Chris Ellis @intrbiz@bergamot.social
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PostgreSQL, Linux, Java, and more. Lover of computers, electronics and Open Source. European. Lib Dem. Lead Technical Strategist nexteam.co.uk
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@sil it's interesting coming from a Labour party which doesn't seem to back unions. I can't see how legislation against these things won't just be used against people. Will it really address the power imbalance or will rich people just find another way around it that makes them rich?
@bigcalm How CSS gets handled is often pretty awful.
Combined with pretty awful transpiling and bundling complication processes.
It all feels very unwebby.
If its a new project, maybe try to use Svelte or another. Or ES6 modules and Rollup.
@bigcalm hacked on too much React for my liking over the last year or so.
I would say it's one of the most cargo culted ecosystems I've seen in a long time.
As React isn't really a framework, a lot of the complexity comes from the various other things used with it. Eg: Hooks or Redux, etc.
Some of the underpinnings of React are neat (questionable if still relevant).
I found Hooks pretty awful, you can't really read the code and understand what will happen.
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Met Police doing a wonderful job with the UK's new authoritarian thought-crime laws to make sure everyone hears about a protest that would probably have gone unseen if ignored.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/may/06/head-of-uks-leading-anti-monarchy-group-arrested-at-coronation-protest
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As one can now be arrested for the offence of "being equipped for locking on", the only difference between arresting protestors today, and arresting me every time I go out on my bike, carrying two locks, is whether the police officers around at the time have formed a negative view about my intent.
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I just found a company those tech staff "doesn't like transactions," so instead of writing BEGIN and END they put all of the statements into a single huge statement using one CTE for each statement, and I think there should be criminal penalties for this.
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How long is it appropriate to wait before the "I told you so"? https://www.primevideotech.com/video-streaming/scaling-up-the-prime-video-audio-video-monitoring-service-and-reducing-costs-by-90
Note to self, should have trusted BTRFS more and memory less.
@ascherbaum If it was defacto price increase of one extra chip and some extra traces would be pretty small.
It would be really good if we could just make ECC RAM the default, even on consumer stuff.
@xahteiwi probably most likely to be said to a joke which was not funny in a sarcastic way, without laughing, or an ironic laugh. UK here.
Excellent day out exploring Brooklands Museum. First ever purpose built banked racing track and later a big site of Vickers aircraft. Such a long history of engineering, speed and adventure hidden away in leafy Surrey.
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Just a couple of things:
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It's weird and interesting that if the fediverse gains 10m users and then loses 1m, that's considered proof of failure. But bsky gains 100k and without any time passing this is considered proof of success.
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When people say that signing up for fedi is too complicated, you know they mean they don't know how to navigate the instance admin drama, right? At least in part. People can choose from a menu of apps and servers. They're not idiots. What they can't do is evaluate which server will let them talk to their friends about whatever topics come up for them. And it's because that evaluation is basically impossible.
@bigcalm sometimes reporting errors direct to the user leads to better client action than reporting via tech.
@bigcalm I think the key thing is what you do with the errors. If you don't have the processes to react to and utilise the errors, to feed into your product cycle, whats the point in either.
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Here's a fun new feature we are working on in systemd: userspace-only reboot. In order to reduce grey-out times on image-based OS updates to next to nothing we are making a reboot happen where kernel stays as it is, but userspace shuts down as usual, then possibly transitions into a new rootfs, and starts up again with an initial transaction as it would on a classic system boot. During the transition selected services can pass along their fds and listening sockets, to pass "live" resources…
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@selfcare just yesterday when I attended and spoke at the brilliant #PGDay #Chicago ♥️
#postgres #postgresql #opensource #database #databases
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We know better than anyone that remote work isn’t always sunshines and rainbows.
Here are some strategies people on the Buffer team use for avoiding loneliness. ⬇️
📅 Intentionally scheduling non-work related meetings
🌎 Choosing to explore as a nomad instead of WFH
🚸 Getting out with the kids
🌆 Making plans outside of the house
One thing we all seem to appreciate the most about remote work is that it allows us the flexibility to build our days exactly the way we choose. 💙
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That people are taking ChatGPT seriously for coding tells you more about the state of software engineering as a discipline than it does about the state of machine learning as a technology.
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