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by noneeeed 5y ago
The Hitchhiker's Guide is such a good meditation and exploration on the randomness and ridiculousness of the universe. Personally I would recommend the original radio series rather than the book, I think Adams was a better script write
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by noneeeed 5y ago
I'm honestly out of the loop these days, what are the worse alternatives, in the sense of their impact on society? I feel like Instagram is utterly toxic in the materialistic ideals it spreads, but TikTok mostly seems to have been fair
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by noneeeed 5y ago
It's a different kind of conspiracy argument, but it reminds me of the point made by moon-landing sceptics that all the photos are too well framed considering the cameras were chest mounted and hard to use. Of course the reason for tha
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by noneeeed 5y ago
You say "No software project cares"... but I'm sure there are pieces of software out there used for dealing with historical/archeological data and have to deal with stuff like this :) I would not want to have to work on
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by noneeeed 5y ago
I like this. I've seen a number of "Falshoods programmers believe about X" and they almost never provide examples or explanations, which is rather frustrating for some of the more obscure or weird cases.
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by noneeeed 5y ago
Lots of people other than shops take money. There are lots of one-man businesses or tradespeople who take credit card through services like SumUp which require a seperate device paired to their phone. For people like that this will be very
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by noneeeed 5y ago
Hrrrm, so that comment was badly formatted for some reason, I think I should have put a blank line between the two cases in the second paragraph which should have been a two item list :/
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by noneeeed 5y ago
This is why I like to ask people to talk me through a change that I think I don't like, or might be wrong, before passing judgement. One of two things happens in the process of them explaining: - they know something about the context t
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by noneeeed 5y ago
Ok, that's interesting to hear. The december update really did seem to be a big screwup. Hopefully they will learn some lessons for the QA processes. I think I'm going to keep my current phone going until the iPhone 14 and Pixel 7
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by noneeeed 5y ago
It seems to be a case of lots of variety in your diet, ideally lots of different vegetables, nuts, pulses etc, and cutting down/out highly processed foods. Variety seems to be the spice of life, quite literally. I've just finished
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by noneeeed 5y ago
I keep being tempted to replace my knackered old Android and the current crop of iPhones just seem to reliably produce great looking photos, especially of people. That fact that the photos come out looking great with almost no effort other
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by noneeeed 5y ago
Thankyou, I've been trying to come up with an analogy for the pointlessness of the current NFTs, I think the buying land on mars, or "buying" a star might be the one I was looking for.
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by noneeeed 5y ago
I kind of miss when the UK had much stricter Sunday trading laws. I'm not religious, but there was something kind of nice about having at least a part of the week when pretty much everyone was off work, and most things were closed. Of
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by noneeeed 5y ago
Yeah, this is my biggest bugbear. I don't know how it is in other countries but it's a big issue for me in the UK as we have a large network of little country roads that are frequently single (or 1.5) lane and poor visibility. I&#
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by noneeeed 5y ago
> “It was bought by an anonymous private collector in the United Kingdom who intends to place the coin on loan to a public institution or museum. Well that's nice. Feels like the ultimate win-win all-round. Nice that's it'
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by noneeeed 5y ago
While that's true, in many ways huge chunks of the fine art market exist purely as objects in warehouses, normally in freeports such as those in Switzerland, that are simply traded back and forth, often never seeing the light of day. T
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by noneeeed 5y ago
I think you might be underestimating the number of applicants that some companies deal with. I used to work for a firm that did analytics and surveying for the recruitment industry. While applicant to hire ratios in the tech industry might
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by noneeeed 5y ago
The current top comment indicates that the model being used is calibratable (presumably by placing outside to work out the background rates). Of course this assumes that they will be properly calibrated by school staff.
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by noneeeed 5y ago
I understand that, I'm just not sure why it has to be done with a chat bot. I've seen companies achieve the same by just having a simple option tree system before you get to the support agent (and divert you to self-service if pos
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by noneeeed 5y ago
Annoyingly some companies have started putting them in front of any customer support contact. It's incredibly frustrating. I'd much rather just a menu of options. I just don't understand the problem they are trying to solve.
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by noneeeed 5y ago
Thank you! Now I know what that show was called. I watched it as a small kid but I could never quite describe it well enough to work out what it was called.
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by noneeeed 5y ago
Crypto-novice question: what's a "gas coin"?
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by noneeeed 5y ago
It isn't. We have used Mongo for good reasons, it's been appropriate for our workload, and we have used Mongoid since the inception of the product long before I joined the company. Replacing Mongoid at this stage would be a massiv
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by noneeeed 5y ago
We use Mongoid. I treat every upgrade, no matter how small as its own piece of work involving going through the changelogs with a fine-tooth comb. This particular issue got flagged up when we last looked at upgrading. Currently Mongoid upgr
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by noneeeed 5y ago
I almost always err on the "never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by incompetance". Howerver, the "standards" bodies ability to repeatedly make a complete pigs ear of every single interconnect
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by noneeeed 5y ago
That's the one! Such a good idea.
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by noneeeed 5y ago
Yeah, I need to work harder at just leaving the damn thing alone. It's become like a nervous tic :/
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by noneeeed 5y ago
I'm sure I remember reading about a city (somewhere in south america I think) that banned all billboards, and it was like the city was reborn.
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by noneeeed 5y ago
Thoroughly agree about adverts. Have you read Tim Wu's "The Attention Merchants"? On the social media thing, I find they are always better when they just show you the things you've asked to see, in chronological order. I
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by noneeeed 5y ago
Sometimes I think the thing I want more than anything in the world is the time to spend 15 minutes making a coffee in the morning. I feel like you've just given me my new life goal, a career and lifestyle that enables that.

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