paul_h

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by paul_h 7d ago
https://www.satherley.com/ seems to be empty of content :(
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by paul_h 7d ago
Nobody cares perhaps, but F5 as a refresh key came in the mid 80s (I was told it was a $1m of usability consulting). The midrange AS/400 got [CUA]( https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/3.1.0?topic=actions-defau
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by paul_h 7d ago
ThoughtWorks' in joke about pressuring leadership to get us off Notes and into the Google mail/docs regardless of the loss of easy apps: https://noteshater.blogspot.com
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by paul_h 8d ago
Update the original article :)
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by paul_h 8d ago
That's hard to read. The writing assums familarity too much. Decades, years, manufacturer names, references.
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by paul_h 1mo ago
I think all of Anthropic's own staff use --dangerously else they'd work on the usability of the massively imperfect 1-approve-once and 2-approve-forever multi-choice and outcome.
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by paul_h 1mo ago
Chris Hinsley started TaOS toward the end of the 80's .. Him sick of being asked by games industry managers to "do it again but for PC". By 1991 there was a start up, and by 1993 there were awards for his endian-independent V
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by paul_h 1mo ago
A fun hindsight LLM project :)
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by paul_h 2mo ago
Way back lots of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ore couln't bring cases against all because the expert witnesses (US law enforcement website trap-setters) wouldn't go to the UK to testify. How come
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by paul_h 4mo ago
I recall a couple of JetBrains staff visiting in 2008 to see IntelliJ's struggle with the size of checkout for AdWords. Soon after the reindexing front/center dialog moved from blocking and center of window, to a status line messa
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by paul_h 5mo ago
TL;DR: There once was a ledger at Uber On DynamoDB it ran like a dream, Fast writes at great scale, But costs set sail, And consistency wasn't what it seemed. I could not work "find someone to fire" into it, bu
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by paul_h 5mo ago
Semantic merge. PlasticSCM had that a feature many years back
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by paul_h 6mo ago
> Bzzt. Since all of these people are correct and smart, it is now your job to have great answers to their objections. Power assymetry and tenure are a factor. So is "culture eats strategy for breakfast" realities in organizati
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by paul_h 6mo ago
Awesome that LLM generated and still an engaging account. Automated testing (as a software improvement technique) is an AI blind spot. That tweak of spec is the iterative cycle, with no mention of additional automated tests is telling.
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by paul_h 7mo ago
no_unused_seconds_meme.jpg
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by paul_h 7mo ago
I was looking at TrueNAS CORE to see if it was a viable way to bsd-jail Linux containers. I'm really only doing this to get some protection from supply chain attacks given I'm fairly promiscuous at git-clone-and-run-a-build. Befo
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by paul_h 7mo ago
Note to self: look for second hand unlocked Pixel 10 pro!
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by paul_h 7mo ago
> Scotland has a lot of planted pine forests that have drowned out native species Team Land management for Grouse hunting enters the chat. https://www.mossy.earth/rewilding-knowledge/rewilding-scotla... ... "
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by paul_h 8mo ago
For a while, I've been thinking that open source package portals will at some point take over making of binaries that get released. Dev teams will run their own CI with whatever automated test pipelines they think is appropriate. For
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by paul_h 8mo ago
Exciting .. I'm typing on that HP Dragonfly now :) Google - put me in the testing group pls - Paul H
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by paul_h 8mo ago
Agree. But the first build you do after that clone/checkout is risky too. Maybe not as wide open, as the build-tool makers are a line of defence if they're acting on classes of vuln.
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by paul_h 8mo ago
I have not met a ThinkPad I didn't want to chisel the PgUp and PgDn keys off
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by paul_h 8mo ago
How bold to start with "Listen to me" then jump into something that doesn't make much economic sense and has not been properly considered
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by paul_h 8mo ago
He he, I might now be retiring my Ubuntu25 passwordless-sudoer NUC that's only for yolo mode projects. Or giving it more duties. Also - hello from Edinburgh!
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by paul_h 8mo ago
Brit here. UK Government's position "we will hold ourselves to equivalent standards via the Cyber Action Plan, just without legal obligations" -is institutionally equivalent to "trust the PDF." Fast forward to the n
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by paul_h 9mo ago
isolated-vm ( https://www.npmjs.com/package/isolated-vm ) here we come for increased sandboxing of node bits and pieces? And we are a year after Java took out the security manager that could sandbox jars in separate cla
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by paul_h 9mo ago
Diverged as well as standardized. I did some research into "out of pocket" and how it differs in meaning in UK-English (paying from one's own funds) and American-English (uncontactable) and I recall 1908 being the current tho
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by paul_h 10mo ago
My sister in law has a stem cell transplant under this team https://sheffield.ac.uk/neuroscience-institute/research/brea... for Multiple Sclerosis. It was a small multi-country trial of about 100 people, I recall.
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by paul_h 10mo ago
Agree. I'm having lots of fun with Gen-AI and I still have insights it does not. Test-at-the-same-time-as-prod-code is also doable with gen-AI. All the ones I tried are shit at testability by default in my experience. And every now and
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by paul_h 11mo ago
Ask AI number 2 to summarize the intention (look at the .patch) to markdown. Reset. Ask you AI to read the intention as of the orig author had written it, and say you've grave doubts about the contrib's functionally and non-functi

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