danpalmer

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by danpalmer 17d ago
What do you mean, there's a screenshot link right there in the docs: https://docs.rs/crate/relm4/assets/screenshots /s
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by danpalmer 17d ago
There's a now dead comment giving a few options. One of those options was the main driver for my previous company moving fully to GCP, they were atrocious and caused a major security incident for us. They also regularly took days to ac
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by danpalmer 17d ago
Fair enough! That's some good experience and should address some of what I've heard from him, but perhaps he has forgotten. That said, and this is coming from someone who (sadly) missed the era of computing you're describing,
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by danpalmer 17d ago
Setting aside incentives – because I think that's very fair to push back on, we should strive for better craft... I find Blow in particular a bit naive when it comes to the complexity of modern non-game software. Games are very complex
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by danpalmer 18d ago
It's hard because you have to constantly make "sub-optimal" decisions. If you optimise for things you can measure, or at least see right now, you get a low performing team of high performers, or you get a collection of local
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by danpalmer 18d ago
There's one caveat to this – I think it's good to have bias to other people's actions early on in a new role. Taking on little projects that are already understood, taking on cleanups, things other people aren't voluntee
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by danpalmer 18d ago
Which British businesses provide this sort of infrastructure? I ask this as a Brit who ran stuff on a few UK providers, and ultimately moved to a cloud platform because of the combination of terrible service and lack of features. The landsc
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by danpalmer 18d ago
The cost effectiveness doesn't really add up for me either though (and again, I lack a lot of context). 1% of cost to run everything essential doesn't pass the sniff test, I assume it's much more during an actual failover. Bu
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by danpalmer 18d ago
Cancellation is different to porting a number. You'll still need to cancel your previous plan, but legislation fixed carriers holding numbers hostage a while ago.
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by danpalmer 18d ago
Nice demo, but can we talk about how this is patented. Should it be? Should something like this actually get granted. While it's neat, it's neat on the order of a UX idea someone might just come up with at standup one day. Like, c
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by danpalmer 18d ago
I'm afraid I'd have to defer to the public docs on this. I've only used it internally and a bunch of that is not public. What I would say is that it's considered to be much better than CockroachDB, but that there's
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by danpalmer 18d ago
> Didn't even need to talk to anyone to port my old number That seems like pretty low stakes – I wouldn't expect to talk to anyone to sign up and transfer to a consumer service in the UK. I don't think I've spoken to
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by danpalmer 18d ago
Redundancy is great, absolutely, but there are multiple ways to do it and this is not necessarily the right one. Which is better: 3 DCs for 2 DCs worth of traffic, running the same stack but isolated failure domains... or 4 DCs for 2 DCs wo
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by danpalmer 18d ago
I can't help but think this isn't the best idea, it raises so many questions. How does fail over work (it failed for me!), can you safely fail over, how does product think about the stack, is it funded well enough, how do you scal
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by danpalmer 19d ago
I know that's the likely timeline. My hope is that because consoles today look a lot more like PCs than they did in 2013 (or earlier during development), that it might be sooner, plus from leaks we know that development appears to most
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by danpalmer 20d ago
> Be it the Scar Face parody of Vice City, Gang culture of San Andreas, the Immegrant story of the 4th or the trio they went for with the 5 with the LA story melting pot. I think this is the crux of my point actually – these are all stor
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by danpalmer 20d ago
You may be right, but I would push back on near total market capture. I guess it depends which market you're referring to, but even scoping to just software engineering I don't think they got anywhere near total capture. OpenAI ha
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by danpalmer 20d ago
Absolutely, I replayed some of GTAV is ~2018 it already felt a bit clunky in that respect. I think some of this is technological, but much of it is style. There are likely limitations that forced some of those issues back in 2013, but I thi
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by danpalmer 20d ago
Indeed, and likely playing on its similarity to "affluence".
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by danpalmer 20d ago
I see your point, and maybe I'm over indexing on this or not describing it well. I don't see myself in either of these characters, but I do see them as representative of society, whereas I don't see the GTAV characters as rep
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by danpalmer 20d ago
The second one is pretty much directly a Die Hard parody – new building, party, execs off doing drugs, dead guy in the lift. I'm looking forward to that one, I wouldn't be surprised if there's a lot more in there.
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by danpalmer 20d ago
I think it's mostly about the characters. GTAV was, in my opinion, much lighter-hearted than this is looking. Trevor was a hoot, Michael's marital problems were made light of, even Franklin as probably the most serious character s
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by danpalmer 20d ago
It looks like Rockstar have nailed a solid 2026 update to previous releases, everything looks great. But is that enough? It should be, but given the billions spent on development I think there's an expectation of more. It also looks li
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by danpalmer 20d ago
The vocabulary truly is load-bearing, without these words the model is less able to think. Where a human can understand a concept without words, an LLM plainly cannot. This is based both on the technological limitations and based on the evi
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by danpalmer 22d ago
Well that $120k is also likely at a huge profit margin, at least accounting for COGS. That's already most of the $115k difference gone. Again, I don't really disagree with your general point here, but I think it's just a bit
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by danpalmer 22d ago
Yes Occam does quite literally state that – the option with the fewest assumptions is most likely to be correct. Assuming that someone is lying is an extra assumption to make over what they are claiming to do. Malicious acts from large corp
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by danpalmer 22d ago
That's up to you, but occam's razor would suggest the most likely thing is that they are in fact just doing what they say they do in their T&Cs.
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by danpalmer 22d ago
According to public material, Google does not train Gemini on Gmail or Docs: https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/gmail/pr... https://proton.me/business/blog/google-do
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by danpalmer 22d ago
This is exactly it. When I worked in a ~10 person team I just didn't get it, PRs worked quite well (with some basic discipline, they're not perfect). When I moved to a... much larger company... I don't know how PRs would work
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by danpalmer 23d ago
Lots of talk about engineering his game, lots of talk about how this game is exactly what he wants, no talk of play testing. Is there any world in which this is going to be a good game?

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