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FBJimmy

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  • Professional software engineers of Lemmy, are code reviews still a thing in the age of "AI" assisted coding?

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  • I think currently companies tend to have the same process they always had.

    In my case, that tends to be that you create a PR, someone assumes you knew what you were doing and approves it with no comments.

    I actually expect the fact that we're promoting AI internally might result in this tightening up.

    Probably unlike others, I work in an R&D team of only about 12 people total (all disciplines) so probably not the usual experience.

  • What's a song where you like a remix or cover better than the original?

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  • Boys of Summer by The Ataris.

    Or if you prefer EDM, maybe Boys of Summer by DJ Sammy

  • What habit do you possess that seems very normal to you, but would seem odd to anyone else?

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  • What? I completely get discarding things and living a life without the burden of clutter, but having a game in your Steam library is essentially zero cost/burden right?

  • Men have fewer children than women

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  • Has anyone dug into this enough to work out what exactly is the difference in measuring fertility rate vs gender compared to just measuring population percentage per gender? It's got to be a very subtle difference, if anything.

  • My pasta isn't cooked?

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  • Sometimes if you don't use enough water or don't stir it at the right time, pasta can stick to itself in the pan and the bits in the middle aren't able to rehydrate/cook properly.

  • You after wiping your ass for the 27th time and still see shit

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  • Sure, BUT, don't just connect it to the cold water supply - they need proper isolation - I've heard of cases where households have gotten really sick and they found that bacteria from the bum gun had made it back to the drinking water.

  • The Treasury just declared the U.S. insolvent. The media missed it | Fortune

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  • Not saying that the US isn't in fiscal crisis, I'm not at all qualified to say either way, but: Comparing government balance sheets to household finances is a age-old conservative folly designed to encourage the working class to support smaller government in order to reduce taxes on the rich - in other words, encourage the turkeys to vote for Christmas (or in this case maybe Thanksgiving?).

    The fact is that government finances and household finances are not at all the same thing, for many reasons I'm not qualified to explain, but a couple of obvious ones:

    • Households can't choose to tax the rich to increase income.
    • Households can't print money.
    • Households can't secure low-interest loans that extend beyond their lifetimes (i.e. issue bonds).
    • Households don't typically find spending increases income (i.e. Government workers pay taxes, infrastructure investment drives growth which increases tax revenue, etc etc).

    The UK Conservatives used this line of reasoning around 2010 and it's led to 15 years of growth stagnation with no real improvement in the debt situation.

  • Corned Beef Wellington - Am I crazy?

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  • I feel like over-salting the tenderloin would spoil the flavour. And you don't want to slow cook it, it will dry out.

    But as a possible Irish twist: Replace the mushroom duxelle with white or black pudding? Should such a thing be available where you are

  • Corned beef and cabbage

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  • After being very confused by this picture, I just went down a rabbit hole researching the use of "corned beef" across the English speaking world..

    As far as I can tell:

    • US/Canada call this corned beef, and it's made from brisket.
    • UK/ex-Commonwealth call this salt beef, again made from brisket, and corned beef is very different mushy canned meat product
    • In Ireland it seems, from looking at the website for one of their supermarkets, they just call everything corned beef? The canned mush, raw brisket, this - all "corned beef"?

  • Stoat self-hosting: Instance invites?

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  • I think I've figured it out somewhat.

    Handling instance invite codes is definitely missing from the official stoatchat-for-web repo I built my frontend from - see: https://github.com/stoatchat/for-web/issues/639

    But I think what confuses things when you ask around for help is that AFAIK a lot of people are using various forks and pre-made docker images that patch things like this.

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    FBJimmy @lemmus.org

    Stoat self-hosting: Instance invites?

  • How come residential power lines aren't buried underground still?

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  • Well yeah, it's quite easy to keep your energy prices low when you

    • have a wealth of hydrocarbon sources in-country
    • supplement them by bombing other nations until they give you there's
    • don't give a flying fuch about the planet

  • How come residential power lines aren't buried underground still?

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  • Population of Sweden: 10.6 million

    Population of the USA: 340.1 million

    So the population density is very similar and I therefore don't understand what you're getting at.

  • ‘F**k you’: Trump drops F-bomb before flipping off autoworker

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  • Is a peacoat a coat soaked in pee?

  • What wisdom from someone else has stuck with you?

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  • More of a famous quote I guess, but:

    "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

    Since I first heard it, I've been far less annoyed / paranoid about other peoples actions, at work in particular.

  • Do you guys know how awesome a printer is that is just working?

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  • Nice - thanks for this

  • Do you guys know how awesome a printer is that is just working?

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  • Not my experience. I've had my X1C for a year now and have not had to 'dial in' a single thing.

    Most of my prints are functional items in PETG of various colous. Some PLA for cosmetic parts. And I did some things in TPU earlier in the year. Probably been through like 10kg of filament on it.

    Can't think of a single serios print failure that wasn't human error - e.g. forgot to clean the bed, didn't support it properly.

    My one gripe is that when changing PETG reels, it doesn't always manage to wipe the nozzle very well leaving a few rogue stringy bits that usually just pull off.

    And obviously I don't love the closed-wall software situation, but their software is pretty good.

  • What technologies were ubiquitous ten years ago and are much less common now?

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    • In 2015, UK consumers spent approximately £1.5 billion on physical entertainment media, including DVDs, Blu-rays, and CDs.
    • By 2025, that figure has plummeted to under £400 million, with DVDs and Blu-rays now representing less than 10% of total video spend.
    • In 2015, streaming was growing but still secondary. Netflix had around 5 million UK subscribers, and Spotify Premium was under 2 million.
    • By 2025, streaming dominates:
      • Over 90% of UK households subscribe to at least one video streaming service
      • Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney+, and Apple TV+ collectively exceed 40 million UK subscriptions
      • Music streaming accounts for over 85% of music revenue, with Spotify, Apple Music, and YouTube Music leading

    2015: Physical Media ~£1.5 billion, Streaming ~£500 million 2025: Physical Media <£400 million, Streaming >£2.5 billion https://www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/resources/documents/research-and-data/multi-sector/media-nations/2025/media-nations-2025-uk-report.pdf https://www.deloitte.com/uk/en/Industries/tmt/research/digital-consumer-trends.html

  • Campfire (the self-hosted group chat) just became free and open source!

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  • What’s the most ridiculous “life hack” you’ve ever heard of?

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  • Not The Onion @lemmy.world
    FBJimmy @lemmus.org

    Karen who did not get leaving card loses UK employment claim

    www.theguardian.com /uk-news/2024/oct/12/woman-leaving-card-employment-claim-tribunal