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Korny

@Korny@hachyderm.io

Tech geek, polyglot coder, old-school agilista ex #ThoughtWorks, interested in tackling the climate crisis, being a good intersectional ally, and coping as a parent.
Like to tinker in #rust #rustlang #clojure #typescript #dataviz and others.
Pronouns he/him
Aussie living in #LeightonBuzzard UK
All opinions and comments are my own.

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Korny, to random
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A few weeks ago I installed the Glendale aurora alerts app, and naturally it's now going a bit berserk.

Trouble is, I have no idea of any of the scales so it's hard to tell if these alerts are "pretty lights in the sky" or "day of the Triffids prelude" or "imminent apocalypse"...

Korny,
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@DavidPenington
Sadly too much light pollution here, and couldn't get out into the real countryside.
Thankfully also no signs of Triffids this morning.

Korny, to random
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Overall a good day at the conference, but:

  • some fintechs seem to define "autonomous teams" as "only within extremely tight technical constraints"

  • diversity was extremely low (apart from the welcome presence of Fran Bennett as a speaker)

  • when asked what we'll be talking about in 2030, not one panellist mentioned the climate crisis

(Not blaming the organisers for the lack of diversity - it's a problem across fintech especially)

Korny, to random
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Train announcement: "we apologise as some carriages are struggling with the heat"
<Laughs in Australian>
(It's 21 degrees outside. Intolerable)

Korny, to random
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I'm always a bit amused by registration pages for free wifi portals. Nobody is ever going to make every person go through a validation workflow to connect (how would they?) so fake email addresses will always work.

Korny, to Horizon
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Francine Bennett from @AdaLovelaceInst is talking a lot of sense about AI in fintech at

  • it's the duty of IT folks is to point out the fallibility of complex systems, not just in AI - scandal is a good example.
Korny, to random
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I wonder when (if?) people will stop talking about "live tweeting" a conference?

Looking forward to a day at the conference! But not on Xitter.

joelanman, to random
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is a .env.template the normal way to document what's needed in a .env file in a project? Or do you do that in the readme/dev docs, or both?

Korny,
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@joelanman
We have an env.example, a bit in the README - but also we parse the environment with Zod so you get error messages if something doesn't fit the schema.

Korny, to random
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Seems Khan has in the bag, despite lots of rumours of it being at risk.
This seems to be such a common social media thing - lots of people saying he's probably safe, but the handful of people saying he's in danger get a lot more airtime as it's just more interesting.

I'm not sure if it's doomsayers, or misguided hope from people desperate trying to boost hatred.

acb, to random
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So the Tory candidate for Mayor of London (a lacklustre Poundshop Theresa May knockoff, the latest in a line of bellowing ignorami CCHQ had sent for the role) may have won, not on any merit of her own, but because the progressive voters who made up Khan’s 20% margin stayed home due to Gaza/TERFism/Starmer’s rightward tilt? If this turns out to have been the case, one could call this the Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner Election.

Korny,
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@acb
I've seen zero actual evidence of a risk to Khan - there are rumours but they seem to be based on the flimsiest of data.

I guess we'll know in the next few hours, but it seems to me his majority might shrink but actually losing is pretty unlikely.

Edent, (edited ) to random
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You receive a call on your phone.
The caller says they're from your bank and they're calling about a suspected fraud.

"Oh yeah," you think. Obvious scam, right?

The caller says "I'll send you an in-app notification to prove I'm calling from your bank."

Your phone buzzes. You tap the notification This is what you see.

Still think it is a scam?
1/3

Korny,
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@Edent
Theres also the problem that, even if I suspected it was a scam, I really struggle to do the sensible thing and call my bank - because all my experience with calling large institutions on the phone is long annoying call queues and difficulty getting any help.
My bank is probably better, but I've just been trained to avoid calling any businesses because so many are so bad.

geekweevil, to random
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That thing where both of you have read the same book/s with made up names in it, and have a discussion about it and you discover that you have both spent your lives pronouncing the names completely differently in your minds, and you know it doesn't matter in the slightest but you also know you're right and they are wrong.

