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by beachy 2y ago
> The name bonk comes from the "Go to horny jail" meme You are likely aware by now but "bonking" someone is also anglosphere slang for exactly what you're trying to detect.
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by beachy 2y ago
Came to add my input as a NZer but yeah, this sums it up. Most annoyingly to me there is no true green party to vote for. The actual NZ green party's primary focus is on what would be labeled socialist outcomes by someone with a US per
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by beachy 2y ago
> It's hard to provide trust to OpenAI that they won't steal data of enterprise to train next model Bit of a cynical take. A company like OpenAI stands to lose enormously if anyone catches them doing dodgy shit in violation of
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by beachy 2y ago
IMO in the modern day there is no place for any indentation styling that can't be achieved automatically via a pretty printer such as golang has.
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by beachy 2y ago
Long before databases could even store structured JSON data, junior developers used to bikeshed viciously over the correct degree of normalization. More experienced developers knew that the correct answer was to duplicate nothing (except fo
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by beachy 2y ago
Yes. Both teams followed a course that was less ambitious and politically safer for themselves, to the detriment of the company overall.
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by beachy 2y ago
Re dogfooding. I worked at Oracle back in the 90s, first in the team building the company's HR systems (specifically their payroll product), and then in the team building the company's CASE (computer-aided software engineering) pr
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by beachy 2y ago
Australia has a rich tradition of overarching, arrogant and authoritarian behavior towards the little people. Possibly a hangover from the early days of European settlement, when the majority of settlers were convicts who needed keeping an
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by beachy 2y ago
Also the only place I've been where you can see archeologists at work enthusiastically uncovering new artifacts right in front of you.
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by beachy 2y ago
> Because of US restrictions on pseudo, bizarrely other countries have followed suit Replace pseudo with cannabis and the statement remains true.
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by beachy 2y ago
This is a fantastic read, thanks for linking it. Linus's pragmatic approach really comes to the fore.
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by beachy 2y ago
I don't think anyone's talking about forcing, or slavery. Foreign workers are improving their lot (and that of their families back home). In a world where they don't have the same economic opportunities in their home countrie
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by beachy 2y ago
Or perhaps a SaaS product where individual customers had their own fork of the code. There are many reasons not to do this, perhaps this scratches away at one of them.
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by beachy 2y ago
If it was inevitable that it was going to get taken down then it was never a gift in the first place.
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by beachy 2y ago
Some of these (like the Wabash and the Osborn) can be seen in suburbs around New Zealand thanks I guess to the common practicalities of building wooden houses and some culture transfer around this time period. I believe they are of the styl
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by beachy 2y ago
Why would you choose a new name that you don't have the .com for? How about voxelmod.com or something else that is a) relevant and b) the .com domain is available.
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by beachy 2y ago
> Some people appear to thrive in this environment where there are rules for everything. People who memorize and enforce all of the rules on others get to operate a tiny little power trip while opening an opportunity to lecture internet
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by beachy 2y ago
Just reorient your thinking to consider building CRUD web apps as fun.
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by beachy 2y ago
That can be a good position to start from when trying to break a logjam. Of course it must be coupled with genuine flexibility to change your mind when someone points out actual, real difficulties.
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by beachy 2y ago
What can go wrong with a table tennis business that would require urgent onsite intervention? Break a bat, table or net? - just move to another bay. Video replay not working even after remote intervention? Give the customer a credit. Custom
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by beachy 2y ago
$2 per hour and monitoring 20 screens simultaneously.
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by beachy 2y ago
We're in the cloud golf simulation space (sounds like these guys dabble in golf too) and this has a few really interesting angles. - remote video monitoring from the Philippines. Great way to economically monitor customer behavior. - b
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by beachy 2y ago
Humbling all right. I think it would take me weeks to achieve this - and that's assuming I had this article to start from!
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by beachy 2y ago
A long time ago I joined Deloitte to set up a local software dev. practice. A few days in I was invited to join a "bureaucracy reduction taskforce". Someone handed me a literally 12 inch thick stack of paper I was meant to read up
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by beachy 2y ago
> It's clear to me that CrowdStrike saw this as a data update vs. a code update, and that they had much more stringent QA procedures for code updates that they did data updates. It cannot have been a surprise to Crowdstrike that pus
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by beachy 2y ago
No need for the classic HN "but why" question. The video of the table obediently delivering a beer and bowl of snacks to the owner says it all.
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by beachy 2y ago
Another Fred Brooks quote on why programming is fun: > Second is the pleasure of making things that are useful to other people. Deep within, we want others to use our work and to find it helpful. In this respect the programming system is
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by beachy 2y ago
Simple authentication is not as strong a chokehold as it appears, and most "log on with" integrations are very simple, just doing auth and passing across name and email. You wouldn't see e.g chatgpt having login with Google i
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by beachy 2y ago
Source control is not like other systems. It's (largely) a backup of stuff that is stored elsewhere. Resilience/ monopoly concerns are much less.
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by beachy 2y ago
I already have a couple of Bushnells. My desire is to be able to attach a small network of PIR sensors to each camera get better information.

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