baazaa

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by baazaa 9mo ago
On a related note, they built their digital ID so that third parties could verify attributes (it's NOT just a single-service login across government + a linking ID across government services, which is how it was sold by the BBC). They&
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by baazaa 1y ago
IMO there's two reasons you'd want the very best engineers. A) you're working on one of the hardest engineering problems in the world. B) you've a track-record of failing to deliver with merely competent engineers. But i
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by baazaa 1y ago
I would just add the IsAllowed etc. as a comment next to the relevant line. Often the explanation is bigger than what you'd want in a variable name, I find it less overhead than making more variables, and it makes better use of scre
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by baazaa 1y ago
Because security locked-down anything more tech-savvy. Tbh I think the only 'allowed' way of sending data out where I work is to build an API and surface it from a data exchange platform so locked down the incompetent security tea
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by baazaa 1y ago
One thing that I've noticed is that AI has made it even more abundantly obvious that the low IQs of middle-managers are the main problem. They have a great faith in AI (which is understandable), but they're constantly realising th
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by baazaa 1y ago
The article is claiming that people need to put more effort into organising social events with tips on how to do it. And the tips around escalating discloure etc. are very much like workplace ice-breakers... utterly awful experiences that e
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by baazaa 1y ago
No-one ever suggests the simplest explanation... maybe socialising is just getting worse? Where I live there were long covid lockdowns and most people expressed relief about not having to go to parties and make painful small-talk with stran
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by baazaa 1y ago
that's a comically archaic way of using the verb 'to be', not a grammatical error. you see it in phrases like "to be or not to be", or "i think, therefore i am". "the feature isn't" just mea
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by baazaa 1y ago
Or in other words dumb people are less impacted by social desirability bias when responding to the survey because they don't realise that 'impartiality' is something to be desired. As for why impartial news does so poorly in
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by baazaa 1y ago
"This is not an educational system problem, this is a societal problem. What am I supposed to do? Keep standards high and fail them all? That’s not an option for untenured faculty who would like to keep their jobs. I’m a tenured full p
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by baazaa 1y ago
Definitely this is what was happening mid-century (when indeed everyone else was ripping out their tram networks entirely). But I think if you look at modern light-rail projects there really has been such insane cost-inflation it wouldn&#x2
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by baazaa 1y ago
I once found some old price catalogues (early 20c) for shoes etc. and estimated the items there are barely any cheaper today in real terms. Now obviously that's partly because we have cheaper substitutes today, so we've lost econo
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by baazaa 1y ago
AAA games are eye-wateringly expensive though, management aren't imagining it; my point is things becoming more expensive is a symptom of decline. I'm sure the late romans consoled themselves they could build another Pantheon th
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by baazaa 1y ago
While I suspect the root cause is managerial dysfunction ultimately the disease spreads everywhere. I've stopped honing my technical skills because I don't expect to ever work in an organisation sufficiently well-managed for it to
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by baazaa 1y ago
the simplicity is underappreciated because people don't realise how many dumb data engineers there are. i'm pretty sure most of them can't unpack an xml or json. people see a csv and think they can probably do it themselves,
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by baazaa 1y ago
I think people need to get used to the idea that the West is just going backwards in capability. Go watch CGI in a movie theatre and it's worse than 20 years ago, go home to play video games and the new releases are all remasters of 2
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by baazaa 1y ago
It looks like they want the sort of person who wouldn't work at the sort of place they are.
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by baazaa 2y ago
My experience precisely mirrors that described in various posts here: https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/get-me-out-of-data-hell/ I live in Melbourne like the author and I certainly don't speak for the entire in
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by baazaa 2y ago
When people think AI is going to lead to rapid automation I genuinely don't understand what mental model of the economy they must have. I'm trying to pivot out of data which IMO is a scam industry and thought I'd consider aut
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by baazaa 2y ago
think this has something to do with zig building part of the std which other languages ship as binaries. incremental compilation will remove this small overhead.
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by baazaa 2y ago
Same with the WFH debates. 'We're going to force workers into the office and hope they do some work out of boredom' is taken as a serious strategy because the average manager is mind-bogglingly incompetent. If you know how pr
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by baazaa 2y ago
I work in government and middle-management morons are continually pushing for the dopiest projects imaginable (e.g. we have no good data and everyone who can fix this is being told they should work on AI instead which will query the data -
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by baazaa 2y ago
i feel like i'd want operator overloading when dealing with quaternions, which zig eschews for no good reason
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by baazaa 2y ago
I have seen this, but it's still never competence based. I really don't see anything preventing someone who's been catastrophically incompetent at every job they've ever held becoming CEO or heading a department. This mi
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by baazaa 2y ago
It doesn't with me, because it only made sense back when firms hired lots of young people and promoted the most competent. This isn't how most firms work nowadays. I've never even worked at a place that does promotions. Sur
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by baazaa 2y ago
A lot of my code takes in garbage data and does some complicated stuff to produce useful outputs. Almost all the difficulty comes from hidden problems in the data upstream, including very often the data contradicting itself (a lot of fuzzy
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by baazaa 2y ago
My theory is that data is worse again because at least if you're making a website you're expected to end up with a website. The process is opaque and esoteric, but the end-product is somewhat tangible. A lot of data projects are m
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by baazaa 2y ago
People always say this guy just has had bad luck with his employers but I live in Melbourne and work in data and reckon the whole industry is a scam. Like why didn't anyone catch the issue with the logs? Because it doesn't matter,
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by baazaa 2y ago
In social network theory it's commonly noted the disproportionate power wielded by 'bridge' nodes which link different clusters (in this case teams). So it's not just that people who can't do technical work become g
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by baazaa 2y ago
The AGW case should have been that it's easy to observe the earth is absorbing more energy than it's emitting, easy to demonstrate that this is due to greenhouse gasses, and it doesn't depend on complex modelling but rather b

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