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by scott_w 2y ago
I find this current trend to hate DevOps to be childish. DevOps was a response to a very real problem of “throw it over the wall,” where the Dev team would build it and the Ops team had to figure out how to make it run, usually without any
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by scott_w 2y ago
There’s a school of thought in management where you get your team to lean into their strengths and find ways to mitigate their weaknesses, rather than spend much time on them. The idea is, if you’re a person who moves quickly vs going super
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by scott_w 2y ago
This reminds me of the coding interview I had where I completely missed a requirement because of my desire to get the code out there. Still got the job, so I can't complain! Great framing of an issue and it's something I'm go
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by scott_w 2y ago
> When my career was just beginning Clearly "just have half a year's savings" wasn't an option here...
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by scott_w 2y ago
> How much do you trust your government with your money? If you’re not able to trust the government to not steal your money then I suspect you have bigger problems and should look to claim asylum elsewhere.
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by scott_w 2y ago
My favourite joke whenever I tell people I make up estimates is “I’m completely wrong but I’d rather spend 30s and be wrong than 3h and still be just as wrong.”
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by scott_w 2y ago
Yeah but now you’re following a path the rules don’t allow so it’s not really necessary :-p
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by scott_w 2y ago
Small nitpick: you could replace “no funny business with pawns promoted to Rook” with “and are on their home squares” as there’s no way for a promoted pawn to get to a rook’s home square without moving ;)
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by scott_w 2y ago
> you couldn't talk to your passenger while you were "driving" because that might make the car do something weird. This even happens while walking my dog. If my wife messages me, my iPhone reads it out and, at the same tim
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by scott_w 2y ago
If there were issues, they’d appear at population level studies. Lots of people boil coffee, tea, potatoes, rice, etc. and, as far as I know, are not suffering brain damage as a result.
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by scott_w 2y ago
Actually, what most countries seem to do (according to other comments I’ve seen here), is just delegate to local bodies, so country size is a complete non-issue.
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by scott_w 2y ago
> Do you need a study for every little thing? I didn't say that. What I said: > What "good for you" would look like to me would be longer life expectancy, better health outcomes at different stages of life, etc. "S
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by scott_w 2y ago
While that feels good for you, this does not constitute the evidence that "going barefoot is good for you." A sibling posted some studies that would be more interesting (I'll admit I've not read them). What "good fo
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by scott_w 2y ago
It happens, I wouldn’t sweat it
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by scott_w 2y ago
It’s not a minority of Parliament though. It requires a majority vote, in two separate sessions, to be forced through (in essence, it takes up to 2 years). It’s not an easy system to abuse at all.
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by scott_w 2y ago
I’m not talking about “expanding” power, merely proposing that the USA learn from other systems that have deadlock breaking systems, with limitations to mitigate abuse. I’m not sure taking money out the system will have the same effect, as
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by scott_w 2y ago
I’d argue a lot of the unhappiness in the UK is a consequence of 5 years of a Tory government choosing not to govern. The public still have a hard time believing this fact because it sounds too insane to be true, no matter how much evidence
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by scott_w 2y ago
It’s not a perfect system but it’s one that allows a party to push through the change they were voted to bring!
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by scott_w 2y ago
You’re thinking too high level and not looking at the mechanics. Congress has no power to, say, give the House of Representatives override the Senate and President. In the UK, this is not only possible but happened in 1918. The USA would re
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by scott_w 2y ago
Compared to historic USA, perhaps, but compared to OTHER COUNTRIES, the US system has insane gridlock and, right now, a very unhappy public. What I’m pointing to is not that more power should shift to the executive but that it should be giv
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by scott_w 2y ago
Under the constitution, the US federal government has far less power than, say the UK government does in comparison. Yet, if the other branches of government show no interest in constraining it, then it’ll expand rapidly. I actually wonder
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by scott_w 2y ago
I’d say making rude gestures at someone you historically didn’t like would suggest you remain hostile with that person. Whether you murdered someone else has no bearing on this.
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by scott_w 2y ago
I don’t see how that’s relevant to this point.
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by scott_w 2y ago
The WHO is going to struggle to do a lot of stuff with the USA pulling a lot of their funding…
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by scott_w 2y ago
The extra tariffs being put on Chinese goods?
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by scott_w 2y ago
It’s likely a bit of both in this case: they probably equate air quality to “green, woke stuff,” and so want it gone. The reckless part comes from the decision maker not looking into this and seeing the benefit for Americans in any detail.
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by scott_w 2y ago
> The bigger issue for them are people who move away, lie and invent medical problems to avoid work rules. Don’t worry, people are perfectly capable of doing that in the office too.
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by scott_w 2y ago
To be clear: the results are anonymised. The only thing that the people chasing you have direct access to is whether you filled in the survey or not.
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by scott_w 2y ago
I’ve seen employee satisfaction surveys show certain unhappy groups getting happier over time. Which, of course they did, the unhappy ones left!
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by scott_w 2y ago
I think it’s a harsh interpretation to say they’re bad because a determined hacker can break their game. Games aren’t security critical software, so they’re not going to get the level of investment needed to prevent this kind of thing that,

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