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by jon-wood 9mo ago
As the mythical doctor once said, "don't do that". My sympathies if you're on a team that requires it.
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by jon-wood 9mo ago
And I'm sure HSBC generate even more tax revenue, that doesn't mean that if they send me unsolicited mail about bank accounts it isn't junk.
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by jon-wood 9mo ago
Its absolutely possible to have both a SaaS based control plane and continue functioning if the internet connection/control plane becomes unavailable for a period. There's presumably hardware on site anyway to forward requests to
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by jon-wood 9mo ago
The self service kiosks are intentionally throttled when scanning barcodes, at a guess to prevent people accidentally scanning the previous/wrong item - I once had some problems with one and a staff member flipped it into supervisor mo
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by jon-wood 9mo ago
You don't have to chain 8 PRs together, Github tries really hard to hide this from you but you can in fact review one commit at a time, which means you don't need to have a stack of 8 PRs that cascade into each other.
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by jon-wood 10mo ago
So let me get this straight, GOG, a privately owned company, wants me to donate money to them so that they can buy the rights to games in order to sell them to me?
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by jon-wood 10mo ago
The fossil fuel industry really doesn’t need a devil’s advocate, they’ve got more lawyers than you can shake a stick at already.
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by jon-wood 10mo ago
This is something I’ve been learning in the completely different context of bouldering since I took it up a few months ago. When you start out you instinctively move slowly, so you can be sure of your footing and won’t fall off, but somewha
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by jon-wood 10mo ago
Counterpoint: No it won’t. People are using LLMs because they don’t want to think deeply about the code they’re writing, why in hell would they instead start thinking deeply about the code being written to verify the code the LLM is writing
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by jon-wood 10mo ago
So, not a home user then. If you make your living with computers in that manner you are by definition a professional, and just happen to have your work hardware at home.
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by jon-wood 10mo ago
In the context of background jobs idempotent means that if your job gets run for a second time (and it will get run for a second time at some point, they all do at-least-once delivery) there aren't any unfortunate side effects to that.
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by jon-wood 10mo ago
You're absolutely right on that - what eventually killed the business was an influx of VC cash and demands for massive expansion during a period when we almost had delivering in a single city nailed.
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by jon-wood 10mo ago
This is why next day delivery slots worked - shops were able to pack orders during quiet periods rather than suddenly getting slammed with delivery orders that will be picked up in 20 minutes just as the lunch rush arrives. Some of the shop
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by jon-wood 10mo ago
Yeah, but if you're having to turn to a machine to compose your thoughts on a subject they're probably not that valuable. In an online community like this the interesting (not necessarily valuable) thoughts are the ones that come
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by jon-wood 11mo ago
Or simply not participate in that conversation. It’s not obligatory to have an opinion on all subjects.
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by jon-wood 11mo ago
Strongly agree with that. Its slower, but I will always prefer building actual database records as either part of the test or in the test context rather than relying on some predefined fixtures. That makes the test behaviour clearer, and it
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by jon-wood 11mo ago
I think there's a space for something in between Ocado and Uber Eats, in the 2010s I worked for a startup where you could book an Ocado style delivery slot for the next day from a bunch of different butchers, bakers, etc and then we&#x
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by jon-wood 11mo ago
100% this. Go and spend time with the people using your software. Even better, use it yourself. One of the companies I’ve worked for did food delivery, and in food delivery during Christmas week everybody works operations - either you’re ou
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by jon-wood 11mo ago
Yeah, also SDL didn't exist until a year after WinQuake's release.
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by jon-wood 11mo ago
I’ve had multiple managers over many jobs who’ve said they were on board with this. I’ve had CEOs saying from the top down “decline meetings without an agenda”, and yet somehow it never changes.
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by jon-wood 11mo ago
This isn’t backed by the constant conspiracy theories about voice assistants listening to everything you say and then farming that off to third party ad providers so that you see ads for things you’ve been discussing.
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by jon-wood 11mo ago
Or if the moderation was good someone would go “nope, take that bullshit elsewhere” and kick them out, followed by everyone getting on with their lives. It wasn’t obligatory for communities to be cesspits.
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by jon-wood 11mo ago
You don't have to work this out from first principles, the EU have already done this in the form of GDPR. Building a database mapping people's location and selling it to third parties without their consent would be squarely illega
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by jon-wood 11mo ago
Back in the day when phones of this style were the only ones available we learned to hold the handset between our shoulder and our ear, leaving both hands free for other things.
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by jon-wood 11mo ago
> If you ask Claude to fix a test that accidentally says assert(1 + 1 === 3), it'll say "this is clearly a typo" and just rewrite the test. To me both of these are annoying outcomes unless there's some very clear docu
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by jon-wood 11mo ago
Most routers shipped by ISPs have remote management enabled, they can be reconfigured by the ISP themselves without having to involve the end user in the process.
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by jon-wood 11mo ago
CBT is effective in treating people whose problems mostly stem from an inaccurate view of themselves or the world around them, because CBT is training people to take a step back and reassess what they're seeing. If you're sufferin
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by jon-wood 11mo ago
In the strictest form Teams "works". You can chat with people, you can do video calls, you can share files. Outside of the core "calling a person" experience though it's a mess, starting with the way the word Team i
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by jon-wood 11mo ago
In theory you can, in practice Game Pass games are distributed in such a way only Windows can run them. You can use Game Pass Streaming which is fine when at home, and entirely useless when on a train using a Steam Deck. The ideal would be
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by jon-wood 11mo ago
If pluralisation of a status message in the UI is breaking core application logic then you've got bigger problems than the pluralisation code.

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