I built a thermostat with a Wemos D1 mini and a relay module about 10 years ago.

Still use it today integrated with home assistant and can turn the heat on and off while away from home. It’s been reused across three boilers, no parts replaced.

It was a really fun project and I had virtually no experience with Arduino when starting out. Would recommend it to anyone.

Oh I wasn’t implying you were! My ire is directed entirely at RM for their mismanagement.

Someone defined the process at some point though, and often it’s documented. I’ve worked at several banks and large financial institutions and have had plenty of people tell me “I don’t know how X works” but never “Nobody knows how X works”.

I currently work at a bank and I’m yet to encounter anything that someone couldn’t at least send me documentation for, however apocryphal.

The problem here is that it’s fairly clear that the post office allowed Fujitsu to both define and implement the processes such that they are not compelled to provide the blueprint for them as part of the contract and they are now held to ransom over it.

This is the kind of colossal fuck up that heads should roll for, no less so as it is happening in the shadow of one of the biggest corruption scandals in British history.

Crucial code doesn’t exist, all code is disposable mess that tries to mimic a real world process; and it sounds like the post office fucked up by not even knowing how their own processes work in practice.

Their best option here would be to revert to pen and paper until they figure out how the hell they actually make money.

In the meantime, fire the board and exec team for not meeting their most basic fiduciary duties.

An opinion from the guy who thinks the metaverse is a viable product? Yeah I’ll pass

Two things that are true about 6T but not the 9/12:

1. It was pre-OS merge and things still felt more like vanilla Android. I still recommend it as a barebones Android experience, but if I’m asked whether there is bloat now … I have to be honest and say that there’s been persistent creep in recent years.

2. Form factor. The smaller size sits better in the hand and pocket IMO, and I don’t recall feeling (after having OnePlus 5) like I’d lost screen space.

I’ve had a 9 Pro and 12 since 6T and 6T is still my favourite hands down

Reading the page, it doesn’t sound like he’s against empathy at all. He’s specifically against making decisions based on “feels” and targeting empathy specifically because he seems to believe it’s a tool often misused.

For a second I was expecting something akin to Radical Candor’s “ruinous empathy” which has been used an excuse by managers the world over to justify their inherent lack of any empathy for the people around them.

Seems like an interesting read, adding it to my list. Thanks.

Hi, I have a degree in computer science and work with AI every day.

Feelings aren’t a good way to measure things scientifically, they are right about that.

But saying that words can just be filtered is easier said than done. You’re back at needing to do a lot of processing to identify and purge these words. This is still going to cost a lot of money and potentially lead to less meaningful inputs. Now you also have to maintain the software that does the word identification, keep it well tested, maintain monitoring and analytics for it, and so on.

So, in short, everyone here is wrong and I’m considering packing it all in and buying a small potato farm with no internet connection.

Gesundheit

Can’t tell you, that’s Level 6 classified. Sorry bud.

Don’t need yet, and that’s my whole point.

Netflix’s approach is: “we know you probably don’t want this shit, but if you ever do it’s behind this big button on page 1”.

That’s helping you avoid kids content, not hindering you.

2% of China’s GDP also, so noticeable but not the knife in the side that the Whitehouse seems to think it is.

Netflix does this so that (most of) the children’s content appears only in the children’s section. This means you don’t have to sift through 800 versions of cocomelon to find Singles Inferno. They’re literally acknowledging you don’t have children and helping you find the content you want, and simultaneously not preventing you from accessing it when your sisters little crotch goblins come over for a visit.

Most first-world-problem shit I’ve ever heard.

I know the formula, but the joke is about the claim that they used the AI to get the formula

long run

This is the crux of the problem when losing funding like this

Ah this must be because it did such a good job taxing penguins

Fennec. I’ve also used Mull before now. Both are pretty decent drop in replacements for Firefox

Yes but those are inferior because they aren’t in a rage-baiting meme format

Well fingers crossed for me then as I don’t really want to spend the time to migrate again!