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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 message that was non-bloking of edits at the bottom of the window. It may have been due anyway but was shown as problematic in the same moment.
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.
Semantic merge. PlasticSCM had that a feature many years back
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 organizations.
e.g. Change of pandemic messaging in early 2020 from "covid transmits by droplets and fomites and 2 meters and handwashing keep you safe" to "covid is airborne and fills a room like smoke" (and multiple mitigations around that) was attempted in groups by multiple expert scientists and ultimately took years when it needed to be done fast. One key moment: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22where+is+your+evidence+li... You can come with evidence for those tough questions to support your position, but one grandee scoffs at your suggestion in the meeting you networked hard to get and there's no recovery.
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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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. Before that I was aiming for the same with Bastille and had got to the give up stage because it felt too fiddly to set up. This was a year ago. Maybe its better now
Note to self: look for second hand unlocked Pixel 10 pro!
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... ... "In the 1700s, large scale sport shooting and sheep grazing began to leave its mark on the landscape. Overabundant herbivores and over grazing, alongside regular burning, prevented woodlands from naturally regenerating, causing soil erosion, soil acidification, flooding, biodiversity loss and more"
And - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuTV1SiYeu4 - is a longer story that bubbled up in social media a few months ago. Maybe not Hacker News.
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 a tests-pass situation and will pass the git hash to the portal system for release, which just runs compile and making the binary. Well, not all CI runs would result in a release, of course. Then the package portal's own software kicks in to calculate an independent since-last-release report that's attached alongside the maintainer release notes.
All such portals upgrade their hash/sig noting of binaries, and keep those in a history retaining merkle tree of sorts. Of nothing, else a git repo. Something like this https://github.com/hboutemy/mcmm-yaml/blob/master/aws/sdk/ko... but with SHA256s, and maybe not the entire world on one repo.
Exciting .. I'm typing on that HP Dragonfly now :) Google - put me in the testing group pls - Paul H
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.
I have not met a ThinkPad I didn't want to chisel the PgUp and PgDn keys off
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
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!
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 non-repudiable era, please.
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 classloaders - a standout feature since 1995.
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 thought as to when the divergence happened: 1908 short story by O. Henry titled "Buried Treasure."
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. This was nine years ago and she counts herself as cured, though to has a follow up once a year with the same team. The treatment is expensive, and though this was all UK National-Health-Service linked, the NHS is seeking cheaper MS treatments now: https://www.mssociety.org.uk/research/latest-research/latest... (Metformin, ALA, ?) There was a trial before this trial - some 20 people in Canada (?) and a couple died. In the 100 person trial they changed the selection criteria for patients, and I'd like to think nobody died cos of the treatment, but I've not heard anything to be able to add a figure. Its Mexico only now perhaps, people did self-fund to go to Moscow for the same treatment: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-54560236. These two ladies are not updating how it went for them, years later, but one is on Instagram living a normal life, and the other Facebook
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 again they forget about tests being important.
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-functionally and for it to help you put that into words to feel back to the contributor. Basically the playbook from https://paulhammant.com/images/SimonSinghsFermatExcerpt.jpg
That book is new to me. I wrote https://paulhammant.com/2013/05/07/android-and-the-art-of-wa... on Google vs MSFT and phones before the book. Mine's a perspective that doesn't mention Nokia or its leadership.
I did own a Treo and loved it up to the OG iPhone - I repaired the eff out of it in the hope that something worthy would come along. I kidded myself I would write apps for it. I'd previously played with Simbian tech (and met a very bitter Simbian team dev in London one "eXtreme Tuesday Club" meetup in 2003). I had a Psion Organizer way back and Palm pilot. I thought Palm's WebOS stood a chance. I still own a Ubuntu Phone that I don't use - single script QML apps would have been the killer, but all that's passed now.
A more up to date fork? https://github.com/onlinedj/QRV (last commit 4 yrs ago)
Returned deposit, or some civil-law settlement from wire-fraud forging (criminal law) documents is the goal?
At this stage, agency must either:
Option A: Return the deposit themselves immediately (since they claim to be mere intermediaries, surely they can recoup from their client)
Option B: Provide full landlord details AND actively facilitate the return by compelling their client to comply with the law
The pdf-forgery and the back and forth with the agency is huge shaming fun, but the deposit is the goal.
I'd be less worried about Vibe coded if there were also comprehensive unit and component tests, but it looks like there is none
Oh,systemd-nspawn is very cool.
Thank you for TaOS, Chris. 1991 give or take. There's scans of byte mag from back them, but here's one article as words not a PNG - https://sites.google.com/site/dicknewsite/home/computing/byt... (dick pountain's pages - The Taos Operating System (1991))
eval_js()- allows R code to execute JavaScript and manipulate DOM elements - neat.
Air ducts (mostly hidden in cavities or attics) could get some disruption from c-tubes. You'd glue the cut sections of flat polyprepylene into c-tubes. Not quite sure what the angle joiners would look like. They can't assume 90 degrees .. or can they for a subset of uses?