jen729w

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by jen729w 12d ago
Which is why the only people authorised to declare an incident are your incident managers. They follow the published guidelines which dictate what's a Sev 2 and what isn't. A manager of a service may not declare their own service
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by jen729w 12d ago
Fix your relative understanding of how much the average book makes.
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by jen729w 13d ago
Haven't you been served the videos on LinkedIn where people have a thing strapped around their mouth that they can talk into? Apparently it traps the sound so your coworkers can't hear you. Of course they're mercilessly mocki
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by jen729w 13d ago
I heard (via Steve Novella of the Skeptic's Guide) that there was similarly light evidence to support flossing, but mostly because nobody's bothered doing the studies. The reason for that? It's obvious that flossing is going
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by jen729w 14d ago
1Password offers a lot more functionality than, say, Apple Passwords. Apple Passwords will store a user/pass combo for a site. That's it, feature list over. 1Password will let you configure how those things autofill, it provides a
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by jen729w 14d ago
> The problem is not smartphones per se. … They let you access information and entertainment wherever you are. This is the exact problem with smartphones.
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by jen729w 14d ago
Discussed here last month. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49005973
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by jen729w 14d ago
The difference being that the story he's telling is "you'll make money" and he's usually right.
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by jen729w 14d ago
I was thinking about this as I walked earlier. People who "make predictions" are like psychics. Unless those predications are uncannily good – in which case we call that person an analyst – we can assume that the person is either
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by jen729w 15d ago
It seems you missed this part of my very short comment. > That's fine. Do what you do.
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by jen729w 15d ago
But this doesn't excuse Ed making a living from awful predictions, surely? If you realise you're bad at something it seems immoral to keep charging people for it.
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by jen729w 19d ago
This guy – whose RSS feed I subscribe to – makes a living [0] by being anti-AI. That's fine. Do what you do. But don't read this article as any sort of science. It's massively opinionated rage-bait. [0]: https://ww
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by jen729w 20d ago
Mind blown. Thanks. I'm British and I've had a debit card since I was 16 which is a loooooong time ago now, let me tell you.
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by jen729w 20d ago
I run an online store selling e-stuff. I offer Stripe by default, and a 'use PayPal' link on the side. It accounts for about 20% of my sales. I was about to write 'overwhelmingly Europeans' and I thought I better check.
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by jen729w 20d ago
But you have a Visa/Mastercard, surely? A thing with 16 digits that you can plug into the Stripe checkout screen? I have, but never use, a 'credit card'. The thing I use every day is a 'debit card', where the money
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by jen729w 20d ago
> would be 100ms slower, who cares It's almost like you didn't read the article.
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by jen729w 20d ago
Am in Japan now and can confirm: you got a broken one. It's magically fast, everywhere. I prefer it even at the 7-eleven. Why wait the interminable 2 seconds for your Visa 'cardo touchy' to work when Suica is literally instan
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by jen729w 26d ago
I'm Johnny.Decimal. [0] I use an Obsidian vault and my system. "It's at 23.16", I tell Claude. From that it can instantly find my notes and files. No extra software needed. Just some basic structure. Claude loves it. [1]
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by jen729w 26d ago
This is the way. Mine looks like `ctx: 0k / Fable 5 high`. When ctx ⪆ 200k, time to start a new session. ```statusline-command.sh #!/bin/sh input=$(cat) model=$(echo "$input" | jq -r '.model.disp
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by jen729w 1mo ago
You're at work. You need to produce an artefact – a project proposal, say. 100-odd lines of Gantt, costs, that your BD team will send to the client. You get Copilot to do this for you. Later at the review meeting, errors are found. A b
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by jen729w 1mo ago
You'd rather the banal corporate beige in every other handbook? At least this reads like someone means it. I 100% agree with the sentiment. If I had staff, it's the benchmark I'd apply (even if I did word it a touch different
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by jen729w 1mo ago
> I wonder if Opus could be prompted to respond in simpler prose via agents.md God knows I've tried. I've got a variant of the ASD-STE100 trick which does the job, mostly, at the start … but get to about 100k of context and it
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by jen729w 1mo ago
Aha! I was trying to figure out the colour of the E5/H5 Shinkansen that are used on the Tokyo-Morioka-Aomori (Hayabusa/Yamabiko) line. This is it. https://kagi.com/images?q=e5+h5+shinkansen&r=au&sh=fWcD0dVp
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by jen729w 1mo ago
Tangential story. I used to work for one of Australia's 'Big 4' banks. One night I was working in one of the 2 'tier 1' DCs. The place was chock-full of ancient kit. Old mainframes. Tape drives. Nothing in a locke
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by jen729w 1mo ago
> We have to escape this mentality that anything that makes money is valid, that the money itself is the validation of "rightness". I agree. But. I run an online business. It's tough. I scrape by. GP noted that the skeezy
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by jen729w 1mo ago
And much of East Asia. "Potatoes ‘boil’ in the ground as record heatwave sweeps across swathes of Asia" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/13/asia-heatwave-...
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by jen729w 1mo ago
Unfortunately this clip cuts just before the most emotional part. At 01:29 as he's about to break down, he says – this is my memory, sorry, paraphrasing: "Nothing I ever do again…" – and then, having barely held it together f
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by jen729w 1mo ago
I just discovered typhoon/cyclone predictions and they're insane. I get mine via https://zoom.earth (whose iPhone app is terrific). Here's a selection from Typhoon Dolphin, currently sitting off the east coast of
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by jen729w 1mo ago
Reeks of AI. Dripping in it. So does that make it worse? At this point, I'm sorry, it does.
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by jen729w 1mo ago
Encourage them to move their money to where it's at least more difficult to access. Recently I discovered that my mam – a middle-class ex-civil-servant, not rich, but not poor – had £++ sitting in the account that was linked to the Vis

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