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I've worked with enough Polish developers that I can probably research a reasonable estimate of this for several different projects 😀
Christian, husband, dad, coder, trainer, speaker, rpg geek, adhd
To clear up a mutual point of confusion:
To the USA: most other countries don’t sell pizza by the slice because their whole pizzas are all personal sized
To others, especially Europe: Americans sell and request pizza by the slice because the typical American whole pizza is over twice the size of a European one and is meant to be shared by the whole table
@[email protected] Italy also has a bonus extra option of take away pizza 'by the cut' (al taglio) which you order by weight - often in hectogram units. So you order 'tre etti' (three hundred grams) and the guy cuts a slice of the right size off a huge rectangular pizza, generally by eye, and generally very accurately. Great for much confusion in shops not used to dealing with tourists. Also genuinely convenient for ordering the amount of food you actually want/need.
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This is genuinely really good news; Erasmus has been such a positive life changing events for many people I know and the UK dropping out of it was one of many tragedies from Brexit.
@mavnn it's pretty much all wifi hotspots at Goldsmiths. They seem very much set up to block a bunch of things. I'm accessing all of it through the Tor browser now....
@[email protected] Yeah, there was a craze at one point in the uk of trying to configure hotspots to do all kinds of weird things, like try and take over your DNS, or prevent you from 'abusing the service' by using streaming services or - evil of evils - VPNs. You might be downloading anything over that VPN! I even once had one try and ask me to accept a certificate, presumably so it could man in the middle me to make sure I was following the hotspot usage policy or something.
Given that most coffee shops don't refit their wifi hotspots very often, a lot of them are still around.
update: was able to connect to Tor. It took a while, though.
Proton and my 2FA both show "TLS errors," as if the certs aren't trusted by the ISP.
@[email protected] Are you using a wifi hotspot somewhere? They're often configured really badly in the UK in my experience. If you're using mobile, that sounds stranger.
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@[email protected] He was one of the first people to point out that's not really how humans work; 'high potential'/'profoundly gifted' humans don't think like everybody else more quickly, way instead tend to have more bandwidth, make more connections, make intuitive and emotional jumps that they post-hoc justify afterwards - all the things you're saying. Just with some scientific papers to wave in the face of professionals and teachers who are determined to double down on 'that child can't be bright, they aren't perfectly behaved!'.
@[email protected] (insert rant here about people needing to justify their lived experience with 'published papers' to actually be listened to)
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@[email protected] I think that was a large part of his point - he was writing in the 70s so that was reasonably radical and it's not like there aren't still a lot of misconceptions about 'giftedness' (such a terrible term, as you say). I've seen his work and the follow on work that built on it (Silverman etc) used to push back against the idea of the 'gifted genius', mature beyond their years, striding forwards with logical certainity because being intelligent obviously means 'being able to do more of the same thing overbody else can.'
@[email protected] He was one of the first people to point out that's not really how humans work; 'high potential'/'profoundly gifted' humans don't think like everybody else more quickly, way instead tend to have more bandwidth, make more connections, make intuitive and emotional jumps that they post-hoc justify afterwards - all the things you're saying. Just with some scientific papers to wave in the face of professionals and teachers who are determined to double down on 'that child can't be bright, they aren't perfectly behaved!'.
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@[email protected] I think that was a large part of his point - he was writing in the 70s so that was reasonably radical and it's not like there aren't still a lot of misconceptions about 'giftedness' (such a terrible term, as you say). I've seen his work and the follow on work that built on it (Silverman etc) used to push back against the idea of the 'gifted genius', mature beyond their years, striding forwards with logical certainity because being intelligent obviously means 'being able to do more of the same thing overbody else can.'
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I have an elderly neighbor; I always speak to her in Dutch (her native language, to be clear) and she always answers me in English.
I think she just noticed, after two years, that I can speak Dutch 😅
@[email protected] I love watching that happen! My mum once went through the whole process of ordering a meal in a kebab shop in the UK speaking Turkish (which is what the staff were using talking to each other). He not only replied in English, but then asked his co-worker why they'd complimented an English speaker on their Turkish...
Michael Newton
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@fediversereport/116409387146814121
A massive thanks to @laurenshof for actually attributing FediMod FIRES to me in his coverage. It means a lot to receive credit for my work!
Michael Newton
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i was quite surprised to discover that no one had registered deleteduser [dot] com, and was curious to see how many emails i'd get if i registered it, assuming many orgs 'delete' logic probably just overwrote the email address with [email protected] or similar.
The answer, is at least 3 different orgs in the hour that I've owned that domain and been listening for email.
And yes, all of those emails contain the actual PII of the person who has been 'deleted' 😁
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Michael Newton
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If all you do in your tech career is:
1. When something is slow, you look carefully at the output of a profiler or a query plan & make measured suggestions about what to improve;
2. When something breaks badly, you gently but insistently ask what & why until you truly know, then the next time similar work is needed you bring up how to avoid doing what broke last time; and
3. When someone lacks info, you make them feel good for learning instead of bad for not knowing;
You will do good work.
Michael Newton
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this Strait of Hormuz story makes IT decision-makers who get locked in to one SaaS vendor look remarkably responsible and forward-thinking
Michael Newton
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New blog post: Running individual Bun tests with Zed tasks https://mikehadlow.com/posts/2026-04-15-running-individual-bun-tests-with-zed-tasks/
Michael Newton
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the first rule of data breach opsec is: if you don't store data it can't be breached
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i need more coffee so badly this morning as evidenced by the fact that i can’t find my coffee mug that i was drinking from not an hour ago #coffee
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There seems to be a bit of a caffeine failure epidemic going around at the moment
Michael Newton
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Slow cooker garlic. Buy it peeled in a big bag, mix with generous olive oil, butter and salt. Set it to low, stir hourly for six to eight hours until it gets dark brown and soft, ladle into jars and this is your favourite new condiment, the richness of roast garlic with a minimum of effort. When a dish calls for fresh garlic add an equal portion of this and immediately secure the respect and admiration of your guests.
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Michael Newton
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Er, what do you mean, Backblaze silently doesn't actually backup everything? WTF? You had one job!
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I wonder if I should be concerned that I have a mental list of bad driven songs for when the caffeine fails mentally loaded up and ready to go at all times
@[email protected] In a variety of styles...
- Propellerheads - Spybreak!
- Bon Jovi - Keep the faith
- Gravity Kills - Guilty
- Paul Simon - You can call me Al
- KMFDM - Ultra
- Wing - Dopamine DnB remix
- Liquid Tension Experiment - pretty much anything?
