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by ljm 2y ago
Your problem still isn’t with the guy paying lower rent, but scarcity amplified by companies repurposing residential housing stock as tourist accommodation. You too could live right in the city at an affordable rate if AirBnB and property o
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by ljm 2y ago
Government knows what’s best for the people (colloquially we call it the nanny state). All our main political parties have an authoritarian slant so these policies have rarely received long-lasting opposition. Literally every government in
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by ljm 2y ago
Fundamentally, I think the issue is more about technical literacy amongst the political establishment who consistently rely on the fallacy that having nothing to hide means you have nothing to fear. Especially in the UK which operates as a
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by ljm 2y ago
Why exactly should the harassment of AP and Reuters be important in a way that doesn’t intersect with literally every other attack on the US people from its new administration? Literally every media outlet in existence pulls news down the w
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by ljm 2y ago
I’ve found it to be the opposite but it’s not really either/or. Over here in the UK, if I constantly chase the new hotness I will have plenty of new startups to choose from but I’ll almost always be low-balled on pay with some practica
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by ljm 2y ago
I think that value comes from code that solves tough or complex problems, which can be humbling while improving your understanding. Feels good when you get a grasp of what’s going on and can understand that there may not be a simpler approa
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by ljm 2y ago
I just wish YAML wasn’t so unwieldy for that, especially given the overall complexity of the spec. I also thing that the tooling hasn’t kept the same pace as it has with graphql, where it’s easy to document your schema and the inspector mak
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by ljm 2y ago
Exactly, and sometimes I don't want to save a file just for indentation to happen as a side-effect, especially if I can do `C-x H TAB` to correctly re-indent the entire thing. That's particularly more helpful when some formatters
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by ljm 2y ago
I actually wish more editors had emacs style indenting where hitting tab anywhere on the line would re-indent it or otherwise cycle through indent levels if it was unclear, especially because you’re unlikely to get copilot suggestions in th
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by ljm 2y ago
Since it seems to be illegal to even reveal if one of these requests was received, it's also worrying that, by extension, it would be illegal to declare a data breach once the backdoor was inevitably exploited by another bad actor. So,
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by ljm 2y ago
It's usually said in business that you should spend your first 100 days getting the lay of the land before you start making big decisions. It might even be more ideal to give it 12 months before you tear up the playbook and bring your
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by ljm 2y ago
I remember at an old job where the feedback loop was quite slow, so you always ended up with multiple branches or PRs in play at a time. I ended up using git worktree to basically have each branch as its own separate workspace (rip my hard
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by ljm 2y ago
I think it's exactly the opposite and the mental model of branching is counter-productive with jj. It's much more in line with trunk based development and the idea of managing 'stacks' of changes (kinda like merge trains
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by ljm 2y ago
The enshittification will come for the software engineers themselves eventually, because so many businesses out there only have their shareholders in mind and not their customers, and if a broken product or a promise of a product is enough
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by ljm 2y ago
Also, single dash for long args and not just short args. I think mostly Go tools do this, and whatever purism is used to justify the choice, I can't think of many CLI apps that don't use a single dash for short args (and combining
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by ljm 2y ago
I'll just say that, when broken down into three parts, the middle part effectively engages with the post and is a valid contribution all on its own, and the first and last bits just seem pretty pointless criticisms. The parent poster i
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by ljm 2y ago
I guess the operative word is 'underpowered'. My low-stakes conspiracy theory though is that cloud providers (and symbiotic entities in the ecosystem) have helped turn developers against monoliths in favour of self-serve microserv
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by ljm 2y ago
Does the author owe you a good, analytical argument? You were able to respond to it with your own experience easily enough. That's usually how conversations like these work.
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by ljm 2y ago
> Good management is invaluable Good management is life and death, particularly for a startup. If you think you can do without it and you're not a good manager yourself then it's going to be a struggle to execute. > ...you&#
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by ljm 2y ago
Maybe I'm a simple person, but what you and other people who subscribe to this idea think seems to just be another brand of libertarianism. And libertarianism (by the US definition) is basically just edge-lord politics: if something is
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by ljm 2y ago
So, Americans were insulted by being called Nazis and in true progressive fashion decided to reclaim the term and, well, embrace it? Cool - it’s nice that you say this is an American trait. I was almost about to say that this entire setup w
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by ljm 2y ago
The only person Musk ‘elevates’ is himself. People with that kind of wealth have transcended humanity. Not towards greatness but towards total indifference.
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by ljm 2y ago
For a fairly casual question I'd see it more like an ice breaker or a way to build some rapport, but it's down to how you ask the question as well. Letting people know in advance (as the parent suggested) rather than dropping it o
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by ljm 2y ago
In the context of homework, how likely is someone still in school, who probably considers homework to be an annoying chore, going to do this? I can't really see an optimistic long-term result from that, similar to giving kids an iPad a
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by ljm 2y ago
I think openfeature.dev is an attractive proposition these days - start off with an env-based provider or roll your own and if you get to a point where you need to buy, you only need to swap over a provider (or use a multi-provider).
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by ljm 2y ago
Using a native email client or something other than gmail would do the job (protonmail, Fastmail, hell… iCloud mail) Can’t remember the last time I used gmail in the browser. And gmail is only ever because startups use gsuite by default. Go
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by ljm 2y ago
The default level of verbosity you get without explicitly prompting for it to be succinct makes me think there’s an office full of workers getting paid by the token.
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by ljm 2y ago
Maybe more of a tee hee than a haha. Hehe.
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by ljm 2y ago
I think there’s something quite cosy or comforting about simply enjoying the company of a friend with a book as well. Don’t even have to read the same thing, it’s just another way of spending time together and is anything but lonely or isol
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by ljm 2y ago
Even if the quality was better, I would still feel ripped off if I bought a book or a framed piece of art only to find out it was AI generated. I would consider a poorly written novel to still be better quality than one produced by AI. Anyo

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