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I've seen these mysterious and unexplained 503s occur Solution: 1. Delete Function App 2. Deploy again 3. Profit?

Nuclear doesn't have a great record in other countries either. I might have the wrong figures but Hinkley Points C is over 2 times over budget and likely to be 5+ years late. The e…

> Beyond the obvious chatbots and coding copilots, curious what people are actually shipping with LLMs. We're delivering confusion and thanks to LLMs we're 30% more efficient doing…

> you can get 80-90% of the way there in a minute or two with AI assistance. That just leaves the other 80-90% to do manually ;)

I haven't really done any c# for 5+ years. What has changed? I remember trying to effectively reverse-engineer a codebase (code available but nobody knew how it worked) with a lot …

> I think performance under pressure is a virtue. An important job is never going to be entirely free from stress - you want somebody reliable who will take that in their stride, y…

My sister is a substitute teacher, not in the US, who has to teach a learn to program class and apparently the options are either C++ or pseudocode. What would you choose and why?

>I wonder if tech is unique in having an implicit mistrust for everything on the resume. I've worked at several large companies where people don't even bother looking at them befor…

> If I'm doing something complex enough to really benefit from "everything is and object" then why not just use a more capable language like python? I've seen this line of reasonin…

I normally really care about work, about doing things right, or at least my version of right, anyway, but something odd happened last year, I moved companies just as the lockdown s…

I don't know, maybe things are different in the UK but I'd say that about 50% of the job ads I see have a salary range. Is there any point in applying for a job without a good idea…

Talk to people in places like Germany and you might get a different take about bad/good unions

but does your manager? or does s/he actually only see the pizza guy delivering the pizza?

>There will be false positives, but the rate is low What do you base this on? My experience is that if you are perceived to be good you can get away with being a low performer for …

>One never knows what the future may bring. Exactly, so make the changes when you need them, otherwise you are relying on hitting the abstraction lottery

that's an interesting take, what would you consider strawman arguments in the article?

it would be more accurate to say: Would I bet $20/day that something will happen to this car that would make the rental car company want to be reimbursed for? Depending on rental c…

> 1) The speed limit obviously an arbitrary choice - the chance of death is decent at 50k/h (standard "town" speed limit in Slovenia) (so why not 40hm/k or 30km/h), and e.g. German…

> If you treat every book too seriously you just waste your time and kill the pleasure of reading. I gave up on reading non-fiction seriously as I realized that I started to skew n…

> Patriotism is the belief that your country is the best by virtue of you having been born in it I can't find the original quote but I 100% agree with you that it is pretty odd to …

> does have a history of dubious at best procurement That is a very tactful way of describing what has gone on in this country for a while

> I don’t care what my language will let me do, I care more about what my language won’t let me do. I think this is the best summary of the article. In short, please protect me fro…