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by hopeless 3mo ago
My first thought would be that they've been hacked (or something else, like a CRM attached to their systems, has).
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by hopeless 9mo ago
A bit of a bizarre post since to_sgid has existed forever to generate signed global ids. Global IDs are probably one the most powerful and underrated features of Rails but regular global ids are only supposed to be used internally (e.g. job
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by hopeless 1y ago
What if agentic coding results in _less_ dopamine than manual coding? Because honestly I think that's more likely and jives with my experience. There's no flow state to be achieved with AI tools (at the moment)
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by hopeless 2y ago
I think a better way question is how much damage they might inadvertently do without being evil
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by hopeless 2y ago
ah, I think it was prior to the caching actions so I'll see if I can try again today. Thanks
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by hopeless 2y ago
I'd love to see some more detailed write-up on how to switch to Warpbuild for different tech stacks. I tried a few months ago when the instructions were basically just to change the runs-on type but IIRC it failed with an error around
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by hopeless 2y ago
I worked on agent-based systems >20 years ago, including large research projects and standardisation/interoperability work. Ultimately, that effort failed but I don’t see any awareness of that considerable volume of work reflected i
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by hopeless 3y ago
yes (at least, that's my theory and experience too)
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by hopeless 3y ago
https://jamie.ideasasylum.com Been blogging since ~2000 but archived most the old stuff. Just rebuilt it on Bridgetown, Tailwind, and Cloudflare Pages because I had some free time. Best recent blog post is about my re-discovery
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by hopeless 8y ago
I've been using https://www.tinycert.org/ for years which basically lets you create your own certificate authority and issue certs (which obviously aren't trusted by everyone but can be trusted by you/your te
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by hopeless 8y ago
yeah, I've had Americans say 6AM EST during the summer when it's EDT
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by hopeless 8y ago
A lot of people complained that GDPR was too onerous on small firms and that they should be exempt. According to LinkedIn https://ie.linkedin.com/company/exactis-llc Exactis has just 10 employees (obviously some error
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by hopeless 8y ago
This would make a great AR app: standing at the clifftops, looking out at the empty seas, only to reveal the wrecks and stories lying underneath
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by hopeless 8y ago
Probably the most famous wartime loss was the Lusitania off the Old Head of Kinsale. Its fame is partly that it was a Cunard ship like the Titanic, and partly because of the controversy around her cargo. Although it was a passenger liner, i
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by hopeless 8y ago
Practice spotting someone drowning from real videos of public swimming pools: http://spotthedrowningchild.com/ It's good but not perfect since the lifeguard thankfully rescues them before they drown but it's still
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by hopeless 8y ago
Particularly when the wrong flag is used. In this case, Gaelige is given the Scottish flag when it's actually the official language of Ireland in the EU. Scots and Irish Gaelige are not the same language. And Scotland is not an EU memb
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by hopeless 8y ago
If you outside the EU, it really isn’t about “anyone coming after you”. Even within the EU the enforcement actions currently err of the side of a stern warning rather than fine (except in the most deliberate cases). Though that may change.
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by hopeless 9y ago
Love the domain name! And some of the screenshots reveal an approach to hiring which is sorely lacking. At this stage, every single LinkedIn email and cold outreach email from a recruiter gets marked as spam. Not a single one seems to under
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by hopeless 9y ago
yep, you're not the first to recommend it. I was hoping there were a few others in the same vein
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by hopeless 9y ago
oops, yeah, Crew Resource Management is what I meant — things like making sure a junior officer can question a senior officer when she sees a problem. Crew Relationship Management is probably something else ;-)
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by hopeless 9y ago
There's a lot we can learn from aviation: accident retrospectives, checklists, master caution alarms, crew relationship management, human factors research, etc. However, my knowledge of these things is a bit piecemeal and anecdotal. Do
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by hopeless 9y ago
Yes, happy to pay more often. Or just have smaller releases. It must have been years since I last paid for Sublime
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by hopeless 9y ago
Congratulations! You've now secured your connection — now you have a server to secure. Honestly, it frightens me how many people run their own servers without monitoring, security precautions, keep patches up to date, etc. And all the
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by hopeless 9y ago
To take the opposite position: I'd _happily_ pay $100/year to ensure Sublime continues as an ongoing business. I've already bought my ST2 and ST3 licences and honestly just looking for a way to pay more if it would ensure con
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by hopeless 9y ago
It's not about the banks selling your information but about you having (or giving) access to your information. For example, manually retyping my bank account transactions into my accounting software will hopefully become a thing of the
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by hopeless 10y ago
I've always hated this question and the best I've managed is to pick what I thought was a biggish number and tell them that.
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by hopeless 10y ago
Personal bugbear: Ireland has a lot of connectivity but only three cables (two from Cork, 1 from the north-west) go to a destination other than the UK. All other Irish internet/telephony traffic goes through the UK. Remember that there
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by hopeless 10y ago
Metabase is my new favourite tool: I've probably use it every day to answer some question instead of dropping into the Rails console. Things like: what percentage of orders come from Stripe vs Paypal? Or export a list of users that mat
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by hopeless 10y ago
middleman -> s3 -> cloudfront. About $0.15/mo. Pros: Generally works well, speedy enough, free ssl with Cloudfront, cheap for many sites (most hosts charge per site which catches me out for little projects). I've mostly got
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by hopeless 11y ago
Background: I live in Ireland and hosted 7 hedgehogs in/around our garden last year. 2-3 are probably hibernating within 50m. I tag, track, name & write notes on them each evening. Anecdotally, I've never seen a badger around

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