm the CTO at Savanta: https:/&#x
839.
by bartread 5y ago
This is really interesting - thanks. Some things are the same, some things different. One of the things that really resonated with me is that if you're a customer of the hospitality industry, you don't have to wear a mask, but if
840.
by bartread 5y ago
Fair, and no worries, I'd guess at least 50% of the readership here is from the US. Also, sorry if I came off a bit sharp: that was all written fairly hastily. That's a great question, and it also touches on the reason I'm no

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