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by bigiain 2y ago
I _once_ worked in a place where Jira was without question "a great thing that improved productivity'. They had a person who'd been trained by Atlassian and worked full time on configuring Jira (and Confluence) - in a workfor
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by bigiain 2y ago
> "I did a thing, rolled it out, found it was seriously broken, rolled it back, and now it's 6pm and that is what I did today". "Poor productivity" ranked 3rd in figure 4.
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> Interestingly, "interruptions / randomness" was only the sixth most significant, while the most significant cause was "engineering system friction." I notice that if you add the "lack of focus time" r
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by bigiain 2y ago
> Which ones respect robots.txt Add user agent specific disallow rules so different crawlers get blocked off from different R G or B values. Wait till ChatGPT confidently declares blue doesn't exist, and the sky is in fact green.
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by bigiain 2y ago
> The hurdles are often organizational rather than technical. Yeah. And in my opinion "organizational" reasons can (and should) include "we are just not at the scale where achieving that makes sense". If you have sing
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by bigiain 2y ago
I think ssh-ing into production is a sign of not fully mature devops practices. We are still stuck there, but we're striving to get to the place where we can turn off sshd on Prod and rely on the CI/CD pipeline to blow away and re
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by bigiain 2y ago
That's true, but I prefer to ingrain habits that'll work everywhere, instead of relying on stuff like vps console access which will work fine if you're working on your ec2 instance or your DO droplet, but will not work out so
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by bigiain 2y ago
Isn't GPL about as "OSS" as you can get? What distinction are you drawing between "OSS" and "Free Software" here?
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by bigiain 2y ago
I'd strongly suggest adding: echo "sudo ufw disable" | at now +5 minutes as an emergency recovery mechanism before you first run sudo ufw enable That way, if you've screwed up and locked yourself out with y
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> there no large artificial structures or billboards anywhere we can see. I half suspect the aliens who can construct structures large enough to see from lightyears away are by far most likely to be building Dyson Spheres around stars wh
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by bigiain 2y ago
> What's not inevitable is that it can thrive, and survive to a galactic scale. That's not even yet certain for us. Sadly, that's looking less and less likely as time goes on.
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by bigiain 2y ago
I think even that's perhaps a warped anthropocentric view of intelligence? Think about other earth-centric scenarios, and try and imagine if dolphins or octopuses or fungus or maybe even insect colonies or plant ecosystems had "wo
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by bigiain 2y ago
That 600 times zoom-in on 1% of the eventual survey of 1/3rd of the non milky way sky... Shows a couple of galaxies, which if the milky way is "typical" represent a couple of billion stars. Suddenly 1 in 10 billion trillion o
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by bigiain 2y ago
> Something that has thinking capabilities? Something that involves "thinking capabilities" in a form we would recognise? That's always what I consider when someone mentions the Fermi Paradox. Humans tend to barely recogni
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by bigiain 2y ago
Matt -finally- listens to the lawyers beseeching hom to STFU. With one final batshit crazy rant. I look forward to Matt running his defence along the lines of "My right to blackmail and extortion is absolutely guaranteed as a fundament
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by bigiain 2y ago
> Almost 100 million pounds wasted that could be spent on programming That's kinda assuming that everybody would continue to pay the license fee if the enforcement was stopped. I have no clue how much revenue the TV licenses generat
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by bigiain 2y ago
A Small Language Model...
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by bigiain 2y ago
On a tangent here, but... > The ACM canceled its involvement for excellent reasons which are worth reading: https://web.archive.org/web/20000815071233/http://www.acm.or... This jumped out at me from t
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by bigiain 2y ago
I assume this is the new Boeing Intelsat MAX-8?
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by bigiain 2y ago
It is, of course, a malware writer's first amendment right to publish those plugins... https://ma.tt/2024/10/first-amendment/
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My Freedom of Speech(ma.tt)
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by bigiain 2y ago
Any hints or recommendations on how to find a decent seedbox vendor? (working email in profile if you'd rather not name any in public)
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by bigiain 2y ago
@nikisweeting the dev of archivebox was active in a thread about out here last week. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41860909 I'd never heard of it, but their responses to question and comments in that thread were
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by bigiain 2y ago
The ElasticSearch people backed down on their SSPL license change after only 3 years, and are back to an OSI approved AGPLv3 (in addition to a couple of other non OSI approved licenses). "In 2021, with the 7.11 release, we moved our Ap
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by bigiain 2y ago
" ... where they change the code to disable ... " This is blatantly untrue. WPEngine have repeatedly said they launch WordPress code that is bit for bit identical to the zip file published on wordpress.org. That's a claim tha
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by bigiain 2y ago
> You can still be on the hook for rolling a 100 sided die. And in some cases that's effectively all you can do. Sure. And the article allows for that. You need to have "an account" that acknowledges that at the time you d
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The terms "shit umbrella" and "shit funnel" have been around for a long time, at least in the context of management in software development. https://managementpatterns.blogspot.com/2013/01/patte
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Brings to mind old wisdom: "A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a Management Decision." IBM presentation, 1979
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It's not clear from the article (which I largely agree with), but that "ability to change the decision" can just as easily refer to change the decision before it is made, instead of any ability to change it afterwards. Amazon
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by bigiain 2y ago
At least for me, the ".com .org duality" looked OK, because the existence of The WordPress Foundation as a non profit which owned trademarks, and the as it turns out incorrect assumption that they owned and ran the .org platform.

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