glawre

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by glawre 17d ago
It uses 50 words when 10 would do.
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by glawre 3mo ago
I get Claude to write code and tests and then I review these carefully. I'm not doing any cutting edge SWE work, so this works fine for me. I also enjoy the bonus that once written it's deterministic, costs no tokens, and is no lo
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by glawre 5mo ago
Don't forget Trump rubbing shoulders with al-Sharaa either.
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by glawre 8mo ago
What are Ofcom realistically going to do when providers refuse to comply? We've seen the X/CSAM issue this week and both the government and regulator are clearly unwilling to stand up to American big-tech.
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by glawre 9mo ago
At our company we have enough systems reliant on holiday dates that we have a Holiday system that emits events when there are changes. This happens surprisingly often, given that religious dates change and there are holidays/closures f
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by glawre 9mo ago
The relevant CVE is here: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-14847 , with a CVSS of 8.7.
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Orchestrating Data Quality with Airflow(astronomer.io)
4 points by glawre 1y ago|0 comments
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by glawre 1y ago
Back when I worked at a consulting and MSP place this was taken pretty seriously as it violated some kind of standards we’d signed ourselves up to. Security would also happily pickup your laptop and take it away if it wasn’t Kensington lock
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by glawre 1y ago
It's not just the batteries that need regular servicing, the pads do too. They expire on a similar timescale to the batteries but most AEDs don't alarm for expired pads. It's not uncommon for AEDs to also need firmware update
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by glawre 2y ago
He claimed, incorrectly, that people who live near abortion "buffer zones" in Scotland were sent letters by the government warning them about praying privately within their own homes. This was nonsense.
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by glawre 2y ago
What are you defining as a BigCo? In the UK I can only really think of FAANG, a small number of hedge funds / HFT firms, and more recently some AI firms that are paying that level of salary. I'm also guessing that salaries in foot
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by glawre 2y ago
I'd aim for a giant bank / financial services company. Some still mandate dedicated Ops/Prod Support teams. It can definitely have it's drawbacks, but you're very unlikely to ever be called out.
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by glawre 2y ago
This is quite a common policy in safety critical industries. I consulted at a large oil company a few years ago and they had a similar attitude in their head offices.
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by glawre 2y ago
This reminds me of the “Plane Crash” documentary where a 727 was crashed into a desert in Mexico. Definitely worth a watch for any aviation enthusiasts: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Boeing_727_crash_experi...
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by glawre 2y ago
I like the C4 Model as a guide on the different levels of abstraction that you might need for your system.
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UK Nobel Prize-winning physicist Peter Higgs dies aged 94(reuters.com)
2 points by glawre 2y ago|1 comments
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by glawre 3y ago
Do you have a source for the Nanog powerpoint? That sounds really interesting.
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by glawre 3y ago
Early in my career I definitely worked with a few systems that had 5+ years uptime. I was always particularly impressed by mainframe / NonStop architectures. These days I'd much rather have my VMs rebuilt nightly than chase a long
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Twitter temporarily restricts tweets users can see, Elon Musk announces(bbc.co.uk)
23 points by glawre 3y ago|9 comments
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by glawre 3y ago
I've found the C4 Model to be a good starting point to create diagrams with an appropriate level of abstraction: https://c4model.com/ .
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by glawre 4y ago
I worked at IBM for too many years. This is nothing new. Their MO around 2010-2015 was to do quarterly reductions in order to minimize the press interest. In the UK the redundancy lists were often based on completely inaccurate "emplo
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by glawre 4y ago
Matt Levine's Money Stuff: https://www.bloomberg.com/account/newsletters/money-stuff
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by glawre 4y ago
This has Suspicious Activity Reporting (SAR) written all over it. This applies to every financial institution in the US, UK, and most other countries too I imagine. In the UK, an individual can be prosecuted for “tipping off” someone about
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by glawre 4y ago
Regarding question 3, this would have been shot during the Spring climbing season. This year had an unusually long period of calm weather, which allowed the ~250 climbers and ~600 Sherpas to summit over the course of 12 days. The vast major
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by glawre 4y ago
I recently moved from an org where most people (90%+)used their camera for meetings to an org where 99% of meetings are using an audio teleconf system. As a new joiner I’ve found it much harder to build relationships over audio only, especi
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Ask HN: How to manage internal forks of OSS projects?
2 points by glawre 4y ago|2 comments
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by glawre 5y ago
Front Office financial technology roles spring to mind.
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by glawre 6y ago
In the UK this is not the case. Anyone can be photographed in a public place.
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by glawre 6y ago
My initial thought was that it could be related to the leak, however my email doesn't exist in HIBP. You're absolutely correct - someone - not me - has created an account using this unique email address.
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Ask HN: Has MyFitnessPal sold customer data to Netflix?
13 points by glawre 6y ago|7 comments

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