cjk2

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by cjk2 2y ago
I think you missed the point. I'm not ready for any large change. No one is. What I have done is get myself into a position where I can do what I want to do before there is a change and hold out as long as possible. It's a dampeni
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by cjk2 2y ago
I had something I wrote in the 90s I wasn't proud of that was a word macro that read Excel sheets for a list of instructions and used those to compose documents and print them. I feel sick thinking about it.
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by cjk2 2y ago
I have a lot of experience, in the real world, which is somewhat less ideal than "just use Qt - it's a breeze". How do you manage a 15 million LOC desktop app originating from the late 90s which contains chunks of win32 nativ
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by cjk2 2y ago
Mostly just locking fields. I don’t do anything procedural. It’s usually calculators, stats and modelling stuff.
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by cjk2 2y ago
Yeah. I want IP67 and have to replace my battery every 2 years. I don’t mind taking it to Apple for that. It’s less often than my car went back to the dealer for service. And my dealer wouldn’t give me a new car if they fuck up my old one i
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by cjk2 2y ago
Totally agree with this. I’ll get shot for this one but I write most of my GUIs in Excel these days.
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by cjk2 2y ago
The painful bit is C++. I did a fair bit of that going back to MFC. Knocking stuff out in C# with WPF and WinForms was quite nice in comparison. I haven’t found anything nicer.
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by cjk2 2y ago
I can grow vegetables and fix my own car. However I’ll be dead before I have to rely on either of those. My hedge is to simply be less fucked than the person with no assets and huge debts. The world doesn’t go to shit with a boom but a slow
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by cjk2 2y ago
It’s not if it leverages the risk.
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by cjk2 2y ago
I concur. Any time I see tangles of regexes and if statements, it's going to be full of holes. I spent several months replacing messes like this with proper parsers and you'd be surprised at how many fuck ups fell out of the mess.
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by cjk2 2y ago
That's fine until there is political or financial instability across the world which is increasing.
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by cjk2 2y ago
Well I’ve pretty much pulled it out of everything and bought a house (no mortgage yay) but I rode NVidia, BAE Systems with a safe position held on an actively managed ETF. I’ve got a huge pension lined up so I’m going to go on holiday a lot
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by cjk2 2y ago
I think you are crazy putting money into passive index funds. As for the investors, knowing when to pull out is when they start pushing articles like this. They’re already out and want your capital to go where they are going next.
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by cjk2 2y ago
The barista doesn’t want homeless people in the toilet because inevitably crack paraphernalia goes in there too. Better to have shit on the street than crack paraphernalia in your business toilet. As a data point, yesterday I was walking wa
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by cjk2 2y ago
There were no applications that couldn’t be solved cheaper an easier using some other method.
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by cjk2 2y ago
Every investment company out there knew this from day one. They were riding the hype and gains. Now the late and individual investors will pay for the losses while the big investors start moving cash to the next hype.
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by cjk2 2y ago
Ah yes the implied social contract that it's ok because it happens all the time. That's how society falls.
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by cjk2 2y ago
I didn't even know about this vulnerability and mine are updated. Just how I like things.
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by cjk2 2y ago
Our labour force and developer experience is like a rusty bucket. If we hire any old person quick enough it'll replace the pissed off people leaking out the holes!
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by cjk2 2y ago
$10 a month isn't a lot. Until you have 10,000 staff like us. That's $1.2m a year.
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by cjk2 2y ago
Two reasons they went quiet: 1. At some point it generated something that cost the business money. Happened to us. Direct root-cause analysis lead to ChatGPT generated code not being aware of the correct way to handle a transaction. First t
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by cjk2 2y ago
Don't do it. My sister took up hockey when she was 16 and lost 4 front teeth within 3 months. She's 45 now and just had the second set of replacements...
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by cjk2 2y ago
Only because they had to and couldn’t write it off in any way.
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by cjk2 2y ago
I don't disagree with any of those, other than those I have already caveated, but they are additional points.
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by cjk2 2y ago
They're all written by idiots in C. Why would I trust them?
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by cjk2 2y ago
> Better is subjective. It's maybe more capable. It's also easier to create confusing DACL structures that do not do what you think they do or leave surprising gaps in coverage. There is nothing confusing about it at all. The
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by cjk2 2y ago
> Sure it is. Features like Recall, which the article mentions, are insecure by design. I'm going to be honest: I'm not bothered about Recall security. It'd be on a single user machine which contains my data anyway. Ther
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by cjk2 2y ago
Even as a well known "windows hater", this is hyperbole. It's not insecure by design really. In fact in principle it's a lot better than anything Unix side due to the ACL and security model. It did however exist before a
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by cjk2 2y ago
Hey you're me 15 years ago. I stopped the sports and switched to sustained low damage exercise like cycling, hiking, swimming etc. While you can't undo the damage done if you have a very high level of fitness, you can reduce the e
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by cjk2 2y ago
Not research, but I spent 5 years writing matching algorithms for data for financial companies which was entered from random crappy mainframes driven by the lowest bidding data entry workers. This tied together the financial relationships o

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