@Cmdr_Hadfield So have we worked out what the largest size is that one of those can be before the atmosphere is no longer enough to protect us? Or does it depend on what it's composed of, the angle it arrives at etc?
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simon geering
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simon geering
@simongeering
Software developer, specialising in microsoft tools and technologies. Keen climber and mountaineer.
UK 参加日 Haziran 2009
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That rock fell from space on Saturday, burst through roof & ceiling, bounced hard enough off the floor to hit the ceiling again, and finally rattled to a stop. It sure surpised the family - thankfully, no one was hurt.
Earth gets hit by about 50 tons of meteors EVERY DAY. Luckily 2/3rds of our planet's surface is water, so mostly they splash into the sea.
But not always ...
details: khou.com/article/news/l…
photo: Ponderosa Fire Department
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@mkristensen Eg have someone with more knowledge of the codebase of a work item do the analysis and save the breadcrumb trail in the csproj on a git branch for a colleague.
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@mkristensen All the time, wish you could also separately have named permanent ones.
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Do you use bookmarks in Visual Studio? Tell me why or why not?
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@SgtMajFrenchie A tactical victory @SgtMajFrenchie 👍 , sorry to hear about your cyber security ambush btw, hopefully all is good for you going forward.
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This is what my previous account looks like following the big hack. Still featuring SgtMajFrench and Norman. Otherwise a complete reskin and appears to be a crypto sc@m. For those still following, I would suggest a tactical withdrawal.
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@KarenPayneMVP Also worth watching animation Vs maths by A Beckett on YouTube.
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Students wanted a visual of a 3D array so...
Spectre.Console tables
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@CJackson26740 @Grady_Booch Glad I'm not the only one who's been saying this for a while now. VBA, macros and access database automatically generated forms UI anyone? It's the sequel to a Friday night popcorn movie, not much better than the original 😁
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@Grady_Booch this visual basic level of abstract is producing the same sorts of crap but at least if you know how to code you can fix it
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Very little about software engineering has changed over past last three months.
A great deal has changed about coding, not unlike when we saw the rise of high order programming languages and compilers, the difference today being that the number of developers is far larger and distribution channels are such that the velocity and breadth of change is far greater.
The entire history of software engineering is one of raising the level of abstraction.
Jared Friedman@snowmaker
Software engineering changed more in the last 3 months than the preceeding 30 years. Everything about running a software company needs to be rethought from first principles.
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@raddevus @Grady_Booch Right up until you become the person with responsibility for the consequences of those decisions. Then it becomes very real very quickly.
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@Grady_Booch Yes, and,
All those years, all those books, all that reading.
But, "Software Architecture" was just whatever your Boss said it was.
Every single company (and every book) said it was something different.
The real truth was that all the code was just Technical Debt. 🤣
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What features or extensions make you jump from Visual Studio to other IDEs and editors to perform certain tasks?
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@KarenPayneMVP Different views for different jobs. Overview for understanding relationships detail for understanding specifics of the design.
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Which is more appealing for an overview of a database?
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@TippingOddsLV @NoContextBrits You'd have had to have been a farmer to have seen that much mince in a meal with wartime rationing.
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@NoContextBrits the english eat like there are still german planes overhead
is funny bit that actually looks good
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@NoContextBrits What kind of ground meat is this?
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@uk_ktee7484 @NoContextBrits You can put some peas with it if you really want. What it really needs though is some more bisto and some grated cheese
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@saigonhoon @NoContextBrits Not enough beans but good effort 😕
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@NoContextBrits That said I agree with others on here that a proper crusty loaf would be better, plain white is best for beef stew plate cleaning 😋
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@NoContextBrits Out and about on a cold wet winter day, come back to that in front of a proper fire, spotted dick and custard for pudding. Can't go wrong, set you up for the rest of the day.
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@sleitnick This is what happens if you let it eat after midnight!
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@teamcity Please if you can say; Does that use git integration or not?
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At JetBrains, we build everything with TeamCity — from small plugins to full-blown IDEs. Today our internal TeamCity server hit a new record: 10,000 build agents running simultaneously 🚀
When your workload is huge, TeamCity scales with you. See how others use it in the real world: jetbrains.com/company/custom…
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@edandersen The sooner the better, let it all come crashing down, then we might get gaming hardware costs back to sensible prices.
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The last point is bang on. As soon as the subsidies stop and companies are forced to pay raw LLM API costs this tech will be gatekept in companies just like devs cannot just randomly rack up AWS bills
dax@thdxr
everyone's talking about their teams like they were at the peak of efficiency and bottlenecked by ability to produce code here's what things actually look like - your org rarely has good ideas. ideas being expensive to implement was actually helping - majority of workers have no reason to be super motivated, they want to do their 9-5 and get back to their life - they're not using AI to be 10x more effective they're using it to churn out their tasks with less energy spend - the 2 people on your team that actually tried are now flattened by the slop code everyone is producing, they will quit soon - even when you produce work faster you're still bottlenecked by bureaucracy and the dozen other realities of shipping something real - your CFO is like what do you mean each engineer now costs $2000 extra per month in LLM bills
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@Foxy2Para I know what you mean about that calm, used to love coming into the office on a Sunday, such a peaceful quiet compared to the weekday chaos. Strange to find such calm with such an urban setting.
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@0xlelouch_ If possible hire the person you'd want to call at 2am when the proverbial hits the spinny thing.
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We hired a backend guy recently who didn’t know half the buzzwords.
No Saga, no CQRS, shaky on K8s. On paper, easy reject.
Then we gave him a real prod-ish bug:
sporadic 500s, p95 spikes, only on one endpoint.
He did 3 things:
1. Asked for repro + timeline. “When did it start? What changed? Any new feature release?”
2. Cut the problem space. Logs first, then metrics, then a single failing request ID.
3. Formed a hypothesis, tested it, wrote down what each result would mean.
Found it in 25 mins:
connection pool exhausted from one code path leaking retries + no timeout.
I’ll take that over memorized concepts anyday.
This is what people don't get right, companies hire for fundamentals + debugging. You can teach patterns. You can’t teach calm thinking under failure.
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