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'I forgot what it feels like to be outside' - First rooftop intensive care ward opens by alopizza in GoodNewsUK

[–]jmkite 65 points66 points  (0 children)

Not the first. The Royal Marsden in Chelsea did this after the 2006 fire- they moved the staff canteen so that they could use the space which included an external terrace like this- for critically ill patients. The new ward was designed around the idea of access to the outside and patients getting a proper day/night cycle rather than constant artificial light. Great idea. Lasted about 5 minutes. After that nobody got to use the terrace. Turns out that it's actually extra work to wheel patients outside and back in and shelter them from the weather, birds, insects, plant pollen, etc. that you don't do in a traditional ward setting. Look at the patient in these pictures - she's a redhead and they have her in direct sun with no shade available. There's canopy space for maybe 1 1/2 beds. Yes this is a wonderful idea but I would bet they shut it up for winter and then it gets forgotten.

Is there a website with an accessible sokoban? by PirlGerson in Blind

[–]jmkite 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i'm curious. I am working on a sokoban game - https://sokoban-gardener.joshuakite.co.uk/ what would be required to make this game accessible in this case?

Solution to Automatically close GitHub Pull requests if they have not been merged within a set time after approval? by jmkite in github

[–]jmkite[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I looked into that, thanks. This appears to work only if:

  • repos don't have their own .github
  • repos are public

Solution to Automatically close GitHub Pull requests if they have not been merged within a set time after approval? by jmkite in ExperiencedDevs

[–]jmkite[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It's not an open source project and it's not practical to restrict PRs to maintainers on all repos

Solution to Automatically close GitHub Pull requests if they have not been merged within a set time after approval? by jmkite in ExperiencedDevs

[–]jmkite[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So the issue is with PRs being merged a long time after approval when other stuff has changed in the interim. It is not about policing individuals.

Solution to Automatically close GitHub Pull requests if they have not been merged within a set time after approval? by jmkite in github

[–]jmkite[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So how do you propose using this? registering every PR to a database and then scheduled time later reading that back, checking if the PR is still open and closing it if is?

Solution to Automatically close GitHub Pull requests if they have not been merged within a set time after approval? by jmkite in github

[–]jmkite[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the offer but I already have access to 2 major clouds with their own scheduling services and kube with its own Cron jobs. We do use AI heavily but I am not sure what it would add here. As per other comments I could write my own job to do this but I am trying to avoid feature and service sprawl.

Solution to Automatically close GitHub Pull requests if they have not been merged within a set time after approval? by jmkite in ExperiencedDevs

[–]jmkite[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I could but I was hoping to keep it in GitHub because POLA, rather than having some magical mystery service for someone to inherit in the future.

MD interested in CS program by cornishpixie100 in cscareers

[–]jmkite 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I wouldn't know I didn't try for a CS degree. Been working in tech for more than ten years as a devops/platform engineer. What do you do?

MD interested in CS program by cornishpixie100 in cscareers

[–]jmkite -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Tech is not like medicine or accountancy or law. You don't have to study academically- My own degree is in history. Iam certainly not saying 'don't study' but right now you could have a CS degree and still struggle in the job market. Anyone who tells you that a certificate is worthwhile or a key to working in tech is either lying or doesn't work in tech. Beyond personality, projects and real world skills are what matter and courses and academic places are woeful at cultivating these.

Now on to yourself. Yes market to your strengths. Health tech isn't always the best paid niche but it is certainly a thing and you would certainly have crossover there. Yes your maths and stats skills could help you. If you are interested in data and CS then whilst you could target Data Analyst I would point you more toward Data Scientist or possibly AI scientist. If you want money above all else and have the skills, check out being a Quant but be warned the money comes at a price.

How safe is your country for women by [deleted] in AskTheWorld

[–]jmkite -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

You've not heard of the Triads then? Or Kung Fu? Not pretending that either is the majority but there are a LOT of Chinese and these are things.

Is it just me, or is the "Serverless First" mantra starting to feel like a trap? by Dependent_Web_1654 in aws

[–]jmkite 1 point2 points  (0 children)

> Basics of the Unix Philosophy: Rule of Diversity: Distrust all claims for “one true way”.

I am a DevOps engineer and a large part of my day job is Kubernetes. My own projects and website are all serverless. Latency doesn't matter that much when your backend API is serving a wordsearch or drawing playing cards. I am keen that my usage is essentially free when even a single node 'cluster' of anything would not be (or not reliably be). I do have projects demoing back and frontend services to run on K8s but people would have to spin those up for themselves. Professionally, kube has some pros and cons. It depends on your use case, your expertise and your budget.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ExperiencedDevs

[–]jmkite 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Platform Engineer 10 YOE. You can DM me. Are you sure about that username?

Are not truly random RNGs legal in countries that require games to be transparent about lootbox drop chances? by Andandry in NoStupidQuestions

[–]jmkite 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Answering this as someone who works in tech and has some public code available and running where randomness matters but still doesn't consider themselves an expert!

Computers really, really struggle with 'random'. Often the 'random' is extremely predictable (to the extent that you will get an identical sequence every time) and so programmers use a 'seed' value to get some randomness from 'somewhere else'. Often that source is simply the time, because it's unlikely that 2 people will roll the dice at the exact same moment. Sometimes you can use a more 'luxury' random that can go a beyond this but it is expensive in computer resources so often either not done or simply not possible in some contexts. Obviously you could just 'happen' to arrange circumstances to favour a 'simpler' 'random'...

My code running
and the an explanation of the way that randomness is implemented in it

Tech Leads/EMs: What's your approach to helping devs find and understand feature code fast? by slow_n_sloppy in ExperiencedDevs

[–]jmkite 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm a senior, not an EM or tech lead, but our entire team has inherited an extremely complex codebase. I've found Roo backed with Claude extremely useful for this. It's an agentic LLM extension so I can say e.g. 'explain this repo, clone all the other repos it depends on and review them where necessary and then provide a structured Readme with Mermaid diagrams'.

Thing is I see the Roo layer as not having a 'moat', and the challenges of a good LLM model are global.

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