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by benjiweber 7mo ago
This reminded me of this video from a more optimistic time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE
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by benjiweber 1y ago
Something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Not_Track ? Which failed in part because Microsoft turned it on by default which even further disincentivised publishers from respecting it.
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by benjiweber 1y ago
The pen writing without touching is usually a misalignment and fixed by removing and re-inserting (or replacing) the tip ime.
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by benjiweber 1y ago
One of the ways pair programming can be effective is one of the pair keeping more of the big picture in mind. Either thinking about alternative approaches or at least spotting the escalation of commitment to current approach and calling a p
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by benjiweber 2y ago
This does a much better job than anything I've seen before. Nice work. It still doesn't generate routes I'd use as they're too circuitous due to the poor cycle infrastructure in the UK. However, it does a good job of hig
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by benjiweber 2y ago
This is brilliant. I've wanted this so many times and had to awkwardly switch between window being shared instead.
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by benjiweber 2y ago
Which kernel version has the latest fixes?
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by benjiweber 2y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIqOsM6_3Dw
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by benjiweber 2y ago
The irony of setting up a '“Bureaucracy Mailbox” for any examples any of you see where we might have bureaucracy' while announcing an edict enforced by centralised control to replace autonomous decision making about where & ho
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ReMarkable's Paper Pro adds color, light and more(techcrunch.com)
7 points by benjiweber 2y ago|1 comments
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by benjiweber 2y ago
Works fine on Linux if you set useragent to Chrome on Mac.
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by benjiweber 2y ago
I wonder if we'll ever get hdcp on nvidia. As much as I enjoy 480p video from streaming services.
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Find and Fix an LLM Jailbreak in Minutes(mindgard.ai)
10 points by benjiweber 2y ago|0 comments
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by benjiweber 2y ago
Mindgard | London | Onsite | Full-time Mindgard is a London-based startup specializing in AI security. We’ve spun-out from a leading UK university, and our mission is to secure the future of AI against cyber attacks targeting Deep Learning,
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by benjiweber 3y ago
Mindgard | London | Onsite | Full-time Mindgard is a London-based startup specializing in AI security. We’ve spun-out from a leading UK university, and our mission is to secure the future of AI against cyber attacks targeting Deep Learning,
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by benjiweber 3y ago
The most unfamiliar aspect is the frost fairs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Thames_frost_fairs
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by benjiweber 3y ago
Few people getting driving licences sounds ideal. In Europe there's no need. Got a licence over two decades ago have never needed to drive. Shops in walking distance, public transport anywhere in the country, convenient deliveries, wal
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by benjiweber 3y ago
There are lots of other benefits to many more much smaller steps as well as safety https://www.geepawhill.org/2021/11/16/mmmss-the-intrinsic-be...
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by benjiweber 3y ago
Enabling teams can go work with other teams to "enable" them to be more effective. Think teams of specialists in skills that more teams need than you have specialists to go around, and who also benefit from the strong community of
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Tragedy of return to hostile offices(benjiweber.co.uk)
164 points by benjiweber 3y ago|294 comments
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by benjiweber 3y ago
Does the second edition fix the [misconception of TDD]( https://twitter.com/benjiweber/status/1037772606261350401 )?
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Engineering Team Lessons from Cycling(benjiweber.co.uk)
12 points by benjiweber 3y ago|4 comments
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by benjiweber 3y ago
I don't have much to recommend one over another. I have a Neewer, with a cheap hdmi screen attached in mirrored mode.
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by benjiweber 3y ago
I use it for controlling lights, mute/unmute across zoom/teams/hangouts and raising various apps to foreground via little scripts. Mostly just executing wmctrl.
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by benjiweber 3y ago
Some of the things that make most difference to me * Teleprompter so you can look at camera and the person you're talking to at the same time. Significantly reduces zoom fatigue for me. * A bright key light. As well as meaning you can
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by benjiweber 3y ago
If the team habits you have aren't joyful or even useful, why don't you change them?
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by benjiweber 3y ago
You can use checked exceptions equivalently to Result types in streams e.g. https://github.com/unruly/control/blob/master/src/test/java/...
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by benjiweber 3y ago
Joins as a relational AND. https://benjiweber.co.uk/blog/2021/03/21/thinking-in-questio... .
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by benjiweber 3y ago
It does if there's an upper bound on the number of people in an effective team.
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by benjiweber 3y ago
I mean in London the fastest option is public transit more often than not, and you get pretty close to door to door.

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