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by bennyelv 3y ago
I just rented an Airbnb that used "Nuki" door looks and they were absolute garbage as well. I never appreciated what an excellent solution a physical lock and key is until I experienced: - The paranoia when my phone was low on ba
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by bennyelv 3y ago
A counterpoint would be: if you kept the same number of engineers and increased their productivity with AI, rather than keeping output the same and reducing the number of engineers, wouldn't you be producing more value overall?
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by bennyelv 3y ago
I have evidence to support this - I lost people from my team who were offered "senior" or "lead" developer roles when they were nowhere near the level required for that kind of job. The level they were at was already a
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by bennyelv 3y ago
Generally the more advanced you are as a lifter the less specialised machines are going to benefit you. Machines are there for people who don’t know what lifts to do and how to do them with proper technique. If you glimpse inside the gym o
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by bennyelv 3y ago
I'll second spending money on a chair. Spend as much as is required to find one that works for you. After years of compromising and not wanting to spend what looks on the surface like silly money on a chair, I splashed out on a Herman
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by bennyelv 3y ago
A few counterpoints to offer... >An LLM is math Isn't everything math? Math is what we use to describe and model the nature of our reality. >Those things aren't alive We don't have a universal definition of alive, or a
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by bennyelv 3y ago
I’m convinced that some of the levels were deliberately unsolvable… get from one side of the screen to the other over a big chasm but you’ve got one exploding guy and one brick laying guy. Maybe if I tried to play it again I’d realise that
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by bennyelv 3y ago
It's because it's about companies rather than private individuals. Clearbit (nor my company) don't do anything B2C.
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by bennyelv 3y ago
In the context of a business email address GDPR is far less restrictive. See GDPR Recital 47 (7): https://gdpr-info.eu/recitals/no-47/ Direct marketing is not explicitly banned. If you have a reason to believe th
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by bennyelv 3y ago
Hubspot have been working on how they improve the data that their customers have in their CRM system. The state of CRM data across companies is... variable to say the least, with a leaning towards the poor side. It's often entered by
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by bennyelv 3y ago
I think the numbers are more than you'd think - as a cyclist who's near the top end of "keen amateur" but still nowhere near what people are capable of at the elite level my experience is that anyone of moderate fitness
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by bennyelv 3y ago
Given that we're talking about cycling, the solution is to buy a power meter and measure rather than estimate. Unfortunately that's a rather expensive option for all but the most committed cyclists. Being someone who has a power m
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by bennyelv 3y ago
It's actually nowhere near as simple as that, and it depends on how you define the "same activity". Moving your body from one location to another at a particular speed results in a fairly static amount of work done (in the ba
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by bennyelv 3y ago
Amen! I'm currently responsible for a very large system built in raw javascript where function definitions like this one in the article: function birthdayGreeting1(...params) ...are the religion. It's awful. I hold the people res
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by bennyelv 3y ago
Big assumption that! Code written by non-developers, or even by the type of developer who is a tradesman rather than an engineer is usually untestable. The biggest and only advantage is that you can read it and debug it in order to underst
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by bennyelv 3y ago
Highest Paid Person’s Opinion, I believe. You know the ones, they drop in towards the end of a complex cross functional discovery process and say something like “but it should do it like…” or “can’t you just…” And some of the time they’re r
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by bennyelv 3y ago
Doesn’t that apply for every software product? Google didn’t start out by designing their own hardware, building their own datacentres, and implementing their own frameworks did they? Those things come later for optimisation.
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by bennyelv 3y ago
> The big one to me though is the wind resistance. 10.7m/s is 23mph. The original specs 17mph. It is hard to say at which point it starts having trouble, but 23mph is a non-trivial improvement, it probably means 2x as many days you
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by bennyelv 3y ago
It’s the old weight/strength/price triangle at play! Turns out they sacrificed the “strength” side a little too much… Ultegra cranksets are surprisingly light, and Dura-Ace ridiculously so. It messes with your mind if you pick on
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by bennyelv 3y ago
Agreed - but 27001 doesn't have an opinion on that. It only requires that top management have set the context that the rest of the information security management system hangs off of. It doesn't specify what that context shoul
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by bennyelv 3y ago
Common misunderstanding about 27001 - it doesn’t have mandatory anything when it comes to security controls. It defines how you structure and operate a risk based security management system, that’s all. It’s perfectly valid to say “I shoul
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by bennyelv 3y ago
It seems to apply only to "products with digital elements": >>This Regulation ensures a high level of cybersecurity of products with digital elements. It does not regulate services, such as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), exce
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by bennyelv 3y ago
Turns out the world of tech is just like fashion: I was working on a platform engineering team in 2006! It really is just slapping a fancy label on the very obvious concept of working out what the common problems are that your software engi
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by bennyelv 3y ago
That’s the critical point - in theory this idea is fine. In reality other ways of solving the same problem have a decade of industry knowledge, frameworks and tooling behind them. Is the marginal gain from this approach being a slightly bet
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by bennyelv 3y ago
Absolutely correct, listen to this article's ideas with great scepticism! The system that I'm currently responsible for made this exact decision. The database is the API, and all the consuming services dip directly into each othe
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by bennyelv 3y ago
I find it funny that “things you need to cook meth” are such common knowledge among normal people. Breaking Bad sure had a deep influence!
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by bennyelv 3y ago
Great inspiring article, but I think there’s much more nuance in reality that it doesn’t address. My company (we’re multi-product) has been working on a new product that ticks a lot of the boxes that are proposed here, but that is still now
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by bennyelv 3y ago
Something strange is going on here. Nothing has changed about the bill, yet all news outlets are reporting as if it has. All that happened was that somebody said "yeah but we won't use these controls so don't worry". Wha
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by bennyelv 3y ago
I see where you’re going with this, but it’s not that simple. These bodies are created by various means - some are created through primary legislation, some are a bit more discretionary in their nature, but they all have a terms of referen
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by bennyelv 3y ago
The ONS is something called a “Non departmental public body” which means it is not under the control of a minister and is at arms length from the current political rulers of the day. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/public-b

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