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Rereading my way through the two Dune 'trilogies' now. Currently in the middle of God Emperor.

This time through it's been shocking to me to see such parallels between the politics, policies, and consequences there of and the world today.

There's a lot to think about in Dune.

The underlying principals of SOA haven't been dismissed.

However, there have been some rather bad implementations of SOA that have been passed off as 'how to do SOA'. When enough people started using, for example, web-services without thinking about how to handle something as common as a network partition, those people became disenchanted with the terms SOA and micro-services.

2kg, for me, is enough to go from, 'these jeans are too tight' to 'these jeans fit'.

It'll depend on where you carry weight too.

Imo, there's a sandwich date range from around 1976 to 1982 where you either identify as Gen X or Gen Y/millennial.

I'm someone in that gap and identify much more closely with millennials than with the Gen X slackers, though a lot of my childhood friends also in that gap identify more with Gen X.

Perhaps it's a combination of my job, that i feel i grew up with (along with?) the internet because my parents were pretty fast in getting connected, and that i have older siblings who are very much Gen X as in leaving college during very difficult job times in the early 90s, and I never shared their experiences.

The UK is not friendly to non-EU individuals who want to come to work. Immigration laws have tightened significantly in the last 10 years, making it infeasible to move here without a sponsor and without enough money to buy your way in.

I'm with you. And I'll add to that the horrible production quality and bored sounding hosts/guests that plague programming podcasts.

Times like these i feel like the only runner who doesn't experience any sort of clarity of mind or runner's high.

I run five days a week. After a hard run i feel tired. If i made a good time with a low heart rate, i feel slightly happy about it. I don't feel anything i could ever describe as a runner's high, and never have on any type of run.

depends on the actual code. I work with someone who likes to code by "works on my machine, in my limited tests, ship it, if it breaks then fix it" which is terrible since this person isn't on call and wouldn't have to deal with the fall out.

It gets picked up in review, but the attitude is unfortunate.

If your code is ugly by stylistic preferences but works and you are a responsible coworker, then, meh, I'd only code review in changes if they were pertinent to the issue being solved.

Honestly you'll probably be best served reading the border agency's website and consulting with an immigration solicitor.

Immigration law in the UK changes every year. What was true for someone else may not be true for you. Never mind that your extact immigration circumstances will most likely not be the same as anyone elses.

I worked for a company that ended up failing to pay wages (long story with a lot of lying and shady owners).

They were hiring until the bitter end. The last hire never got paid by the company at all.

don't worry, the status was green the entire time...

You're just missing the Red Boots DLC. Makes everything perfect.

Warts and all I really enjoyed wasteland 2

That was how I thought, who could really believe these ads are actually personal endorsements, until I read a thread about people being angry about a podcast with ads from 99 designs.

Some people really haven't developed the means to distingish host from ad. I can't really blame them, take the casper ads and the ads for one of those stupidly expensive boxed dinner companies. How many podcasts actually say 'hey we got this stuff we're talking up for free'

Meh, just pisses me off. I don't want podcast umbrellas to die due to what i find to be naive and shady ad practices.

Can tell you what I don't want to hear, which is easier for me.

Not another tech podcast with hosts who sound bored.

Not another tech podcast that can't be arsed to put in the work to get good sound quality.

Not another tech podcast where each episode interviews yet another person about 'what they're working on' with no larger story.

And please if you have ads, dear god don't fall down the hole of writing or reading ad copy that makes it sound like you're making a personal endorsement out of the goodness of your own heart.

remember to tell people about the long arm of the US tax law. So many other ex-pats I know are like FBAR-whaaaa?

I've no idea of what your doc requirements are, but if you don't have any real plans for the data, stick it in a cost effective format that requires little to no maintenance but that can be read by multiple systems. Say parquet or avro for example.

I assume you don't have someone/some system 24/7 pouring over the data so you could look into hosted notebooks like databricks, qubole (and gleaning from people I met at a recent conference any of the bazillion that are about to launch), or host zeppelin yourself or use AWS EMR.

And don't lose your source data for that moment when you do figure out what you want to do with the data and you realise you need to reformat it.

you should figure out what you plan on doing with the data first. That will help inform what you use and how you store it.

It's a moot point, but forex's are also used to move money internationally. It is ultimately buying and selling currencies, but you get much better rates than through the bank because the forex isn't actually moving your money. It's receiving money into accounts which are in the senders country, and then, using its accounts in the receivers country, it pays the receiver.

Also means the receiver doesn't get hit with fees to receive an international payment.

The fake institutions were/are profiting from these illegal students. At their worst they are engaging in human trafficking. At their best they are stealing a lot of money from hard working international students who actually wanted an education and the possibility of working legally in the UK.

The path to Indefinite Leave To Remain has been nearly closed for international students in the UK compared to 10 years ago, but that doesn't mean people get to settle here illegally on purpose.

I don't remember exactly where it is in settings, but it's not called 2fa or something obvious it's called something like PayPal Security Key

There is a drinking culture in the UK.

There is the expectation that you drink too unless you are visibly muslim.

And with some people, there is the feeling that if you aren't drinking with them then they can't trust you fully.

In my first two years here i ran into all of that.

Then i said fuck it and just started telling people honestly why i wasn't going out drinking with them 'i really don't like to drink much, it makes me really sleepy and not much fun. I don't like being around drunk people when i'm sober, and besides all that i'm not spending £120 for a hotel so i have to drive.'

After repeating that a few times most people understood. Some never did.

Those people who never did understand or accept it, i don't work with them any longer.

I'm not exactly good at it, but you need to ignore the snark as you see it.

Ignoring the snark, you then see if the issue really exists/is a fair point/is something you care about, and you respond as you would to any non-snark filled issue.

I don't see a point in trying to provoke the person, or 'educate' them, just respond neutrally and professionally, or happy and chipper if you can do it without it dripping in irony.

Let me give you a 'fer instance' (this may be the only one that exists, but it's one that had me WTFing until I found the correct documentation to read via stack overflow)

Calling grouped on a Seq.

I've been playing around with some API requests, and needed to batch a long Seq to make reasonable sized GET requests.

So I called grouped on a Seq, then to sanity check I called .length on the grouping.

Then suddenly I had an empty iterator.

Maybe I should have known better, yeah, but the documentation I was reading http://www.scala-lang.org/docu/files/collections-api/collect... doesn't mention this fact about iterators. Again, maybe I'm the only person in the world who didn't realise the problem with calling .length on what I thought of as a regular old batched set.

It wasn't until I hit on the right google combination that I found http://www.scala-lang.org/api/current/#scala.collection.Iter... from a stack overflow reference, and the lightbulb finally went on.

If you think you are wrong, and someone tells you that you are wrong, you are being proved right.

It's not much different to my mind, and I fall into that camp of people who always think they're wrong.

Try to tell me I'm completely right, I'll argue with you why I'm not

Looks like smart TVs may have Red Button+ which gets its data differently than dumb TVs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Red_Button

I know, 10ish year old me just remembers him as an old guy (probably in his 40s).

Quite a small town as well.

just teach them safety, and figure out when you can trust them to keep safe.

Even 25 years ago, weirdos existed. As a ~10 year old, walking home one day, a stranger stopped his car, leaned out, and asked me to go get coffee with him.

from the responses it sounds like there is no one answer for everyone with this. It depends on the person that you are and the person that your partner is.

wish I had that problem. After a good run, I'm craving food.

you've had no close friends who've lost their options, or had their options become worthless when companies fail?

You're one lucky person to know!