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by jon-wood 1y ago
Please don't post LLM summaries without any additional context. If I wanted one I'd ask my nearest LLM for it.
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by jon-wood 1y ago
I’ll accept there are some country roads that I wouldn’t want my 11 year old son walking on his own, but I live in an outer city and it’s fine, even quite pleasant with the number of parks and cut throughs you can walk down.
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by jon-wood 1y ago
I can only assume you’re either not in the UK yourself, or you’re one of those people who thinks that because they drive even the shortest distances everyone else does. I walk daily, anything from down the road to a shop to right across tow
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by jon-wood 1y ago
We’ve got a similar but different approach at work of having assorted channels that are around non-work topics. DIY, cooking, music, etc. It’s not quite the same as a water cooler, and we augment this with regular get togethers, but it does
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by jon-wood 1y ago
I took up climbing a couple of months ago and for the first few weeks felt really rough, it took me that long to realise there were days when between the actual climbing and walking to and from the gym I was burning an extra thousand calori
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by jon-wood 1y ago
Did you seriously need an LLM to tell you PE buyouts never go well for the acquired company?
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by jon-wood 1y ago
That's traditionally what's called a protection racket rather than a tip.
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by jon-wood 1y ago
What are you talking about? Because the software you'll be expected to use for your job can run on a Chromebook you're considered a replaceable cog? All that means is that to do the job you're being employed for the company t
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by jon-wood 1y ago
This isn't just about hardening devices against the owner, some devices by the nature of what they're doing have to go in places where their physical security can't be guaranteed, secure boot means that we can put those devic
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by jon-wood 1y ago
Its a requirement on any device sold with Windows 11.
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by jon-wood 1y ago
Yes, it does, for some values of security. Operated correctly it allows you to know you can trust everything on your system from the UEFI firmware down, because if any part of that chain didn't match what you were expecting to be there
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by jon-wood 1y ago
More generally I use a tiling window manager which is already doing pane/tab layout for me, but doing that with every window I have, so I don't really want tmux acting as a separate window manager just for shells.
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by jon-wood 1y ago
Maybe there's a bunch of other actions that need to take place when a post is published, such as sending notification emails, or posting stuff to social media. They could of course be scheduled jobs in their own right, but you haven&#x
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by jon-wood 1y ago
The best to plant that tree is 50 years ago. The second best time is now. Just go plant it.
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by jon-wood 1y ago
Sadly nation states, or at least the ones acting currently, seem to think the only thing available is a banned or not binary. There’s no nuance to laws because nuance is hard to get into a 1 paragraph sound bite for the media. We’re seeing
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by jon-wood 1y ago
I think whether your take on this is correct depends on why people are doing side projects. Personally I do them for fun, there's some tool I kind of want to use, or a new programming language I want an excuse to play with. The side pr
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by jon-wood 1y ago
You do you but for me “we’re building concentration camps now” kind of invalidates previous behaviour, similarly to how I can think really well of someone most of my life but if they then decided to stab someone I’d probably change my opini
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by jon-wood 1y ago
Microsoft absolutely care about other operating systems, Flight Sim runs on Xbox (which is not quite Windows), and they've started releasing games on Playstation recently as well.
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by jon-wood 1y ago
Is it "awful" though, or is it just not quite as accurate as X-Plane? Because I've seen a far few videos from actual pilots of various aircraft playing Flight Sim 2024, and generally what they say is that while it's not
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by jon-wood 1y ago
Particularly for something designed to run on consoles sandboxing of addons is basically a requirement. Microsoft are never going to allow random people on the internet to run unsandboxed code on the Xbox because that's a fast route to
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by jon-wood 1y ago
It is absolutely possible and multiple providers already do it, just search for “residential ip vpn”. The legit ones pay people $20 a month or so to plug a mysterious box into their network which the provider will route traffic through. The
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by jon-wood 1y ago
I’m curious, what do you mean by having to wonder if it’s really a User? It’s optional in Python but you can use type annotations and then the type checker will shout at you for passing something that’s not a User instance to things that ex
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by jon-wood 1y ago
I’ve not done this in Python, where mercifully I don’t really touch CRUD style web apps anymore, but when I was doing Ruby web development we settled on similar patterns. The biggest benefit you get is being able to have much more flexibili
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by jon-wood 1y ago
Only in the sense that a lot of YouTube channels are taking sponsorship from PE funded startups, and to be honest I just see that a slightly odd form of wealth redistribution.
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by jon-wood 1y ago
Not only do I type faster than I speak I'm also able to edit as I go along, correcting any mistakes or things I've stumbled over and can make clearer. Half my experience of using even basic voice assistants is starting to ask for
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by jon-wood 1y ago
This sort of comment always fascinates me. Having a machine do the last leaps for you is a time saver I guess, but I often wonder whether the real thing people are discovering again is that sitting down and really thinking about the problem
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by jon-wood 1y ago
It's fine in simpler cases but as we're seeing here, is absolutely useless at providing information on failures in complex systems. It appears that it was one network suffering issues but this was then reported as "EVERY MOBI
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by jon-wood 1y ago
I see we’re still using Down Detector as a source for stories, which may as well be called People Are Talking on Twitter Detector. It doesn’t do anything smart, it’s just looking for keywords on social media, sometimes by coincidence this i
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by jon-wood 1y ago
Thanks for linking that, I missed it when skimming the original link earlier. I find that quite a heart warming story which makes me want to set up something similar, I was particularly tickled by the thermal receipt printers for sending ea
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by jon-wood 1y ago
Sure, if your a company which is fully bought into ephemeral containers running on Kubernetes then Elixir is probably not going to be a great fit for you. I have once introduced it into a company like that and eventually the same thing happ

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