Any party can win if it gets the majority of candidates across all parliamentary constituencies. However, a Prime Minister must be elected as an MP somewhere. If Reform got a majority without Farage being elected, they…
Couldn't help noticing: In other words, it’s not just a tool problem, any more than it’s a human resources problem or a leadership problem. Instead it is a systemic problem [...] Shades of an LLMism, a bit padded, a…
> are there people that use the caps lock key? I for one do. Old habit when typing in longish C constants (ECONNRESET) or shell environment variables. I'm used to typing capitals by holding the Shift with the pinky of…
Domino theory as applied to business, plus one should never underestimate the lengths to which a company will go to wring the last ounce of profit from a market.
> This is what they don't tell you about continuous/transition/progressive bifocals: optically they don't work. I'll defer to your judgement re optical properties, but I want to offer a counter-anecdote about…
> But the 15c 'Collector's Edition' had some issues, and I wonder about the build quality and reliability of this new one, too. Build quality deteriorated (from impressive heights) more than 25 years ago, when HP's…
Yes. Bell Labs are a shadow of their former glory, when Bell could lavishly fund it, having a quasi-socialist telecommunications monopoly. Private companies don't like to fund research outside of their own domain --…
> I almost never write code directly (it's always Claude) Who, then, understands the code? If the answer is "no one really", entropy will overwhelm your codebase sooner or later. Otherwise, you need to read the code,…
> Ah fun fact, why do we use the word “right” and “left” but also use the word “right” as correct/lawful and use left as thing that is well, left? A linguist theory says that people always been predominantly right…
> I went to Finland, and there were ships going from Finland to Estonia, carrying people just to buy cheaper alcohol there. They went back to Helsinki with shopping bags full of vodka. Makes you wonder how does it look…
> You just have to use a secure device. Secure as defined by a duo of monopolists. It's a contractual concept and doesn't have a firm relation to security-related characteristics. I'd trust GrapheneOS to be as secure as…
> Considering the amount of money at stake, Software is a deeply, deeply unserious and careless industry, and a great many practitioners are also deeply unserious and careless people. What else do you expect, given the…
The plus I haven't encountered before, but "996" is a Google away. In short, working 9 AM to 9 PM, six days per week.
> You must belong to the club of folks who use hashmaps to store 100 objects. Apparently I belong to the same club -- when I'm writing AWK scripts. (Arrays are hashmaps in a trenchcoat there.) Using hashmaps is not…
https://archive.ph/yvUA3
> Why can't the cyclists slow down when they see that there's a human obstacle in front of them? They usually do. (The considerate and/or non-confrontational ones. There are always idiots, and people have the tendency…
> That is spectacularly useless Depends. If one is aware of the meaning of section numbers, that "(5)" is very obviously suggesting that there is a file format named "crontab" which is documented. It's also pretty…
Hehe "Balkonkraftwerk", available from Lidl for €250 (see TFA). This makes me unreasonably happy for some reason.
> Just having something like "Have a bonded 3rd party security team review the source code and running router software" would solve around 95% of the stupid things they do. It would certainly help, but no economically…
Not on account of its control software, which is what I was talking about.
> So, we don't need an electrical code to enforce correct wiring. For an analogy to work, its underlying elements should have a relation to the target. Your analogy is not in the same universe. For electrical work,…
> With network protocols, you make one layer (Ethernet), you add another layer (IP), then another (TCP), then another (HTTP). Each one fits inside the last, but is independent, and you can deal with them separately or…
Qt costs serious money if you go commercial. That might not be important for a hobby project, but lowers the enthusiasm for using the stack since the big players won't use it unless other considerations compel them.
