Martin G. Brown

@RoseOnX9 So that John, who also uses the disk, can't leave your database with nowhere to write to.

Interviewer: A 10GB file becomes 3GB when zipped. No quality lost. No data removed. So the real question is: Why was it 10GB in the first place?

@Oxford_Life @RyanEaglen Kingston council is way ahead of you there. They made £450,000 off one junction in 8 months.

@RyanEaglen It's also ironic that in such a CCTV laden society that one of the few areas not monitored by cameras is yellow hatchings ...particularly when the cameras would likely pay for themselves in a couple of weeks with all the fines 🤪

I am convinced 80% of UK drivers don’t know how a yellow box junction works

@but_cyclists @Dan9z73 I live near London and do a low mileage. Most years I drive about 600 metres in snow. I already have issues with tires perishing before the tread wares out. Me having winter tires is just creating environmental waste for no good reason.

@Dan9z73 You don't have to buy a set of tyres every year 😂 you can re-use the same set each winter until the tread gets to the legal minimum

It's that time of year again when remind everyone that I cannot understate how useless summer tyres are in snow/ice conditions. I know some people cannot accept not being able to drive whenever they want to, but is it really worth destroying your car?

@confusionm8trix You'd be surprised how many British people learn American English. Either that or they just can't spell.

one of my dumbest culture shocks as an american was realizing that most people learning english as a second language learn british english

@edesiri Companies pay 15% tax (£9,750.00 for a £70k employee) on employing people in the UK before the money even reaches their pay slip.

i just don’t understand the pay difference between software engineering in the UK and USA. same SWE role $200,000 in the USA and £70,000 in the UK Why and How is this even allowed?!!!!!!! or is there something i’m missing?

@luke_pighetti @BenUwaifo @edesiri That's like calling Canadians American.

@BenUwaifo @edesiri eu is the ISO continent code for Europe

@HandyGingerGal It doesn't, what kind of backwards country are you in?

I want to know why an electronic banking transaction STILL takes 3-5 days to be completed.

@ChShersh Sounds like a job for a custom C program and someone that actually remembers data structures and algorithms from university.

Here’s a real task from my job. I have a 100GB binary file. Produced daily. I can’t grep it. But I can decode it. However, I can’t store the decoded version either. It’s too big. How do I efficiently query it? Decoding piped to grep takes 2 minutes. I want 2 seconds.

@ClarksonsFarm1 Who's the authority on this kind of thing, the Church or the British retail consortium?

Ok, let’s sort this once and for all. When should you put the Christmas tree up?🎄

@adityadotdev I was there. We used books and in person courses.

No docs, no YouTube, no chatGPT, no StackOverflow… How did they even learn to code back then?

@shanselman @CryptoDefendor I've seen lots of ghosting on OLED displays, but it goes away again after the screen has rested, so is probably different from the burn in CRTs used to get.

@CryptoDefendor Does your windows taskbar, start button, or menus burn your OLED displays? Your chrome address bar? Have you seen a lot of burnin outside TVs?

I think that the Internet should be weird again and we should just code things because they’re delightful. We should also code things so that the haters hate less

@shanselman @MathesonStep I read that as the QT UI framework and Universal Naming Convention. I've probably been geeking for too long.

@MathesonStep Unc is “uncle” meaning I’m old, I’m chopped lol I’m easily dismissed due to my generation and age

Yes I realize the QT puts eyeballs on this, and yes I’m unc, but don’t take pride in this kind of engagement. It’s cheap and it’s easy. “Should I use react or XML?” isn’t a personal brand and it doesn’t help teach the next generation. Don’t make - or take - the bait.

@Apogee_Ent Space invaders.

Oh, you’re a gamer? Name the first game you ever beat.

@tylershez @providenceluvr I have wild parakeets in my garden in Surrey, is that exotic?

@providenceluvr If that was true surely we have much more exotic wildlife and weather patterns? Every rainforest on earth has tigers and shit

my working theory of britain is that we have a rainforest climate but due to medieval deforestation we don’t have trees to suck up the moisture and that’s why we have arthritis and depression

@csharpfritz @edandersen Not all Async methods return Task<T> some just return Task. Then without the Async suffix you don't see the bug in this code: using (var x = new MyClass()) { x.MyMethod(); }

@edandersen Async methods should typically return Task<T>, and that will break the code that thinks it’s receiving an int or an IEnumerable or whatever.. Async methods that don’t return Task, in my experience, should be used sparingly

Because I need to know by reading *only* the name of the method if I need to await the result or not, to do var blah = await or just var blah =. Forgetting to await something is normally a critical bug, and you can’t rely on compiler warnings for this. Juniors forget to await all the time, *Async reminds them.

@kmcnam1 I use it, because it syncs the favourites bar with my Window PC.

@harshhshuklaa @Hiteshdotcom Are you sure about that?

@Hiteshdotcom Macbook because I can buy any other laptop by selling the macbook. Vice versa isn't true.

If you could choose only one laptop, either any variant of a MacBook or any Windows laptop from any brand; and both were offered to you absolutely FREE, which one would you pick?

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@ExposeTheFitnah @brankopetric00 People learn an ORM framework and fail to learn the database it connects to. Then they test with only 3 rows in their dev database.

@brankopetric00 How do people write programs and design db without indexes? N+1 queries are sometimes missed i can understand that. But indexes? That’s unacceptable

"Our database won't scale". Database: - 40GB total data - 12 queries per second - 0 indexes on query columns - N+1 queries everywhere - 200ms average query time Solution: - Shard across 12 databases - Add read replicas - Implement caching layer - Switch to "web scale" NoSQL Actual solution: - Add 3 indexes - Fix the N+1 queries - 5ms query time - $40/month Postgres You don't have a scaling problem. You have a competence problem.

@ThePrimeagen It's because you aren't putting the code you want it to write in the prompt.

i often feel like i am missing something with ai all these tweets claiming it is the greatest thing ever... yet, i dont see the same thing. I have a list of activities where its incredible at, but none of them at the writing of code, more comprehension only wtf is wrong with me