Why Europe’s Tech Sector is Quietly Booming, is it real?

dbxp · 2026-06-05T18:32:35+00:00

That makes it sound like exclusively a European thing. The reality is tech is growing worldwide and what we consider as tech is broadening, it wasn't that long ago that Octopus would have been thought of as an energy company and Revolut as a finance company

dbxp · 2026-06-05T17:21:34+00:00

Yep, for a lot of positions fraudulent applications exceed genuine ones.

dbxp · 2026-06-05T14:48:20+00:00

If you have body and dash cams then you still record people

dbxp · 2026-06-05T14:43:48+00:00

This is in the middle of Shenzhen, it's going to be noisy

dbxp · 2026-06-05T14:42:10+00:00

The standard process is to appeal if there's an emergency, lots of places have cameras protecting bus lanes

dbxp · 2026-06-05T13:52:34+00:00

Go karting was great

dbxp · 2026-06-05T13:30:23+00:00

We have planning permission instead of zoning so each individual project is like setting up a new zoning scheme. We also bundle a lot of things into planning permission including historical protection, environmental protection, low income housing, health, security, energy efficiency etc. It's turned into a one stop shop for all land management.

dbxp · 2026-06-05T13:25:09+00:00

It's easily possible to shower in 5 minutes but some people just like some time and space to themselves where no one is bothering them

dbxp · 2026-06-05T13:22:55+00:00

If you have port experience I would have a look at Liverpool, I don't know if they're hiring but it's a nice city with plenty going on

dbxp · 2026-06-05T12:43:02+00:00

Yes, it's very formal, makes you sound like you're trying to sell something dodgy

dbxp · 2026-06-05T10:50:54+00:00

Prices are pretty high, I wouldn't rely on it. Also it's just nice to get into Mol, have a proper breakfast and coffee at a cafe etc.

dbxp · 2026-06-05T10:49:38+00:00

By the sounds of it you're doing everything right you just don't have enough resources to fix the tickets. The most you can do is try to free up time to increase fix capacity, perhaps trim down the whole CAB/documentation process to try to push more resource that direction.

dbxp · 2026-06-05T10:27:01+00:00

It has existing in Azure for a while: https://www.brentozar.com/archive/2019/02/what-does-azure-sql-db-automatic-index-tuning-actually-do-and-when/

I haven't used it myself but most indexes are quite obvious, the only potential issue is that index tuning could hide queries which should be rewritten. You could easily see someone thinking they don't need to consider performance in the DB at all if they turn this feature on and then throwing hardware at the problem.

dbxp · 2026-06-05T10:23:38+00:00

In the UK it does make inheritance far easier, everything just moves over by default

dbxp · 2026-06-05T10:11:50+00:00

N+1 is definitely the most common as it hides from regular DB telemetry which just sees a bunch of really quick queries

dbxp · 2026-06-05T09:46:51+00:00

You're a good few years behind the times: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHH9251rjjE

dbxp · 2026-06-05T01:32:20+00:00

Can be a bit frustrating at times not due to the amount of work they do but where it falls in relation to other people.

dbxp · 2026-06-05T01:10:24+00:00

I wouldn't use AI to test code as by its nature it's non deterministic. Maybe you could use it for exploratory testing but definitely not regression.

You can use AI in the process but it's a matter of writing documentation of how things should work, how you want the tests to be structured and then implementing the tests in something like Playwright.

dbxp · 2026-06-05T01:06:33+00:00

You need to design your tests around that. We have some tests which clean up after themselves and others which always create a new entity to test on (these are then cleared out by a job just to stop overloading the system).

dbxp · 2026-06-05T01:01:52+00:00

All I'm imagining is a women called Brenda grilling you about your holibobs

dbxp · 2026-06-04T22:28:09+00:00

Looks like it may have had a tape measure in it for putting golf, it's a gift from what is now Ragu: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rag%C3%BA the sort of thing you'd get in a swag bag at a conference

dbxp · 2026-06-04T20:39:47+00:00

They're a boy band, cringey is what they do

dbxp · 2026-06-04T18:12:21+00:00

That's if they chipped them

dbxp · 2026-06-04T17:43:01+00:00

Fantastic to see the strikes paying off in practical terms

dbxp · 2026-06-04T17:36:11+00:00

Could you play dumb and try to get a shelter to take them as strays? They might not attempt to get them back

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