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by jon-wood 1y ago
Even now it costs extra to have file uploads over 50MB, high quality audio, and large video calls. Features that an organisation like this could legitimately need.
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by jon-wood 1y ago
Regrettably I need money in order to eat food.
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by jon-wood 1y ago
Meh, most things I’m never going to tell the difference in a few days freshness. We’re very good at preserving things with packaging now, and my cooking skill is going to have a much larger impact than the ingredients being marginally fresh
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by jon-wood 1y ago
Very much this. I already have an operating system, and it's very good at managing windows, I spent quite a lot of time setting it up so that it would do so in exactly the manner I want it to.
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by jon-wood 1y ago
I can only speak for myself here but I don't bother rummaging around for longer expiries because generally I'm buying food that I'm going to eat within the next 2-3 days. It just doesn't make any difference to me.
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by jon-wood 1y ago
I can't help but see the irony of complaining that people don't read git commit messages or technical documentation in the comments for a product to assist in code review. You know what really, really, helps while doing code revie
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by jon-wood 1y ago
I'm aware this idealistic, but I would suggest simply not doing that. Don't have hours long meetings with people joining midway through.
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by jon-wood 1y ago
While in principle that should be great I don't even slightly trust it as a technique because you're compounding points at which the LLM can get things wrong. First you've got the speech to text engine, which will introduce e
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by jon-wood 1y ago
It’s absolutely all being done on vibes. The execs don’t have some super-secret productivity dashboard giving them a breakdown of employee output by work location. Maybe, if they’re really on the ball, they have employee profit contribution
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by jon-wood 1y ago
And according to the right the CEOs need to be paid obscene amounts of money because they’re ultimately responsible for everything the company does. Can’t have it both ways.
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by jon-wood 1y ago
Is it just me or this a non-story? Police Scotland (rightly, and apparently thoroughly) did due diligence on whether O365 is suitable for their use case, and Microsoft (rightly) told them no it’s not. And yet somehow there’s a Lib Dem peer
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by jon-wood 1y ago
Neither the House of Lords or the Monarch can actually stop Parliament passing a law. They can in some cases slow them down, but if Parliament really wants a law passed it will happen.
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by jon-wood 1y ago
How will these juniors get better at making those requests when it sounds like they're not interested in understanding what's happening and the implications of it? That requires a degree of introspection which doesn't appear
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by jon-wood 1y ago
In theory, yeah. In many ways that's what test driven development is, you keep breaking down a problem into a function that you can write a unit test for, write the test, write the implementation, move on. In practice writing the funct
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by jon-wood 1y ago
Cube walls are one off expense, while office square footage is a monthly expense, so if you can fit more people in the same size office by putting up some cubes it makes sense (so long as you ignore the lost productivity).
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by jon-wood 1y ago
Maybe they just wanted to do something else. Sometimes people just don't want to grind on endlessly for theoretically more money when what they've got already is enough for them.
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by jon-wood 1y ago
> AI agents don't care at all And I don't care at all about the feelings of AI agents. That a tool that's barely existed for 15 minutes doesn't need a feature is irrelevant when talking about whether or not to continu
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by jon-wood 1y ago
I feel like this is overly conspiratorial. Likely they want to remove it because it's a pain to support, and used by an ever shrinking proportion of the internet. I don't even necessarily think removing support is a terrible thing
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by jon-wood 1y ago
I would absolutely write a comment like that in code I was writing for a personal project. I’ve written way worse as well.
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by jon-wood 1y ago
Only if it’s visible, from the sound of it these are background notifications so that the QR code can be ready if you open the pass.
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by jon-wood 1y ago
I don’t think it’s possible to build a generic UI across DEs, at least if you actually want them to feel native. They’ve all got different standards, so while Gnome might have a button here, a text box here, and scroll bar there on KDE a sc
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by jon-wood 1y ago
I kind of wonder how much of the apparent paranoia from politicians is that they always hear the worst. I doubt its coincidence that Home Secretaries almost invariably turn into huge supporters of surveillance and cracking down on things, a
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by jon-wood 1y ago
> None of the major political parties care about digital rights and in fact want MORE surveillance. This is because most of the public don't care about those rights either, and are entirely happy with surveillance. You've got n
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by jon-wood 1y ago
The CCTV cameras I've never really had a problem with - despite what TV shows and films would like to tell you they're not actually a single coherent CCTV network, a vast proportion of them are operated by random shopkeepers, priv
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by jon-wood 1y ago
Unless I'm doing an exercise where the candidate is actually writing software (in which case they can have Google, their favourite IDE, and if they must an LLM) I never expect exactly correct syntax in an interview. I'm assessing
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by jon-wood 1y ago
A valid time zone used to indicate that the clock isn't configured yet. It may be accurate to UTC, but the offset shouldn't be trusted.
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by jon-wood 1y ago
Maybe this makes me a grumpy old man, but I feel like if you're primary role is to write software which interacts with a SQL database you should understand how to interact directly with that database. Not because you're going to d
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by jon-wood 1y ago
> so far detached from reality they can just confidently assert things that have no bearing on truth or evidence So not unlike an LLM then?
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by jon-wood 1y ago
Search is a bad example there, a better one would have been clicking a button to add an item to a list, or pressing a shortcut key to do so, where you want to only submit that item once even if someone frantically clicks on the button becau
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by jon-wood 1y ago
Fair enough, I didn't realise you were the original poster and that's what happened.

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