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by rusk 1y ago
In a vaccuum
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by rusk 1y ago
Importantly around neutrality which was most people’s issue anyway. The real problem was that the referendum commission (the state body in charge of informing the public on these matters) was deemed “too neutral” and was forever after hobbl
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by rusk 1y ago
> alternative is to teach programming to every office worker Programming in business environments is becoming ever more popular using languages like Python and R It’s nowhere near as pervasive as Excel but I could see AI playing a big pa
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by rusk 1y ago
“If it ain’t broke don’t fix it” I don’t believe it’s wise to add another iteration to working code just for the sake of aesthetics. There will come a point where you will have to write a fourth implementation and at that point you really
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by rusk 1y ago
I’d like to add a corollary to this - Sometimes what’s best for the system isn’t what’s best for your job Fail fast is a good ethic but all to often I’ve encountered applications that are only to happy to limp along for the sake of optics.
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by rusk 1y ago
I don’t work for people I don’t wana
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by rusk 1y ago
Guess it’s just a matter of how much you value your time for other matters. I like “the idea” of tinkering but I certainly don’t like the reality of having to do ongoing maintenance and improvements beyond the initial implementation. Sounds
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by rusk 1y ago
They have a right to exist. But there is strength in community. Successful platforms facilitate this and provide a means for participants to exceed the sum of there parts. This can in turn fuel development of the platform therefore helping
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by rusk 1y ago
Isn’t the actual “platform” itself fragmented these days? Different language versions, different libraries, different “engine”? I dunno it was 20 years ago I jumped ship when they tried shoehorning object oriented semantics into it. Eugh.
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by rusk 1y ago
The community withered. 10-15 years ago the cries of “Ruby” “Ruby” “Ruby” were deafening. I used Ruby and I really enjoyed and I thought I would leave Python behind but it but it never went anywhere from there. Somewhere around 3.x I think
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by rusk 1y ago
They’re not actively used in any circles I move in. The fact that your back is up suggests you have something invested in these antiquated niche tools.
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by rusk 1y ago
> install using the file system you fancy, setup the raid you want, install samba and nfs, eventually avahi and encryption and that’s pretty much it. It isn’t though. I got that far and I wasn’t happy. There’s a lot of extra stuff you h
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by rusk 1y ago
Ruby and Perl are great examples of massively popular languages that withered because the language/platform outpaced the community. If the first question you’re asking yourself looking at a code base is “what version is this/do I
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by rusk 1y ago
“ we will end up with hoards of juniors who don't understand anything and the stuff they produce” I’ve spent a lot of my career cleaning up this kind of nonsense so the future looks bright
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by rusk 1y ago
A question I’ve always been afraid to ask: wouldn’t it be easier to do it yourself?
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by rusk 1y ago
There’s a scene where they smash the shit out of a printer and that still rings true
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by rusk 1y ago
Yes TrueNAS is supposed to be good too.
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by rusk 1y ago
> I'm not hating on anyone, fundamentally dishonest person. Quite. Wikipedia link is fine. Condescending snark is not. But you seem to be just “that kind of person” so maybe you just don’t really know you’re doing it and in your qui
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by rusk 1y ago
Wikipedia is indeed fine, but it’s been pushed way down the search rankings. In my day the answers Google would give you would be one and the same with Wikipedia pretty much. Wikipedia has had its credibility attacked unfairly in my opinion
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by rusk 1y ago
Having built a NAS the actual build is only half the story. There’s a hole heap of nonsense you have to go through to tune the software. I ended up bailing and just buying a NAS. Just too many ticks and glitches. There are good all-in-one s
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by rusk 1y ago
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by rusk 1y ago
I have found slack all but useless for retrieving knowledge. People simply don’t read emails, and ignore documents. I don’t miss emails. Wiki devolves into a mess after a couple of years. Sharepoint has poor accessibility as there’s this co
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by rusk 1y ago
Wikipedia isn’t as prominent as it was in my day, and Google isn’t as good.
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by rusk 1y ago
> has to give me updates on important events of my friends and family without showing me everything That’s a RAG query
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by rusk 1y ago
> How do we know if random internet service Audits. Obviously not every service is going to be in a jurisdiction that proactively audits data processors and controllers. Another thing to consider before you hand over your data.
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by rusk 1y ago
I’d imagine there’s a lot of money chasing around the lobby and some of it just slushes into things like these. Easy passive income when you think about it.
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by rusk 1y ago
These days the language tends away from “disability” towards “differently abled” - we can accommodate people with special needs and they can outperform “norms” in many fields.
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by rusk 1y ago
Term under discussion is “speed” which goes beyond latency. If you have a low latency but high bandwidth the link is “faster” i.e “time to last byte” Latency is well defined and nobody is quibbling on that.
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by rusk 1y ago
consequences for you when you unwittingly open up a back door or expose your organisation to a data breach
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by rusk 1y ago
The same thing that usually happens when you violate TOC … Probably safe enough on your own computer, but could have consequences if it’s a work computer.

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