jack_riminton

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Ask HN: Does anyone use sound effects in their dev environment?
234 points by jack_riminton 2y ago|327 comments
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by jack_riminton 2y ago
I think the venn diagram of attendees is already overlapping quite a bit, that could be both good and bad
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by jack_riminton 2y ago
Is the hotel/franchise aiming to become a target of hackers? because that's the right way to go about it
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by jack_riminton 2y ago
He talks about this in his webcasts, in the past he said he has wasted untold amount of time with executives and middle management at so many companies, who all promise the world but their only real power is to organise the next meeting. He
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by jack_riminton 2y ago
This is most sensible thing I’ve read on here in a while. Engineers’ obsession with tinkering and perfection is the slow death of many startups. If you’re doing something important like banking or air traffic control fair enough but a CRUD
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by jack_riminton 2y ago
I’m not saying the individuals are evil or making any moral claim at the individual level at all, I’m talking about the system and the behaviours that are incentivised.
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by jack_riminton 2y ago
The purpose of a system is what it does. If they make money by identifying allergies and then treating those people for those allergies, as opposed to parents giving their children 2 peanuts a week, then their livelihood is under threat. If
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by jack_riminton 2y ago
What's with all these tantrum-y hyperbolic blog posts... "my love for the web has died" So what / good for you / that's nice
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by jack_riminton 2y ago
RTFA (read the flipping article)
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by jack_riminton 2y ago
A lot of special forces have been doing what we used to call "door kicking" in the last few wars. Lots of explosive breaches, firing weapons and throwing grenades indoors. I'm sure this is the main contributing factor. The pe
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by jack_riminton 2y ago
Ex artillery officer here, the shockwaves from firing artillery can be so powerful they can knock you off your feet if you're standing in the wrong place at the wrong time and caught unawares
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by jack_riminton 2y ago
You'll get downvoted but I completely agree, it seems rewriting things in Rust and tinkering with bundlers is the new in-vogue thing to do. Lord knows why
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by jack_riminton 2y ago
Whilst important, it certainly wouldn't be the top of my list of things to tackle when getting a project off the ground
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by jack_riminton 2y ago
Now it's been shown that gradual exposure to nuts can prevent allergies, maybe we should consider it a part of children's early stage health treatments https://news.unchealthcare.org/2023/02/novel-peanut-
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by jack_riminton 2y ago
Utterly ludicrous
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by jack_riminton 2y ago
I have two adjacent herniated discs which has basically made me somewhat disabled (I can't sit down at certain angles, lift anything heavier than 15kg without crippling myself). Walking twice a day definitely helps as does these daily
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by jack_riminton 2y ago
Sounds great thanks
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by jack_riminton 2y ago
+1, if there’s so many posts then there’s clearly pent up demand to talk about it
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by jack_riminton 2y ago
Would love to hear more about how you’re using it
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by jack_riminton 2y ago
Considering an oven is essentially just a control panel, a fan or two, some sensors and a heating element, there's no reason why these shouldn't last for decades. As long as no exotic or custom components are used they should be e
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by jack_riminton 2y ago
I think Sir Alan should launch a crowdfunding appeal to take as many people to court as he can. If they're found not guilty, then launch other lawsuits, appeals etc for as long as possible. I don't particularly care if they'r
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by jack_riminton 2y ago
The "computer is always right" precedent is now being challenged by the Chartered Institute for IT https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/law/it-experts-call-for-review-... It's astonishing this 'guilty until
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by jack_riminton 2y ago
Yes, the fact that special laws had to be made to exonerate the postmasters shows just how poorly the legal system has performed
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Alan Bates the campaigner for the Post Office IT scandal has been knighted(theguardian.com)
25 points by jack_riminton 2y ago|12 comments
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by jack_riminton 2y ago
True words of wisdom, thanks
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by jack_riminton 2y ago
Platform engineers perhaps, that's what my company is hiring for at the moment to get off heroku
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by jack_riminton 2y ago
The litigation comment in there was the “ah there’s the elephant in the room” moment for me
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by jack_riminton 2y ago
Personal opinion may vary
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by jack_riminton 2y ago
As a londoner, even I learned several things from that video. And it's done by an American!
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by jack_riminton 2y ago
Well it’s a reputation, so it’s hard to quantify. But anecdotally I’ve heard from numerous people who had dealings with that they were very competent (compared to most British forces presumably). I’ve also heard that their average level of

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