bennyelv

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by bennyelv 3mo ago
Once you’ve cracked that one, you can get billing tenure by working out how to explain the Azure invoice….
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by bennyelv 4mo ago
Why is the problem assumed to be middle management? Maybe middle management is the only thing preventing the company going from successful dumpster fire to unsuccessful dumpster fire…
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by bennyelv 7mo ago
I disagree - it’s extremely easy to film on your phone covertly. If someone wants to film you without you noticing they will be able to do so.
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by bennyelv 7mo ago
I imagine you’re saying that as a software engineer :). As a manager of both software engineers and product managers, I think this view is a bit of a stretch. Some software engineers would make good product managers, some product managers w
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by bennyelv 1y ago
True, but the chance of you being healthy diminishes strongly over time, and the chance of you being as healthy as your younger self is probably zero.
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by bennyelv 2y ago
Personally I'm not sure why people are fixating on this particular point - companies rarely tend to lay off their high performers. Sometimes they might axe entire divisions and that would include both high and low performers, but when
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by bennyelv 2y ago
You should never be taking the advice on such a thing from the person who has a vested interest in you buying it. Although you could well be right about the nature of the transaction, it's definitely a bad idea to be doing that with th
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by bennyelv 2y ago
Yes, the $5 wrench in action. The only protection against that is to not have the information on the device or in any account associated with or used from the device. Impractical for a normal person who wants to just live their life.
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by bennyelv 2y ago
I’d argue that what an NFT really is is a vehicle for laundering huge amounts of dirty money. The banana, the angle of the banana the certificate itself are all theatre, designed to be a plausible high value good that can be created from th
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by bennyelv 2y ago
Correct, as a London bike commuter for over a decade I can confirm that nobody in their right mind uses a shared cycle path. They’re dangerous for pedestrians, and you can’t make any kind of decent progress on them as they’re filled with b
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by bennyelv 2y ago
I was aware of this being the case when dealing with consumers, but had assumed that because B2B contracts are assumed to be between 2 sophisticated parties that there is little legislative protection that could override the terms of the co
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by bennyelv 2y ago
My source: I review a lot of contracts. It's very common for things to be explicitly required. Yes you can go back and forth and argue the toss, but it pushes up the cost of the sale and forces your customer to navigate a significant
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by bennyelv 2y ago
Alas in the world of B2B, contracts from larger companies nearly always come with lists of specific requirements for security controls that must be implemented, which nearly always include requiring anti-virus. It just not as simple as comm
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by bennyelv 2y ago
That's the point though - if you get your fitness up then 600 kcal/hour should be possible on the bike and it should be sustainable to do day after day at that volume. Mix in the odd day of doing things super hard at 800-900kcal&
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by bennyelv 2y ago
I agree with running but not cycling - I’d say it’s merely a question of how hard you try. Cycling is one of the very few sports (along with maybe swimming) that you can do for extreme amounts of time without acutely harming your body. The
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by bennyelv 2y ago
As a European I chuckled particularly at the warning about the “steep and winding nature” and “challenging drive” of highway 1. It’a one of the easiest and most relaxing drives i’ve ever done.
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by bennyelv 2y ago
Definitely not every road stage, but on a flat stage if your aim was to break away and stay away you should absolutely do surely? Nobody ever has…
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by bennyelv 2y ago
The aero drag is the elephant in the room here. By this study’s measurements there wasn’t much difference, but what was the width of the rim they used with the narrow tyre? A narrow tyre on a wide rim is a wide tyre. They don’t explain or
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by bennyelv 2y ago
I hear what you're saying and that would normally make sense, but there are reasons why I don't think its true in the bike industry. It comes down to the same arguments that you often see on HN about whether or not a free market
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by bennyelv 2y ago
>And I think you're severely overestimating wheel life span for modern models, at least due to the fact that carbon is more brittle than more pedestrian materials. Just look for Pogacar's fall earlier last week in the Giro to s
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by bennyelv 2y ago
I don't share your optimism about the strength of the scientific method in pro-cycling :) It's not too long ago (admittedly in the pre-disc brake era) that climbers would have their bike built up to sub 6.8kg and then add weight
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by bennyelv 2y ago
You could be right about that. Hookless is an awful idea that benefits nobody...
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by bennyelv 2y ago
It can't work like that in the world of mass produced equipment. You can only buy what the manufacturers are making, and as far as I'm aware there haven't been any wheels that are offered in different widths that the consume
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by bennyelv 2y ago
Unfortunately you cannot discount the “sponsor effect” here. Wheel manufacturers have been pushing wider rims because it helps them sell another set of wheels to everyone. In the days of rim brakes a wheel had a finite life (the length of
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by bennyelv 2y ago
It is (source: I work in an org like this), but your aim as a leader, the VP in this case, is to do whatever is necessary to enable your team to succeed, given the constraints that exist. Ineffective company operation and other people’s han
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by bennyelv 2y ago
To provide a counterpoint: were companies in the early days of the word wide web that started using the web to enable people do do things online that they couldn’t before not web startups? All they were doing was using the technology innova
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by bennyelv 2y ago
Now you just can't get a plumber at all. I'm not sure they really were "taking British jobs" after all.
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by bennyelv 3y ago
Well it was wasn’t it? There was a massive boom where loads of companies over promised what they would achieve, followed by a crash when everyone realised lots of them couldn’t, followed by stability for the smaller number that could. It
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by bennyelv 3y ago
Fair point - it should do. However if you've already accepted the risk that a 3rd party dependency might contain a vulnerability that has been undiscovered and you don't do any deep analysis of them, then you're still making
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by bennyelv 3y ago
Neither of those is the right answer! I'm dealing with the fallout of 10 years of "add whatever you want", and it's a unsolvable problem given the state of the system. The answer is devops: You build your system in a wa

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