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I'm going to play devil's advocate here. As a developer, I quite like monorepos to a certain size (eg: until they get big enough that the tooling we typically use outside of big te…

Why not both? Driver-less (or even just with drivers) mini buses, without fixed stops and dynamic routes/stops based on demand. I guess you don't want to stop more times than neede…

My return on premium bonds this year (so far) is roughly 3.2% annualised - it's not bad considering that it's tax free, and secured by the government

Primary use I have for it is hosting internal services that I don't want on the public internet - do the same at work, it reduces the attack surface hugely

I believe they batch requests so the same weights in vram are shared across many requests https://www.baseten.co/blog/continuous-vs-dynamic-batching-f...

Unfortunately many banks in the UK no longer offer a web portal or physical branches. I'd love to see legislation that mandated a functioning web experience for critical services l…

I think it's a pretty reasonable split of responsibilities, and not uncommon. Eg: JDK + maven + junit + tomcat Making these components pluggable is arguably how we get innovation (…

As another commentator said "do nothing" is a decision. There's a distinction between "don't make a decision and hope someone else makes a decision" and "we acknowledge we're decid…

In terms of the expert observation, I've seen this happen a number of times in conjunction with "not invented here" (and probably been guilty of it myself at times) - "the commodit…

Yeah you could run a single instance with multiple frontends - but the way I'm currently running things the public haproxy instance doesn't have network connectivity to the private…

Finance somehow accidentally paid me approximately a whole years salary at once when they did the first payroll run after we were acquired. My first thought was I hope they didn't …

Personally I think wildcard certs are more secure in many instances - if you're just running one load balancer/reverse proxy then all the private keys are going to the same place a…

No, I'm not using the gog client (I'm on Linux). It's things like the Witcher 3's launcher. It's the steam version, but Crusader Kings also hangs for a bit if you block it's networ…

I'm aware, and I'm choosing GOG when I can now, though even then I see phoning home (or attempts to) happening (opensnitch is useful for that https://github.com/evilsocket/opensnit…

When I brought half life 2 there was a lag of about 2-4 years before I could play it for the first time - I didn't read the fine print, and on a dial up connection I couldn't get p…

They specifically mentioned HFT so I suspect they care a lot about processing speed

The UK tax system also has a bunch of unfortunate cliffs, and tapers that create >60% marginal tax rates and worse. There's a calculator here that illustrates it well https://tax-c…

I think the litmus test is roughly "is this obviously AI created" - if it's a well crafted PR that doesn't do the things you mention, and solves a genuine issue in a sensible way t…

I don't have so much knowledge about EV repairs, but I got burnt by this on ICE cars already - had a car fail a regular fitness test on suspension bushes, they weren't replaceable …

In every of these threads there's a bunch of snarky comments, either acting like this class of attack is exclusive to npm, or that nothing has been done about it. I don't think tha…

In my experience with a relatively modest number of concurrent workflows (think hundreds) you'll be pushing several thousand transactions per second through that postgres instance.…

I've used their (same family of company) email hosting services lightly in the past and found that to work well also. For the DNS I'm paying like $1 a month which is probably more …

It's not European, rather a New Zealand company but I find https://zonomi.com/ pretty good. There's a Lego resolver that works fine https://github.com/go-acme/lego - although my on…

One issue I've seen with LLM's is adding superfluous code in the name of "safety" and confidently generating a bunch of stuff that was useful in years gone by, but now handled corr…

In the UK tax on interest earned on plain savings accounts isn't deducted at source - so if you have a rainy day pot chances are you're required to register for self assessment and…