Korny,
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@geekweevil
I spent my teenage years mispronouncing Tolkien names, then I heard Christopher Tolkien reading one of his dad's tales and I was all "doesn't he know how they should sound?"

thorne, to random
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Not entirely sure why I’m doing this, but here goes-
I need song suggestions. The general theme is:
“Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time”
First track is Nine Inch Nails /Every Day Is Exactly The Same/
Go. Or don’t. Your call.

Korny,
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@thorne
They Might Be Giants - Older?

Korny,
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@thorne
If you just want depression music, how about "nothing worth living for" by the Violent Femmes? :⁠-⁠)

Korny,
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@thorne
My trouble is, even when I listen to ostensibly bleak music these days I like it to be upbeat.

Like, check out the Decemberists - Everything is Awful: https://youtu.be/JitE79SFmqA?si=KmJyKwoBcB9lAemf

Or "Once in my Life": https://youtu.be/bHFbaF9_kpI?si=n9a-8hfHQ1IrlbK6

Korny, (edited ) to random
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Best Voice?

Korny,
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Sorry I have no idea of TV TV in other countries than the UK

Korny,
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Does this post need explanation for folks who haven't been exposed to UK TV and classic Aussie music?

Korny, to random
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Strange - I happened to look in the "blocked users" section of my mastodon client and saw a few people, I have no idea how they got there. Mostly pretty stagnant accounts - is there some way people can get auto blocked?

Korny, to random
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I've wondered for a while now - is there any research on map routing algorithms that allow for significantly longer routes, which meet other criteria like "more peaceful" or "simpler" or "less pollution"?

The excellent app (based on data) allows for quiet/balanced/fast routes, but "quiet" isn't quite what I want.

For example part of my route from work to Euston could go via the canal around Regent's Park, but that option is never suggested as it is 10min longer:

Suggested 21 minute cycle route from near Paddington to Euston Station mostly along busy roads

Korny,
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@okwithmydecay
Also I realise it depends on time of day and cycling speed - due to the number of pedestrians on a sunny afternoon.

I ride at a leisurely pace so I'm not much slowed by foot traffic. But for speedy cyclists the canal might be a much poorer option.

Korny, to random
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I'm no expert in this area - but very interesting to see this study by the IOC on trans people in elite sports, and the conclusion that it's far from simple and blanket bans are not the answer:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/23/world/europe/paris-olympics-transgender-athletes.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

dcbuchan, to random
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If you've gone from a 5-day work week to a 4-day work week I'd like to hear of your experience as I'm considering the same.

Did you have take a pay cut?
Do you work 5 days over 4?

How has it benefitted you?
How has it benefitted your employer?

(please boost)

Korny,
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@dcbuchan
I moved to a 4 day week about 6 years ago so I'd have more time with my kid and my wife could return to part time work. I took a 20% pay cut - but marginal tax rates meant it was less than 20% drop in income.

It's been awesome - I would never look back. It was a complication when changing jobs but most places seemed fairly accommodating.

Cont...

Korny,
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@dcbuchan

It's definitely better for my mental health and my relationship with my kids. And my productivity didn't drop anywhere near 20% - it's a bargain for my employers too.

Also it helped me learn to delegate - when I was a team leader I had to assign deputies for my non working day - "if there's a question about data science it should go to Zehra"

raganwald, to random
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In the centre of the back-end architecture was an app written for tellers to operate in a retail branch using terminals. This app was written in MUMPS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUMPS

The app was unmaintainable, but it was the source-of-truth for how almost every transaction was to be executed. Rewriting it was not a realistic option.

So they put a screen-scraper in front of it, with a custom JDBC interface. Our code thought it was talking to a database, but it was actually emulating a terminal!

2/2

Korny,
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@raganwald
I should note the absolute worst part - those XML interfaces are run by private companies and the protocols are proprietary.

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