jamesfinlayson

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by jamesfinlayson 2mo ago
No details on what caused it yet? Other than a failed update.
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by jamesfinlayson 2mo ago
I wish! My boss at least is checked out and lazy, so he's completely missing the fact that the rest of my team is pushing AI-generated patches that immediately fail testing because they didn't bother to sanity test before pushing.
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by jamesfinlayson 2mo ago
With GitLab at the moment the description I get is just "Close JIRA-123".
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GitHub adds an ROI section to the Copilot impact dashboard(github.blog)
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by jamesfinlayson 2mo ago
Ah I remember Dev-C++ - not bad for simple stuff, but I tried using it to import a Visual Studio project (which worked) but it wouldn't compile due to it not having any compiler intrinsics headers.
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by jamesfinlayson 2mo ago
Yeah I mostly still use Google out of habit but there have been a few times where Google has decided something isn't worth indexing (too niche, doesn't use SSL). I miss when Google was like a grep for the entire visible Internet.
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by jamesfinlayson 2mo ago
Been there before too (though an alternative to MediaWiki). A few important pages were migrated but we just ended up with two wikis with lots of tech info on the old one and lots of marketing info on Confluence.
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by jamesfinlayson 2mo ago
Yep, a friend recently told me that he remembers working somewhere that gave away old empty server racks - they were unnecessary, and expensive to store, so why keep them?
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by jamesfinlayson 2mo ago
> this is part of why published maps often have intentional, hopefully subtle errors in them Yes I remember reading a few years ago about the Royal Australian Navy trying to find Sand Island which I think was some tiny island marked on m
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by jamesfinlayson 2mo ago
I probably should have figured part of it out from my basic German, but I guess the Dutch don't capitalise nouns?
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by jamesfinlayson 2mo ago
I once had a coworker tell me about his young son's circumcision. Not really something that should be discussed in the office...
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by jamesfinlayson 2mo ago
Yeah I agree. I'm still very careful who I trust but it doesn't hurt to try and build a network.
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by jamesfinlayson 2mo ago
I log into Discord maybe once a fortnight to check what's going, and every time I land in a channel, it shows me the newest handful of messages, and I need to scroll back endlessly to get back to where I actually left off.
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by jamesfinlayson 3mo ago
I'm in Australia and in my experience gambling regulators don't budge. Other ones might not be as strong.
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by jamesfinlayson 3mo ago
I'm pretty partial to Groovy's JSON library - it has a nice syntax it just works (caveat that I had issues once where the size of the JSON was multiple megabytes and it corrupted).
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by jamesfinlayson 3mo ago
Yep, very very true. Unfortunately some of the places I've been at more recently have believed that mock servers are the best way to do end to end testing. It was a battle I couldn't win, but no one was willing to see that testing
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by jamesfinlayson 3mo ago
> Writing automated end-to-end tests? Those are very often best done by those writing the software This so much - but most of the places I've worked at have insisted that manual testers with zero programming experience should build
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by jamesfinlayson 3mo ago
> "good enough unit tests" Good enough end to end tests then maybe.
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by jamesfinlayson 3mo ago
I worked in a team with no QAs for a while - testing was done by developers and there were a lot end to end tests. It worked pretty well - I think a couple of small bugs got through, but whether a QA would have found the issues is debatable
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by jamesfinlayson 3mo ago
Layer on the merge conflicts resulting from this fun scenario...
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by jamesfinlayson 3mo ago
I am friendly with a project manager at work - he's overseeing a fairly big modernisation project with lots of stakeholders, lots of moving parts, lots of direct reports, and while he seems to have a lot of long lunches, he makes sure
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by jamesfinlayson 3mo ago
Oh did it? I remember using K-9 on my Android phone years ago and being pretty happy with it.
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by jamesfinlayson 3mo ago
I'm glad it's not just me - I do game modding in my spare time and I figured out how to use Hammer to make maps - it took a day or two but I figured it out. I wanted to make some models too but when I downloaded Blender and looked
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by jamesfinlayson 3mo ago
I'm not sure if it is possible in either game... GoldSource had a VGUI surface system (like a flat in-game surface that could have OpenGL-like commands run on it but apparently it wasn't fully implemented), and I'm not sure a
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by jamesfinlayson 3mo ago
> On the other hand, once multiple separate implementations are already in widespread use, there's immense value in working out a least common denominator of language features and standard library APIs that work everywhere Yeah this
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by jamesfinlayson 3mo ago
> It's incredible how much traction the completely fabricated anti-data center propaganda has gotten Agreed - here in Australia one of the big TV networks was heavily advertising a story last week about the big bad data centres comi
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by jamesfinlayson 3mo ago
Rightly or wrongly, you'll probably want to be local to have any chance of winning. Similarly, a friend who works in engineering went to tender to a country council. Working for a big city firm they had no expectation of getting the jo
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by jamesfinlayson 3mo ago
I'd believe it. In Australia, gun silencers (home made or otherwise) are absolutely illegal. In New Zealand no such limitations. A family member went to New Zealand maybe 15 years ago to somewhere suburban and found a few guys shooting
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by jamesfinlayson 3mo ago
> it's based on the media company providing a service...forever? People in this thread are saying customers should get refunds and I disagree - customers should get video files! Very much agree. And while Steam could disappear tomor
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by jamesfinlayson 3mo ago
Is it really the ability to download them all in perpetuity? Google Music (RIP) gave you five downloads or something like that and I thought that was on par with Apple Music at least.

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