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by paulbjensen 1y ago
It reminds me of a Transavia flight from Girona to Rotterdam that had to be diverted to Amsterdam back in 2015 (1 attempt at Rotterdam, decided to divert to Amsterdam, then 2 attempts in Amsterdam). It was a particularly stormy weekend and
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by paulbjensen 1y ago
I saw that Robin Williams setup a deed to prevent his image or likeness being used for film or publicity that covers a period of up to 25 years after his death. https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/mar/31&#x2
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by paulbjensen 1y ago
I remember this from way back in the 00's as part of the Web 2.0/semantic web era. I was a big fan of Dan Cederholm's design work ( https://simplebits.com - he did the design for the site). I do like the principle
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by paulbjensen 1y ago
It wasn't aimed at DHH. In the post I mentioned that there are people in the UK painting the St George cross on roundabouts, and some like the protester who was interviewed in one of the links talking about having the UK be for "w
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by paulbjensen 1y ago
Blog post author here, and I’ll respond here. I added the context of the British Empire and the Commonwealth to point at the fact that these historical activities have transformed the UK over a period of time. These timing of British Empire
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by paulbjensen 1y ago
You're welcome. Unfortunately not - the page is a html export from a markdown editor (Typora), not a blog engine.
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by paulbjensen 1y ago
I used to work at a Ruby on Rails shop many years ago (New Bamboo, now part of ThoughtBot) which is in London. I got pointed to the blog post, and it was such a strikingly-bad hot take that I had to write a response: http://paulb
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DHH's "As I Remember London"(paulbjensen.co.uk)
9 points by paulbjensen 1y ago|6 comments
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by paulbjensen 1y ago
It reminded me of this wonderful talk by the late Joe Armstrong (Erlang's creator): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKXe3HUG2l4 Great post.
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by paulbjensen 1y ago
I wonder if they've considered testing it with people who have locked-in syndrome or Motor-Neurone disease. It could be an amazing tool for them.
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by paulbjensen 1y ago
Having worked in organisations of various sizes, my observation is that the network effects issue rings true, and large companies feel horrendously bureaucratic. I had one Engineering Manager joke that his year at Volvo Cars had been one lo
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Ask an LLM "What is the time?"(bsky.app)
1 points by paulbjensen 1y ago|1 comments
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by paulbjensen 1y ago
I wonder if this tool by MSFT is able to handle that: https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown I was amazed when I realised that Word docs were just zip files and you could poke around in the xml files embedded inside o
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by paulbjensen 1y ago
Great idea and very well executed. ... Now for the hard challenge - try and speak Danish :)
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by paulbjensen 1y ago
She's the ex-CEO of a private company owned by a billionaire. What power did she really have? If the company was still public, then all the stupid shit Elon Musk did would put her in a much stronger place as the adult in the room durin
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by paulbjensen 1y ago
Although WebSockets are simple to use, there are a bunch of issues that the spec doesn't cater for when using them: 1. Connectivity. The WebSocket connection is only as persistent as the underlying network connection between the client
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by paulbjensen 1y ago
I remember him being a well-known person in the early days of Node.js around 2011/2012, being on the NodeUp podcast and active on Twitter back then. I'm sorry to hear of his passing.
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by paulbjensen 1y ago
I recently read about a story in my local newspaper (Colchester UK) about someone who stole £13,000 from his girlfriend's phone via her banking app so that he could fund his gambling addiction. He was found guilty of theft and sent to
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by paulbjensen 1y ago
I managed to install and run it on my Razer Edge Laptop with an Nvidia RTX 4080, using Ollama. It works but the tokens per sec is very slow. It did complete a TypeScript task example succinctly.
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A small EventEmitter library written in TypeScript(anephenix.com)
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by paulbjensen 2y ago
This post hit the nail on the head for me. Having just finished up a 4-year contracting gig this week, I decided to learn Svelte and recreate a silly little music PoC I made about 15 years ago: Demo: http://lets-make-sweet-music.
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by paulbjensen 2y ago
First of all I'm sorry to hear about the loss of your mother and grandmother. Losing one relative is hard enough, but losing another and then experiencing a separation is quite a lot to go through. In your spare time, it may be good to
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by paulbjensen 2y ago
My only conclusion is that Monzo would rather embrace the apocalypse than rely on Microsoft Azure to provide a tertiary fallback.
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by paulbjensen 2y ago
I read that post and it was so relatable. Some projects at work suffer some a similar quirk - the last 10%-20% of the work remaining on the project takes longer than the rate at which the first 80% of the project is completed. It's lik
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by paulbjensen 3y ago
I kept tabs on a company where I used to work and when I got an email from Glassdoor about a review of that company with the title "stalled", I naturally wanted to click through, but by that point the review was gone. I then start
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by paulbjensen 4y ago
Peeling bananas. I used to open them from the hard stem bit which was not always successful, but it turns out that if you pinch them at the other end, they open up much easier: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8svUCSuMS4
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by paulbjensen 4y ago
Public companies trying to keep investors happy and share prices good during a downturn. Let them treat employees like cannon fodder. Some of those employees might end up creating something new and innovative, rather than building another p
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by paulbjensen 4y ago
Haha, I have watched that documentary multiple times, it is great and deserves to be turned into a film. Someone's earlier point about hiring as a growth indicator to VC's reminds me of the point made by the CEO in the documentary
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by paulbjensen 4y ago
This was a a really good post. I work in a large organisation where some of the issues mentioned are very relevant, especially the 'flow state" issue. We have a mix of on-site and remote workers (myself being a remote worker), and
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by paulbjensen 4y ago
This is potentially a bad idea, and I can explain an actual use case that happened a few weeks ago. My neighbour had dropped her phone in some water, it was a Samsung S21, and the screen was messed up. The moment you tried to activate the s

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