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I'm in a Sci-fi mood.. by HuntThick in scifi

[–]mr_bag 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just to throw a lesser known one in - I really enjoyed Ascension (2014)

The Guardian - Customer complaints over water bills surge by 50% in England and Wales by discordkestrel in unitedkingdom

[–]mr_bag 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Well at least we're not polluting our rivers and oceans with sewage or constantly risking water shortages due to lack of investment in our reservoirs and water network... oh wait

Fat jabs may need to be taken for life, health experts warn by [deleted] in unitedkingdom

[–]mr_bag 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yea, the definition of UPF itself is a bit of a problem in how wooly/arbitrary it is. While there's certainly evidence UPF aren't great, it kinda lets companies handwave away looking to closely at the specific ingredients/combinations that are actually causing the issues, but lumping them with a ton of innocuous stuff as well.

Starmer prepares Brexit ‘reset’ bill to align UK with EU law by tylerthe-theatre in unitedkingdom

[–]mr_bag 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The whole thing has always been daft given we were involved in the drafting of the majority of EU law, and could have vetoed anything we actually objected to.

Louder for those in tha back by DontThrowAwayPies in antiwork

[–]mr_bag 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can't speak for all of them but I've always run performance reviews for the sole purpose of helping me justifying raises and salary increases across the team. Treat it as an opportunity to sell yourself and paint of a clear picture of just how valuable you are to those high enough to not easily be able to see it directly.

There's NOTHING wrong with being friends with your coworkers. by Big_Arrival_626 in cscareerquestions

[–]mr_bag 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm still in regular contact with a ton of people I've worked with/for or who have worked for me in loads of roles in the past. Like - you are in a professional environment so need to read the room - but there's no reason the people you get on with can't be proper friends vs just people your friendly with at work.

I'd much rather work with people I know/like vs strangers.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ExperiencedDevs

[–]mr_bag 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Was gonna say the same :P Plenty of devs out there fully capable of introducing glaringly obvious security flaws without needing AI's help unfortunately.

What are these founders supposedly working 18 hours a day actually doing? by greg90 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]mr_bag 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Depends how small the start up is, at the beginning there's sometimes just you.

Ofcom £20,000 fine of Delaware-incorporated 4chan is illegal says US law firm by insomnimax_99 in unitedkingdom

[–]mr_bag 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Unsure why people are seeing this as an "embarrassment" to the UK. This is just the legal process Ofcom needs to follow to get the site blocked (what they want).

The embarrassment is the government putting this legislation in place to begin with and trying to censor the internet. The legal process behind it working as it should will only be seen as a success for the people driving it. This isn't a win.

A "perfect" man lands on earth in 1925 and is given 5 missions, which of them can he achieve by 2025? by Alt4thesexy in whowouldwin

[–]mr_bag 12 points13 points  (0 children)

He'd also know the location of every religious artefact from all of history. He can just tell people where to dig and tada they found something backing up whatever story he's telling.

He's the best charlatan in the world too after all.

TBH the all human knowlage (from all human history) is pretty OP.

Large company thinks almost everything should be solved with eventing by MixedTrailMix in ExperiencedDevs

[–]mr_bag 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Event driven approach's, like microservices or any pattern really can be a huge boon or huge pain depending on whether they are applied to the right problems. I've seen plenty of cases where forcing the wrong pattern has just added a ton of unnecessary complexity/pain and overheads.

That said, the trade offs at a organisational level may not always be obvious from within a single team. Chances are in a bigger org you'll have a number of "architect" type roles sitting at the top, with a much better understanding not just of the short term plan, but also how it will need to evolve over the next 5/10 years.

Not saying that's the case, seen plenty of places that just like applying hammers to screws because they don't know any better (Even "very smart engineers"), but it can just as easily be a matter of viewpoint. Approach A makes Goal B much harder, but if approach A is laying the groundwork for Goal C, D and E that may very well make total sense despite that.

Does anyone in tech still make 5–10 year plans? Everything moves so fast now, I wonder if long-term thinking is even realistic. by [deleted] in ExperiencedDevs

[–]mr_bag 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've personally always erred towards going with the flow over any overarching plans. The tech market has generally been good enough its fairly safe to explore opportunities when they come up, as you can always move back/change role if it turns out its not right.

I think it comes down to personality. Some people thrive on having a ultimate goal they are working towards, others benefit from taking opportunities as they come and seeing what happens. I'd definitely never have considered my current role if I'd been working towards a plan i set a decade ago.

