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by jon-wood 3y ago
This is honestly the thing that annoys me most about Raspberry Pis. They’ve taken what was (and still is) transferable knowledge on how to do things with Linux and made people think it’s some sort of Raspberry Pi magic. The shear number of
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by jon-wood 3y ago
Whatever legal change happened says they can’t do business with Russians. I doubt there’s a get out clause saying “unless you got a year up front out of them” in that law.
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by jon-wood 3y ago
I'll add cache invalidation to the list of reasons not to use a CDN. Its a solvable problem, but I've more than once seen irritating issues caused by something getting cached in the CDN layer and loading the wrong resources.
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by jon-wood 3y ago
That trusted authority can be you if you choose to enroll your own signing key. While its true that most motherboards come pre-seeded with Microsoft's keys there is absolutely nothing to stop you from removing those keys and replacing
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by jon-wood 3y ago
That's fine, if you don't want all the frontend bits you can run in API mode, which will skip loading them: https://guides.rubyonrails.org/api_app.html
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by jon-wood 3y ago
At least currently there's probably a bell curve going on in terms of what age groups want to work in office vs remote. I've also seen younger employees want to be in the office, they enjoy the social side of it, and early in your
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by jon-wood 3y ago
I find it baffling that anyone would ever create a crossing where situation 2 is possible. A crossing which can indicate it’s safe to cross while the associate lights are also saying a car can proceed through it is worse than useless. Just
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by jon-wood 3y ago
The thing that struck me here is that Chrome crash reporting is disabled for security reasons, presumably not wanting to risk customer information being sent to a third party, but Grammerly is apparently fine? How is a tool that sends liter
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by jon-wood 3y ago
This has just brought back vivid memories of the person I used to work with where the one thing we had in common was actually a love of Star Trek. I still have no idea how he loves it so much given he apparently learned absolutely nothing f
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by jon-wood 3y ago
This is an interesting perspective which I'm inclined to disagree with. There's little pleasure to be found in having to deal with a system that broke because it was badly designed or implemented, although I guess it means you&#x2
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by jon-wood 3y ago
On the whole I’m much happier with convention being that the company owns the object being sold until a courier hands it over to you, especially in a world where most companies are selecting their courier based on who the lowest bidder is r
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by jon-wood 3y ago
> It reminds me of how ESCs for RC vehicles use the motors to generate audible chirp tones to indicate status. Super Mario Wonder from Nintendo recently uses the vibration motors in your controller to play sound effects in some places wh
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by jon-wood 3y ago
At the risk of being downvoted (probably justly) for having a moan, can we please have a moratorium on every blog post needing to have a generally irrelevant picture attached to it? On opening this page I can see 28 words that are actually
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by jon-wood 3y ago
Nothing is ever "always wrong". It may be a sign that a little more thought can lead to a more maintainable/quick/efficient solution, but it may also be that under the circumstances an approach that would be the wrong on
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by jon-wood 3y ago
Why did someone have to go and post Factorio content here? Now I’ve got the urge to sink another hundred hours or so into it when there are already way too many good games to play this year.
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by jon-wood 3y ago
There's more files yes, but I don't agree that it's more complicated because those files come together in the form of some well understood components that almost anyone who's done a bit of Linux admin understands to a re
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by jon-wood 3y ago
You can use types for this in Python: def do_something(position: ValidatedPosition): ... position = Position(x, y) if abs(position.x) > 1 or abs(position.y) > 1: raise ValueError("out of bounds") position
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by jon-wood 3y ago
TSMC manufacture (more or less) all of them. There's very few companies in the world capable of manufacturing high performance chips.
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by jon-wood 3y ago
Its the significant distress or impairment which is key. As an example most people will put off doing things like sorting out an issue with their electricity provider, but I took that to the degree where I only sorted it when someone litera
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by jon-wood 3y ago
I made more or less this journey a year ago, I’d dabbled in Python in the past, then done a decade or so of Ruby before accepting a job at a Python shop. Advanced Python Development by Matthew Wilkes was great for giving a jumpstart from “I
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by jon-wood 3y ago
> Not having any standard way of getting the details is another problem. If each and every transaction is not recorded at the time of execution, good luck trying to get that detail back again. If only there were some sort of publicly ava
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by jon-wood 3y ago
While I feel like the beacon tracking SDKs in apps are as slimy as going the other way round, those SDKs aren’t watching for your device’s beacon. They listen for BLE beacons with known addresses the company has place on their premises and
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by jon-wood 3y ago
I keep seeing this argument for a bunch of different industries. Nobody appears to have an answer for where all these more senior people are going to come from when we're replacing the juniors with an LLM. People don't magically b
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by jon-wood 3y ago
Asking GPT to do a task for me currently feels like asking a talented junior to do so. I have to be very specific about exactly what it is I'm looking for, and maybe nudge it in the right direction a couple of times, but it will genera
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by jon-wood 3y ago
The Three Body Problem trilogy is fantastic, and originating from China has quite a different feel to western sci-fi. Adrian Tchaikovsky is from the UK and has done some super interesting stuff as well, start with Children of Time.
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by jon-wood 3y ago
The biggest issue I have with dictation currently is that as I'm speaking it'll type out what it thinks I'm saying and then revise that what I actually said as it goes. This results in me getting distracted reading the words
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by jon-wood 3y ago
This is why I love vim style editors so much as well, because they more directly translate the act you want to perform with what you tell the editor to do. While someone who hasn't learned to use vim is scrolling around with arrow keys
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by jon-wood 3y ago
Yes, but they’ve said it isn’t, which is apparently sufficient even if you run an ad saying “InvestCo is great, you can make a ton of money from them [terms & conditions apply, you may actually lose money instead, not investment advice]
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by jon-wood 3y ago
My biggest frustration is the people who refuse to get involved with any of the process of defining requirements, but then when the requirements arrive moan about how they're stupid requirements and won't get the job done. You can
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by jon-wood 3y ago
A modern reader would consider them inaccessible mostly because of the archaic language and period references, which of course at the time were neither. Likewise with Shakespeare who we think of as incredibly high brow now, forcing schoolch

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