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by rootsofallevil 9mo ago
I've seen these mysterious and unexplained 503s occur Solution: 1. Delete Function App 2. Deploy again 3. Profit?
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by rootsofallevil 1y ago
Nuclear doesn't have a great record in other countries either. I might have the wrong figures but Hinkley Points C is over 2 times over budget and likely to be 5+ years late. The exemption being France and maybe China? France did a pro
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by rootsofallevil 1y ago
> Beyond the obvious chatbots and coding copilots, curious what people are actually shipping with LLMs. We're delivering confusion and thanks to LLMs we're 30% more efficient doing it
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by rootsofallevil 1y ago
> you can get 80-90% of the way there in a minute or two with AI assistance. That just leaves the other 80-90% to do manually ;)
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by rootsofallevil 1y ago
I haven't really done any c# for 5+ years. What has changed? I remember trying to effectively reverse-engineer a codebase (code available but nobody knew how it worked) with a lot of DI and it was fairly painful. Maybe it was possible
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Don't Fear GenAI, Fear the MBAgentsia(eneigualauno.com)
2 points by rootsofallevil 1y ago|1 comments
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Inteviewing Is a Drunkard's Search(eneigualauno.com)
4 points by rootsofallevil 1y ago|1 comments
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by rootsofallevil 2y ago
> I think performance under pressure is a virtue. An important job is never going to be entirely free from stress - you want somebody reliable who will take that in their stride, you don't want someone who will buckle when things ge
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Ask HN: C++ or Pseudocode for teaching high schoolers
1 points by rootsofallevil 4y ago|5 comments
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How do I import JSON into this controller?(old.reddit.com)
1 points by rootsofallevil 5y ago|0 comments
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by rootsofallevil 5y ago
>I wonder if tech is unique in having an implicit mistrust for everything on the resume. I've worked at several large companies where people don't even bother looking at them before interviews. I blame the FizzBuzz blogpost ( h
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by rootsofallevil 5y ago
> If I'm doing something complex enough to really benefit from "everything is and object" then why not just use a more capable language like python? I've seen this line of reasoning mentioned a lot but never justifie
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Ask HN: How do you care, not too much or too little, just enough?
3 points by rootsofallevil 5y ago|0 comments
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by rootsofallevil 5y ago
I don't know, maybe things are different in the UK but I'd say that about 50% of the job ads I see have a salary range. Is there any point in applying for a job without a good idea that they can match your salary expectations?
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by rootsofallevil 5y ago
Talk to people in places like Germany and you might get a different take about bad/good unions
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by rootsofallevil 5y ago
but does your manager? or does s/he actually only see the pizza guy delivering the pizza?
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by rootsofallevil 5y ago
>There will be false positives, but the rate is low What do you base this on? My experience is that if you are perceived to be good you can get away with being a low performer for a lot longer than if you are not perceived to be good, I
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by rootsofallevil 5y ago
>One never knows what the future may bring. Exactly, so make the changes when you need them, otherwise you are relying on hitting the abstraction lottery
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by rootsofallevil 5y ago
that's an interesting take, what would you consider strawman arguments in the article?
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by rootsofallevil 6y ago
it would be more accurate to say: Would I bet $20/day that something will happen to this car that would make the rental car company want to be reimbursed for? Depending on rental car company the limits of scratches, dents etc .. can be
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by rootsofallevil 6y ago
> 1) The speed limit obviously an arbitrary choice - the chance of death is decent at 50k/h (standard "town" speed limit in Slovenia) (so why not 40hm/k or 30km/h), and e.g. Germany has no speed limit on the high
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by rootsofallevil 6y ago
> If you treat every book too seriously you just waste your time and kill the pleasure of reading. I gave up on reading non-fiction seriously as I realized that I started to skew non-fiction books due to taking them too seriously. I, now
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by rootsofallevil 6y ago
> Patriotism is the belief that your country is the best by virtue of you having been born in it I can't find the original quote but I 100% agree with you that it is pretty odd to take pride in something you have an extremely tangen
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by rootsofallevil 6y ago
> does have a history of dubious at best procurement That is a very tactful way of describing what has gone on in this country for a while
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by rootsofallevil 6y ago
> I don’t care what my language will let me do, I care more about what my language won’t let me do. I think this is the best summary of the article. In short, please protect me from my own stupidity and/or laziness.
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by rootsofallevil 6y ago
would you say that you trusted your manager enough not say anything or were you just venting and maybe revealed too much? For me, potential job changes is the only thing I will lie about to a current manager. I appreciate that a manager mig
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The remote village that built one of the fastest internet networks in the UK(theconversation.com)
3 points by rootsofallevil 6y ago|0 comments
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by rootsofallevil 6y ago
> I'd like team size cubicles. For a while we had 1st and 2nd line support on the other side of the aisle from us on a floor that had ~ 75 people working there, it was so hard to concentrate. My boss was trying to get a room built f
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by rootsofallevil 6y ago
> I feel like you'd miss out on so much collaborative effort and serendipitous & spontaneous conversations with colleagues that solve problems out of the blue This happens for sure In my experience the ratio of beneficial to det
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by rootsofallevil 6y ago
I've seen a few of these and, as somebody without anything to do with the running of the email servers, I can say that they have been quite good fun to watch. The right thing to do, of course, is email the whole group asking them to st

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