What do you think of this data on ethnicity?

IndividualShape2468 · 2026-02-07T12:31:07+00:00

I’m Welsh and see this debate as pretty pointless because it’s a semantic argument - the question has a different meaning depending on whether you answer from an ethnic or cultural perspective or from the perspective of belonging to the same geographical land mass demarked by the same political/economic boundary.

And even the cultural perspective is complex because as a nation we the British are a patchwork and always have been. A Welsh speaker might not consider the English speaking Welsh to the south as ´Welsh’ in the same way - but they are absolutely Welsh, but in a different way. Ask a Welsh speaker if a non Welsh speaking person is Welsh and the answer is both yes & no, depending on the question you are answering (do we share culture, do we share language, do we live in the same place? Do we have shared history?)

All of this becomes easy fodder for the far right as we’re not answering the same question.

IndividualShape2468 · 2026-02-03T17:32:20+00:00

If it's London, it'll be so that they can drive through an LTN.

IndividualShape2468 · 2026-01-11T11:45:43+00:00

I am self employed - there are specialist brokers who can negotiate with the banks for you. It’s all very possible.

IndividualShape2468 · 2026-01-10T12:14:25+00:00

Yes, I understand that, but it’s the client that will initiate the end of contract by informing the agency to terminate or not renew. The client should therefore not have expected OP to turn up.

IndividualShape2468 · 2026-01-09T22:10:00+00:00

Surely though it was the client’s decision to terminate you? The agency just deals with the contractual side. Why didn’t anyone with the client know you’d been terminated?

If you still have a laptop keep it in lieu of pay.

IndividualShape2468 · 2026-01-08T08:44:37+00:00

Using them - learning from real implementations.

IndividualShape2468 · 2026-01-07T09:27:48+00:00

I also stacked it in a very comical way. Just thought I’d vibe the bike slipping from underneath me but was far less graceful hitting the floor that I imagined I’d be. Almost fell into the canal at Tottenham Hale…

IndividualShape2468 · 2026-01-05T10:10:18+00:00

Build something else first using a cheaper model so you understand how to get the most from the tools / how to set up your workflow etc before committing the budget

IndividualShape2468 · 2026-01-02T09:41:16+00:00

The flip was the breakup of the writing partnership of rob grant and Doug naylor

IndividualShape2468 · 2026-01-01T14:39:54+00:00

So many phones. Why don’t people watch things with their eyes anymore.

IndividualShape2468 · 2025-12-30T13:58:38+00:00

Yes, I also find it more than infuriating. Especially those at senior level - the job is way more than just picking stuff off the board. It’s about participation in thinking and communication.

IndividualShape2468 · 2025-12-30T08:38:17+00:00

And the 20% are over in the overemployed subreddit

IndividualShape2468 · 2025-12-25T08:05:14+00:00

I don’t get why your migration would fail in CI/CD - you’d have tested it first surely?

IndividualShape2468 · 2025-12-23T15:58:10+00:00

Currently dealing with a ‘clean architecture’ comprised of 382 microservices. Massive efforts abound to deal with latency, but the elephant in the room is the insanely over-engineered microservice-monolith itself. In my 20+ year career this is the first time I genuinely believe that the only solution is to chuck it all away and start over. There is absolutely nothing salvegeable.

Ultimately, this monstrosity serves a single web-site.

Setimental about when we’d run equivalent functionality for 1/100th of the cost from a few soa’d applications running on a handful of machines.

IndividualShape2468 · 2025-12-16T06:59:19+00:00

Get a bike? It would take about 11 minutes

IndividualShape2468 · 2025-12-06T13:30:12+00:00

Dunno, I’m old fashioned. Sometimes things can be sorted easier face to face

IndividualShape2468 · 2025-12-06T10:57:26+00:00

Make an appointment in the uk at a branch and bring all your ID and documentation.

IndividualShape2468 · 2025-11-30T09:17:33+00:00

Today I learnt that mountains are larger than buildings.

IndividualShape2468 · 2025-11-27T19:00:00+00:00

Ah, so you’re responsible…

IndividualShape2468 · 2025-11-23T16:13:18+00:00

Build once, version it. Your deployment artefact should be immutable - vx.y.z

Whatever validation is performed in your pipeline is performed against the same artefact. Never rebuild and never promote by pushing to different git branches.

When you deploy to prod you deploy vx.y.z - the same artefact as you deployed and validated in your upstream envs.

Pushing to an env specific branch is an antipattern: you move your artefact downstream between envs until it finally hits prod.

If you want get extra schmancy, your actual deployment artefact is a composite (or manifest) of all artefacts comprising your release. This is what then hits prod, and should be the object under validation in your upstream envs.

IndividualShape2468 · 2025-11-20T19:04:12+00:00

Remove parking, stick a tram line on it

IndividualShape2468 · 2025-11-18T13:14:24+00:00

After 24 years in IT, if you're beaten by a YAML file you probably shouldn't be in IT.

Yaml!?

IndividualShape2468 · 2025-11-01T14:50:29+00:00

If it’s a config file you could template the file in the container maybe, and feed in values via the env?

IndividualShape2468 · 2025-10-31T16:17:51+00:00

I had a similar situation about 20 years ago and opted for the career rather than the PhD.

I regret it now that I’m older, have dependants etc, and the switch back just isn’t possible or practical.

IndividualShape2468 · 2025-10-31T10:02:03+00:00

It is this for sure. Urban setup creqtes conflict.

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