@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] Ah, yes. That is hard. Although mentioning remote work has reminded me of somebody else. @[email protected] , do you happen to know anybody in Padua who can recommend reputable estate agents? I know it's not right in your stomping grounds but I don't have many contacts "up North"
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@_elena @tommi @mavnn tyvm! he has tried immobiliare and idealista and directly emailing agencies but nothing's worked out so far.
he was about to close on a place a few weeks ago for 900€, then a 500€ deposit, then then they wanted to charge an extra month of rent in fees, and an agency fee, and more fees on top of that and he couldn't afford it 😢
@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] A lot of the best deals here go by word of mouth, so if he is moving there for a job or similar it may also be worth asking any local contacts. It's far more acceptable here to both ask for and recieve help with this type of thing from 'professional' contacts than it can be in the some parts of the UK.
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I'm a broken record on this one, but the "Modular Monolith" idea comes with its own set of new complexity and it's not right to say that it's any kind of silver bullet.
Is it maybe the best idea knowing what we know right now after a decade and change of micro-services? Maybe, but don't be fooled into thinking it's just going to be easy.
@[email protected] It's almost as if software architecture needs to try and solve real, specific, problems rather than being chosen according to fashion. Who would have thought?
“Somebody got promoted for this”, boss battle edition.
@[email protected] "I feel a great disturbance in the Force, as if a million security researches all face palmed at once..."
@Taskerland I will add, though, that the IT people aren't the only ones.
Gearheads.
And I don't mean gamers who like mecha. I mean the people who can't comprehend how anyone goes through life without disassembling a carburetor. They're the redneck IT crowd.
@[email protected] @[email protected] I needed to speak to a plumber about irrigation for a large garden a few years ago, and yeah. Whole new world of plumbing knowledge and terminology I didn't understand layered on top of horticultural terminology I didn't understand.
@[email protected] @[email protected] I have been promoted repeatedly in my career for being mediocre at translating between my fellow IT professionals and ... well, anyone else.
@[email protected] @[email protected] I cringed this morning when I saw somebody saying 'oh, I'd love to set up my own blog but I'm not sure how' because I'm sure that at least 15 helpful IT professionals have now convinced them it is impossible.
(Although also, hats off to people like @[email protected] who are actually doing the hard work of writing guides that make sense to the rest of the population)
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@Taskerland I am perpetually amused that IT people really, sincerely have no idea that they speak Martian.
@[email protected] @[email protected] I have been promoted repeatedly in my career for being mediocre at translating between my fellow IT professionals and ... well, anyone else.
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If you replace a junior with #LLM and make the senior review output, the reviewer is now scanning for rare but catastrophic errors scattered across a much larger output surface due to LLM "productivity."
That's a cognitively brutal task.
Humans are terrible at sustained vigilance for rare events in high-volume streams. Aviation, nuclear, radiology all have extensive literature on exactly this failure mode.
I propose any productivity gains will be consumed by false negative review failures.
Yeap. I've been thinking about this as well. Maybe especially because of my #adhd (which - let's face it - is not rare in the industry) I'm keenly aware that scanning walls of existing code for bugs and existing test suites for holes is way, way harder and more error prone than writing the same code/test cases yourself. Which is why we ask devs to produce small, scoped, change requests and try and spread the review load.
@[email protected] @[email protected] ...and have the scars and the tears to prove it
Fedi, a good friend needs to find a place to live in Padua (Padova), Italy. He has citizenship, but doesn't speak the language well. He's not wealthy but he's able to afford a small place. He's currently in the UK.
Can anyone help me find him a letting agent or any other source where he can view and apply to rent an apartment? He's tried calling a couple of places to no avail.
@[email protected] Although she's not based in Italy right now, @[email protected] might know some groups it would be good to pass this on to?
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And the other Royal Navy tradition: Captains are inviolate commanders, at all times in all settings. They present "serious". They eat and drink separately from the crew. They have only three or four other officers that they ever get to, comparatively, relax with.
So, you have a comedy officer, and you have a captain, and the captain simply looks the other way when the comedy officer is up to their hijinks.
He *knows* the hijinks. He *sees* the hijinks. But he pretends not to.
@[email protected] Fun fact: my mother has expert card shuffling skills because as the daughter of a merchant navy captain she was one of the only people the sailors trusted to deal for money games in or out of port (she would have been around 10 at the time and didn't normally travel with the ship). The captain, of course, couldn't be involved but the crew preferred having relatives of the captain run the game than the local casino.
The first thing that people see when visiting https://codeberg.org is the following: "Software development, but free!"
However, projects hosted on Codeberg are not necessarily by developers of software—on the other hand, deciding on a new slogan can be difficult and contentious, as first impressions really matter (and there's not a lot of space there).
So, one of the people controlling the social media account decided to ask the fediverse: Any good ideas?
@[email protected] it feels like the only common point across everyone using Codeberg will be version control and the usage restrictions set by server policy. "Shared history for open projects"?
The next train on platform 2 is going to Errore XSLT @[email protected]
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In a bunch of kung fu movies, there's this very specific trope, of this one dude who's watching the fight and explaining the styles being used to his fellow audience members.
Functionally he's basically a Mr. Exposition, but he always kinda comes off to me a bit like a sports color commentator, and I really wonder whether the vibes of each influenced the other.
@[email protected] In Jackie Chan's Gorgeous the character in this role actually states he's now a commentator for sports matches; he likes being behind the microphone because with his knowledge from training 'he sounds like he's invincible' but he fell so far behind the lead character's skills he now hires people to fight him and comments on the fight instead of trying to fight him himself. So I think the film makers are pretty aware of the similarities!
I'm not quite sure how, but somehow this video manages to be a mind blowing display of skill, a hilarious display of grown men making fart noises into microphones, and an absolute banger of a tune all at the same time. Well played, Hiss and H-has. Well played.
@InsiderTreat can recommend. there's a reason I say getting diagnosed and medicated was the second biggest moment of my life.
@[email protected] @[email protected] I second this message, and basically everything else in this thread. Realising you're badly dehydrated and need to pee and then going back to what you were doing before you manage to do anything about it is... well. It is, I suppose.
it's also not just breaking captions when you seek, either: you can jump forward and see captions, jump backward and see captions, you just can't see any caption you've seen before. Like they're getting "used up" by watching them
@[email protected] vlc added its very own anti memetic?
Brutal political commentary from a madlib generator.
Even great stories start from humble beginnings. In the first session of a new round of Coding Games with a Story, some of our authors (9-11 year olds) successfully got a story up and running with a scene, background music, images of the person speaking... and a decision point.
![VAR speaker = "Narrator"
VAR scene = "Cafe"
VAR music = "Piano"
-> start
=== start
~speaker = "Elly"
What would you like to drink?
+ [Coffee] -> coffee
+ [Tea] -> tea
-> END
=== coffee
~speaker = "Eddy"
I'd love a coffee!
-> END
=== tea
~speaker = "Eddy"
A tea, please!
-> END](/data/uploads/01KADR90Y8MARZA72STN46Z1W2/images/01KJ5RCTX4KXVKKD97EN8A0PG9.png)
@[email protected] @[email protected] arrrgh. That would have made a vastly superior punch line and I missed it. tips hat