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by ben30 3y ago
StoryServer's core was solid: - TCL - Apache - Database Vignette added unnecessary complexity.
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by ben30 3y ago
As a software engineer with a keen interest in photography, I've been using a method to allow others to benefit from my work, while also enjoying the spread of my photos in various public forums. I upload my pictures to Flickr and tag
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by ben30 3y ago
It’s essential to consider the multifaceted effects of our environmental interventions. For instance, the commendable move in 2020 to reduce sulfur dioxide emissions in shipping lanes had an unintended side effect. The decreased emissions m
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by ben30 3y ago
It’s essential to consider the multifaceted effects of our environmental interventions. For instance, the commendable move in 2020 to reduce sulfur dioxide emissions in shipping lanes had an unintended side effect. The decreased emissions m
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by ben30 3y ago
I like telling it to reply in the style of Hemingway
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by ben30 4y ago
On personal note, I had set lifehacker to automatically go into reader mode on iOS safari probably due to some time in the past wanting to read the content but fed up by how bad the site layout had gotten.
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by ben30 4y ago
I cut and pasted my child’s school’s multi page complaints policy without reading it myself, then asked it to show me the stages I need to follow as a sequence diagram and it can up with this: @startuml actor Parent participant "Class
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by ben30 4y ago
In uk it wasn’t though. Taken from Wikipedia regarding uk bail out. As at October 2021, the UK Office for Budget Responsibility reported the cost of these interventions as £33 billion
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by ben30 4y ago
The article does not provide a specific release date for Microsoft 365 Copilot, but it mentions that the company is testing it with a small group of customers to get feedback and improve their models as they scale. It also states that Micro
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by ben30 4y ago
My Samsung tumble dryer proudly tells me every time I turn it on, “optimised by AI”. But it’s not smart enough to know it’s told me that a hundred times before.
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by ben30 4y ago
I've been thinking a lot about Meta's investment in the metaverse, and while I'm intrigued by the possibilities, I can't help but see some potential problems. The biggest issue I see is the need for an expensive VR heads
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by ben30 4y ago
The "endowment effect." It is the tendency for people to ascribe more value to things merely because they own them. This can make it difficult for people to part with their possessions, even if they are not using them or do not ne
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by ben30 4y ago
Large companies with middle managers often have a considerable budget but suffer from an internalised imposter syndrome that leaves them unsure about the challenges they face and the solutions they need. I believe that senior sales represen
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by ben30 4y ago
The early days of Google were magical, with its ability to answer our questions instantly and without distractions. It's a shame that now, ads and SEO strategies have taken over and made the search process more cumbersome. It feels Ope
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by ben30 4y ago
Im reminded of the book “Getting to yes” by Roger Fisher. “ In any negotiation, he wrote—even with terrorists—it was vital to separate the people from the problem; to focus on the underlying interests of both sides, rather than stake out un
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by ben30 4y ago
Spiders or bees. Both invertebrates. Bees work together, spiders do not. Teams need Bees, not Spiders. (Edit: spider not an insect, noted)
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by ben30 4y ago
I’ve noticed a more subtle bug, I worked for a company where the expire date for a lot of assets was 2038. The database supports later dates, but something upstream has the problem.
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by ben30 4y ago
"Electricity and Electronics" by Dale R. Patrick and Stephen W. Fardo
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by ben30 4y ago
Has anyone tried making a twitter clone by saying, hay sign up to us, port over your twitter handle by tweeting that your moving to us. Give no option to make new handles on the twitter clone, you must be on twitter first.
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by ben30 4y ago
The book Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software, talks about morse in its first chapter. The beauty of how morse encoding expands out from the binary dots and dashes in to letters and sentences is a lovely thing to read
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by ben30 4y ago
well, nothing is certain. My point was, starting is better than not starting and regretting that you are too late to start. Deciding what to start is the question.
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by ben30 4y ago
I’ve been a software engineer for many years, I stick at it because I enjoy it. Paying well is secondary. It requires a lot of focus, but the enjoyment of solving problems and being creative, is what drives me, not financial. That’s why I
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by ben30 4y ago
My grandfather was born in 1906, I remember reading through a very old encyclopaedia that he had had when young. At the time I found it amusing that the map of the South Pole looked like a rough sketch lacking in any detail.
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by ben30 4y ago
‘Kwarteng's moves will tend to heat the economy up, interest rate rises will try to cool it down’ 100% this, it’s utter madness. I had the same thought this morning, both acting in opposing directions.
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by ben30 4y ago
I second that. I’m a member, full of insightful comments. I’ve joked in the past that it’s a social network for librarians. Check out the sub sites fan fare and ask for example.
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by ben30 4y ago
I’ve felt the same problem. IntelliJ markdown files have support for mermaid is and plant uml diagrams. You have to Google/tick a box to enable it though. I find creation of a sequence diagram with class instances as columns and method
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by ben30 4y ago
Yes, was a bout to say same thing. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headli...
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by ben30 4y ago
I've got this bookmarked: https://github.com/kuchin/awesome-cto
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by ben30 4y ago
I'm glad I've learnt how to sew. - Repaired a rucksack - sports kit - night clothes - ripped jeans - I've fixed my son's pricelessly irreplaceable red toy dog. (We joke (not joke), car, or toy dog, we save the dog) E
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by ben30 4y ago
http://highscalability.com/ Looks like it hasn’t been updated for a while though.

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