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They licensed Brassic, it was filmed for Sky One, not Netflix.


Same with Extraordinary Attorney Woo and a lot of "originals" on netflix. They'll just buy the rights to air something and then slap their name on it like they made it. That said, I actually appreciate them looking for good media produced overseas and buying up the rights to those shows to bring them to the US. It's a good thing (although it'd be nice if put some effort in making sure there are always quality subs) but it can cause some people to think netflix is producing more good shows than they actually are.


I've worked at many big banks and corporations. They are all held together with the proverbial sticky tape, bubblegum, and hope.

They do have multiple layers of redundancies, and thus have the big budgets, but they won't be kept hot, or there will be some critical flaws that all of the engineers know about but they haven't been given permission/funding to fix, and are so badly managed by the firm, they dgaf either and secretly want the thing to burn.

There will be sustained periods of downtime if their primary system blips.

They will all still be dependent on some hyper-critical system that nobody really knows how it works, the last change was introduced in 1988 and it (probably) requires a terminal emulator to operate.


I've worked on software used by these and have been called in to help support from time to time. One customer which is a top single digit public company by market cap (they may have been #1 at the time, a few years ago) had their SAP systems go down once every few days. This wasn't causing a real monetary problem for them because their hot standby took over.

They weren't using mainframes, just "big iron" servers, but each one would have been north of $5 million for the box alone, I guess on a 5ish year replacement schedule. Then there's all the networking, storage, licensing, support, and internal administration costs for it which would easily cost that much again.

Now people will say SAP systems are made entirely of dict tape and bubblegum. But it all worked. This system ran all their sales/purchasing sites and portals and was doing a million dollars every couple of minutes so that all paid for itself many times over during the course of that bug. Cold standby would not have cut it. Especially since these big systems take many minutes to boot and HANA takes even longer to load from storage.


It started long before that. Cloud meant they were under drastic threat of being abandoned, because the cloud was (and still is) dominated by linux compute.

DotNet were shook, and shook bad. They went all out to make their runtime "cross-platform" because they faced an existential thread from lamdba+node.

The rise of the MBP also saw their dotnet ecosystem under thread from the other end of the stick - the developer end. Visual Studio cannot run on macos, so competitor IDEs that can were rising in their numbers. Hence the push for VSCode to try and claw back some IDE market.


> It was the correct paradigm all along

Debateable.


I can see value in this. I use which-key already and could see a graph, al be it a differently arranged graph, being a useful visual aid. Perhaps a static (printed?) Cheat-sheet or even a dynamically generated visual - though not sure how effective it would be in a TUI :)


I explain it to my peers as "exploiting Cunningham's Law[0] with thyself"

I'll stare blankly at a blank screen/file for hours seeking inspiration, but the moment I have something to criticise I am immediately productive and can focus.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_Cunningham#Law

> The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer.


About that quote, iirc it's also a technique in Intelligence for getting information from people. You say something stupid and wrong and they will instantly just correct you on the spot and explain why etc.

So it works in real life too


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You may be interested in the Glove80[0]. I moved from the Moonlander to it for the very same reason. I have since moved on to a very small form-factor (Pteron36, which has just 36 keys) as I my hands started to tire from reaching for the keys on the perimeter so chopped right down.

Or get the soldering iron out and build one of the many kits available[1]

[0]: https://moergo.com

[1]: https://golem.hu/board/list/low-profile


What they are describing sounds like the Glove80. I've been using the Glove80 for a year, and I'm a huge fan of it. Took a while to get used to, but now typing is way more comfortable than it was on even my old Freestyle Kinesis.


I like the look of the Glove80, I came very close over the pandemic to building a Dactyl Manuform to try the "bowled" layout. I'm a bit skeptical of that though.


Does Attaullah Baig?


He better if he is filing a lawsuit.


It can also be that the repo was modified after a release.


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