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by nlnn 5mo ago
I read that as "the business caring about what the spec says will never change" rather than "the spec will never change".
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by nlnn 5mo ago
I'm still an amateur and always had problems with this, got some advice from an experienced jazz pianist I know. His suggestions were roughly to: 1. Start by transcribing the root note that you hear 2. Go back and see if each chord sou
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by nlnn 8mo ago
Faktory was a big influence/inpiration for Ocypod[0], a job queuing system I wrote a few years back (similarly language agnostic). Much appreciated for making it all open source. [0]: https://github.com/davechallis&#x2F
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by nlnn 1y ago
Yeah, I wasn't disputing the car analogy, more the benefits. If I'm using GPT to benefit myself (e.g. working on a side project), that's great and saves me time to do other things. If I'm using it to benefit my employer,
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by nlnn 1y ago
The problem is that when it's for work, the company now knows you have access to a car, so sends you on 20x the trips. You have no more quality time, and your physical health suffers from lack of exercise.
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by nlnn 1y ago
I don't mind either personally, but I've had a few occasions where such things have caused issues with engineers that didn't have English as a 1st language. A fair bit of time was wasted on trying to understand some joke&#x2F
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by nlnn 1y ago
I've found it really varies by audiobook. Same as you, I found some I absolutely hated, especially where they added background music, sound effects, etc. - I just want the book, not a production. Others I found that a good narrator rea
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by nlnn 2y ago
It probably depends on the type of club/event. Back in the day, there were rave/dance type clubs which were all about the dancing. They'd typically have focused genres of music, well known or regular DJs, etc. Then there were
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by nlnn 2y ago
For sure, stuff like implants, cosmetic dentistry, braces, crowns etc. still cost a non-trivial amount (though hopefully most are once in a lifetime things).
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by nlnn 2y ago
It's pretty similar in the UK for private dentistry, x-rays ~£10-30, hygienist/scale/polish ~£50-120, filling ~£70-150, root canal/extraction ~£120-300. Dentist salaries seem to range between £70-200k depending on experi
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by nlnn 2y ago
If it's in the UK, they likely mean "listed" in this sense: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Listed_building
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by nlnn 2y ago
Whenever I've had this for a hobby, it's always been when I've had more time to think about the hobby than do the hobby. So this happened more when I had long commutes, so plenty of time to read about new gear, discuss gear o
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by nlnn 2y ago
I've been looking at these recently for a project. nng looks promising, but the guide from zmq seemed like a killer feature. It describes all sorts of high level patterns, gotchas, etc. For nng I mostly found API documentation, which m
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by nlnn 2y ago
Thank you for the links and update, much appreciated :)
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by nlnn 2y ago
What's the source for the 30/70 by the way? Someone else I spoke to recently mentioned that stat as well, but I couldn't see it reflected here: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1345939/gender-dist
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by nlnn 2y ago
I'm not sure there's much hope of this based on the product's name, but something which has always frustrated me about meetup is that distance to events is calculated by radius. I live near London, so tons of events come up i
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by nlnn 3y ago
Article content aside, I love the photography. The colours, composition and subjects seem like a perfect fit for both the article and its aesthetic. It's probably also the fact they all seem relevant, rather than being filler, stock ph
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by nlnn 3y ago
While it's probably too idealistic to be possible, I'd rather try and focus on getting people/society/the world to a state where it doesn't matter if everyone has access (i.e. getting to a place where it doesn'
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by nlnn 3y ago
Not in all cases - I know people that don't hold any special place in their hearts for humanity as a whole. They see human extinction as a possibility to accept, rather than as something to necessarily avoid. I know a few people like t
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by nlnn 3y ago
In my 40s, never wanted kids, and my position hasn't changed at all. I've never really had the urge, and it's only ever been friends/relatives pushing the "you should have kids, they're amazing!" narrative
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by nlnn 3y ago
This may be true in many cases, but I know quite a few people that chose not to have kids for other reasons. For some, these are possible medical complications, e.g. history of heart defects, high risk of childbirth fatality. For others, it
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by nlnn 3y ago
It's also about having more control over the viewing/listening experience for me. I pay for a bunch of services (Deezer/Netflix/Prime Video), but I'll often end up watching pirated versions of content I can legally
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by nlnn 3y ago
I've wondered this about a lot of hobbies, e.g. drumming, pottery, woodworking, anything that needs space or sound insulation. There's a lot you can do at shared spaces, but cost/availability/inconvenience of those is ju
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by nlnn 3y ago
I've been struggling with this for a while. I object to a lot that google does and have had various problems with their services in the past, enough that I spent a good about of time trying to switch away from their products. YouTube i
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by nlnn 3y ago
I'm also a very happy Kagi customer, the price is worth being able to ditch yet another Google product for me (being able to completely block Pinterest/Medium and other annoying domains is great). The only thing I still occasional
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by nlnn 3y ago
Very nice, looking forward to trying it later. This seems to be something that's been getting more popular/desirable, I noticed that there was even a physical pedal released by Chase Bliss recently that reproduces mp3 compression:
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by nlnn 3y ago
I use Rust a lot, and have been really keen on getting into Zig. Not sure if much has changed (it was a while back), but my biggest problem was with finding and using 3rd party libraries (mostly for the boring stuff like DB connectivity, JS
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by nlnn 3y ago
This has mostly been my experience too. I like using Rust because it reduces the cognitive load I have to deal with for many things (performance/safety are nice, but not a priority). As you've said, finding great libraries is easy
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by nlnn 3y ago
Absolutely - I don't see code reviews as a replacement for mentoring, more as something to augment it, or direct future mentoring sessions. I've had quite a few experiences where I've suggested a change in a code review, and
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by nlnn 3y ago
One goal that I think often gets missed out of code review guides is education. To me, code review is not just there to produce better software, but also better developers. It's a great place to talk about tradeoffs, alternative approa

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