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by scott_w 2mo ago
Which laws? Who is "they?" Be clear.
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by scott_w 2mo ago
I took the wording from the article: > The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) says it has spent £50,000 trying to remove paint from the wall of the Grade II-listed building in Carey Street. A further £35,300 was spent on overtime and security cos
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by scott_w 2mo ago
> The dull blocks have no character That's your opinion and irrelevant. The Grade-II classification and the requirements it imposes don't care about your opinion. > the artwork in contrast captures and hammers out the origin
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by scott_w 2mo ago
Just to be clear, you're asking the Ministry of Justice, the department responsible for maintaining the court system, to break the law? I can't think how that could have horrendous long-term consequences...
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by scott_w 2mo ago
For the comments questioning why the MoJ are doing this, and the reason for the costs, the information can be found in the article: > A HM Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) spokesperson said: "The Royal Courts of Justice is a lis
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by scott_w 2mo ago
It's a Grade II-listed building meaning you have to be very careful with it to restore it to its previous state. It's not enough to give it a good scrub, you've also got to ensure you minimise damage to the stonework. There
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by scott_w 2mo ago
My uneducated guess would be that the pressure is the natural state because of the fluid/gas involved, much the same way sediment eventually settles at the bottom of a bottle of orange juice. Over time, the gas will just naturally form
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by scott_w 2mo ago
Speak plainly. You’re making no sense whatsoever.
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by scott_w 2mo ago
Wind turbines are not data centres. The sea is not part of Donald Trump’s property.
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by scott_w 2mo ago
Fair point: I was using the information in the article to form my opinion. I still think that, if the developer in question ignored a compiler error as described, that’s a serious competence issue. It’s harder to spot after the fact because
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by scott_w 2mo ago
Honestly, I'm going to be a bit harsher: I think they're either: 1. A novice who doesn't know how to debug issues. 2. Totally incompetent and copying code from Stack Overflow. I don't think it's specific to microcon
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by scott_w 2mo ago
> This claim that football has always been the "people's game" is in the end sanctimonious romantic nonsense. I never said that. > If we're talking about games out in the park, then football is "part of a work
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by scott_w 2mo ago
> I don't live in England I can tell. > Maybe not yours. So why do you continue to talk about it? I know the history and it’s not relevant to my argument. > It's used this working class status thing to put down other spor
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by scott_w 2mo ago
Literally none of the things you said refute my statement > depending on where you are in the UK, I specifically referred to English clubs. The fact that other home nations prefer different sports has no bearing on English culture. The f
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by scott_w 2mo ago
While true, it’s not a refutation at all. Look at the attendance makeup of every English club in the last 100 years, listen to the stories of the people who grew up supporting their local team, the young boys that grew up playing and became
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by scott_w 3mo ago
Did you miss this part? > If the company collapses, those people lose their jobs anyway? We can do what you suggest but the result is the same for the people being laid off.
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by scott_w 3mo ago
> Why a company has to survive but not its people? If the company collapses, those people lose their jobs anyway? > Why the employees do not deserve this? It's not about what employees "deserve," it's about the sim
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by scott_w 3mo ago
Nah, this is not uncommon in AWS. I came across a similar bug 10 years ago when playing with Kinesis and nearly had a heart attack at a $2m billing alert! Turns out it was just 5c
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by scott_w 3mo ago
While I think the example is too fake as to be too useful, let's take it. While we could read the code and say that one appears to achieve the job we want and the other doesn't; you don't know if the one that apparently does
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by scott_w 3mo ago
But that’s not my argument at all. I’m saying that quality is impossible to measure if 0 people use it. Once you go above 0, it can be measured and it’s not necessarily related to how many people use it.
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by scott_w 3mo ago
But if it’s unused then how does one measure quality? We can write all the tests, look at architecture patterns, etc. but software truly is a case of “the proof of the pudding is in the eating.”
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by scott_w 3mo ago
You’re still missing the point: software used by LITERALLY 0 PEOPLE cannot be useful. Whether it’s well written is completely irrelevant because it, by definition, is providing value to NOBODY. Yes, such software exists.
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by scott_w 3mo ago
OP didn’t say “little-used” software, they said “nobody,” and I think this was meant to be taken literally in this context. Software that has 0 users is of no use to anyone by definition.
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by scott_w 3mo ago
It’s not meant to be taken literally, it’s just a comparison to point out that the return isn’t really very good considering the risks inherent in game development, especially the type of AAA games that Microsoft’s acquisitions put out ther
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by scott_w 3mo ago
You’re conflating the fault/wrong and the solution. Sharma is not responsible for the prior decisions but she is responsible for subsequent decisions.
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by scott_w 3mo ago
People are pointing to treasury bonds that would give a similar rate of return with no risk at all.
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by scott_w 3mo ago
You do need to be somewhat in sync. Too early and you get Dreamcast effect where the customer isn’t ready for a new console. Too late and your customers bought the competition (I’ll call this the PS3 effect). Nintendo get a pass because Swi
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by scott_w 3mo ago
You’re mixing “blame” and “accountability.” Sharma isn’t to blame for the problems but she’s now accountable for fixing them.
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by scott_w 3mo ago
I need to be clear that I’m not presenting Sharma as a saviour. Honestly, I don’t know if her decisions are correct or if Xbox can even be saved at this point. You said it yourself, Xbox was being outsold 3:1 by PS5 which is still shocking
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by scott_w 3mo ago
Just looking at Sharma’s history, she rejoined MS in 2024. Xbox was struggling long before that, so I don’t see how anyone can blame Sharma for the past 10 years…

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