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by dcminter 1y ago
It's an excellent point - but a lot of the pressure to use AI in orgs is top-down and I've never seen that with useful tech tools before; they always percolated outward from the more adventurous developers. This makes me wary of t
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by dcminter 1y ago
Well, OPERA was 700ish km, but had Cern at one end. If one has this as the sole goal and wanted to do it real-time over 12,000km is it "engineering-possible" vs "theoretically-possible" ? My guess is that it depends how
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by dcminter 1y ago
> and that is an upper bound I've often wondered if for HFT or similar it might be worth pointing a particle accelerator at the floor and going for direct-line transit times. I'm fairly sure that this is theoretically possible,
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by dcminter 1y ago
The Hero-1 in Whiz Kids made me desperately want one back when I was about 11. I'm not sure why I wanted it, but I was very sure. As a hat tip to my.past self I picked up a Hero Jr when it popped up in auction and man it was a hassl
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by dcminter 1y ago
That would be fun. I think a lot of non-tech people didn't realise that the old Nokia default text message notification was the morse for S.M.S. (short message service). That was a worryingly long time ago though.
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by dcminter 1y ago
This is a bit like the "my grandad smoked a pack a day and it never hurt him" anecdotes where, yes, they're remarkable because it killed all the others who tried it !
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by dcminter 1y ago
> I have had an inkling to use some Machine learning system to gather the drinks options from each In Our Time. This is a thought of whimsical genius. I do hope you go for it...
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by dcminter 1y ago
Python, not Java.
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by dcminter 1y ago
I've never understood the enthusiasm for gradle over maven. My best guess is that some people just hate XML that much
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by dcminter 1y ago
I've long enjoyed the blooper from Richard Lederer's collection that asserted "The sun never sets on the British Empire because the British Empire is in the east and the sun sets in the west." I think I saw it in the for
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by dcminter 1y ago
Exactly; a very occasionally flakey test may be tolerable but is almost by definition not well written . The commonest type I see is one where instead of waiting until expected behaviour is exhibited with a suitable timeout, the test
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by dcminter 1y ago
How about you fix the flakey tests? The tests I'd delete are the ones that just test that the code is written in a particular way instead of testing the expected behaviour of thr code.
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by dcminter 1y ago
I emailed the site to see what the policy is. Generally I agree with you, but in rare cases like the article that this one is meta-commentary to it might perhaps have been justifiable to allow it? I see the "slippery slope" risk t
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by dcminter 1y ago
I might have to watch the London one - my mind was blown a few years ago to learn that in the Fleet River sewer (storm drain really) you can still see the barge mooring rings from before the river was paved over in the mid-1700s.
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by dcminter 1y ago
This seems to be the spec in question: https://picture.iczhiku.com/resource/eetop/wYKESjuFHlDHkbcM....
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by dcminter 1y ago
I don't think I agree; some of what's recommended here is what stops dysfunctional orgs from getting their shit together. Plus every developer believes they're a special and insightful little petal so all the caveats will get
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by dcminter 1y ago
> has not bothered > This is not a judgement "did not" is not judgemental but "did not bother" strongly implies judgement. I do think it's true, however, that had Linus expressed an opinion on this it would ha
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by dcminter 1y ago
Yeah, I'm vaguely aware of this - jsut because of the "S" in SD standing for "Secure" as a euphemism for DRM stuff. From your link it seems likely that most cards probably don't even support it nowadays, but I&
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by dcminter 1y ago
Related discussion from 2023: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35610243 I didn't see that the first time around so this re-post was interesting, thanks! There's a bit of discussion in the other thread about th
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by dcminter 1y ago
I was rather expecting it to be this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnJnejHhjtI
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by dcminter 1y ago
Kafka does not use Spring.
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by dcminter 1y ago
Typically the website displays a QR code which you scan with the BankID app - the app prompts you to authenticate and you use a fingerprint or a 6 digit pin code to confirm. The app has a certificate set up so if some rando has the app and
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Bash Strict Mode (2014)(redsymbol.net)
48 points by dcminter 1y ago|50 comments
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by dcminter 1y ago
Not always that simple - for example if you want to automatically load /foo/index.html when the browser requests /foo/ you'll need to either use the web serving feature of S3 (bucket can't be private) or set up
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by dcminter 1y ago
Sure, if you do that second part of verifying it. If you just get the LLM to spit it out then yolo it into production it is going to make you sad at some point.
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by dcminter 1y ago
I think anyone who just copies and pastes from SO is indeed "brave" for pretty much exactly the same reason. > I'm willing to accept the risk of ocassionally making S3 public This is definitely where we diverge. I'm g
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by dcminter 1y ago
Can I humbly suggest that you dig that letter out and get it framed? Random pieces of paper tend to go astray during moves and clear-outs; framed items less so. Thanks for the nice anecdote.
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by dcminter 1y ago
Well, the "accidentally making the S3 bucket public" scenario would be a good one. If you review carefully with full understanding of what e.g. all your policies are doing then great, no problem. If you don't do that will you
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by dcminter 1y ago
This could not possibly go wrong... You're braver than me if you're willing to trust the LLM here - fine if you're ready to properly review all the relevant docs once you have code in hand, but there are some very expensive r
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by dcminter 1y ago
> Sadly the site's being hugged to death right now Luckily someone had already captured an archive snapshot: https://archive.ph/BSh1l

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