davethedevguy

Would you mind elaborating on

  from those to tasks (those are in MD too)

please?

We're doing the design docs in MD thing, but are you saying you've gone a step further and have the backlog represented in git too?

I agree with most of what you said, but just want to clarify for others that VAT registration is optional until revenue is high enough to reach the threshold.

Not being VAT registered when starting out is not necessarily a sign of a tax dodge.

This seems like a huge own goal for the US.

Who will want to buy American military technology, when the ability to employ it is at the whim of whoever wins the next election?

Especially as it's clear now than any alliance with the US is fragile at best, and could end overnight depending on which side of the bed Trump wakes up on.

I noticed that you do have data for Flint. Did you have to pay it, or is there some appeals process if you're quoted an unreasonable amount?

Great project by the way!

At some point, everybody had to learn what a hole saw is for the first time.

UK governments have been pushing for this for years, usually invoking some recent terrorist event as justification.

I'm not suggesting you're wrong, but I don't think this is _just_ the UK being a US puppet, there is very much an appetite for it in the UK parliament too.

> It's all in the framing

Yeah, that's the root of the problem, I think.

It's easy to sell people that "we just need this one more bit of access to your private data, it helps us stops paedophiles and terrorists", but each step takes us further down a bad path.

I'm sure everybody would agree that having full camera surveillance inside every UK home is too far, but no oversight at all is also bad.

There is a point along that line where society would say "no, that's enough", but successive governments have realised that they can slowly push that point further right and nobody seems to notice, or care.

I'm from the UK, and I completely agree.

The general public either don't know about growing mass surveillance and privacy invasions, or don't care. "Terrorism and child abuse = bad, and if this prevents it and I have nothing to hide then why would it be a problem for me?"

Presumably this would be Jane, who felt the need to comment on the OAuth ticket:

> Make sure to follow the security best practices

Thanks Jane! Appreciate the input, don't you have your own work to do?

Likewise!

In higher dimensions, are the spheres just a visual metaphor based on the 3-dimensional problem, or are mathematicians really visualising spheres with physical space between them?

Is that even a valid question, or does it just betray my inability to perceive higher dimensions?

This is fascinating and I'm in awe of the people that do this work.

Is the author suggesting that current AI tools are capable of:

> “write an auth library” or “modernize these unit tests” ?

If so, I'm genuinely interested to know what tools people are using that can do this.

Our experience is that AI will perform well if given a specific and well-bounded sub-task ("parse the JWT token and return a collection of claims" or "re-write this test using framework x" to extend the author's examples), but would still need a competent developer (junior or otherwise) to fit the pieces together and act as quality control.

I can't speak for the US, but in my country that was sometimes the case, but not always.

I was an engineer and had 'non-camo' uniform, and only wore camo in the field or on exercise.

People who's job was primarily 'in the field' though (e.g. the Army) didn't have that, and would wear camo as their uniform 90% of the time (the exception was formal dress uniform for parades etc.)