caoilte

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by caoilte 6mo ago
Unit tests are just as important as integration tests as long as they're tightly scoped to business logic and aren't written just to improve coverage. Anything can be done badly, especially if it is quantified and used as a metric
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by caoilte 1y ago
OP is probably referring to braceless syntax.
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by caoilte 2y ago
I can offer a rationale that I hope that will be interesting. Evidence is more effort than I'm willing to invest in a random internet conversation. I hope that's okay. I don't mean to cause offense, but neither do I like havi
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by caoilte 2y ago
It's a wholly owned subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation. As far as I can tell this is (like most complicated things in life) purely a tax dodge.
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by caoilte 2y ago
> No? They, just like every other entity, will have to achieve it's investors goals using the least amount of costs possible. The Mozilla Foundation is funded by donors not investors. The fiduciary duties of non-profit directors do
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by caoilte 2y ago
people will blame anyone for anything. mozilla is a non-profit so doesn't need to respond to market signals. it would do a lot more and a lot more sustainably if it focused on the core mission of its browser. but these costly "big
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by caoilte 2y ago
get the project taken over by a foundation eg the Apache Foundation.
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by caoilte 3y ago
Those are false equivalencies. The EU bureaucracy is a mess of competing factions. It isn't a corporation or a political party. A better analogy would be a US Government department breaking a law. Ideally there are are legal avenues fo
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by caoilte 3y ago
You get ads outside the UK, which is always weird for me when i get back from holiday and have a bunch of shows i downloaded while I was in another country and haven't listened to yet. Actually, I say bunch - but I've deleted ever
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by caoilte 3y ago
The BBC is another bad actor in this space (although increasingly irrelevant). Their decision to "hide" most of their RSS feeds whilst still labeling their proprietary app subscribe links podcasts was unethical. I see hope in the
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by caoilte 3y ago
i think the reason is fair, but unfortunately it is a dealbreaker for me. i would definitely have got one earlier this year if it had had one.
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by caoilte 3y ago
yes
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by caoilte 3y ago
It might even be correct. Occasionally.
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by caoilte 3y ago
Keepassxc is great and works well with keepass2android via file sharing. I can imagine how the password sharing would be a problem tho.
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by caoilte 3y ago
H1B is a lemon market for those signing up just the same as those surrendering their passports and ending up a working prisoner. Each might luck out, but they're more likely to get exploited and regret their decision. And it gets worse
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by caoilte 3y ago
> AI could take over and supplant a global government, threatening society, life, wealth etc etc. How would we tell the difference?
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by caoilte 3y ago
Dunno if anything has changed since last year but this was a very interesting post by one of the authors of Cats Effect - https://www.reddit.com/r/scala/comments/sa927v/how_will_loom... TLDR; it didn&#x2
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by caoilte 3y ago
> And the amount spent is a pittance to western governments I don't consider well north of $100billion and climbing to be a pittance. > We could, and imo we should, give Ukraine to means to win. And yet we haven't. The Ukrai
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by caoilte 3y ago
Funding this war (which we're losing) is gutting funding for further education and scientific research. It's possible there's a secret plan which will turn things around, but it seems more likely that the only thing which ben
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by caoilte 3y ago
Being the victim of an aggressor does not automatically make everything the Ukrainian government says true. That's bad logical thinking.
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by caoilte 3y ago
They used to have an option to permanently block sites from your google results. They quietly dropped it even before they dropped reader.
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by caoilte 3y ago
It's more like it's one way to funnel money to an asset or network without raising suspicions. But you're right, it was mostly about the propaganda. And not even particularly covert. The bit that did it has since been carved
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by caoilte 4y ago
Political parties aren't people so assigning feelings to them is of questionable value, but no more so than calling someone insane for doing so. The underlying fact is that the Republican and Democratic Party are both constituted to re
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by caoilte 4y ago
The thing being distorted is not passing tests, it's education. Learning the source material for tests does not give you a good education.
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by caoilte 4y ago
IMO they're more likely to mess up their cartel/monopoly position by getting too greedy than by being unable to hire competent staff (see Doctorow's [enshittification cycle]( https://pluralistic.net/2023/0
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by caoilte 4y ago
> One limiting factor was that this wasn't scalable - so a lot of people would be comfortable with it because there is little potential for widespread abuse - there just aren't enough resources to search & monitor everyone&
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by caoilte 4y ago
Hacking individuals in this way is already done via targeted 0-day exploits. The targets are more likely to be journalists and activists (for their sources) though. The noided assumption is that politicians and business leaders self-comprom
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by caoilte 4y ago
The FAANG key competitive advantage is cartel/monopoly status. Getting employees into the office is just middle management ego stroking, it won't actually help them. The degree to which they maintain market dominance over the next
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by caoilte 4y ago
> the capital risk wasn't yours so much. You asked "Who takes more risks" not who put more capital at risk. Founders I have known had plenty of capital and risking some of it on startups wasn't nearly as risky to thei
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by caoilte 4y ago
> Who takes more risks, a person who works 37.5 hours in an office or a founder who puts their own capital in to try and create a company? Inherited capital in every startup I've worked at. And enough of it that they got several run

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