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by markmark 1y ago
Testing doesn't imply TDD.
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by markmark 1y ago
Any addition of labor will push down wages just be increasing competition for jobs, even if they are all paid the same.
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by markmark 1y ago
Completely agree with you. Every time I see yet another template language adding some clumsy for-each loop syntax I sigh. Just let us use a normal programming language. As an example I give you every template system ever invented. Devops to
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by markmark 2y ago
LifeTime Grand Prix has at least _some_ testing.
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by markmark 2y ago
The AI and Tooling support point is really just an extension of the Community and Ecosystem point. Even before LLMs React had an advantage in that every question you had was probably already on StackOverflow and there are mature React libra
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by markmark 2y ago
If you're right for 30 years in tech you're right, even if things eventually change.
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by markmark 2y ago
Does Azure? I think there's AWS then everyone else.
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by markmark 2y ago
The article describes what happened and it had nothing to do with Unisuper. Google deployed the private cloud with an internal Google tool. And that internal Google tool configured things to auto-delete after a year.
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by markmark 3y ago
Mandatory licensing would be wild. If LG invent something that makes TVs better should they have to licence it to Samsung? Or should they just be able to make better TVs and use their invention for market differentiation?
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by markmark 3y ago
At a place I was consulting about 10 years ago one of the internal guys on another product dropped the prod database because he was logged into his dev db and the prod db at the same time in different windows and he dropped the wrong one. T
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by markmark 3y ago
Lots of the fancy keyboards coming out at the moment are settling around the layout the advantage has had for decades (although usually without the nice curve the advantage has).
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by markmark 3y ago
Do you dual boot? I've got two bootable OSX partitions on my mac and this hit me when I updated.
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by markmark 3y ago
Erg, I ran into this on my mac twice when I upgraded. I have two bootable OSX partitions and it hit on both upgrades. I'm not really a mac guy and it took a _lot_ of messing around (and learning that DFU exists and what it does) to sor
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by markmark 3y ago
Around the time I got my A500, my neighbour's dad bought a PC that ran California Games in CGA at about one frame per second. I'm sure there were much better PCs available, but it didn't impress us kids much. They _did_ have
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by markmark 3y ago
I started undergrad at UQ in '93 and had internet via dialup to the uni I'm pretty sure that first year, but if not definitely by '94, and that was available to anyone who wanted it.
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by markmark 3y ago
There's an emergency call option from the lockscreen (the one where you enter your pin/swipe if you don't just use your fingerprint) which I have set off a bunch of time in my pocket. Luckily I have my emergency contact set t
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by markmark 3y ago
8000 votes out of 7.5 million members. I'm on r/nba every day and didn't see the poll. People will say statistically 8000 votes is sufficient for an accurate sample, but only if the voting isn't brigaded. All comments on
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by markmark 3y ago
I think many people didn't see or care about those original polls. All the subs I'm in that re-polled their users after the initial 2 day shutdown are now open as a result. The two that have stayed shut have not re-polled (and one
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by markmark 3y ago
They would only do the deal on the spot if that was their only option. But they have the option of spending $0 and having the majority of the users moving to the official app.
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by markmark 3y ago
Perhaps the part about it needing lookups of the unicode database and being dependent on the version of the database used?
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by markmark 3y ago
It's harder to do studies that seperate out adults who didn't have fluoridated water as children, but for example from https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23456704/ "In this nationally representative sample
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by markmark 3y ago
Here you go: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/003335491012500507 We've been putting fluoride in water for a long time, and there are multiple studies that have looking in to it, I don't know why
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by markmark 3y ago
I used to work at a small company where the most expensive licence was $10k. One of our big customers basically asked us to make a more expensive licence so they could give us more money to try and make sure we didn't go away.
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by markmark 3y ago
Classes still work fine if you want to keep using them.
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by markmark 3y ago
Nope.
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by markmark 3y ago
I've got an Android phone but I'd never waste my money nor time on an Android tablet knowing Google are going to lose interest in it in six months.
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by markmark 3y ago
Apple want you to buy multiple iPads.
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by markmark 3y ago
ChatGPT is (currently) like having an incredibly fast junior engineer working for you. You can ask it to do tasks for you and it will do them quickly, but you need to check its work. Sometimes it will be perfect, sometimes it will be right
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by markmark 3y ago
That page is showing generation not use. 83% of the power SA generated was renewable, but it wasn't enough to cover their use, so they imported 28% of their power from interstate, renewables cover 45% and the rest was gas. Other states
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by markmark 3y ago
The other key thing is SAs power use is far smaller than NSW, Victoria and Queensland. So while they can shutdown their coal stations and import if there is a shortfall, those bigger states can't. For example as I type this Queensland

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