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by ern 2y ago
They’re welfare states, with three classes of residents. A slave-like underclass, disenfranchised expats, and citizens who get paid off by their royal families with generous benefits. Maybe the closest analogy is Ancient Rome?
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I remember watching hours of TV as a child in the 80s. I remember my cousins, born in the 90s staring like zombies at Cartoon Network when they were toddlers. We're all reasonably functional adults (most high achievers academically, an
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by ern 2y ago
Weird that this got downvoted, considering that Amazon is currently rolling out Alexa+.
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by ern 2y ago
Depends on the country. Outside of North America, 240v is L1.
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by ern 2y ago
I have a 240v wall outlet that charges at 1.5kW and it's more than adequate 95%+ of the time.
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by ern 2y ago
I had the same feeling reading this, but a large number of developers struggle to communicate verbally and would hate a chat based interface. Some years ago, I worked with a very intelligent person who had come into development with math-re
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I haven’t bothered with o3 mini, because who wants an “inferior” product? I was using 4o as a “smarter Google” until DeepSeek appeared (although its web search is being hammered now and I’m just using Google ). o1 seems to have been neutere
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ChatGPT Plus gives me a limited number of o1 calls and o1 doesn't have web access, so I mostly have been using 4o in the last month and supplementing it with DeepSeek in the last week, for when I need advanced reasoning (with web searc
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I had a couple of the most capable senior developers reach out to me to tell me how Github Copilot accelerated their productivity, which surprised me initially. So I think there's something to it.
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I think the problem is a bit harder than that. I've seen a lot of managers who were once technical, but whose last hands-on experience was years, or decades ago. They have a vague idea of what they need to know/do but lack the ski
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OT: I like how he refers to a Hanselman post about great interview questions, and how around 40% of the questions in that post are obsolete. It shows how quickly our field evolves, for better or worse.
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There was plenty of cynicism in tech back then too, plenty of posters who always complained about 'micro$oft'. I think the anti-Microsoft sentiment (outside of some internet forums, and justified IE6 hate) had been dialled back
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He lost a lot of seats in the 1998 election and suffered a big swing against him.
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It’s not polarised, but it is quite sclerotic.
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Compulsory voting means that a large part of the electorate that doesn’t pay attention to politics is easily frightened by scare campaigns. An example of this is that Australia is sorely in need of tax reform, but any party that pushes for
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Something interesting I observed after introducing LLMs to my team is that the most experienced team members reached out to me spontaneously to say it boosted their productivity (although when I asked other team members, every single one wa
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by ern 2y ago
Would a merge instead of a rebase have made it easier to find the bug? (Serious question)
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LinkedIn provides no mechanism to hide your profile from other members by default apart from an explicit block. I was stalked on it by an unhinged bank employee, and even though he's blocked I still see people from his company have vie
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Even then, most of these coding tools aren't even close to automating meaningful coding tasks in practice, and while that doesn't mean they can't in the future, it's a long ways off! Not related to your main point, but
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I really don't understand the hate for Agile. Adaptation, empiricism, iteration self-managed teams etc...what's not to like? I'm currently involved with two programs run by project managers who probably haven't written c
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The Waterfall Model was a straw man argument from the beginning (2015)(jjinux.com)
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I’m not sure why the above comment is being downvoted: I was reading The Practice of Cloud System Administration: Designing and Operating Large Distributed Systems, and I came across this quote: Royce’s 1970 paper, which is credited with “
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by ern 2y ago
I pay very little attention to features on phones, especially things like improved cameras, but I finally upgraded my iPhone X to an iPhone 15 (one of my kids needed a phone). I've noticed that I've been able to take some stunning
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I use ChatGPT 4o to check my child's homework, but I forbid them from using it directly. That way, I can make sure the work is correct (or at least wrong in the same way as ChatGPT) without straining my tired brain.
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by ern 2y ago
Startups, and anyone else can still roster support.
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I think the introduction of WFH during the pandemic hurt a lot of IT workers in the long-run. In the interests of “fairness” they are being ordered back to the office post-Covid even when their work processes mean they can be done perfectl
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I would consider using Alexa to buy things if it understood what I wanted. It rarely does. Asking it to list subscriptions, for example doesn’t work. Trying to get it to set up anything beyond a simple timer is a hit-and-miss affair. The fa
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I would consider using Alexa to buy things if it understood what I wanted. It rarely does. Asking it to list subscriptions, for example doesn’t work. Trying to get it to set up anything beyond a simple timer is a hit-and-miss affair.
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Would a bad driver update potentially have had similar consequences? (real question) If so, this feels like a red herring.
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As I understand it, much mining is done in Australia through FIFO (fly-in-fly-out) nowadays. It greatly reduces the need for infrastructure, boom-bust towns and issues like these.

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