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by gbuk2013 8mo ago
Basically this. My last several tickets were HITL coding with AI for several hours and then waiting 1-2 days while the code worked its way through PR and CI/CD process. Coding speed was never really a bottleneck anywhere I have worked
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by gbuk2013 9mo ago
Completely unrelated but https://protohackers.com/ is another one of James’s projects that I love. :)
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by gbuk2013 9mo ago
> So my questions is simple: you talk about "thousands of years". Easterners had "thousands of years" and they can... Release tension in the body? This is a common misconception among those used to modern “western” me
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by gbuk2013 9mo ago
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by gbuk2013 9mo ago
Greenland was not part of the USA for a 150 years. It is also not mostly populated by ethnic Americans who speak English as their mother tongue. Nor is there a large American military base there that Greenland / Denmark is trying to ev
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by gbuk2013 9mo ago
There is no similarity whatsoever.
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by gbuk2013 10mo ago
IIRC V8 actually does some tricks under the hood to avoid malocs which is why Node.js can be be unexpectedly fast (I saw some benchmarks where it was only 4x of equivalent C code) - for example it recycles objects of the same shape (which i
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by gbuk2013 10mo ago
I was absolutely only speaking “in general”. Even with 20 years in the industry my experience can only be anecdotal given that I only had time to work with fewer than 10 companies. :) That said, I suspect a bad technical decision may have p
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by gbuk2013 10mo ago
This is very true and is exactly why there is no magic right answer other than “it depends”. There are different stages of company lifecycle, different industries, different regulatory environments etc. The processes put in place always hav
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by gbuk2013 10mo ago
Right, they add risk both in terms of inadvertently being turned on / off and also in terms of permutations of possible system configurations that need to be tested. Less of a problem for well engineered systems with good deployment pr
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by gbuk2013 10mo ago
One of the biggest mind-shifts for me moving from senior dev to lead was realising that technology is much less of an issue than people. The impact of good communication leading to people understanding and agreeing on what they are working
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by gbuk2013 10mo ago
We’re generally fine and well paid. :) Frontend tooling churn is tiresome but the upside is that there is a lot of great tooling that more than makes up for any language deficiencies.
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by gbuk2013 10mo ago
> 2. Every code change must be reviewed At a couple of places I worked at this was a hard compliance requirement: there had to be at least one review by a human to guard against an engineer slipping in malicious code (knowingly or otherw
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by gbuk2013 10mo ago
> Also dicking around with DMARC tools. Was unhappy with all the existing tools, want something simple I can run semi-locally for a bunch of low volume email domains. That’s a rabbit hole on my list to go down - recently set up DMARC for
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by gbuk2013 10mo ago
> For themselves. To eat. So it’s easy to understand the argument that you’re harming them directly by stealing their honey, which is the result of their labour. On the other hand the bee social structure (not sure what the right word to
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by gbuk2013 11mo ago
Obviously it has no battery, being a desktop. Regarding sleep, under Debian 13 it supports S0 (s2idle) only, which works without issue. $ cat /sys/power/state freeze mem
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by gbuk2013 11mo ago
Just got my Framework Dektop a few weeks ago and it works flawlessly so far with Debian 13 install including (shock!) suspend working without issue. :) It’s really great to see companies focus on improving Linux hardware support.
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by gbuk2013 11mo ago
My favourite question to ask when seeing benchmark results such as this is “how much latency did you have / inject when running the benchmark”. This tends to lead to interesting conversations and learning. :) One my favourite instances
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by gbuk2013 1y ago
The Caddy config in the parent article uses status code 418. This is cute, but wouldn’t this break search engine indexing? Why not use 307 code?
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by gbuk2013 1y ago
Ask your AI tool of choice - it’s great at reading manpages. I also add my most favourite prompt instruction “be succinct”. :)
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by gbuk2013 1y ago
Everything was down: broadband, their website and even their support phone numbers. Talk about putting all the eggs in one basket! :)
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by gbuk2013 1y ago
What I really want it some advice on providing reliable estimates to the business when delivering a large technical project. :)
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by gbuk2013 1y ago
How does it compare to Sway?
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by gbuk2013 1y ago
Looks nice but 20 GBP a year just to have a mindfulness bell is a bit much.
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by gbuk2013 1y ago
Can anyone recommend an iPhone app to do the same? I am literally keeping around an old tablet for running https://codeberg.org/tslocum/meditationassistant.git F-droid app in my meditation room. I tried web apps before
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by gbuk2013 1y ago
> Oh, and the anime about Go, Hikaru no Go, is really good (you should watch it even if you don’t care about the game). I really enjoyed the Chinese drama adaptation of this - more so than the original anime somehow. https://m
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by gbuk2013 1y ago
It is mostly your own bias, yes. That said publications about cancer breakthroughs ought to be taken with at least as much salt as those in western mass media. Some information about the Russian drug from the main (I think) oncology researc
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by gbuk2013 1y ago
The museum has been closed for a while due to… a fire. :( Fortunately not too much damage was done and they say it will reopen at some undefined point in the future. The Subway has recently been refurbished and looks nice. :) https:/&
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by gbuk2013 1y ago
Literally one of the first things I was told when I started my law degree was “don’t ever go to court unless you absolutely have to”. :)
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by gbuk2013 1y ago
Oh don’t worry - the midges are doing a great job of keeping it that way! :)

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