pards

23 時間前議論

> a light grey text on a white background

This makes the page SO hard to read. Why are "designers" still doing this? Have they no respect for their readers?

pards

23 時間前議論

> Maybe add a dedicated clear button.

It's tedious to have to hit DEL 6 or 7 times towards the end of the game. Maybe ESC could clear the whole word?

pards

23 時間前議論

This.

pards

14 日前議論

100%. It deserves more detail, too.

I've spent many hours explaining how idempotency is supposed to work, and why it's important. Most teams understand the need for it, but very few thought about it up front.

pards

15 日前議論

> I’ve been finding most restaurant dishes “low quality”

Many restaurants use pre-made components like sauces bought from restaurant wholesalers which explains a lot of the sameness across establishments.

Hollandaise from a bag? No thanks.

pards

15 日前議論

> > But when 6 people simultaneously tried to pay their share of the bill, chaos ensued.

> Hasn't that been a fact of life ?

I remember having to split bar tabs at the end of the night before phones. No calculators. Drunk people trying to do math is a spectacle to behold. Everyone throwing random cash amounts in the centre of the table, taking their own change, and one person attempting to reconcile the total then asking for more contributions if we were short.

Electronic bill-splitting is superior in just about every way.

pards

18 日前議論

> “We think that all of the platforms, including Meta, need to do more to protect their customers … from the dangers that are on their sites,” she says.

If the service is free, you're the product not the customer

pards

30 日前議論

Ref: https://youtu.be/yujF8AumiQo

pards

2 か月前議論

We recently had an issue with our production Oracle database. Our in-house DBAs spent hours trying to get the AI support bot to assign a real person to join the incident call. It took more than 2 hours to get an actual person on the call.

We literally pay hundreds of thousands a year in Oracle support contracts, and this is what we get? AI bots? Nope. Migrating to Postgres is now a top priority.

This "replace people with AI" nonsense has to stop. [0]

[0]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmarkman/2026/04/06/oracles-m...

pards

2 か月前議論

> When AWS first introduced a viable cloud to the world, it was amazing. Back in the 1990s when you wanted to implement an enterprise software solution, you first had to take a guess at what computing power you would need. Next, you would have to order hardware from companies like Sun Microsystems or Dell and that could take weeks if not months to be delivered. It would then need to be racked, powered and provisioned, and then you were screwed if you happened to undersize it or criticized if you spent too much and oversized it.

This is how many large enterprises still operate today. Ironically, the main argument is that it's faster to provision VMs on-prem than it is to get approval to run in the cloud.

Bureaucracy always beats tech.

pards

2 か月前議論

> I was unable to put clients on both Evidence and Prefect because the former failed to attend a sales meeting booked through their website and the latter failed to book a meeting after the ex-real estate agent they hired failed to actually schedule a meeting following outreach also through their website.

> the people I tried in Melbourne don’t check their sales inbox.

> because the firms I initially tried also don’t respond to their sales inbox.

> I cannot state this clearly enough – the bar is so low that it is hard to give people money.

It's amazing how frequently I encounter this phenomenon. I do the homework, choose a provider based on my research, reach out to the provider, and ... crickets.

pards

2 か月前議論

> Automation takes a lot of manual labour

That's a great quote.

https://xkcd.com/1205/

pards

2 か月前議論

I tried this (as a Canadian):

     1. It asks you to optionally sign up for a bunch of other services like Spokeo
     2. It asks for access to your email via Apple's Mail app which I don't use
     3. I got a lot of 404s anyway
     4. Many sites require manual intervention to work

Nice idea, but it needs a LOT of TLC to make it generally useful. I suspect that having a non-numeric "zip" code and a non-US address might be breaking a lot of the automation.

pards

2 か月前議論

> He argues that it's important to acknowledge that imperfection and work toward processes that improve results.

> One way to do that is to automate the prompting process in a way that makes it more repeatable. "When you do that, you identify where you're starting to get good results and you don't expect everybody to come up with a well-structured long prompt."

Wait. Where's the explanation on how to "automate the prompting process"?

pards

2 か月前議論

For the non-US readers:

> COBRA is the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act. It gives workers and their families who lose their health benefits the right to choose to continue group health benefits provided by their group health plan for limited periods of time under certain circumstances such as voluntary or involuntary job loss, reduction in the hours worked, transition between jobs, death, divorce, and other life events. [0]

[0]: https://www.dol.gov/general/topic/health-plans/cobra

pards

2 か月前議論

This design is perfect irony. I love it.

pards

2 か月前議論

It's scary. Our society is not set up to deal with mass unemployment.

pards

2 か月前議論

Nope. Banking.

pards

2 か月前議論

It's an investment that is not generating returns. It's inventory sitting on the shelf requiring ongoing maintenance costs but generating no income.