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901.
by lbriner 5y ago
You buy an 11 year old car without keys and ask the manufacturer to give you some new ones. They say no. I would think that is a closer analogy. Anyone who writes software knows that supporting older systems starts becoming more and more ex
902.
by lbriner 5y ago
The discussion quickly goes into corporate inertia, which I think is a different issue than the article, which is more to do with individual productivity. I find it quite interesting but I am definitely guilty of it. Planning some new idea
903.
by lbriner 5y ago
I'm not sure of the issues here. Clearly water is used for cooling, but there could be a closed system of clean water that is cooled with e.g. seawater by simple conduction. The other thing seems to be that water is used for cleaning,
904.
Pulse oxygen monitors work less well on darker skin(bbc.co.uk)
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905.
by lbriner 5y ago
The immersion is definitely the most valuable. Very few language apps can help you learn idioms or slang, even if they are in common usage. Even if you were learning English, you are more likely to learn "that is very good" rather
906.
by lbriner 5y ago
The most obvious answer would be that many people who can afford basic internet but cannot afford a college class can learn at least the basics of another language. I guess they only need to upsell a small percentage to the premium version
907.
by lbriner 5y ago
I think it is worse than flashcards because you usually use flashcards after a tutor who can give you some context around what you are learning. I found two big problems with Duo: 1) You are not given any input as to why or how e.g. German
908.
by lbriner 5y ago
Unfortunately my code examples are not leet enough to fit in a Tweet. I dislike medium but I also worry that if too many people are reinventing their blog platform, aren't we risking low quality non-scrapable content? Is there a bloggi
909.
by lbriner 5y ago
How is that different than the banks own systems? In the UK, we have seen about 4 or 5 really bad system failures in banks leading to unpaid salaries/bills etc. and I believe all of them were on-prem. Sure, hedge your bets but I would
910.
by lbriner 5y ago
Isn't that the million dollar question (or probably billion now). Theoretically, the Ts & Cs cover everything but clearly you cannot reasonably mitigate risk on the basis that the "supplier told me that it wouldn't happen
911.
by lbriner 5y ago
How exactly do you figure that? Like any other quango, they are almost entirely unaccountable to anyone except their own staff. A Politician might be able to cause a stink but that's assuming they knew enough about what was going on an
912.
by lbriner 5y ago
That's what I thought but also, when a statement is made by a senior executive, I usually assume they don't really know what they are talking about anyway. Loads of "keynote" speeches are very hand-wavy and have a feel o
913.
by lbriner 5y ago
I think it is unfair to think that banks don't want to do things correctly but they suffer along with all other corporates of too many levels of management to be agile, systems that are far to risky to change/replace, legacy syste
914.
by lbriner 5y ago
I don't see that this risk is any different than a similar apocolyptic failure happening to your on-prem equipment. There's not much you can do about it differently than the cloud just add some extra controls and hope for the best
915.
by lbriner 5y ago
On the other hand, at least AWS, Azure etc. all have a vested interest in doing things well and securely. At a bank, most employees know nothing and care nothing about the HW and SW systems, they just use and abuse them.
916.
by lbriner 5y ago
I don't think that is as true as you make it sound. I have managed on-prem and cloud infrastructure and am much more confident that my cloud servers are secure because a whole lot of stuff is done by the provider who know a lot more th
917.
by lbriner 5y ago
You are implying that people that use .net are stuck. I would say it is hands-down the best general purpose web programming language and also the goto for programming Windows apps. Sure I can write stuff in Go or Rust or Python but I don&#x
918.
by lbriner 5y ago
Haha. Exactly what I thought. A lot of developers probably don't even know what it means let alone want to learn it.
919.
by lbriner 5y ago
Why is it fiction? People who are rich enough to pay an entire yacht crew are not going to worry about $50K a year for a tutor to try and make their lazy waste-of-space child at least have half a chance of creating their own success when th
920.
by lbriner 5y ago
So true but this youngster doesn't sound like someone who needs to win, he is already made. All he (or his parents) want is to look like they are successful by saying, "Little Johnny got 15 GCSEs".
921.
by lbriner 5y ago
You have virtually 0% chance of ever knowing what the recipients of your money spend it on. Anyone could be giving it to extreme political groups, abuse groups, extreme religions. On the other hand, a religious person might not have any int
922.
by lbriner 5y ago
That guide is all very well but it is very complicated to follow and setup, and I have been using Linux for a reasonable amount of time (10+ years). I was surprised that there wasn't an open source script, a bit like you would run with
923.
by lbriner 5y ago
I'm not sure whether you are asking whether people use Database-as-a-service instead of installing the DB themselves or whether you are asking about on-premise vs cloud Infrastructure-as-a-service. As many have noted, DaaS is very conv
924.
by lbriner 5y ago
I'm not sure what they realistically do. They regulate banks but at least banks have deep enough pockets to pay the fines. What do you do when 18 and 21 year old brothers get hacked and lose $100M+? Well, you say, they wouldn't ge
925.
by lbriner 5y ago
It is sadly part of a dark pattern called "stickiness". You can dress it up as functionally useful or even important but ultimately it is about companies wanting to create enough of a dependency that you have to continue using the
926.
by lbriner 5y ago
If I was already well-paid, I probably wouldn't leave a job just because of the investment money but if I already wanted to start my own business and could do with the extra dollars for R&D, it would definitely be worth looking at.
927.
by lbriner 5y ago
I am no space expert but maybe they forgot to disable Android system updates, that's what seems to have caused my Samsung Tab S2 to slow to a crawl ;-)
928.
by lbriner 5y ago
What do you calls these sites that keep redirecting you to the same site so that your history gets full and you can't go back?
929.
by lbriner 5y ago
I don't like to be negative but Visa don't strike me as flag-bearers for open-banking. Tink seems like a genuine product for making things more competitive instead of less but Visa/Mastercard/Amex are very famous for kee
930.
by lbriner 5y ago
Being a big fan of containerisation for many reasons, for me, the default open-networking is the biggest footgun of the lot. Docker Swarm seems to be better for treating networks as principle objects whereas K8S requires that you install cu

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