lifebeyondfife

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by lifebeyondfife 23d ago
I have shared this dream for 15 years https://lifebeyondfife.com/follies/real-games/ Finally got round to vibe coding something in Godot this summer for my city. It used GeoTIFFs on AWS S3 at s3://copern
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by lifebeyondfife 3mo ago
Can jump straight to https://www.ioccc.org/2025/#inventory
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The Three Layers of Software Engineering(layers.lifebeyondfife.com)
1 points by lifebeyondfife 5mo ago|0 comments
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The Three Layers of Software Engineering(layers.lifebeyondfife.com)
1 points by lifebeyondfife 5mo ago|0 comments
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by lifebeyondfife 2y ago
You're correct, the horizontal and vertical flips for the square, are already accounted for in the wreath product. And I miscounted the products themselves. Up to 1.2*10^12 symmetries.
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by lifebeyondfife 2y ago
The exponential number of symmetries present in sudoku problems, means that once you've found one valid instance, you've actually found up to 9! * 3!^4 * 8 which are exactly the same. The numbers themselves are all interchangeable
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by lifebeyondfife 3y ago
You can use the waybackmachine. This works for Worldle as well. http://web.archive.org/web/20231127182010/https://imois.in/g...
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Stop Saying Tech Debt(lifebeyondfife.com)
2 points by lifebeyondfife 3y ago|1 comments
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by lifebeyondfife 3y ago
Wait, But Why? has a fascinating series of posts on this. https://waitbutwhy.com/2013/10/why-procrastinators-procrasti... I bought the 52x90 poster where each square is a week of your life. I've filled in sig
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by lifebeyondfife 3y ago
Plug for my Constraint Solver if anyone wants a simple example https://github.com/lifebeyondfife/Decider
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by lifebeyondfife 4y ago
When I worked at Skyscanner, we'd volunteer at events where high school kids would be shown tech stuff. We'd setup Raspberry Pis with Minecraft on them and show them some basics of running Python scripts to alter the world (with t
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by lifebeyondfife 4y ago
Only US citizens are permitted to deploy code to the US government production servers, or look at the telemetry from those servers. (I'm a UK citizen, based in the UK, and I have local colleagues supporting products that are deployed t
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Today is the 1000th day of March, 2020(cov.idmar.ch)
3 points by lifebeyondfife 4y ago|1 comments
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by lifebeyondfife 4y ago
The pandemic is ongoing, but despite its lasting impacts e.g. hybrid or remote is the norm, many things are back to normal. One thousand days out, how are things for you?
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What are your engineering culture values?(lifebeyondfife.com)
1 points by lifebeyondfife 4y ago|0 comments
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by lifebeyondfife 4y ago
I created a CloudFormation script specifically to do this (including CloudFront for CDN). Yes, there's reasonable complexity, but it's a trade-off of security and configuration. As others noted, the documentation is good, and this
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by lifebeyondfife 5y ago
Budget: how many are working on the project? Features: what should the project do? Timeliness: when do you want the project done? You get to choose only two.
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by lifebeyondfife 5y ago
You're correct, yes, I didn't realise how generous the free tier is. If you're doing fewer than 500 updates per month, Cloudflare looks good https://pages.cloudflare.com/ Because I have other resources and pr
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by lifebeyondfife 5y ago
Familiarity with S3, Route53, and CloudFront was a draw for me personally. AWS is all about abstractions. Some of them are worth learning but increasingly there's a wall of options in AWS and, for me, it's not worth spending time
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by lifebeyondfife 5y ago
Nothing particularly novel but the setup of configuring CloudFront to connect to S3 and handle SSL termination, a DNS record pointing to CloudFront, an S3 bucket to hold the contents, an S3 bucket security policy which restricts access just
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by lifebeyondfife 5y ago
Cloudflare Pages looks like a more productionised version of this, yes. In terms of advantages, I'd say price, and the maturity of using AWS. I deploy a static site with a GitHub Action (look at my other repo whisky-menu for how to do
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Show HN: Simple CDN backed static website in AWS(github.com)
18 points by lifebeyondfife 5y ago|11 comments
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by lifebeyondfife 5y ago
Completing a PhD is risky. I'd recommend reading this to see some of the ways it can go wrong: https://100rsns.blogspot.com/ Ultimately it's a big commitment. Speak to as many people as you can who've walked
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Hiring Advice for Bootcamp Graduates(lifebeyondfife.com)
1 points by lifebeyondfife 5y ago|0 comments
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by lifebeyondfife 5y ago
I agree with you, those are absolutely fundamental. The bar should be set higher though, especially for senior engineers. https://benjiweber.co.uk/blog/2021/04/10/dont-hire-top-talen... This is why I str
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by lifebeyondfife 5y ago
I'm an engineering manager in my 40s and I've hired engineers older than me. I appreciate you're absolutely correct, age discrimination does happen. One thing to consider for older engineers is that, though your technical exp
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by lifebeyondfife 5y ago
This is a great question. Diversity is the solution to groupthink. From the book Surrounded By Idiots, the author demonstrates that people with different backgrounds and behaviour models come together to make stronger teams. As engineers be
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by lifebeyondfife 5y ago
Working on the most important items: automate measuring the most important metrics for your team. Releases, paging events, outages, bugs, support issues. You can look at your data and get a feel for trends and whether you need to focus on q
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by lifebeyondfife 6y ago
This is a great website... favourited. I think tech workers (office workers in general) definitely should be exercising more and increasing strength, but it is so easy to do so in an inefficient or dangerous way. Targeting a single muscle g
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High level concepts for becoming fit(lifebeyondfife.com)
2 points by lifebeyondfife 6y ago|0 comments

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