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Mmm. Same argument for any seat of power though. “It’s not always going to be the (oligo|mono)polistic corporation you personally wanted” either. So we invent democracy, term limit…

One concerning feature of AI is the speed and volume it is capable of failing at if poorly controlled, whether or not it’s more accurate than humans. Even if humans failed at the s…

I enjoy React and I’d take it over all of those other things. I wouldn’t take React over htmx/data-star and server rendering if that’s all I needed, and even if I had a couple of p…

Console hardware is subsidized by games sales- it’s much cheaper than a similarly capable PC.

Similar sort of idea https://github.com/juxt/allium

Important content and information I want is on YouTube. I pay a YouTube subscription. I have ADHD. YouTube shorts are poison. I don’t want them. I keep clicking “not interested”. T…

VAT can be considered a regressive tax because the poorer I am, the more of my money I spend on goods and services, and the less on savings and investments. As a proportion of inco…

One infuriating thing about PACE is that even the fraudulent results only showed a 22% recovery rate. For a disease as serious as ME/CFS, a treatment with a 22% recovery rate is fa…

Another example of “entertainment” with scope for unconstrained spending: digital goods in the less scrupulous kinds of video games

I find LLMs are often better for X vs Y questions where search results were already choked by content farm chaff. Or at least LLMs present more concise answers, surrounded by fewer…

You should be able to choose to switch off security as you wish. You should also be able to choose to leave it on.

“About the same” is not “the same”, and there are tipping points. The gini coefficient has still seen a decent bump. But anyway, gini is a coarse measure. Look at the chart below t…

I agree with the broad point- as an industry we still fail to think of logging as a feature to be specified and tested like everything else. We use logging frameworks to indiscrimi…

Fakes over mocks every time

As a patient with an under-served condition I quite often focus on the financial rather than human cost of not having a better system of care when talking about it. If someone’s go…

Same situation. Going to the office and opening a Zoom call with colleagues in India and a city hundreds of miles away. Madness.

Built a significant system in Clojure (from several smaller systems). Same experience. I wish Hickey had built gradual typing in to the language. I still love Clojure anyway.

I think giving metrics and logging a location in a trace is really useful. But I still dislike OTel every time I have to deal with it.

…and then you have customers, who will start demanding things. Now your motivation is externalised. Stressful, but we do not tend to get things done without stress, and inertia is …

Dave’s channel on YouTube (just called Continuous Delivery I think) is also really good.

“Works on my machine, ticket closed”

25 years in tech and I’m still waiting for that free lunch

This. There is _so much_ fraud. People blame the payment processors, and they can certainly be opaque sometimes. But perhaps fairer to lay most of the blame on the fraudsters. I’m …

Indeed. Who else do you give the power to regulate companies to? There are no other options.

Went straight to the comments instead of the article and was surprised to discover that: "They’ll invite themselves to live in beaver dams and make for a vaguely tolerated roommate…