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by boznz 3y ago
small teams generally self-organise under a single leader, eg sports teams and it is often the other members of the team who self-check as they have to take up the load for anyone who does not perform.
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by boznz 3y ago
Bullshit jobs infect the whole stack from the board of management down, but "middle-managers" are probably the most over-represented.
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by boznz 3y ago
Not a hater, the M3 is the best car I have ever owned, but based on the fact they cant get the windscreen wipers working properly and auto-pilot keeps braking for no reason, even if they cut it to zero dollars I still wouldnt trust it.
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by boznz 3y ago
I wrote my book for me to fix everything I thought was wrong with the books I was reading. Unfortunately, it was hard to write without writing for an audience and I think it made the writing better when I wrote it knowing my daughter would
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by boznz 3y ago
This story will unfortunately be told again and again, in a thousand languages, until the end of time.
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by boznz 3y ago
luckily there is an AI-Powered WordPress Site Builder you can use :-)
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by boznz 3y ago
Or if you are young and skilled, just apply for migration to the country of your choice. Australia, Canada and New Zealand are preferred destinations for English speakers. Its sometimes messy trying to get all the documentation together and
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by boznz 3y ago
No Heidi is pretty unstable compared to what it used to be. I get 2 or 3 exceptions that require me to restart daily, the good thing is that the exceptions are caught, and you can copy out any SQL you have been working on which means you ra
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by boznz 3y ago
..and for every person who does put their head down and do a good job, there is a politician behind them taking the credit.
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by boznz 3y ago
Why don't these AI systems ever start a conversation I can never think of anything to say at blank prompts.
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by boznz 3y ago
A luxury car is different to a "luxury" phone, you are fighting for share at the top 10% of the market.
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by boznz 3y ago
And I am so happy I live in a place where this doesn't happen.
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by boznz 3y ago
I am one of those external vendors who did solve a big problem in a now billion-dollar company (though it was a tenth that size when I got involved). The "proper solution" which uses a "proper" development stack (not MyS
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by boznz 3y ago
Not just web sites, art, books, program code and, (coming to a website near you) videos. Personally, it won't stop me writing books or articles, but they will be for my self-satisfaction, and I fully expect them to be sucked into some
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by boznz 3y ago
In 30 years I have read about 50 pages and looked at all the pictures. Does that count as reading it :-)
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by boznz 3y ago
So glad I have an income stream not dependent on this or I would surely starve and I really feel for those currently reluctantly going through the self-promotion grinder. But I cannot do self-promotion and so no sales and no reviews for my
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by boznz 3y ago
Coke vs Pepsi, Ford Vs GM, iPhone vs Android, any football team vs any other, and now EV vs Gasoline I wonder if anyone has ever done a study on what makes humans take such viral extreme positions on things. I see some of the Vinal vs MP3 a
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by boznz 3y ago
I remember so wanting Hollywood to make a movie of one of the Culture books, but based on the crap that has come out of there in the last ten years I am so glad they never did.
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by boznz 3y ago
Another common and low code method of getting random lights from your overused and under-resourced micro was to simply output a segment of ROM code to the IO ports the LEDs were on, often used this trick for twinkling XMAS lights or front p
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by boznz 3y ago
The world of book writing is an iceberg, and with thousands of works being released a year that not just go unreviewed but unread there is little chance the awards are inclusive of the genre. We are literally only a GPT generation away from
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by boznz 3y ago
Thank god for the Internet archive, hit that donate button while you're there and hope it never goes away.
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by boznz 3y ago
And no mention of the Vref for the analogue which is essential for accurate operation
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by boznz 3y ago
Regen also means cruise control works as it should, so no speeding tickets when you are going down a steep hill (and where the police aways seem to sit)
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by boznz 3y ago
It did not matter how many times I read the Haynes Manual to bleed the clutch on my 1989 pickup truck, having someone show me on video was the only way it was going into my thick skull. However it worries me that the way google works anythi
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by boznz 3y ago
Java didn't win, you are still free to code in whatever language you are comfortable in. At least until the great big Jenga tower stack of modern-day dependencies and API's your language relies on eventually stop working, which is
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by boznz 3y ago
Extra barriers! LOL. Everything I have every submitted written by me (a human) to HN, reddit and others in the past 12 months gets rejected as self-promotion or some other BS even though it is totally original technical content. I am totall
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by boznz 3y ago
NASA had an easy win putting the astronauts in quarantine, there is no such easy win for current AI research, you can whistle-blow as much as you want but AGI will be worked on until it is real, regardless of legislation unless that legisla
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by boznz 3y ago
Correct on the last point but the first is still up for debate. Heres my take => https://rodyne.com/?page_id=1373
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by boznz 3y ago
I am in a constant battle with ants in my kitchen, they are tenacious little buggers and the only way that really works is to keep the kitchen immaculately clean!
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by boznz 3y ago
Highly subjective to those who read rollingstone I guess.

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