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by erdo 3y ago
That's sarcasm, it probably also wasn't actually Funny. Nothing about what they said suggests they didn't subsequently look into why their tests missed the issue
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Ask HN: OSS licence like Apache2, but No for AI training data?
2 points by erdo 3y ago|4 comments
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Inveraray Bell Tower – Change Ringing(inveraraybelltower.co.uk)
3 points by erdo 4y ago|0 comments
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by erdo 4y ago
That's exactly how I treat publishing my own OSS now (probably on a smaller scale though). I had started by hoping (almost assuming) people would be amazed at how useful my library was. But mostly they didn't notice it, or (and th
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by erdo 5y ago
Gitx is great for that on a mac, but every time I set up a new MacBook I have to hunt down the latest repo / build. It keeps getting abandoned and then forked and continued, and then abandoned again... Edit: looks like it's back f
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The 300k volunteer hackers coming together to fight Russia(theguardian.com)
4 points by erdo 5y ago|1 comments
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Ukraine wages ‘information insurgency’ to keep Russia off balance(politico.eu)
6 points by erdo 5y ago|0 comments
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by erdo 5y ago
I do TDD in one specific case, and it's always a unit test. Very occasionally I will need to write a function or a small class do some complicated logic that I'm too lazy or stupid to work out how to do. I do know exactly what the
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by erdo 5y ago
Ha of course it does, thanks :) I don't know why I didn't see that so we could expect about 5 people with dementia in that control group, and the test group got 0, so not bad
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by erdo 5y ago
These stats are only useful if we know how many people get dementia in the first place. What are the chances of a random control group of 14 over 85 year olds also not getting dementia? If it's very common, and you would usually expect
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Jan. 6 Protest Organizers Had Dozens of Planning Meetings W Members of Congress(rollingstone.com)
11 points by erdo 5y ago|1 comments
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by erdo 5y ago
Who is this news org, why should we trust them? A cursory look at their content suggests we shouldn't. It's easy, all you need to do is spot the term "Russiagate", in this case the "gate" is being used to sugge
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by erdo 5y ago
the source blog post: https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2021/rml-polit... "In six out of seven countries — all but Germany — Tweets posted by accounts from the political right receive mo
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by erdo 5y ago
That reminds me of when I was at university in the 90s, a favourite trick was to set MSWord's auto correct on the communal computers to change the word "the" to "wanker". People would arrive with their floppy disks,
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by erdo 5y ago
Yes a lot of people like to be the person who says what the "best practices" are (even or maybe especially if they've just made them up) it sounds much more impressive than "I like to do it this way"
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by erdo 5y ago
> my project manager asks me why we're not using sequential IDs, and I say it's a best practice according to the documentation, he'll happily accept that answer even if neither of us understand why it's a best practic
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by erdo 5y ago
I agree completely with this article (but it probably depends on which area of development you work in). I'm an android developer and whenever I hear the term best practice it immediately sets off my BS detector.
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by erdo 5y ago
I agree, it was certainly very surprising to me when I find out
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by erdo 5y ago
It's not really a matter of paper work, you simply don't have the right to move to another country just because you feel like it. Whereas it's a key pillar of EU membership. As a non EU citizen, immigrating depends on that sp
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by erdo 5y ago
I think this is referred to as the Surinder Singh principle, here's more about it: https://www.freemovement.org.uk/surinder-singh-immigration-r...
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by erdo 5y ago
Well, this is true. Some of those things are also true of London though. Re the admin (to get set up on the health care system etc) everything does need things like original birth certificates etc. And I spent several days going in person(!
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by erdo 5y ago
Ahh I see what you mean, it would typically involve staying in a London hotel a few nights a week. Maybe traveling in on Monday mornings, and leaving on Friday afternoon. I do have a British passport still, and I have a french residence per
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by erdo 5y ago
I think that's just the good old ambiguity of the English language, I read it as: western civilization being oddly similar to Japanese civilisation (I'm a British native, but I don't claim to be any kind of arbiter of the Eng
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by erdo 5y ago
Moved from the UK to France after the Brexit vote (the last chance to easily move my family to another country and have my kids grow up as Europeans with the ability to work and live in the EU country of their choice, access low cost or fre
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NSO Pegasus spyware can no longer target UK phone numbers(theguardian.com)
3 points by erdo 5y ago|1 comments
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by erdo 5y ago
Might sound like a strange comment, but I really like the tone of the readme. It's very welcoming and clear, you don't often find that level of professionalism in readme docs - it makes me think the author is probably quite unusua
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by erdo 5y ago
close the windows
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by erdo 5y ago
I'm very happy about it (as someone who lives here), the cars need to go.
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Facebook whistleblower to claim company contributed to Capitol attack(theguardian.com)
94 points by erdo 5y ago|18 comments
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by erdo 5y ago
I just read that using "id" is the preferred way (see the other reply) "name" is deprecated for this use, but it still works of course (I'm not a web developer, been using the same markdown trick for years)

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