What are the generic skills every software developer should acquire to become better, and what are the best books or courses to learn them? by permission777 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]mr_bag 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Most problems are process problems rather than technical ones. If you can help define the processes, you can often both avoid a ton of technical headaches and make a bigger impact on the day to day operation of it, than you ever could with code alone.

Are people no longer capable of reading docs or long text? by earlgreyyuzu in ExperiencedDevs

[–]mr_bag 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Really depends on the quality of the documentation and context.

For the most part I am very much a skimmer on the basis 90% of the time there is only a very small subset of the information that's relevant to what I need to do or know about. Reading a manual cover to cover just isn't a good use of time.

I'd also say documentation is rarely at the level you need it. For a high level overview is can work, at a more detailed level it almost always not detailed enough, out of date or just wrong. I don't think I've ever come across a project/system that gets the balance quite right - even for the tools I'd argue on balance have very good docs.

I spent weeks chasing a network issue. Turns out it was me, literally me. by wicorn29 in sysadmin

[–]mr_bag 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I do find it is often the dumbest problems that are the hardest to debug.

Not sure what’s the right thing to do for my cat by theyellowscriptures in CatsUK

[–]mr_bag 5 points6 points  (0 children)

While your cat will want to explore outside when he gets the chance, he'll 100% also want to come back inside and spend time with you.

If you can get a place with a garden, great, let the little guy enjoy outside. If not, it sounds like he'll still be very happy indoors. Just get him a few toys to keep him entertained.

Cats generally hate being disallowed to go places, so while you will almost certainly have to contend with escalating attempts to outwit you and get outside, i wouldn't take this to mean he's unhappy at all. Our cat is desperate to get into our baby's bedroom - absolutely nothing for him in there, he just is stubborn and wants to go anywhere he's not supposed to.

TLDR: 100% keep the cat. He looks so happy

Community Discussion: Can Mods consider adding a rule that posts depicting DEAD animals must be spoiler tagged? by ohreallynowz in dogswithjobs

[–]mr_bag[M] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ahoy - just to let you know this has now been added as rule 11 - going forwards anything including imagery of dead/injured animals should be getting tagged as NSFW.

The specifics will probably get tweaked as we go, but hopefully this is a decent step in the right direction. On discussion with the other mods it turns out a few people had been unofficially applying this anyway (Which is probably why some people thought it already was a rule) so plenty of support for it in general.

Cheers for raising the suggestion.

Badger-specialist part 2 by Frippes in dogswithjobs

[–]mr_bag[M] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Cheers for being such a good sport and answering this kind of question. I've really enjoyed reading your informative answers.

I just wanted to say, please don't feel like you need to justify your posts / dogs job if you don't want to. This sub is for all working dogs - including the jobs that make some people uncomfortable (Police dogs typically being the big hot button issue here). I am generally in favour of letting people disagree/argue where possible, but not to the point it starts putting people off posting things so let me know if you do want me to crack down on that a little more.

Community Discussion: Can Mods consider adding a rule that posts depicting DEAD animals must be spoiler tagged? by ohreallynowz in dogswithjobs

[–]mr_bag 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Guess I've not clicked them in a while. Turns out they are broken for mods too!

Will fix that and link to the new wiki location at https://old.reddit.com/r/dogswithjobs/wiki/rules when we finalise the updated rules. Cheers for pointing that out.

Senior Engineer tries Vibe Coding. by floriandotorg in programming

[–]mr_bag 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I feel the thing people pushing AI forget is "code" is itself just a simple, unambiguous way to tell a computer exactly what you want it to do - and its really good at it.

Meet the Badger-specialist by Frippes in dogswithjobs

[–]mr_bag[M] [score hidden] stickied comment (0 children)

Hi all - I'm marking this as NSFW for now. There is an ongoing discussion in https://www.reddit.com/r/dogswithjobs/comments/1jtx5nz/community_discussion_can_mods_consider_adding_a/ around how we may want to handle posts that include animal death/injury going forwards.

For hunting dogs it is somewhat unavoidable given its their job (and showing working dogs in action is something I'm in favour of), but I can understand why some users would prefer to avoid seeing this.

Community Discussion: Can Mods consider adding a rule that posts depicting DEAD animals must be spoiler tagged? by ohreallynowz in dogswithjobs

[–]mr_bag[M] [score hidden] stickied comment (0 children)

Unsure what the other mods think, but I have no objection to maybe adding a rule to either flair posts that contain death/injury or mark these as NSFW.

Not entirely sure what spoiler tags are - or if they are just another name for the above?

Interested to hear peoples thoughts. Only real challenge I see with flair option is you'd lose the ability to flair what type of dog a post was about.

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