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by octo888 1y ago
> with absolutely no evidence of what the author did with it. I've got colleagues desperate to be seen as on board with all the AI experiments and they just write things like "tool X is MILES better than tool Y". Leadershi
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by octo888 1y ago
Yup ... it seems we can't afford anything except healthcare, defence, welfare and social care. That still doesn't make it ok to drive people crazy in their homes. We do still have plenty of playing fields etc where they can take t
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by octo888 1y ago
Ban on "no ball games" signs is addressing the problem from the easiest and worst possible angle. More than 400 playgrounds closed in England from 2012 to 2022 and annual park budgets have fallen Why are they bouncing balls near&#
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by octo888 1y ago
We have paths ("sidewalks") in the UK that children can walk/cycle on to get to parks etc, even in suburban and many rural areas. Even if there is a motorway in the way there is often a bridge or some kind of underpass. In ur
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by octo888 1y ago
It's just strategy. They very likely do it to prevent candidates holding multiple offers
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by octo888 1y ago
> One thing you learn quickly is that despite all the Internet talk about having a BATNA or putting companies in a bidding war against each other is that the majority of candidates really don’t have other options to even compare against.
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by octo888 1y ago
Researching and publishing/hobbies is now autism?
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by octo888 1y ago
"rank-and-file employee number 12887"s don't tend to find it easy to get multiple job offers at once to use as leverage ! Even more so in today's climate
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by octo888 1y ago
And PMs can talk to customers but don't, because it's better for their career to align with the executives and implement their amazing ideas
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by octo888 1y ago
Looks like some heavy inspiration from modern airline business class cabins? Love it
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by octo888 1y ago
Isr ael is literally involved with bombing Iran right now and this is a post about it. How could you expect them not to be mentioned?
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by octo888 1y ago
What is "IsAdmin" doing in the "create user" request DTO in the first place? The examples seem to indicate inappropriate re-use of data models. Would it not be better to: type CreateUserRequest struct { Username
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by octo888 1y ago
> Apple support are utterly fucking useless and don't know about this. That particular support person/bot may not have but the company absolutely does
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by octo888 1y ago
Why let them rent a cheaper server? What will the discover in a month or so that they don't know at the start?
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by octo888 1y ago
You might find it curious that it's a very Irish way of speaking. But less common in writing I believe. If you go to Ireland, best not to accuse them of dying if they end their sentences with "so" :-)
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by octo888 1y ago
My desire to visit the US just went sub zero. The worst part is this has the possibility to spread to other countries (that the US can twist the arm of) because they want to extend their policies further.
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by octo888 1y ago
> On June 7th of this year, iwantmyname released a new, "upgraded" dashboard It was a total mess. I didn't get a reply from my support ticket until 2 weeks later. During which time I had migrated all my domains away. Anoth
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by octo888 1y ago
It's great at mocking up some HTML pages with eg Tailwind and static site generators. Give it some ideas, a bit of copy, a few colours and it'll create some pages filled with plausible sounding text. I can imagine using it in fron
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by octo888 1y ago
My hypothesis is that because we generally don't/can't use debuggers in production but rather rely on logging and tracing, that extends to local dev.
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by octo888 1y ago
IMO the title would benefit from the word "welfare" before "fraud"
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by octo888 1y ago
3 miles from anything that makes any noise or pollution - roads, neighbours etc.
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by octo888 1y ago
There does seem to be a huge population that has: 1) no DIY skills at all, 2) absolutely no idea what anything should cost, 3) no idea what a top-tier pro job looks like. Handymen with good customer service skills could probably do quite we
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by octo888 1y ago
> Which is funny since there are no native English-speaking languages in the EU anymore (Ireland's first official language is not English). Did you mean "no native English speakers"? There are - Ireland. "First"
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by octo888 1y ago
Status pages are PR. It gets the same PR treatment as anything else
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by octo888 1y ago
Is such nitpicking necessary? It derails the conversation
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by octo888 1y ago
True but we can agree on some level if we can agree generally a £30k junior is going to be worse than a £100k senior
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by octo888 1y ago
Oh, they also had the issue that one of the leading devs got forcibly conscripted. Quickly scanning GrapheneOS's posts I couldn't find any detail about the technical challenges. They'll probably post about it in the coming mo
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by octo888 1y ago
Please don't nitpick over the exact number (But yes, salaries in the UK are low. £20k is a lot to a lot of people)
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by octo888 1y ago
Depends what you're paying. £50k full stack dev in London? You're going to get AI slop these days, particularly the moment you encourage usage within the org. LLMs will help underpaid people act their wage. You've already ask
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by octo888 1y ago
"Unfortunately, Android has made changes which will make it much harder for us to port to Android 16 and future releases. It will also make adding support for new Pixels much more difficult. We're likely going to need to focus on

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