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I read that as "the business caring about what the spec says will never change" rather than "the spec will never change".

I'm still an amateur and always had problems with this, got some advice from an experienced jazz pianist I know. His suggestions were roughly to: 1. Start by transcribing the root …

Faktory was a big influence/inpiration for Ocypod[0], a job queuing system I wrote a few years back (similarly language agnostic). Much appreciated for making it all open source. […

Yeah, I wasn't disputing the car analogy, more the benefits. If I'm using GPT to benefit myself (e.g. working on a side project), that's great and saves me time to do other things.…

The problem is that when it's for work, the company now knows you have access to a car, so sends you on 20x the trips. You have no more quality time, and your physical health suffe…

I don't mind either personally, but I've had a few occasions where such things have caused issues with engineers that didn't have English as a 1st language. A fair bit of time was …

I've found it really varies by audiobook. Same as you, I found some I absolutely hated, especially where they added background music, sound effects, etc. - I just want the book, no…

It probably depends on the type of club/event. Back in the day, there were rave/dance type clubs which were all about the dancing. They'd typically have focused genres of music, we…

For sure, stuff like implants, cosmetic dentistry, braces, crowns etc. still cost a non-trivial amount (though hopefully most are once in a lifetime things).

It's pretty similar in the UK for private dentistry, x-rays ~£10-30, hygienist/scale/polish ~£50-120, filling ~£70-150, root canal/extraction ~£120-300. Dentist salaries seem to ra…

If it's in the UK, they likely mean "listed" in this sense: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Listed_building

Whenever I've had this for a hobby, it's always been when I've had more time to think about the hobby than do the hobby. So this happened more when I had long commutes, so plenty o…

I've been looking at these recently for a project. nng looks promising, but the guide from zmq seemed like a killer feature. It describes all sorts of high level patterns, gotchas,…

Thank you for the links and update, much appreciated :)

What's the source for the 30/70 by the way? Someone else I spoke to recently mentioned that stat as well, but I couldn't see it reflected here: https://www.statista.com/statistics/…

I'm not sure there's much hope of this based on the product's name, but something which has always frustrated me about meetup is that distance to events is calculated by radius. I …

Article content aside, I love the photography. The colours, composition and subjects seem like a perfect fit for both the article and its aesthetic. It's probably also the fact the…

While it's probably too idealistic to be possible, I'd rather try and focus on getting people/society/the world to a state where it doesn't matter if everyone has access (i.e. gett…

Not in all cases - I know people that don't hold any special place in their hearts for humanity as a whole. They see human extinction as a possibility to accept, rather than as som…

In my 40s, never wanted kids, and my position hasn't changed at all. I've never really had the urge, and it's only ever been friends/relatives pushing the "you should have kids, th…

This may be true in many cases, but I know quite a few people that chose not to have kids for other reasons. For some, these are possible medical complications, e.g. history of hea…

It's also about having more control over the viewing/listening experience for me. I pay for a bunch of services (Deezer/Netflix/Prime Video), but I'll often end up watching pirated…

I've wondered this about a lot of hobbies, e.g. drumming, pottery, woodworking, anything that needs space or sound insulation. There's a lot you can do at shared spaces, but cost/a…

I've been struggling with this for a while. I object to a lot that google does and have had various problems with their services in the past, enough that I spent a good about of ti…

I'm also a very happy Kagi customer, the price is worth being able to ditch yet another Google product for me (being able to completely block Pinterest/Medium and other annoying do…