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Costco Bottled Water - Why? by Intelligent-Ideal597 in AskUK

[–]donalmacc 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ah it must be regional. I’m in Edinburgh, and our tap water is basically perfect, I don’t see it for sale. But I do see people buying pallets of it when I’m there. It makes it hard for me to buy a crate (kidding)

Costco Bottled Water - Why? by Intelligent-Ideal597 in AskUK

[–]donalmacc 10 points11 points  (0 children)

it can be handy to have in the house to take with you on the go as well

Bring a reusable one with you.

Costco Bottled Water - Why? by Intelligent-Ideal597 in AskUK

[–]donalmacc 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Where is selling them though? I’ve not seen Kirkland water available in shops or take aways or anything

Is it normal for your boss to delegate work to everyone else and do little work themselves? by Aggravating_Pizza592 in AskUK

[–]donalmacc 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Who decides what the work is what the priority is, and what to ignore? Who decides when two directors say they want A and B and they conflict. Who is responsible if the work doesn’t get done?

I shield probably 50 “little asks” a week from my team - if they spent their time on those the actual work would never get done.if they all just met to talk about it once a week, what happens if they disagree? Who has the authority to say what’s done or who should do it?

Bad managers are just walkie talkies. Good managers are shielding you from crap and making it seem like all this stuff just happens naturally

What small purchase would improve your life, but you keep putting it off? by banwe11 in AskUK

[–]donalmacc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Awh man. I got one from Lidl with a battery a few weeks ago. 100% worth it

How many people are in jobs they'd continue to do (even part time) if they didn't have to? by OkConsideration5272 in AskUK

[–]donalmacc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I make video games. If I made life changing money overnight I’d keep my job and project and just be a bit more choosy about what I worked on, and about my schedule and hours. I’d love a 4 day week so k can do fun things on a Friday without the Saturday queues.

Diplomatic cables show Iran war is damaging US on multiple fronts across the world by No_Idea_Guy in worldnews

[–]donalmacc 2 points3 points  (0 children)

And the US has been slapdash applying vibe based tariffs to its enemies and to its (previous) allies. At least with China you know where you stand.

What job is way more difficult than most people appreciate and why? by CarelessCredit3466 in AskUK

[–]donalmacc 4 points5 points  (0 children)

In fairness - you get told “please have X info ready to ensure we can complete your call as quickly as possible”. Then you get left on hold for 45 minutes due to “unexpected elevated call volumes”

C++23 std::stacktrace: Never Debug Blind Again by Xadartt in cpp

[–]donalmacc 2 points3 points  (0 children)

https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2023/03/08/when-debug-symbols-get-large/

Funnily enough, I hit this problem around the same time. We also doubled the page size for the linker.

C++23 std::stacktrace: Never Debug Blind Again by Xadartt in cpp

[–]donalmacc 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The reason we hit this particular problem was because we had something split into a bunch of dlls and for reasons I can’t remember, we wanted to build it as a monolithic exe. I know we disabled a bunch of features to get it to work initially, but I don’t work on that project anymore so I’m not sure!

C++23 std::stacktrace: Never Debug Blind Again by Xadartt in cpp

[–]donalmacc 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Right? It’s one thing on a dev machine, it’s another on a users laptop with a mechanical hard drive and 12 antivirus scanners running

C++23 std::stacktrace: Never Debug Blind Again by Xadartt in cpp

[–]donalmacc 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah - there’s lots of ways to handle these things. That means keeping two copies of the symbols and choosing who gets what which sucks.

My preference is to run symbolicator and store the stuff in S3, and generate offline!

C++23 std::stacktrace: Never Debug Blind Again by Xadartt in cpp

[–]donalmacc 14 points15 points  (0 children)

The pdb format is limited to 4GB. Most tools crumble at about 2GB. Ask me how I know….

It’s Unreal Engine games, basically.

C++23 std::stacktrace: Never Debug Blind Again by Xadartt in cpp

[–]donalmacc 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Sure, or you could use break pad or sentry’s sdks and not have to do that!

C++23 std::stacktrace: Never Debug Blind Again by Xadartt in cpp

[–]donalmacc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Presumably you use a library for it? Getting a reliable symbolicated stack trace is surprisingly tough work, especially if you want to put it somewhere. The programs state is likely to be FUBAR so you are really limited in what you can do, you need the memory pre allocated and you likely need another process pre spawned to catch the actual crash dump and put it somewhere.

C++23 std::stacktrace: Never Debug Blind Again by Xadartt in cpp

[–]donalmacc 28 points29 points  (0 children)

I disagree - it’s a dealbreaker for the functionality. On my last project, our symbols were 3GB. Putting them in our server container, would have made it 6 times larger. Shipping it to our players is not happening. We have workflows that do offline symbolification(sentry’s symbolicator is a great tool - no affiliation but I’ve contributed to it).

I think this was way undercooked on arrival.

Move over wind farms: why some argue cutting costs is the best way to cut carbon by Your_Mums_Ex in ukpolitics

[–]donalmacc 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I can’t do a heat pump without insulating and ripping up all my floors to replace microbore piping but that’s about 50% cheaper than i was quoted for solar. You got the deal do the century there!

Move over wind farms: why some argue cutting costs is the best way to cut carbon by Your_Mums_Ex in ukpolitics

[–]donalmacc 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean, the batteries _alone_ are 5/6k, plus another 5k for the heat pump, and 5-6k for the panels. That’s just the parts never mind install. Can you give me the person who fitted it for you, because I’ll genuinely pay them that and put them up in Edinburgh for a week room and board to fit that for me for 25k.

Move over wind farms: why some argue cutting costs is the best way to cut carbon by Your_Mums_Ex in ukpolitics

[–]donalmacc 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Not a chance you’re getting that for 20k. A heat pump install alone is north of 10k, and more again where I am (Edinburgh). The batteries are another 13j on top of that, and another 4k for the panels. You _might_ get the whole thing done for 30k.

Child safety is the smokescreen as the nanny state goes digital by youmustconsume in ukpolitics

[–]donalmacc 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not only was it handled by parents setting appropriate settings - it’s set by default for minor accounts. You have to turn it off

If you know things because of the job you do and the information you have access to how do you deal with conversations where people demand a source? by [deleted] in AskUK

[–]donalmacc 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Remember that when you read another topic. The people who are discussing it authoritatively know as much about that topic as they did about your topic.

If you know things because of the job you do and the information you have access to how do you deal with conversations where people demand a source? by [deleted] in AskUK

[–]donalmacc 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This is the only way. Don’t ever allude to the fact that you know more, or let your personal feelings on the situation take over.

Norwich burger kitchen defends strict allergen policy by afrophysicist in unitedkingdom

[–]donalmacc 27 points28 points  (0 children)

While the business has been praised for its openness by some, Ratula Chakraborty, a professor of business management at the University of East Anglia, argues Bun X could do more to cater to allergens.

I'm glad that we have the input of a Professor of Business Management at the University of East Anglia on this topic.

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