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by xnorswap 3y ago
I love Shenzhen I/O, it's perhaps my all-time favourite video game despite having left it uncompleted, in part precisely because it started to feel like hard work. But you're right that what makes it a fun video game is that
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by xnorswap 3y ago
And in turn harmed the experience for anyone not engaging in buying gold.
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by xnorswap 3y ago
The worst? No, that belongs to VB: > On Error Resume Next Literally, "Ignore the error, and continue as if nothing bad had happened". That's the worst design decision ever when it comes to error handling. Only storing the
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by xnorswap 3y ago
To be fair, that seems to have been a 2.5 year warning: https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/commit/3544de73b3662a27fa...
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by xnorswap 3y ago
That would be preferable.
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by xnorswap 3y ago
Once that happens, it won't be by the backdoor. Insurance companies will offer a "DNA discount" and ask for DNA directly, and simply charge more to anyone who refuses, and then grade the amount of "discount" based o
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by xnorswap 3y ago
That may be true, but the article describes a services architecture and labels it microservices, indeed goes onto to say: > The term micro can be misleading, though - there doesn’t have to be anything micro about the services
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by xnorswap 3y ago
Maybe I'm not the intended audience, maybe I'm not from a culture that understands posts like this, but this all seems so hollow and tone-deaf. If I didn't otherwise know about the lay-offs it would to me paint an entirely mi
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by xnorswap 3y ago
Indeed, and given the constraints that allow for SQLite also allow for running a local postgresQL instance, so no service discovery, complicated auth flows, etc, required, it should be even easier. SQLite is fantastic, it absolutely should
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by xnorswap 3y ago
Saying that something has "Zero latency" because it's "on disk" is off-putting from a technical honesty perspective.
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by xnorswap 3y ago
This is very enlightening, and it's not surprising that it's not well defined in the spec but it does surprise me that it differs so much between engines.
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by xnorswap 3y ago
Careful with terminology too, because "inside" and "outside" don't mean the same thing to different drivers, particularly in the UK compared to elsewhere. Many people hear "inside lane" on a motorway and t
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by xnorswap 3y ago
Those "Brush Strokes" are effectively the source code. To be considered open source, yes source code needs to be provided along side the binaries (the "image").
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by xnorswap 3y ago
It's strange to think of the alternate reality where "WordPerfect for Windows" was as much as a hit as the original WordPerfect. It really helped Microsoft that WordPerfect for Windows was a slow mess of a product. It literal
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by xnorswap 3y ago
Profile says they're a Quant, so definitely not a typical software engineer.
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by xnorswap 3y ago
Typical senior software engineer salaries in the UK are around £60-90k outside of London (and you see adverts for as low as £45k!), a bit more in London / Fintech, up to around £120k. For a regular SWE, $200k (~£160k) is ludicrous for
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by xnorswap 3y ago
The default assumption here that someone has £30,000 per year to put into savings seems a little bit high for most UK salaries?
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by xnorswap 3y ago
"Every direction" isn't what you think it is. Even if we had a voyager travelling the "opposite" direction, once outside the solar system they'd appear to be travelling at almost the same speed with respect to
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by xnorswap 3y ago
I think it's the register making a hash at a pun: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/brick_it The pun doesn't really work, but when has that ever stopped headline writers?
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by xnorswap 3y ago
I appreciate what you're trying to say, but: This is a direct quote from 1040: > 14 Add lines 12 and 13 > 15 Subtract line 14 from line 11. Compared to a real system, that is insane. You have to deliberately enter redundant infor
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by xnorswap 3y ago
One of my previous jobs was working on a vb6 POS system, we had to use windows XP VMs just so that we could run an old visual studio to keep developing it. I left that company when it was clear their dreams of replacing it with a SaaS produ
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by xnorswap 3y ago
> Unused bookings are pure profit for them They want to be fully booked, because not only does it avoid the appearance and vibe of being a "ghost town", they also make a lot of money on things like the hotel bar, minibars, laun
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by xnorswap 3y ago
Like too many people, you have confused "blockchain" with "digital signature", which doesn't require a blockchain, and typically already is used to verify things. If you need to trust a central authority to hold up
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by xnorswap 3y ago
London, that famously Welsh city?
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by xnorswap 3y ago
Indeed there has been. Tasers were brought in with the excuse that they would replace the need for guns and reduce how many officers would carry guns. Tasers would, as argued when they were introduced, only be used by specialists in cases w
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by xnorswap 3y ago
The ELT having the advantage of course of being situated on earth. Then again, plenty of people reading this will be wondering why their broadband is somehow slower than something 1.5 billion metres away.
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by xnorswap 3y ago
Almost all my reputation is from a question [1] that I just happened to see and answer before anyone could close it as "bad quality" or "duplicate". Had I been a minute or two later I suspect it would have been closed as
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by xnorswap 3y ago
> a question that is very specific to one person may be voted to close or voted down That's the opposite of the guidance, or at least the guidance as it was back when I was active on SO. General questions "What's the best
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by xnorswap 3y ago
The post mentions the "successful launch of OverflowAI" which is something I had forgotten existed. For context the HN post for it is below, in which most people here are cynically dismissive of it or just confused about what it i
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by xnorswap 3y ago
Unfortunately, "UK Plans..." has become statements for the purpose of electioneering rather than serious intent. See also the list of announced projects that mere days later had to said to be "illustrative": https:&#x2F

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