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by sjducb 13d ago
I think OP means the existing open source ecosystem, things like the Python requests library. There’s a real risk that AI kills contributions to traditional open source projects, and we all move to custom libraries written by our own AI.
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by sjducb 13d ago
Why is a try/catch wrapper clutter but a switch case is not?
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by sjducb 15d ago
Manageable during peacetime. In a war with another major power resources would be stretched thin and depriving bases of food would reduce combat effectiveness.
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by sjducb 28d ago
They go to meetings.
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by sjducb 1mo ago
You absolutely can deny long term productivity gains. Pre AI it took 100 engineers 5 years to get into a legacy code situation. Once you’re in a legacy code situation it’s very hard to add new features and your code is full of bugs. Fortuna
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by sjducb 2mo ago
That’s because big developers drip feed the houses onto the market…
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by sjducb 2mo ago
Agreed, Thats why the planning system needs to change.
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by sjducb 2mo ago
If you dump 100 new houses onto a small town you will cause a crash. My town has a population of 15000 people, ~250 houses are sold per year and there is a development with permission to build ~400 new homes.
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by sjducb 2mo ago
They get away with drip feeding because there’s no competition, because it’s really hard to get permission. A simpler planning system would allow smaller developers to operate and they would buy, build and sell as fast as they can. The reas
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by sjducb 2mo ago
Coming up with good French grammar quizzes. GPT5.6 is noticeably better. Older models usually pitch the difficulty too hard/easy and rely on me remembering the gender of words. I’ve not noticed a big programming improvement with the ne
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by sjducb 2mo ago
Agreed. All racism is wrong. Would you like to take back your “And rightfully so” comment, where you support explicitly racist laws?
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by sjducb 3mo ago
There are lots of white South Africans. I believe musk is one. Starlink is majority owned by a South African. The law isn’t about foreign/doneatic. It’s about black/white. Increasingly this state authorised racism is now extending
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by sjducb 3mo ago
Good programmers write code that’s so simple and obvious it looks like anyone could have written it. Bad programmers make the simplest things really complicated.
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by sjducb 3mo ago
Installing AC feels like admitting defeat. 30 years ago we thought we could stop this thing. Our world leaders came together, listened to scientists and agreed targets. Sadly we failed. Now I’m going to have to buy AC and make an even bigge
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by sjducb 3mo ago
> Most people should have learned at a young age that absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. I’m fairly sure that there are no lions in my house. Lions are quite large and I’m capable of detecting lion sized objects with my eyes
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by sjducb 3mo ago
Guidance in the UK is that you always attempt CPR with children and continue it until you get to hospital. This is mostly for the family. They have the knowledge that you did everything you could, and when the child is pronounced dead in ho
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by sjducb 3mo ago
I think there will be a 50%-80% reduction in social media use by teens. This is good enough. There will always be people who get round the ban.
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by sjducb 3mo ago
If you are unable to empathise with people who support the ban and dismiss them (and me) as idiots then your political action is unlikely to be successful. Every dad I know who works in tech supports some kind of restriction on social media
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by sjducb 3mo ago
You’re taking my argument to it’s extreme and giving it the least charitable interpretation. I want it to not be normal to spend all day on TikTok. If something is illegal and underground then it’s much easier for me as a parent to ban it f
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by sjducb 3mo ago
Most parents will take that over letting HS Tikky Tokky have access to their 14 year old boy.
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by sjducb 3mo ago
These laws exist because social media is extremely damaging to children, destroying their attention, exposing them to online bullying and extortion, and showing them horrific and traumatic content. Can anyone suggest a better way of protect
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by sjducb 4mo ago
CPAP machines require a prescription in the UK. https://www.hope2sleep.co.uk/cpap-machines-sleep-apnoea.html Amazon is breaking the law by shipping one to you. I suspect there is very little enforcement of this law, which i
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by sjducb 4mo ago
My experience with this is that contract is usually better paid than perm, so when it comes time to convert to perm I am not willing to take the pay cut so I go contract somewhere else, or remain with them as a repeat contractor. HR usually
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by sjducb 4mo ago
Because that would be a big pay cut for the friend. Contract day rates are higher than FTE day rates.
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by sjducb 4mo ago
Solution for who? Everyone with power in this situation wants to keep the building valuations artificially inflated. If local people want shops on their high street then the only real solution is incredibly agressive fines for vacant commer
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by sjducb 4mo ago
Loan to Value (LTV) is a percentage that tells you how safe a loan is. You divide the amount of the loan by the value of the building. So if I buy a building for 10 million with a 6 million loan and 4 million of my own money then I have an
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by sjducb 5mo ago
Cool idea, I tapped the vehicles / heavy equipment tabs expecting to be taken to listings. Nothing happened. Maybe these should all take you to a page that lets you sign up to see listings?
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by sjducb 5mo ago
Genuine question, why is this a tell? It looks like good dramatic writing to me.
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by sjducb 5mo ago
I like the Single responsibility part of SOLID. It makes the code much easier to reason about. The Liskov Substitution principle is also super important. Subclasses should fully replace the parent class. The I and O of solid are fine and do
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by sjducb 5mo ago
Normally there are more than 2 actors, which changes the reward structure. X spends resources to kill Y. This benefits X because X doesn’t have to compete with Y anymore. However Z also gets the benefits because they don’t have to compete w

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