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by jon-wood 4y ago
His ability to make what is actually quite complex science accessible is mind blowing. What If, How To, and now What If 2 are some of my eight year old son’s favourite books. I’m absolutely certain he doesn’t really grasp any of the maths,
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by jon-wood 4y ago
Given the "before dawn" constraint here I'm going to assume this is somehow related to home/building automation, in which case you should go look at Home Assistant, which has built in support for things like "do thi
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by jon-wood 4y ago
Sure, they did that because they got forced to by a specific regulatory body, but most companies when something like that happens enable it only the regions they're legally required to do so. Valve appear to have just implemented it, t
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by jon-wood 4y ago
If you deposit a quarter million dollars into your bank account out of the blue the bank are absolutely going to ask you where it came from, and "don't worry yourself with that", or even "I sold some crypto" are unl
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by jon-wood 4y ago
Personally I’d want to be very cautious about this. It’s probably more secure than just running this untrusted binary directly on a server full of user uploaded content but I don’t know what level of confidence is should have in wasmtime no
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by jon-wood 4y ago
I'm curious, what is it that drives every tech company to eventually publish a UI framework? I get the value of having an internal UI framework which allows anyone in an organisation to quickly throw something together which is at leas
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by jon-wood 4y ago
I suspect life gets very difficult. When visiting a supplier in China a few years ago I tried to buy a coffee from the place downstairs and eventually had to get someone from the supplier to do so because they had no method of ordering and
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by jon-wood 4y ago
Sometimes you want something to happen, but you don’t want to block whatever you’re doing on that. Think things like sending a welcome email when someone signs up for a new account.
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by jon-wood 4y ago
I’d like to see those numbers scoped to UK/EU cards in recent years. 2FA for payments is almost universal, has been for years, and is almost no effort at all - either tap a notification or enter a code sent by SMS to you.
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by jon-wood 4y ago
Other than the points already raised around the client's contract with your employer possibly containing clauses saying they can't hire you away without discussing it with your employer I would be worried about any NDAs you'v
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by jon-wood 4y ago
I don’t know if that statement is backed by the article, which I will admit to not having read, but in general I agree. Completely eradicating benefit fraud will necessarily increase the burden on legitimate claimants to prove that they are
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by jon-wood 4y ago
I work remote, and also have anything up to a full eight hours a day scheduled as meetings. Another video call really isn’t a break for me, and I’m not suffering from a lack of social interaction at work. Throw an error message, nine times
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by jon-wood 4y ago
I see way too many questions in the Slack channels for teams that manage common services at work which are just “Is there a problem with [service]?” Clearly there is, at least from your perspective, otherwise you wouldn’t be asking. Come ou
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by jon-wood 4y ago
I think there’s a middle ground. “Hey, are you free to talk about Project X?” is a perfectly valid entry to something where you know an actual conversation will be needed. Likewise “I’m having trouble with the frobinator, when I run frob -x
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by jon-wood 4y ago
Why wouldn’t an open source project announce a change to the place their source is hosted on their own blog? Why would they want to sweep it under the rug?
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by jon-wood 4y ago
Your explanations for why employees at an early stage startup might care about upcoming business deals seem to be missing the obvious one to me, that you’ve employed people who are thinking about the business as a whole rather than their ti
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by jon-wood 4y ago
I was baffled by those Q&As on Amazon, particularly the ones that just said something like “Sorry, I haven’t used that feature” until I received an email from Amazon saying something like “Someone has asked this question about a product
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by jon-wood 4y ago
This sort of thing doesn’t have to be a compliance breach, but you will likely need some way of ensuring there’s a second person in the loop, typically that would take the form of having someone in a separate production infrastructure team
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by jon-wood 4y ago
Streaming pre-recorded video and streaming realtime video are almost entirely different use cases. Pre-recorded video streaming is, under the hood, really just a high-volume variant of serving up static web pages. You have a few gigabytes o
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by jon-wood 4y ago
It's really not, especially if you look at their current model for doing so. Netflix at the moment are breaking into mobile gaming, which means the bandwidth requirements are placed on Apple/Google's app store infrastructure.
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by jon-wood 4y ago
My favourite example of these sort of extreme scaling issues are the fact that McDonald's apparently declined to sell products with blueberries in them because modelling showed they'd have to buy the world's entire supply of
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by jon-wood 4y ago
I would (and do, when interviewing candidates on the other side of the table) frame this differently. I can more or less assume that a candidate at the level we're hiring has used git, and done some form of code review, so I don't
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by jon-wood 4y ago
Most of this isn’t that mysterious in practice. Apply whatever you know about how supermarkets, bars, and other cash accepting businesses operate. Then add in the fact that yes, drivers would occasionally get robbed, it was a risk of the bu
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by jon-wood 4y ago
Cascading failures in drives is a fairly common occurrence unless you're actively trying to avoid it. People will typically just buy several of the same drive, from the same source, because it's easy and seems to make sense. What
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by jon-wood 4y ago
Thanks for the clarification, I consider myself fairly well informed about server hardware and had no idea that there were transport methods for NVMe other than PCI Express.
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by jon-wood 4y ago
I work with someone who has a bookshelf behind them containing books ordered by spine colour, making a spectrum. It’s very pretty, but I highly doubt she’s read any of them.
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by jon-wood 4y ago
This is the death spiral all large organisations go into, they hire more people so that they can do more things, but then they spend increasing amounts of time in meetings or trying to work out how some other team’s system works, so product
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by jon-wood 4y ago
I really wish Apple would stop making the back of their phones out of glass. It does feel lovely, but I always end up cracking it and having to put a case on to cover the broken glass, I could put a case on from day one but then… why make i
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by jon-wood 4y ago
I had a colleague many jobs ago who’d made a bet with a friend that they could qualify for the Olympics. Didn’t specify what sport, or for what country, just that they’d qualify. He then went and did a bunch of research into what sports are
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by jon-wood 4y ago
Yes, it’s typically referred to as SCIM and is supported by most serious SSO services.

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