@sbisson @CatherineFlick this is such a good move, and gives me a lot of hope for this government. Putting people in place who know about their brief, and have enough experience of it not to throw out glib quick wins.
A nice progressive move from Labour: apparently James Timpson is being given a peerage and made prisons minister.
For non UK folk, his high street chain of key cutting and shoe repair shops has a policy of employing ex-convicts giving them decent jobs to avoid reoffending. It works.
@pikesley they also quite boldly claim PCI-DSS compliance which a) I highly doubt and b) raises some quite troubling questions about what they’re doing with payment card details when there’s nowhere to provide card details.
@pikesley their biggest failing is that nowhere do they describe why I’d even want to consider using the thing. I assume it’s a DNS resolver? What do I gain by using it? Are they claiming anycast is AI somehow?
The Green Party's 4 seats are far more impressive than Refash's 4 because they managed it without the entire media setting up camp in their back passages and giving them wall to wall 24 hour coverage for the past 5 years.
@solderandchaos worst open plan office ever. Imagine trying to get some work done at 7am, not having slept, while being broadcast live on TV.
My card features both Sunak and Jacob Rees-Mogg. Don’t like my chances on scoring with them but I’ll be incredibly happy if I do.
Are you going to be watching election results? Would you like a bingo card of Tory MPs trying to hold onto their seats, ready to check them off as they topple? Oh boy, do I have the thing for you: https://bingo.blankpad.net
@hughrawlinson can I have an option for “Weird and good”? Four day week at 100% pay, our primary business metric is tons of carbon saved.
My fascination with trashy American dramas about emergency workers continues, discovered 9-1-1 the other day, about an LA fire department team. The most saccharine nonsense ever, and yet I keep on watching it.
@gsuberland on the other hand it may be the perfect show, as you repeatedly see Colm Meany dragged through hell.
@simon it also somewhat depends on how risky deployments are. For a typical web app, sure, ship it. Currently I’m working on distributed embedded devices, where I’m not at the level of confidence I feel would be needed to do automated releases on push to the entire fleet.
@simon It Depends. If you’ve got a test suite you trust, and the tooling to handle database migrations and feature flagging it’s great. Ship early, ship often.
If you don’t have those things you’re in for a whole world of pain.
Me, when answering questions about attention to detail: “It’s sometimes an issue, but generally fine, I wouldn’t say I’m much worse than average”
Also me: Enters two separate events in my calendar on the wrong days, arranges childcare cover for a time when said child will be at school, and then panics when I realise I don’t have any cover for an important appointment planned months ago.
3 days to go until election day, do you know where your voter ID is? If not, get it sorted now. (And petition your new MP to revoke this bloody stupid law once they’re in place)
@gsuberland I’m curious, how do you learn to build complex stuff like this? I’m starting from the point of a barely remembered A level in electronics, unused for anything more complex than wiring a temperature sensor up to an ESP8266 for the last 20 odd years.
@pikesley sound like you’d like AWS Cloudwatch Logs, who’s CLI team consider streaming logs from their log service to be an inconsequential feature best left to third party tools.
@RachaelAva1024 take it, plug it into a machine I don’t care about without an internet connection.
I need some sort of small project to get my teeth into. Currently buying the flat I live in which will then become a huge project of decorating and DIY, but until then I feel like I’m in limbo.
@Edent I’d say yes, just because security on the account is somewhat compromised, but don’t leap out of bed to do it. I’m never quite comfortable trusting 2FA alone because so many companies are willing to turn it off if someone calls them up with an appropriate sounding sob story.
