mnd999

Why does a robotic vacuum cleaner need to connect to the internet at all? Mine doesn't (Neato Botvac D85) and it works fine.

Not if all the slots are booked up online. Look at what happened with driving tests. They moved it online and all the tests are booked by bots and sold to the highest bidder.

Yeah, this has to be the way. Suppliers get paid.

The major vendors are adopting it. Most people don't read the ISO SQL spec to learn SQL. They read their vendors documentation.

Is that you Chris? I think I did a CS poster project with you.

It likely won’t meet European safety standards so there’s a whole market it will just miss. But maybe it’s too big to be practical in European cities anyway.

I’ve had ads for drugs, cloned credit cards and devices for stealing cars with keyless entry all in the last month on a major social network. Reported, but they don’t seem to care.

Sure, but its NYE. In most neighbourhoods there are going to be parties anyway, AirBnB or no.

Parties are not the problem. Damages, illegality and annoying the neighbours are what they should be trying to detect. It's a shame that people planning a small get together with friends should have to suffer because some idiots like to trash places.

I've definitely seem benefits from working in open plan. Sometimes it's helpful to overhear what others are doing because maybe they're lacking some information or maybe that thing has already been done elsewhere. Does a fresh graduate with no experience really want to be in an environment where everyone is shut in an office?

Equally, sometimes it's better to be quiet. Sometimes, quiet can be at home but sometimes homes are not quiet or uninterrupted.

Flexibility would be great, but I think a private office will always be seen as more prestigious, so those with that facility are unlikely go give it up so sit in a cube / open plan with the team, even where that would actually be beneficial.

My views are my own and as such I do not disclose my employment or otherwise on here.

I did think twice about posting it, as I don't usually but it's relevant and i might be helpful so why not? If you don't like it, thanks for the downvote.

Neo4j are mixing vector embeddings with knowledge graphs - https://neo4j.com/generativeai/

It doesn’t even work on half of the GPUs (Navi23 hello). It’s like they’re not even trying which is insane when there’s so much cash on the table.

I’m sure you know this but the reason for taking computation off the database is that it’s much easier to horizontally scale a stateless middle tier than it is to scale a sql database.

Some DBAs I’ve worked with even advocated for taking sorting off the database. I wasn’t entirely convinced by that one.

My server side language in this case was Scala, so it wasn’t slow, just memory hungry.

I think it started as pretty much crud and then just grew features that were more complex backend logic. But I was the one brought in to fix it, not the original architect - he had left the company at this point so I don’t know the whole history.

The only postgREST app I ever worked on was awful. Why? Because like most of these ‘simple’ frameworks it’s only simple until your requirements get complicated. Then the original authors had to resort to writing a ton of stored procedures on the database to get back the results they wanted and that led to scalability problems. The solution, as always, is go back to SQL.

Yes, but any unknown password is enough to put most people off, particular if the contents of the wallet is unknown.

There isn’t really a left in the US. You have right and righter.

Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.

I think ‘readily accessible’ was the important bit.

I always thought slashdot’s community moderation and meta-moderation was excellent. I always thought it curious that nobody copied it.

Of course, dang based moderation also works well but you need a dang for that.

Applets are still a thing. We just call them webasm and canvas these days.

There's no power rail. It's overhead power - that was the problem. According to the union a manager providing strike cover was responsible for damaging the overhead lines - https://www.standard.co.uk/news/transport/gwr-train-cables-p...

As usual, his tweet on the subject is excellent - https://nitter.net/JamesBlunt/status/1733129524467163589#m

If they’re lying the ad should be banned, it would be in the UK. But anyway, who cares? Racing sports cars is not what you buy a truck for, and even if you did the sports car would destroy it on corners. Make the truck slower, make it cheaper. It’s for moving stuff from a to b.

If you really need a job why would go go through these processes? They’re long and complicated and it’s basically a crapshoot anyway because they do it so badly. Even if you get it you’ll have no negotiating power so you’ll get screwed on comp.

Take a contract position or something else less hard to get, get more financially secure and then go for the faang role.

The arrogance of these companies makes me never want to work there. I did go through the Apple process once though and it was pretty much as described.

And then the wiiscale?

The same was true of the fix for the completely deterministic cp from unencrypted to encrypted with block cloning. There doesn’t seem to me much incentive to write tests.

Same with sway. It also tiles the windows for you, which doesn't help.