Nexialist

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by Nexialist 2y ago
It was a little tongue in cheek, but yes. I had large grievances with the software culture there, but after I got sign off on the project to modernise our build process, I couldn't bring myself to abandon ship in the middle of trying t
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by Nexialist 2y ago
My worst codebase story: In my first real job, I worked for a company that maintained a large legacy product programmed in a combination of COBOL and Java. In order to work on the Java side of the product, you checked out individual files f
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by Nexialist 2y ago
The closest I have seen are the Oxide computer company RFD documents, many of which are public. Example: https://rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0177 Main index: https://rfd.shared.oxide.computer
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by Nexialist 3y ago
The crux of Atkinson's argument seems to be that the upfront emissions from the manufacturing process, and shorter lifespan of electric vehicles, does not make up for the reduction in tailpipe emissions. Is this true? I know that the T
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by Nexialist 4y ago
If you'd like to read more about the roots of Effective Altruism, ranging from old mailing lists, LessWrong, bitcoin, cults, AI and the surprising connections to many well known figures in tech, I highly recommend the 7-part Extropia&#
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by Nexialist 4y ago
I'm generally bearish on AI, but I do feel that there are going to be a surprising number of applications where 'good enough' results are actually perfectly fine. In particular, a couple of industries that I think are likely
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by Nexialist 4y ago
Slightly tangential but I've worked for several companies now that use `make` as a simple command runner, and I have to say it's been a boon. Being able to drop into any repo at work and expect that `make init`, `make test` and `m
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by Nexialist 5y ago
A paper I read recently (Harper 2016 - 10.1089/space.2015.0029) has numbers based on the supplies needed to the ISS. The gist was, "Without some sort of recycling and/or use of in situ resources, meeting the lunar settlement
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by Nexialist 6y ago
Netflix also seems to take into account the language your profile is set to as well, so you may get more/different subtitle choices if you change your profile language. See https://help.netflix.com/en/node/1
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by Nexialist 9y ago
For myself, I would think that the best way to compel kids (and adults) to be more interested in learning and personal development is to relate it to their sense of identity. People want to emulate their heroes and live into who they feel t
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by Nexialist 10y ago
Earlier this year I spent roughly three months job hunting exclusively through cold-emails based on Who's Hiring posts (I'm in the London area). I applied for 10 positions (and got my 10th - at a fairly large media company) Some n
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by Nexialist 11y ago
Although a lot of people are pointing out (correctly) that it's trivially easy to ignore a checked exception, it does at least do two things: 1. Signal to the calling programmer that some error condition can occur. For example having
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by Nexialist 11y ago
You can already produce fuel on Mars itself using the Sabatier Reaction with technology available today, you have to bring along a little hydrogen but that's not too big of a deal. Refueling on the moon requires an (almost pointless) w
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by Nexialist 11y ago
This can be a major pain for larger software projects. At work we have to contend with: * A database so large that even a minimally empty one cannot be created from scratch in less than 10-15 minutes. This creates problems for CI, integrati
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by Nexialist 12y ago
The "12 Factor App" manifesto http://12factor.net/ is in the same vein as this, perhaps a bit more in-depth. I like the idea of these guides generally. I think it'd be more valuable if they linked to example
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by Nexialist 15y ago
The actual on-board software of an aircraft is definitely given a lot of attention as far as testing is concerned, but unfortunately more indirect systems, such as maintenance tracking software, is treated pretty much the same as any other
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by Nexialist 15y ago
That's probably true, but the potential for a severe, un-recoverable issue is about as high. An aircraft is composed of hundreds of individually tracked components with associated information about how old the component is, how much it has
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by Nexialist 15y ago
This is nothing. I work for an aircraft maintenance software company. Last week I fixed a bug where the system would silently delete a maintenance task if you clicked the X button on a confirmation dialog instead of "no". This had not been