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I have a few of those Wainwright books, and had never consciously noted that change in perspective in the maps!


I attempted a very small version of this at work, on a small area of our codebase.

Firstly, how are we defining tech debt in the abstract to guide an agent?

Once it got going, probably half the PRs got thrown out, 25% seemed like preference changes, and 20% were of any value.

I'm not sure it scales



I've found that the only way I can reliably create focus of late is to put music on. It's as though the music prevents my mind from wandering and/or wondering because it is already being consumed


The specifics were about whether it required any additional preparation like a traditional poppadom vs being a ready to eat snack like a crisp.

Walkers lost the case.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/jan/19/walkers-min...


The etymology of dialogue is from the Greek `dia` meaning `through` and `logos` meaning `words`.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/dialogue explains the common confusion with di-


Thank you! TIL.


You can just search for the answer to save having to do that


Now it seems progress has become literally impossible because the chess move + the captcha includes digits that add up to more than 25. I guess having to restart is intended to be part of the game, or is this a bug?


You can reroll the captcha


You can cycle the captcha.


We used this site to help choose our baby name, thank you for building it! If only gratitude could pay server costs...


I believe the British Airways site still does something similar to this, or it did until very recently if it's been fixed. Add a password that is too long, it gets truncated and the truncated version saved with no warning or error.

It took me several password reset attempts to realise what was going on, as my literally just set and password manager-saved password didn't work.

I think in BA's case the password input also had a character limit on it, which is ultimately how I realised what was happening, even though there was no info anywhere that such a limit existed.


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