> [The same timezone in Poland and Spain] sounds like an unnecessary EU standardization. Well, if you look up the histories of the time zones in the respective countries ("Time in Poland" and "Time in Spain" on…
> I was careful to say "Good code still has a cost" and "delivering good code remains significantly more expensive than [free]" rather than the more aesthetically pleasing "Good code is expensive. Which is nuance that…
Any party can win if it gets the majority of candidates across all parliamentary constituencies. However, a Prime Minister must be elected as an MP somewhere. If Reform got a majority without Farage being elected, they…
Couldn't help noticing: In other words, it’s not just a tool problem, any more than it’s a human resources problem or a leadership problem. Instead it is a systemic problem [...] Shades of an LLMism, a bit padded, a…
> are there people that use the caps lock key? I for one do. Old habit when typing in longish C constants (ECONNRESET) or shell environment variables. I'm used to typing capitals by holding the Shift with the pinky of…
Domino theory as applied to business, plus one should never underestimate the lengths to which a company will go to wring the last ounce of profit from a market.
> This is what they don't tell you about continuous/transition/progressive bifocals: optically they don't work. I'll defer to your judgement re optical properties, but I want to offer a counter-anecdote about…
> But the 15c 'Collector's Edition' had some issues, and I wonder about the build quality and reliability of this new one, too. Build quality deteriorated (from impressive heights) more than 25 years ago, when HP's…
Yes. Bell Labs are a shadow of their former glory, when Bell could lavishly fund it, having a quasi-socialist telecommunications monopoly. Private companies don't like to fund research outside of their own domain --…
> I almost never write code directly (it's always Claude) Who, then, understands the code? If the answer is "no one really", entropy will overwhelm your codebase sooner or later. Otherwise, you need to read the code,…
> Ah fun fact, why do we use the word “right” and “left” but also use the word “right” as correct/lawful and use left as thing that is well, left? A linguist theory says that people always been predominantly right…
> I went to Finland, and there were ships going from Finland to Estonia, carrying people just to buy cheaper alcohol there. They went back to Helsinki with shopping bags full of vodka. Makes you wonder how does it look…
> You just have to use a secure device. Secure as defined by a duo of monopolists. It's a contractual concept and doesn't have a firm relation to security-related characteristics. I'd trust GrapheneOS to be as secure as…
> Considering the amount of money at stake, Software is a deeply, deeply unserious and careless industry, and a great many practitioners are also deeply unserious and careless people. What else do you expect, given the…
The plus I haven't encountered before, but "996" is a Google away. In short, working 9 AM to 9 PM, six days per week.
> You must belong to the club of folks who use hashmaps to store 100 objects. Apparently I belong to the same club -- when I'm writing AWK scripts. (Arrays are hashmaps in a trenchcoat there.) Using hashmaps is not…
https://archive.ph/yvUA3
> Why can't the cyclists slow down when they see that there's a human obstacle in front of them? They usually do. (The considerate and/or non-confrontational ones. There are always idiots, and people have the tendency…
> That is spectacularly useless Depends. If one is aware of the meaning of section numbers, that "(5)" is very obviously suggesting that there is a file format named "crontab" which is documented. It's also pretty…
Hehe "Balkonkraftwerk", available from Lidl for €250 (see TFA). This makes me unreasonably happy for some reason.
> Just having something like "Have a bonded 3rd party security team review the source code and running router software" would solve around 95% of the stupid things they do. It would certainly help, but no economically…
Not on account of its control software, which is what I was talking about.
> So, we don't need an electrical code to enforce correct wiring. For an analogy to work, its underlying elements should have a relation to the target. Your analogy is not in the same universe. For electrical work,…
> With network protocols, you make one layer (Ethernet), you add another layer (IP), then another (TCP), then another (HTTP). Each one fits inside the last, but is independent, and you can deal with them separately or…
Qt costs serious money if you go commercial. That might not be important for a hobby project, but lowers the enthusiasm for using the stack since the big players won't use it unless other considerations compel them.
> [The same timezone in Poland and Spain] sounds like an unnecessary EU standardization. Well, if you look up the histories of the time zones in the respective countries ("Time in Poland" and "Time in Spain" on…
> I was careful to say "Good code still has a cost" and "delivering good code remains significantly more expensive than [free]" rather than the more aesthetically pleasing "Good code is expensive. Which is nuance that…