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by scott_w 9mo ago
> First: it's not the best use of our time. I want to push back strongly on this. I think this attitude leads to more bugs as QA cannot possibly keep up with the rate of change. I understand that you, personally, may not have exhibi
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by scott_w 9mo ago
It’s entirely dependent on the situation. Some areas, additional charges work best. In others, it’s possible/necessary to redesign road and street layouts to prioritise higher-density modes of transport and physically discourage low-de
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by scott_w 9mo ago
Cut him some slack, he might have been having a heart attack at the time and in need of one of those ambulances!
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by scott_w 9mo ago
> Yes, I actually do think if Sanjay Ghemawat were instead Wojciech Przemysław Kościuszko-Wiśniewski, white European but otherwise an equal engineer, and I chose to elevate Jeff Dean over him, I would later feel equally bad about it. You
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by scott_w 9mo ago
Thanks! This explained to me very simply what the benefits are in a way no article I’ve read before has.
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by scott_w 9mo ago
You mean Andrew's comment? I took it in the broadest sense to try and give a more complete answer.
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by scott_w 9mo ago
> But the radiologists that I've talked to aren't impressed with the work AI had managed to do in their field. Just so I understand correctly: is it over-reporting problems that aren't there or is it missing blindingly obv
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by scott_w 9mo ago
I was at a podiatrist yesterday who explained that what he's trying to do is to "train" an LLM agent on the articles and research papers he's published to create a chatbot that can provide answers to the most common ques
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by scott_w 9mo ago
> I've gotten a lot of value out of reading the views of experienced engineers; overall they like the tech, but they do not think it is a sentient alien that will delete our jobs. I normally see things the same way you do, however I
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by scott_w 9mo ago
I think there's more nuance to what I'm saying: it's not just based on your company culture but on the situation you're faced with. Let's make my example more concrete. Let's say a member of your team calls ano
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by scott_w 9mo ago
> It's not one or the other I'm not sure if you're disagreeing with me or not, given that was the gist of my comment.
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by scott_w 9mo ago
> Punishing in public Honestly, the "praise public, reprimand privately" truism that people learn is, along with the shit sandwich, one of the most harmful maxims in management. There are situations where, as the leader, the te
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by scott_w 9mo ago
I like the demo. For people looking to transition to management, one thing I’ve learned is that a big part of my job is getting everyone to do only one thing at a time. Every stakeholder (including engineering managers) are obsessed with th
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by scott_w 9mo ago
This, though I think other posters have pointed to a web app/site that’s backed by SQLite. It can be a perfectly reasonable approach, I think, as the application is the web server and it likely accesses SQLite on the same machine.
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by scott_w 9mo ago
Only for large scale multiple user applications. It’s more than reasonable as a data store in local applications or at smaller scales where having the application and data layer on the same machine are acceptable. If you’re at a point where
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by scott_w 10mo ago
It’s a coincidence because the UK uses the same cars and ours are mostly on the same side (because we’re right hand drive where you’re left hand drive).
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by scott_w 10mo ago
If anyone wants to see an example of this, JRose11 on YouTube is doing exactly this for Pokemon Red/Blue and putting a list together of completion times. It’s been a multi year project but I’d totally recommend starting at the beginnin
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by scott_w 10mo ago
> It doesn't make you happier It sounds to me like you haven’t rode a bike in a long time. I recommend you try it and get back to me.
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by scott_w 10mo ago
Those are excellent reasons but then you shouldn’t fight the language, you should go with the language/framework conventions as much as possible. Trying to fight the language design will only lead to buggy, hard to understand code, so
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by scott_w 10mo ago
Honestly, I thought it was serious because I’ve seen people do things exactly like this, just in different languages. By “this” I mean “spend all their time fighting against the language/framework because they don’t like it, rather tha
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by scott_w 10mo ago
> An upgrade from a 2-bedroom to a 4-bedroom home with a garage so I don't have to smell laser cutter fumes anymore and hack a ventilation system out a bedroom window? That very well might. As someone who upgraded from a 2 bedroom f
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by scott_w 10mo ago
That’s because you haven’t tried buying better bicycles. I assure you that every new bike I buy makes me happier.
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by scott_w 10mo ago
You’re correct but words and phrases can evolve in their meaning over time. If the licensing terms for this are analogous to open source software licensing terms then calling it “open source media” is pretty reasonable.
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by scott_w 10mo ago
That’s a surprisingly good way of doing it!
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by scott_w 10mo ago
I’ll say I’m a little mixed on this, depending on how tight your timings are. A benefit of open book, I think, is that you can ask some more offbeat questions confident that the students are able to lookup the details. The challenge comes i
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by scott_w 10mo ago
Not really. An open book exam still requires you to know which book to bring in, understand the concepts, and be able to reference them on the fly to answer questions. Basically, you need a reasonable grounding in the material to know where
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by scott_w 10mo ago
> I think you’re viewing this through your own cultural lens where camping can be totally solo (in the woods?) Allow me to correct myself: I meant to say I believed you were referring wild camping, away from a commercial site (either alo
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by scott_w 10mo ago
I’m not trying to dispute your version of events. I’m just offering a suggestion of what teekert had in their mind when they thought of a campsite, to better help you see where the misunderstanding comes from. Given they replied with agreem
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by scott_w 10mo ago
I think you’re viewing this through your own cultural lens where camping can be totally solo (in the woods?) In England, we can’t just pitch up a tent in the woods, we need to pay for a campsite where there’s other tents. I suspect, from th
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by scott_w 10mo ago
To be fair, though, you’re a lot more knowledgeable and experienced than some security “experts” I’ve had to deal with ;-)

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