Gus Power
@guspower
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maker-fixer | XP | technology as a tool | knot unraveller | court jester | wandering engineer all views my own
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Joined March 2009
Legacy Archipelago: a series of systems built one after another, each aimed to replace the previous one. For each step the new system only covered ~80% of the original functionality so the previous one was never decommissioned. All versions in use. [v1]->[v2]->[v3]->[v4]->[v5]
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At the end @Rebecca_SPaul and I managed to get Kim Leadbeater to admit that under her Bill a person would be able to get an Assisted Death for the sole reason of saving their relatives money. 3/3
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Am reminded once again today that the one thing that does scale really really well, regardless of the situation or system, is cost
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Good write-up of scatter-gather vs. interdisciplinary team. Unfortunately scatter-gather now seems to be the norm; "unteams". So disappointing.
Ideally, work is done quickly with maximum parallelism, since each task is given to the dev who can best complete it, and with changes well-designed, assembling and testing it at the end should not be too difficult or untimely... ... HOWEVER....
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The price of anodes is shocking nowadays
The UK taxpayer will spend £1,593,535,200 (£1.5 billion) on a contract for the “Provision of Bridging Accommodation and Travel Services” The contract included the cost of the floating Asylum barge, The Bibby Stockholm Awarded to one supplier; Corporate Travel Management (North)
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This dysfunction is so so common in large organisations. Multiple groups all vying for power, fighting for the unspecified (or poorly defined) middle. What a waste of energy.
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WHSmith in Liverpool St doesn't even stock A4 pads anymore. I don't actually get the point of them now. It's all sandwiches and painkillers, and for those there are better alternatives.
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Unreasonably happy that my PR made it into @SQLPage ! With lots of help from @ophir_dev of course.
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TIL: cargo doc will build docs for the local package *and* all the dependencies into target/doc. Useful when trying to work on transport with crap wifi.
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I wonder how many corporate projects are doomed to failure "at compile time" before they ever get up and running
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@garethwebber doing some survival analysis and pysurvival only works up to v3.8 (current is v3.13). you might think that a minor version difference wouldn't create any issues, but no. Needed to create a separate venv and ipykernel config, which seems to be quite an unreliable process.
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RT @matthiasendler: Rust is a great language for prototyping! Many people believe Python is better, so I collected a bunch of Rust tips fo…
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today's frustrations are brought to you by setuptools and the fact that seemingly every minor version upgrade of python breaks numerous things
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