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811.
by baz00 3y ago
Fuck what it says on the order page. They sell a car promoted as being full self driving capable at some point, yet have loads of different hardware revisions and sensor packages, none of which delivered it and they still have the audacity
812.
by baz00 3y ago
> "There are no self-driving cars on the road today," the company said. Amazing that they charge for it then?
813.
by baz00 3y ago
Oh wow. Details show how bad my memory is as well - stories fade and change over time :) Well over a decade has passed now and I have nothing to do with Windows whatsoever any more and am running fully Apple on the desktop and Linux on the
814.
by baz00 3y ago
Probably learned how enterprise software developers suffer.
815.
by baz00 3y ago
Mine is not a philosophy. I'm closely related to someone who has to deal with the fall out of such procedures. The standards being met for surgery are fairly low and the psych evaluations are not always conclusive.
816.
by baz00 3y ago
If it's any consolation I know someone who went through that and now wants them back. Ergo, there are problems if you go through that too. Perhaps it's too easy to do it...
817.
by baz00 3y ago
Perhaps you don’t need to grow? Growth is not the only business model. I mean failing to do maintenance is a sin of course but anything else, there is no one true course.
818.
by baz00 3y ago
I posted this on here a long time ago but NetBSD was always a winner for me. I set up a dialup gateway for a small company in the late 90s on it on a skip dived Compaq desktop. Forgot about it and moved to somewhere completely different in
819.
by baz00 3y ago
From direct experience, instability and uncertainty less to your customers getting angry on twitter and fucking off rather quickly. All they want is to do what they did yesterday without being poked in the eye. The whole move fast, break th
820.
by baz00 3y ago
Yeah this. Hasn’t changed then. 25 years ago I finished a few years sitting in front of Virtuoso. I did some days working in the internal fab as well. Left and worked for a web design startup and tripled my salary overnight.
821.
by baz00 3y ago
Never work for a company which is large enough for you to be a statistical acceptable loss.
822.
by baz00 3y ago
Learn maths first, right up to calculus. It'll hurt a lot less and improve your life anyway. You can wire up circuits without knowing much but without maths it's difficult to build anything more than trivial stuff on your own with
823.
by baz00 3y ago
I'll worry when it starts a union :)
824.
by baz00 3y ago
I have gone past the point of giving a shit. Unless it's something I really care about the minuscule details for I'll get ChatGPT to write the main chunk of code and then fix the bugs. It's no different than having a junior d
825.
by baz00 3y ago
I couldn’t disagree more. It’s nice reading them on my iPad especially properly typeset ones.
826.
by baz00 3y ago
Both are terrible. The whole web is terrible. I wish for Gopher, nicely presented PDFs, thick apps and APIs and for the whole hypertext steaming pile of mess to crawl back to where it came from.
827.
by baz00 3y ago
Let's flip this around. As a customer, if time to market is your primary driver, I don't want your product because you're choosing to put me at risk.
828.
by baz00 3y ago
It's really easy to do. Particularly the getting them made bit. I just did a quote for a 2 layer board that's TKL keyboard sized and to get 5 made it's about £20 delivered to my door from JLCPCB.
829.
by baz00 3y ago
Yeah this on all counts. Ultimately it's probably better to have a triple-layer for the keyboard from what I can see. The faceplate that the switches are mounted on, the PCB and then the back plate. Could probably sandwich it all toget
830.
by baz00 3y ago
No it's not. It sort of works until you have to deal with thinks like international dates when the thing isn't rendered or breaks (which happens a lot on android from experience). Then some end user inserts an invalid date like 20
831.
by baz00 3y ago
Yeah there's some poor thinking by the original article. Developers must be accountable for their code quality yes but must be held accountable by an external force. I've been in too many organisations where empty, useless uni
832.
by baz00 3y ago
No they're not. Unit tests are only overrated when you're hacking some shit together rather than doing forward engineering. No one does proper forward engineering these days which is why it doesn't seem applicable. If you hav
833.
by baz00 3y ago
Microservices are just monoliths…
834.
by baz00 3y ago
You’re overstating the risks. Respiratory risks of solder aware minimal, particularly ironically the leaded variety. If you’re worried solder with the window open or get an extractor. I haven’t needed either in the last 40 odd years. The le
835.
by baz00 3y ago
This is how you end up bald very quickly.
836.
by baz00 3y ago
Not one of those. They got the microservice database isolation correct. But nothing else. Well the coffee is good and the toilets are clean. As for lifers, everyone I work with knows how many days until retirement. Sad sad people. I am mere
837.
by baz00 3y ago
Fuck raft and distributed consensus. I’ve spent too many nights awake fixing consul.
838.
by baz00 3y ago
I think it's a little unfair to attribute it to Microsoft and MSN Messenger as it was a concept that originated on Japanese phones AFAIK. Also Microsoft's emojis are currently the worst by a mile out of the big tech companies.
839.
by baz00 3y ago
So so so so true. I am haunted by the ghosts of so many of those bastards. The place is like "oh no they left - quick hire another charlatan" .
840.
by baz00 3y ago
How this usually turns out... 1. We got into this microservices fad and built this really granular service architecture which we're so proud of but is actually a pile of steaming shit and we're in denial. 2. We forgot to consider

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