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by pards 3y ago
We need to alert the Apostrophe Protection Society [0] [0]: https://www.apostrophe.org.uk/
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by pards 3y ago
The trade off isn't that simple, though. Interpreted languages typically require many more test cases to verify the scenarios that a compiler normally catches.
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by pards 3y ago
Knight Capital [0] should serve as a warning to devs and ops alike. They lost about $450 million in about 30 mins due to some poor coding, a botched deployment, and botched rollbacks. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by pards 3y ago
Those e-bikes are often called DUIcycles[0 because one doesn't need a current driver's license to operate them. [0]: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=DUIcycle
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by pards 3y ago
> Please name and shame though, so others can avoid it too :) MS Teams does this when starting a new chat - you select the recipient and start typing and Teams will do two unexpected things shortly afterwards: 1) Clear the text you t
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by pards 3y ago
That's a relevant question. We're in Toronto, Canada, so the revenue is also in CAD and is net of expenses and AirBnB fees. Even in USD, $2k/month has vastly different buying power depending on location. It doesn't go fa
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by pards 3y ago
We AirBnB the spare bedroom in our basement and it brings in about $2k/month.
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by pards 4y ago
The Perth Mint in Australia got caught diluting the gold [0] that they sold to China. [0]: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-03-06/perth-mint-gold-dopin...
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by pards 4y ago
> you want customers to not be able to find things, so they have to wander around, and 'find' other thing This seems to be the Loblaw/NoFrills model in Toronto. They relocate products with alarming frequency. Want milk? Th
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by pards 4y ago
Although the article didn't say which stickers were used - they __implied__ that the signs shown fooled the vehicles but they didn't state it explicitly. Who knows, maybe they stuck 65 mile/hour speed limit sign over a stop s
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by pards 4y ago
> If you have customers, never outsource customer service. Words to live by
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by pards 4y ago
I don't mind going into the office but it has to be about connecting with people in person. I see no benefit of commuting if I have to sit on remote calls all day - I can do that more effectively from home. I avoid remote meetings duri
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by pards 4y ago
They're illegal in Toronto, too [0], but they're still prevalent due to the utter lack of enforcement. [0] https://www.toronto.ca/services-payments/streets-parking-tra...
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by pards 4y ago
I start with full cold because it's more of a shock to the system. I find the cold water improves my mood and provides a daily dose of "suck it up, buttercup". I've __almost__ started crave that cold shock in the morning
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by pards 4y ago
Wim Hof would disagree. I always start and end my showers with 1 minute of full cold (in Canada, so cold = 8°C)
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by pards 4y ago
> Relying on PageRank / links Search engine companies learnt long ago that parsing all that content was time-consuming and costly, so they simply use the 'meta' tags instead.[0] [0]: https://calpaterson.com&#x2F
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by pards 4y ago
> The AI will learn about your style and then write targeted emails for your audience The AI will need a corpus of _your content_ to draw upon if it's to write in your style. One could feed it one's work inbox (presuming one&#x
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by pards 4y ago
> the prices they see on the menu is what they'll actually end up paying Is the sales tax included in the listed price? One of my pet peeves is how "tax and tip" are not included in the displayed prices in Ontario, Canada.
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by pards 4y ago
This aligns with what Peter McBreen covered in "Software Craftsmanship: The New Imperative" [0] in 2001 [0] https://www.amazon.com/Software-Craftsmanship-Imperative-Pet...
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Shopify tells employees to just say no to meetings(bnnbloomberg.ca)
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by pards 4y ago
This sounds similar to what Core Logic [0] provides to realtors in Australia. The majority of realtors use it, and I'm sure they pay a lot more than $300/year [0] https://www.corelogic.com.au
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by pards 4y ago
We generalists find work through our network of contacts. People we've worked with previously reach out to us when their current company needs a person like us. In 20+ years as a generalist, I've never been without work.
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by pards 4y ago
The telco's complacency have trained their customers to not answer the phone thereby destroying one of their primary businesses. Gen Z and Y consider it rude to call people.
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by pards 4y ago
This is a very astute observation and it's something I'll bring into our org. Simply going through the exercise to identify the critical paths, with both Product and Engineering involvement, would be valuable. Once identified, the
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by pards 4y ago
> DevOps was supposed to result in developers also being responsible for deploying and monitoring their applications No, it was supposed to be dev and ops collaborating with mutual respect and empathy.
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by pards 4y ago
At least you'll get to (re)watch both Top Gun movies!
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by pards 4y ago
I think the passive part of this could be really interesting - starting with a simple "tag cloud" of keywords by frequency linking to audio snippets that mention them, it'd provide a way to index conversations during the day
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by pards 4y ago
This. Banks have to cater to customers with all levels of technical abilities for compliance, plus they may rely on older on-prem IAM systems that don't support TOPT.
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by pards 4y ago
Here's the TL;DR; > you’ll have a difficult time stumbling upon anything outside your current awareness on most screens
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by pards 4y ago
KPMG got fined $US450k for this kind of behaviour [0]. If I recall correctly, employees kept the answers to the mandatory compliance training tests in a document on a shared drive. [0]: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-

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