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by ljm 9mo ago
Nobody serves the postcode any more.
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by ljm 9mo ago
I alluded to it in a separate comment but the problem I have here is that it is really hard to get through to them on this too. Upskilling a junior dev required you spend time in the code and sharing knowledge, doing pairing and such like.
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by ljm 9mo ago
It’s like a linter with conflicting rules (can’t use tabs, rewrite to spaces; can’t use spaces, rewrite to tabs). Something that runs itself in circles and can also block a change unless the comment is resolved simply adds noise, and a bot
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by ljm 9mo ago
I have no problem accepting the odd comment that actually highlights a flaw and dismissing the rest, because I can use discretion and have an understanding of what it has pointed out and if it’s legit. The dread is explaining this to someon
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by ljm 9mo ago
I have the opposite problem where I can only get HyperOptic. Not even OpenReach stuff. No problem with bandwidth but zero price competition, and 5G broadband isn’t viable either. Going from £70/mo for gigabit to £65/mo for 500mb i
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by ljm 9mo ago
Older versions of MacOS had an elegance to them. It’s lost some of that over the years. The overall trend towards minimalism has ironed out much of what made it unique and it hasn’t always succeeded in improving UX. Even Liquid Glass and th
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by ljm 9mo ago
Someone’s gonna think about wiring all this up to Linear or Jira, and there’ll be a whole new set of vulnerabilities created from malicious bug reports.
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by ljm 9mo ago
You can do prompt injection through versions. The LLM would go back to GitHub in its endless attempt to people please, but dependency managers would ignore it for being invalid.
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by ljm 9mo ago
Out of curiosity, how do you become ‘exceedingly good’ at serving static HTML? By all accounts, they’ve centralised the delivery of this static HTML at several layers of the network stack, and you’re not getting static HTML anymore because
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by ljm 9mo ago
The fact you could see in the video what was going on for several minutes before the guy noticed it…
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by ljm 9mo ago
I remember what it was like before tabs, when there was that Multi Document Interface (something like that) instead, so you had the main parent window but then each page was its own window within it that you could resize, minimise, maximise
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by ljm 9mo ago
That honestly seems quite cheap for 'very upper class' where I imagine everyone's suited and booted, dressed up for the evening, possibly some live music, etc.
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by ljm 9mo ago
The lack of reciprocation is a tough one. I think it also helps sometimes to understand that not everyone is good at being the mother goose or the facilitator, especially if someone else is already good at doing it, and it's not becaus
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by ljm 9mo ago
Letting people learn the hard way is a risky endeavour because you have to trust they’re aware of themselves, and they’re not coasting on your support. Gotta accept that a likely outcome is that they do fail and they don’t learn and you hav
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by ljm 9mo ago
The entire post devolved into a treatise on playing politics and trading political capital in a specific corporate culture. I’ve seen people who played the game well at Google or Amazon fall completely flat on their ass at a different compa
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by ljm 9mo ago
It stands to reason that if someone makes an argument you can make a strawman against it. In this thread, a manager is compared to earthquakes, ratpoison and gravity… which has fuck all to do with management. Come on…just say if you don’t l
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by ljm 9mo ago
This is probably the single most frustrating issue on iOS Safari, and the Reddit website triggers it all the time . It would be nice if Reddit wasn't a total hog that could barely load two separate pages without crashing from a memory
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by ljm 9mo ago
Probably because the line keeps getting moved. There's a lot of pressure to build housing with little to no consideration of community, either existing or new. Just get rid of all the third spaces in an area and turn it into a lifeless
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by ljm 9mo ago
Any communication received without explicit consent, after providing details, is junk, and would fall under GDPR as using that info for a different purpose than what was described.
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by ljm 9mo ago
Yeah but this is like exposing `sudo eval $input` as a web service and asking the clients to please, please, not do anything bad. Can create scripts or use stuff like Nix, Terraform, Ansible or whatever to automate the provisioning of restr
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by ljm 9mo ago
It would be more useful if you explained why the rest of my comment didn't provide a good enough reason (because of your clear dissatisfaction with the first sentence of it), because this is just snark that doesn't further a conve
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by ljm 9mo ago
At least for the time being the chatbot isn't optimised to deliver as many ads or sponsored results to your eyeballs as physically possible.
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by ljm 9mo ago
Yes. It stands to reason that if a manager can demotivate you, then they must be able to do the opposite. Both building the vibe and killing it can achieve that in terms of extrinsic motivation, culture, the psychological contract, and so o
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by ljm 9mo ago
Still using CircleCI. I do not love YAML at all, in fact I hate it because it's basically a 1980s text preprocessor on steroids and with dependency management. Too much logic applied to config that depends on implicit syntax and unintu
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by ljm 9mo ago
I updated to iPadOS 26 on my iPad Pro, opened Safari, and tried to log into a website. For some reason the full-screen keyboard didn't load, all I could get was a miniature thing that floated on the left part of the screen (like the tw
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by ljm 9mo ago
Sending a URL encoded form or some JSON in a POST request is also easier for most people to understand than the myriad ways you might format a query string in the URL (which may have a stricter limit on size). You only have to look at how d
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by ljm 9mo ago
Depends on what country you're in. In the UK, the banks are often held liable for various scams that involve the transfer of money, so they up the security over and over again. A bank will rightly argue why it's responsible for an
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by ljm 9mo ago
Knowing what total comp is like for those companies, I'm sure Facebook more than exceeded the price one might put on ethics. I've personally resigned from positions for less and it hasn't cost me much comfort in life (maybe s
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by ljm 9mo ago
I think Go's concept of error wrapping is probably unusual to newcomers to the language who might be used to, say, pulling in a dependency for error handling (logrus or whatever) when it's all there in the stdlib in what Go has de
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by ljm 9mo ago
I get that impression too - but also it's HN and enthusiastic early adoption is unsurprising. My concern, and the reason I would not use it myself, is the alto frequent skirting of externalities. For every person who says "I can t

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