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by disruptiveink 3y ago
Fair enough – there's nothing wrong with expecting systems to be able to be ran in dev mode suitable for running locally or within test containers, and that would be my expectation as well. As you say, the inner monologue writing style
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by disruptiveink 3y ago
So: developer attempts to integrate into a global distributed system without a connection to the Internet and complains he can't get it working without extra steps? Obviously there's two ways of doing this: you put everything onli
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by disruptiveink 3y ago
As a side note, I really miss Xee. It was clearly a labour of love and it showed - MacPaw has been a terrible steward ever since Dag handed it over to them. No updates other than straight up SDK bumps and recompiles, broken loading of rando
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by disruptiveink 3y ago
Eh. I don't think that argument holds water, unfortunately. Too often I've seen the "it's just a beta/unstable version, it's not finished, you can't raise issues like this!" attitude as an issue to sh
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by disruptiveink 3y ago
Correct – that's the stated 10% capacity increase of the new trains. It's not nothing. My disappointment comes from the fact that there are stations where the Piccadilly just blazes through and doesn't stop. The platforms are
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by disruptiveink 3y ago
The issue is that a major point of this upgrade was defeated as the article slightly mentions, but doesn't dwell on it: the signalling upgrade that the line sorely needs was axed during the Covid TfL budget crisis negotiations and is n
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by disruptiveink 3y ago
Yes, this is the point. Most (nearly all?) of the publicly available providers a user is likely to use won't allow you to use their MTAs and set From headers in a way that would impersonate someone else on that domain, provided you&#x2
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by disruptiveink 3y ago
Probably because despite East Coast - Portugal being the shortest Atlantic route, all existing cables so far seem to land in Spain, France, UK, Ireland and others in the north? https://www.submarinecablemap.com/
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by disruptiveink 3y ago
Someone who's been 27 years at IBM[1] sending threats to an Open Source dev over email? It's definitely relevant. [1] https://www.linkedin.com/in/roncraignc
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by disruptiveink 3y ago
I favour taxis over Ubers these days because of the stupid "rider rating" system. There should be no "rider rating" system. Either I should be banned from the platform or not. I'm at the pickup location when the dri
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by disruptiveink 3y ago
Agreed. In the UK, "U-turn" is nearly always used as a pejorative in the media and a cause of shame for the party doing the "U-turn": https://www.bbc.co.uk/search?q=government+u-turn I believe this is on
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by disruptiveink 3y ago
Xbox ultimately made the same mistake as Nintendo with the Wii / Wii U. Just give the console a number. And. Increment. That's it. You can still have Pro / Slim / whatever models, but I have no idea why Nintendo and Micr
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by disruptiveink 3y ago
Depending on how bad it goes, it's unavoidable without upending your (current) life. Sure, let's assume things don't go too bad and you just avoid properties at close to sea level right next to the ocean. That's fine. Bu
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by disruptiveink 3y ago
We're not "all going to die", but "A lot of your coastal historical cities are going be be underwater and parts of your country will become uninhabitable, meaning you and everyone else will need to move elsewhere" i
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by disruptiveink 3y ago
My terminal always has to be Monaco 10. Without antialias on non-HiDPI displays.
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by disruptiveink 3y ago
I'm not part of this subculture, but I honesty enjoy this type of idonsyncratic presentation which always was, and hopefully always will be part of hacker culture. The content is not only relevant and hilarious, but I'd much rathe
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by disruptiveink 3y ago
I've banned Forbes from my news feed over this type of "$TechCompany just gave $NumUsers a reason to be afraid" clickbait titles. Every time I opened them, they were a teemendous waste of time, a simultaneously dumbed down an
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by disruptiveink 3y ago
This doesn't feel like it's about competence or lack thereof. Reading that post, the cynic in me couldn't help but think that the CEO of Stack Overflow just wanted to do "the hip thing" these days, which is to lay o
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by disruptiveink 3y ago
You won't get better service – that's my point, the next guy who sounds like you will. If people who look and speak like you tip disproportionately, everyone else that looks and speaks that way will get great service by default, e
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by disruptiveink 3y ago
Ignoring for a moment the 20% premium, the issue is that in the US, (mostly) everyone is American. Unless you're a regular, hospitality has no way of telling whether you're a good tipper or a bad tipper. There may be "tells&q
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by disruptiveink 3y ago
As a non-US citizen/resident, I can't wait for Americans to finally riot against tipping, just so they stop doing it abroad. A shame that it had to take comical proportions domestically for people to start questioning it. American
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by disruptiveink 3y ago
Exactly. The article is stating that there is nothing wrong with the move Prime Video did, and that it was a "serverless to containers" refactoring that somehow the Internet misrepresented as "microservices to monolith"
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by disruptiveink 3y ago
It depends on the POS configuration/support of CDCVM (Consumer Device Cardholder Verification Method). If it doesn't support it, Apple Pay/Google Pay is just a regular EMV contactless card from the POS's perspective, so
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by disruptiveink 3y ago
I would argue that's the entire point of the OP. It's not the EU that's causing the fear of breaking laws. It's the ad tech industry that is instilling that fear by fostering the "you need a cookie banner on your si
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by disruptiveink 4y ago
For clarity, these take-home exercises that I'm referring to are completely toy problems. They're usually one or two REST APIs on top of a toy data structure (sometimes in-memory, without a DB at all), just to see how the candidat
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by disruptiveink 4y ago
Because take-home exercises are both the best way to evaluate a candidate (I have never gotten a nasty "surprise" while hiring in companies that did take-home exercises: I mean it, absolute 0% "bad hire" rate, the only b
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by disruptiveink 4y ago
And now they'll finally fix it, as they have no other choice. You can thank MS for that.
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by disruptiveink 4y ago
Can't agree more. We got to a point where state actors control the public names that we use to refer to locations on the Internet. That's fine, and the logical conclusion of divvying up natural monopolies. When you have a namespac
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by disruptiveink 4y ago
I like this description. It's a useful mental model. But in summary, doesn't that just move the target from "The compiler is stupid, it shouldn't be doing this, it clearly should know what I mean and I didn't mean t
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by disruptiveink 4y ago
This. I would never do a SEPA payment vs a credit card transaction unless there's a significant advantage to me as a user to go with SEPA. And the merchant can't give me a discount for using a specific payment which is not allowed

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