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by toomanybeersies 5y ago
I would've said it was more a case of Goodhart's law: > When a metric becomes a target, it ceases to be a good metric The public health equivalent of the broken window fallacy would be maximising the spread of disease in order
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by toomanybeersies 5y ago
At one of my former jobs, I was working on an automated testing product that could MITM requests (for testing analytics, etc.) Android has this really annoying feature where apps don't trust self-signed CA certs (but Chrome & webvi
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by toomanybeersies 5y ago
At that point, you may as well just get a plumber delivered with the tools too.
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by toomanybeersies 5y ago
Diagnose and fix things with what? Most people don't own plumbing tools.
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by toomanybeersies 5y ago
The other day I tried doing a git blame on a line of code. Since we use squash + merge for PRs, it pointed to a 1000 line commit with a message similar to: Refactor widget (#1234) * wip * wip * wip * fixes * pr review I
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by toomanybeersies 5y ago
> Implement automation to flag and block/reject bad commit messages. They'll just use `git commit -n` to skip the pre-commit hook. And if it's verified in CI (e.g. with Danger), someone will just create a script to automat
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by toomanybeersies 5y ago
> Plus what if you want to just save off your current status and log off for the day Strictly speaking, that's what git stash [1] is for. Not so ideal if you want to push your WIP changes to Github though. [1] https://git
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by toomanybeersies 5y ago
There's also cold spray additive manufacturing, a 3d printing technique that involves spraying high velocity metal powder to build layers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_spray_additive_manufactur...
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by toomanybeersies 5y ago
In my (Australian) experience, the three main reasons cars get scrapped are engine failures, transmission problems, and kangaroos. Rust is much less of a problem for anything manufactured this century. Suspension is pretty cheap to fix, it
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by toomanybeersies 5y ago
I wouldn't take Reddit or Twitter posts as anything close to representing the vox pop.
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by toomanybeersies 5y ago
Tobacco smuggling is big business in Australia. Mostly because a regular pack of cigarettes costs $40 these days, compared to $15 for a pack of bootlegged Indonesian Marlboros. For the 2020 financial year, Australia imported 11,064 tonnes o
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by toomanybeersies 5y ago
Alcohol and tobacco are legal, but you'll still land in prison if you get caught smuggling 20 tonnes of either.
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by toomanybeersies 5y ago
I wonder how much of that has to do with the fact that ISO8601 was relatively newer back then (published 1988), and date formats were much less standardised 20+ years ago. For instance, RFC 1945 (HTTP 1.0) specifies three acceptable date fo
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by toomanybeersies 5y ago
I used to own an EOS 650. I found it pretty amazing that it was compatible with literally every Canon EF lens ever produced (although it didn't completely support some features, such as image stabilisation). Unfortunately, my EOS 650 w
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by toomanybeersies 5y ago
I'm happy to see that it includes primitives of varying precision, specifically, that it includes PlainDate [1], which represents a calendar date, with no timezone. This year, I've spent far too many days, probably weeks, fixing t
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by toomanybeersies 5y ago
That hasn't been the case in JS for almost a decade. parseInt('0700') returns 700. But parseInt('0x700') will be parsed as octal, so now it's just a more subtle gotcha. Loose parsers (such as parseInt(), and Da
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by toomanybeersies 5y ago
You don't even need a Swiss Army Knife, if you don't drink a lot of corked wine, a shoe will do just fine [1]. Seriously though, Swiss Army Knives are the epitome of "jack of all trades, master of none". It's so muc
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by toomanybeersies 5y ago
It is thought that these tribes worshipped Satoshi Nakamoto, who they believed to be the creator of Bitcoin, and that when the final bitcoin was "mined", a new era would begin. It is unknown if Satoshi Nakamoto was in fact a real
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by toomanybeersies 5y ago
Maybe I'm biased, but I really love the AU/NZ plugs and sockets. Out of all the different standards, they're probably the least ugly looking; switched outlets are a (literal and figurative) lifesaver; and it's incredibly
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by toomanybeersies 5y ago
I think it's a reasonable assumption that if you own an iPhone, you have access to the internet.
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by toomanybeersies 5y ago
For starters, metal interior panels seems like a great way to get electrocuted.
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by toomanybeersies 5y ago
Perhaps the most unorthodox use of corrugated iron was the Bob Semple tank [1] of WWII. It was basically a corrugated iron shell on a Caterpillar D8 chassis, with 6 machine guns for armament. The eponymous designer and New Zealand's Mi
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by toomanybeersies 5y ago
It's galvanised. These days you can also get pre-finished corrugated iron (Colorbond), which also has a layer of polyester paint baked on.
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by toomanybeersies 5y ago
> Make spam expensive using proof of stake That's already a thing. Hashcash [1], the PoW algorithm underpinning Bitcoin, was originally conceived as a method to prevent email spam. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by toomanybeersies 5y ago
> he'd often send the blog posts to the paper authors he was corresponding with and no one pointed it out yet That's not necessarily because they don't read his blog posts. There's every chance they read them and noti
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by toomanybeersies 5y ago
> what advantage is there in keeping the obtuse language? Because if a new legal vocabulary was introduced, I would now have to read contracts in both "old legalese" and "new legalese". I don't think it really ma
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by toomanybeersies 5y ago
Most people have the (incorrect) understanding that anything and everything in a contract is binding, to the point you could demand their first born child as a deposit for a lease and they'd shrug and say "it's in the contrac
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by toomanybeersies 5y ago
In my experience, there's no architecture or methodology that can make bad engineers build good software. But there's definitely ways to ensure that good engineers end up making shit software.
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by toomanybeersies 5y ago
Do you live in the same Australia that I'm living in? Because that's not what I've observed at all, at least in Victoria. For better or worse, the vase majority of Australians have complied with whatever restrictions and mand
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by toomanybeersies 5y ago
Even easier: just pull the wall plate out, then hook up the UPS behind it with couple of tap splices.

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