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by andorov 3y ago
I always remember this from the example my professor gave - 'raise the control rods by 1 inch' vs 'raise the control rods to a height of 4 inches'
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by andorov 3y ago
I've been using the term 'macro-services' to describe this middle ground.
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by andorov 3y ago
worth re-upping - postgres requests an id from the sequence for each row of the incoming data ahead of time since it doesn't know which rows are updates and which are inserts (although presumably this could be changed?). the sequence d
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by andorov 3y ago
Similar quote from Lao Tzu. I like the inclusion of thoughts -> words -> actions. "Watch your thoughts, they become your words; watch your words, they become your actions; watch your actions, they become your habits; watch your
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by andorov 3y ago
this also matters if you do a lot of upserts on a table that are predominantly updates. postgres requests an id from the sequence for each row of the incoming data ahead of time since it doesn't know which rows are updates and which a
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by andorov 3y ago
SpinLaunch is pretty interesting too - throwing ships into space https://www.spinlaunch.com/
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by andorov 3y ago
Hemmingway would leave off writing for the day in the middle of a sentence for the same reason.
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by andorov 3y ago
In my experience people are inaccurately pessimistic, in part due to a lack of imagination. So risk assessment that's more accurate will present as more optimistic.
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by andorov 4y ago
DRY needs to be balanced with SRP (Single Responsibility Principle). You can legitimately have two functions that are exactly the same but they should not be DRY'd up if they are actually serving different purposes. The use cases will
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by andorov 4y ago
Ramanujan attributed all of his conjectures to being visited by a goddess in his dreams. https://kristinposehn.substack.com/p/ramanujan-dreams?r=feux...
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by andorov 4y ago
the Magic / More Magic switch is a favorite http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/magic-story.html
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by andorov 4y ago
Also changes to the diagram (at a certain resolution) require looping in specific senior people for review.
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by andorov 4y ago
I'm not presenting an argument against UBI - I am pointing out that his argument is flawed. Small tribes of humans defending hunting/foraging grounds is a state of pre-civilization. Life required work then too, and things were wo
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by andorov 4y ago
> Land used to exist without a monetary cost to access it. That was the natural way of things prior to the private property system and monetary system. All land / resources were staked out by small tribes of humans who might kill yo
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by andorov 4y ago
What about the disk being reused by another process without being thoroughly wiped by AWS?
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by andorov 4y ago
We can't even fully understand chess (or even checkers), in the way that we can completely understand tic-tac-toe.
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by andorov 4y ago
You can buy clips that prevent the beeping. The top result is also a bottle opener... https://www.amazon.com/seat-belt-buckle-alarm-stopper/s?k=se...
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by andorov 4y ago
I got flagged for paying a friend back for "cuban food"...
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by andorov 5y ago
computer science is applied math, and software engineering is applied philosophy
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by andorov 6y ago
Heh also firing a stun grenade into your ship at the end of a mission. Promotions for everyone!
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by andorov 6y ago
Thank you for your work! Postgres is great to use and the regular release of useful features has been a very nice benefit. One unobvious (to me) but possibly necessary side effect of the INSERT...ON CONFLICT pattern is that it reserves a p
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by andorov 7y ago
What if someone hacks it to intentionally blind you?
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by andorov 7y ago
I found that studying philosophy has had an extremely useful application to software development and architecture.
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by andorov 7y ago
I think it is also useful to be aware of the specific terms your team might need and introduce words to those more abstract concepts. This frequently happens with naming specific code patterns or important classes in the code, but can also
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by andorov 7y ago
This one too - 10 pages of Pascal to six shell commands https://leancrew.com/all-this/2011/12/more-shell-less-egg/
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by andorov 7y ago
In Peru I saw are several very large stones sitting on the trail between the quarry and a partially finished temple. One of them at the bottom of a very steep hill. Our guide did speculate that getting the stones on site was a gradual pro
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by andorov 8y ago
Reminds me of Computerphile's The Problem with Time & Timezones - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5wpm-gesOY
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by andorov 8y ago
it's likely a society that has reached the point where it has the economic means & political will to replace lead pipes is also improving schools / etc at that point
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by andorov 9y ago
In most cases wouldn't you send a drone instead?
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by andorov 10y ago
The oldest demographic age target for their advertising is 35+

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