rutthenut

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by rutthenut 3y ago
Buying an additional vehicle is more expensive and more wasteful than using a single vehicle even if that may not be economical
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by rutthenut 3y ago
Ha, I've found this attitude from a bunch of people in other parts of our extended company. Cloud means 'AWS', apparently. Servers only run Linux, supposedly. btw, Windows Clusters can do a good job, albeit an expensive way t
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by rutthenut 3y ago
>> We were told it was better to let the teachers teach otherwise kids learn bad habits or don’t engage. That sounds like very dubious advice to me, even if given with best intentions. Surely if parents read books to their kids, with
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by rutthenut 3y ago
I use booking.com but the user experience does really grate. Simple things such as putting in the location and date, to get back a list of properties that aren't actually available for my requested date. Then have to set a search filte
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by rutthenut 4y ago
As per https://youtu.be/k_Gn6a3WbYw?t=46
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by rutthenut 4y ago
Yep, technical debt and atrophy. If not paying-down that debt, it becomes like compound interest from a loan shark. If not applying maintenance, atrophy sets in and things get worse and worse.
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by rutthenut 5y ago
I believe the topic is about the miscarriage of justice based on how the post office and fujitsu wrongfully harassed and took people to court over bugs, which were known about by those organisations. Hence of relevance to Hacker News types.
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by rutthenut 5y ago
I do not agree with this argument >> The horrible truth is that if autonomous driving can save 1+ life, it's better than what we have now so we should keep it and accept that crashes will occur >> As that '1 life'
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by rutthenut 5y ago
In the UK at least, I'd say we have ended up in a situation where banks found that their approach to 'selling financial services' vastly abused their customers and now they are having to pay massive sums in compensation, they
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by rutthenut 5y ago
Search for "Laiki bank account" and that gives plenty of info about Cyprus money re-appropriation, for example. Iceland bank issues were widely covered too
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by rutthenut 5y ago
Wow, that's a very sad and scary tale! Is this from around 2013, or more recent?
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by rutthenut 5y ago
Bit like how people post pictures taken with their phones, using a 'nofilter' hashtag, entirely unaware that the phone software has applied a filter of some sort automagically. They don't post 'raw' images
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by rutthenut 5y ago
> No one has ever prevented a climate change induced event so far Well apparently the ban on CFCs has had a beneficial effect and the hole in the ozone layer is no longer the issue it had been
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by rutthenut 5y ago
Excel definitely opens CSV files, and Windows file associations tend to set that up by default. However, Excel then goes ahead with changing the content to often wrongly-assumed formats. My favourite hate is how it will convert mobile numbe
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by rutthenut 5y ago
Surprised you would think that JSON is more human-readable, as the layout of that makes it visually quite appalling - not so bad when through a pretty-printer utility, admittedly, but may as well go for XML as another use case
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by rutthenut 5y ago
Agree that the commma delimiter is a pain, as it is a frequently used character in the content. Then adding escape-type chars or quotes around fields just makes things more and more messy. Consider also that IBM EBDCIC and other non-ASCII c
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by rutthenut 5y ago
Useful economy figures, for sure. It's the average across Europe that I'd find really surprising, given how many older vehicles there will be, and not all diesels
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by rutthenut 5y ago
Wow! Average 57 mpg in Europe - really? Even for diesels, that sounds extremely optimistic; is that from manufacturer-supplied figures? US gallons happen to be smaller too, fwiw
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by rutthenut 5y ago
Yep, got a tablet here that is now a brick as Windows RT is no use
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by rutthenut 5y ago
That is only likely to apply in very small-scale environments or companies. And if only a single binary is produced, quite likely a single source code repo would be used as well - sounds like 'single developer mode', well 'sm
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by rutthenut 5y ago
We still receive junk mail with the postal deliveries a couple of times a month. Brown rubber bands too.
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by rutthenut 5y ago
> Engineers spend so much time waiting on compile, build, and deployment time Slowness in this processes can certainly frustrate and extend overall timeframes, but surely engineers must be capable of multi-tasking to some degree, and ab
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by rutthenut 5y ago
That lead developer was effectively the manager then. But you can't just leave all choices to developers, there has to be a commercial point to it all - that isn't something a lot of devs even consider. Technical changes may be gr
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by rutthenut 5y ago
That wouldn't necessarily be true though - some people could not afford to go through the work involved in upgrading from Java 8
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by rutthenut 5y ago
This is where a Docker/K8s containerised setup can help. Not trivial to get to, but for deve/test environments it can be really beneficial. Can also mean the same clean starting point for every series of tests, if new containers a
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by rutthenut 5y ago
Anecdotally, I don't think half of those in the UK have had a day or more of ill-effects afterwards. We do hear of those that get ill effects though, amplified by social media channels and press. You don't hear about the majority
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by rutthenut 5y ago
> so we'll accept the crappy AZ It's the use of crappy sort of phrases like this that lead to fear, uncertainty and doubt.
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by rutthenut 6y ago
> I would create an unshakeable confidence that I knew what I was talking about Is this self-confidence, making you feel you know what you are talking about? Or do you think it convinced/conned the audience by using such as a dubiou
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by rutthenut 6y ago
I think that sort of claim has been made for decades already, repeated by each generation of programming language, 4GL tools, AI and graphical tools.
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by rutthenut 6y ago
Sounds familiar. Product and sales areas of the business look at immediate revenues - and hopefully profit - but are always more keen to do that at the cost of increasing technical debt within the engineering side of the business. Unless sa

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