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The same way you verify that manually counted votes haven't been miscounted, discarded or altered. You allow witnesses. Independent examiners will be permitted to verify the source code is actually used as-built, that it has a signatur
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But you are missing the point that even a robot could code 90% of the boilerplate and leave it to someone with domain knowledge to check it through and possibly tweak a few bits.
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I don't think it's that ridiculous that when you first introduce something so potentially dangerous and disruptive that you require a driving licence demonstrating at least a little about the rules of the road, as well as experien
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There are two big problems with bureaucracy (apart from never knowing how to spell it). The first is that bureaucratic processes always seem to get bigger/longer/more complex and secondly, by its nature, it is hard to improve beca
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I'm a bit nervous about these articles clearly centred on the USA which seems to have an epidemic of private drug companies pushing all kinds of stuff via doctors who may or may not be getting backhanders to push certian drugs. I'
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What I find shocking about this, as with many other examples from Meta, Alphabet, Amazon etc. is that many of the complaints are things that small companies justify as "yes, but small team". In other words, our 3 developers don&#x
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Why would they care about demonstrations? It is much easier to allow them and then ignore them than it would be if someone admitted to sabotaging a railway line to reduce numbers.
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The whole conspiracy thing is very worrying, not just in the US or about Elections but about everything. 5G causes cancer, Bill Gates is chipping everyone, the Rothschilds/Soros's/Whoever runs the whole world. There will be s
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One of the problems is that we think that we deserve to have everything done to save us, even if futile and families think they get the next priority in deciding what the hospitals will spend. How does a Government/Medical Profession a
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Not surprisng that companies with extreme levels of cash will eventually fall off a cliff. At least Musk starts up other companies since 10 medium sized companies are potentially more sustainable and useful than one enormous one. As soon as
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I never quite got it. We used it for a number of things back in the late 90s but to have all of the condition checking enabled made it run much slower, which was like most other languages at the time, you tested in debug and then released i
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I hate to be the pessimist but I suspect it has never happened and why would it? To allow Figma to bring their culture into Adobe will mean massive changes to a lot of people who have been doing a terrible job for years, it will mean power
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I do as well but let's be honest, many people who create sites for money will not necessarily coach the business to keep it simple, since they will earn less money from it. By the time you add a CMS (to help the business not screw up t
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Yes, exactly this. At what point do you have the time/money/confidence to invest goodness knows how much in a data centre with space to grow, to purchase an enormous amount of capital to have it all installed etc. the building alo
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Learn to pause your train of thought and say, "I don't know, what do others think?" I find myself sometimes realising that I am talking a lot about something and then I wonder how it must come across. e.g. "The only prop
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I guess this is something that sounds so obvious, why wouldn't you but the devil will be in the details. As for using the smaller "modular" reactors to take account of the fact that some coal plant infrastructure would be muc
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Converting Coal Power Plants to Nuclear(spectrum.ieee.org)
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I love the idea and I also agree that there is so much duplicated effort but the difficulty of making the "one service to rule them all" is that there is pressure for it to be all things to all people, at which point, it becomes h
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Yeah. The one that always gets me is the arguments about task tools Trello vs Jira vs Azure Devops etc. They pretty much all do the same thing but there will always be someone who picks one specific feature of one specific tools like its th
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That's not quite the case. Things like FIDO Yubikey are basically a password unlocked by biometric information so someone needs the key AND your biometric information to unlock it. Even if someone knew your "biometric" inform
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Exactly. I asked Per Thorsheim once about resetting 2FA creds, something that is viable for banks etc. that hold a lot of semi-private data which can be used to verify your data but for a much smaller startup with basic account info. He sai
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My own experience is that confidence trumps everything. There are people who really don't know that much (in multiple fields, not just Dev) but they are either completely un self-aware or they don't care and simply portray rock so
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"Functional websites" is not what we are discussing here, but amazing websites. I've seen a carparts store online and it had something really similar, a few words like "oil filter 2017 ford mustang" and you were lit
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Perhaps a more helpful principle I heard a long time ago was that all methods are either a specific method doing a specific thing (like splitting up a string) or they call a series of methods of the first type. When we mix the two, it b
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I think a contrived example. In truth, there is much more likely to be a way of tidying this up with a nice reuseable function like "get_querystring_params" which returns an array and then take the first 3 with a comment like &quo
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I wouldn't attack the example too much, it does seem a little contrived to make the point - the very thing I don't like about contriving examples! It is hard to know whether the principle is valuable with such a weird example. In
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A useful read for sure. However, I wonder about the choice of React (or any SPA framework) if you say you are not designing for scalability. You said that the product is quite basic/boring and I have yet to see how this wouldn't b
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The article wasn't about infrastructure or resilience, it was about technology stacks. Maybe those other things were there, maybe they weren't but it wasn't about what you should do, just what he did.
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Sadly, we have all seen these promises, "X makes Y much easier" but you cannot make complex things easy without removing lots of functionality. Kubernetes for the basics is actually pretty easy despite what people say, I got a fai
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I guess the issue with this report is that it is specific to the unique mix of energy that the (west of the) USA has compared to other areas/countries. Countries with a lot of nuclear see that energy wasted at night because you can&#x2

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