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danjac

@danjac@masto.ai

Software developer/professional Jira ticket puncher.

Originally British, naturalized Finn. Interested in #scifi #fantasy #movies #opensource #python #django #javascript #running #nature #art #podcasts #languages #history

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Header pic: Pascal Blanche https://pascalblanche.artstation.com/projects/r9ZEKL

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You get the impression the Guardian doesn't want a Labour government because they get more clicks from constant anti-Tory outrage

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Labour's Paratrooper Regiment going into action, dropping into safe seats across the country

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Canada has decided to ban all Donald Trumps until they figure out what's going on

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New Willy Wonka Experience just dropped

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/30/genuinely-a-con-lego-enthusiasts-bemoan-half-empty-room-at-birmingham-nec-event

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Mutant inbreeds in the UK Reform party now in a frenzy about barber shops

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A-Ha's Take On Me video but with Donald Trump instead of the teenage girl jumping into the comic strip

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Update to Upton Sinclair's original quote:

"It Is difficult to get a man to understand something when the market price of his house depends upon his not understanding it"

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ALIEN 1: Who we just picked up
ALIEN 2: Oh fuck it's Richard Dreyfuss
ALIEN 3: <sigh> not looking forward to probing that asshole

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A paltry $38K is what is called "the cost of doing business". Or in this case, whiteness.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/28/arthur-grand-job-posting-doj-penalty

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This headline made me wonder how many online services actually support the ability to bequeath your account to others in your will? It can’t be a lot.

Are there any?

danjac,
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@carnage4life it would have been a great twist in an Agatha Christie novel: "I know you murdered your poor Aunt Beatrice in order to inherit Counter Strike 2 and Fallout 76, but what you didn't know, Messieur, was that her Steam account died the moment you struck her with the candlestick!"

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“So many feed readers, so many bizarre behaviors”

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2024/05/27/feed/

> It's been well over a year since I started serving 429s to clients which are hitting the feed too often. Since then, much has happened, and most of it is generally good news.

Like I’ve said too many times: most software projects fail outright, those that don’t are largely broken, and those that aren’t outright broken are buggy as hell. Much of dev is repair and salvage.

danjac,
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@baldur one problem is that a lot of feeds do a poor job of using Etag and If-Modified properly, and "average polling" doesn't work if their scheduling is all over the place (podcasts are often bad at this).

So readers should do their jobs properly as the article points out, but publishers need to be better too (and while we are at it, Websub being embraced and extinguished by Google didn't help).

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@baldur the RSS spec also provides TTL but I have yet to see a feed in the wild (my focus was on podcasts) that didn't just go with something like 15 mins, even though they came out with a new episode every week.

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I am very very close to starting an instagram account in which I deride people's stupid "requirements" in SW industry job ads. It seems like almost everyone involved is incompetent.

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@szakib HR get told "we need people who know Glork and Qwibble".

HR has no idea what Glork or Qwibble are. They reply, "senior or junior". Tech replies "senior", so HR goes with "Must have 5+ years in Glork and Qwibble".

The sane way to do it would be that tech writes the job ad and HR just double-checks it to make sure there are no stupid mistakes that could get the company sued.

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@szakib the other reasons are that they intend to outsource the job anyway or give it to someone they know but need to go through the legal procedure of advertising the job, or it's done to give the appearance the company is growing (the stock market awards growth, while at the same time awarding lay-offs).

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@szakib in a really small startup, where everyone has to wear lots of hats, then having a manager who can also do some coding is understandable. It might also help if the company is selling, say, JS-related tooling, so you want management who can sell the product to clients/investors convincingly.

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@szakib yeah a lot of the time the requirements don't matter because the job doesn't exist (or might as well not exist as it's already pre-filled).

So if the requirements don't make sense the right response is to just ignore it ("apply to everything!" is terrible advice on several levels).

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British TV shows tend to either be "2 or 3 seasons then done" (Fawlty Towers) or run for decades and decades (Doctor Who or Coronation Street) with a "Ship of Theseus" quality to them where all the actors/writers get replaced over time - so you get periods of good/bad.

US shows that survive the first season or two, maybe get a good couple more seasons, but then continue for another dozen too many after a definitive Jump the Shark moment. Thinking e.g. the X-Files.

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"Things Can Only Get Better" reminds of us of the time when election campaigns had signature tunes.

Maybe the Tories could go with "California Dreaming" by the Mamas and the Papas?

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Tories putting "national service" at the heart of their agenda.

Of all the PMs since 2010, perhaps the only one who had any sense of duty to the country - even though she was a horrible authoritarian and useless at her job - was Theresa May.

The others -and their hangers-on -were in it for a lark, an ego-trip or self-enrichment. The opposite of whatever "national service" is supposed to mean.

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It's obvious the policy was thought up by some horrible little bug-eyed Tufton St Spad during Sunak's Saturday brainstorming session. Ministers were caught wrong-footed and had to make all kinds of contradictory reassurances on Sunday talk shows.

But, if you are going to introduce a concept of "national service" to the young 'uns, you really, really need to have a strong moral authority to do so.

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Wouldn't be the first time the Tories pull a terrible idea out of their arse to appeal to their thick+old base and nobody in the room asks "but what about Northern Ireland?"

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Tories trying to grab Reform voters by introducing National Service when even Farage thinks it's a stupid idea

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Tories having to ensure the public they won't jail 18 year olds for draft dodging on panicked appearances on the Sunday shows is going to do wonders for getting the young vote on their side

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Guys I figured out how to find 78 Tory candidates in a hurry

Conservatives plan to bring back mandatory National Service
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpddxy9r4mdo

danjac,
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@BackFromTheDud it's nonsense, they know nobody under 60 is going to vote for them anyway and its might get a few votes from the GB News watching lobsters

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@HighlandLawyer @BackFromTheDud honestly they should have done the same with EU citizenship

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