andrewg

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by andrewg 7mo ago
From the docs: https://github.com/sqldef/sqldef?tab=readme-ov-file#renaming... You tell it what’s being renamed with a special comment.
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by andrewg 2y ago
Never say never: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesna_Vulovi%C4%87
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by andrewg 3y ago
JetA-burning piston aircraft exist - almost all Diamonds for instance.
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by andrewg 6y ago
Eric Schmidt was a developer - he wrote lex.
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by andrewg 6y ago
Early in my career I wrote Smalltalk in a GUI-based environment (VisualWorks/GemStone), with the browser, debugger, transcript, etc. It was an incredible experience. Later, I used Common Lisp with SLIME and had a very similar experienc
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by andrewg 6y ago
Yes indeed - it's actually pretty nice. You just define a message for your configuration schema: message Config { repeated Server server = 1; } message Server { string address = 1; int32 port = 2; bool standby
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by andrewg 6y ago
By the way, how did a luggage company convince the world they are a tech company?
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by andrewg 6y ago
It's the wing loading (max takeoff weight / sqft of the wing). The 747-400's is something like 155 lb/sqft vs. 124 for the 787-8. In general, the higher the wing loading the better the ride.
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by andrewg 6y ago
C++17 does - it's called std::variant. std::variant<int, bool, double> options; options = true; bool value = std::get<bool>(options); bool has_bool = std::holds_alternative<bool>(options); /&#x2
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by andrewg 6y ago
Oh brother. People aren't work-producing robots, developers included. Different types of people bring different types of experiences, opinions, and viewpoints. So you'll make better products if you have a more diverse group of peo
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by andrewg 6y ago
This one’s my favorite: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TecDlpGAhq0 Really beautiful album, especially the 5.1 surround version.
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by andrewg 6y ago
Garmin has quite a few certified touchscreens these days, some intended for panel upgrades (e.g. https://buy.garmin.com/en-US/US/p/67886 ) and even some in new light jets (e.g. https://buy.garmin.co
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Sabre forges 10-year partnership with Google to build the future of travel(sabre.com)
3 points by andrewg 7y ago|0 comments
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by andrewg 7y ago
This would be impractical for really large monorepos like the ones Google and Microsoft have. They have virtual file system layers on top (MS open sourced theirs) to prevent checking out the whole repo. In fact, it’s not just useful for the
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by andrewg 7y ago
Isn’t that true of kids in general?
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by andrewg 7y ago
Clearance can be sent via ACARS, but you deal with it while parked on the ground. It would be much different getting messages to change altitude, heading, and/or speed every few seconds that have to be acted upon immediately while exec
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by andrewg 7y ago
Same goes with “for”, which you sometimes hear in readbacks like “leaving 4000 for 3000”. It should be something unambiguous like “4000 descending 3000” instead.
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by andrewg 7y ago
There are certainly incredible situations with happy endings where ATC has made suggestions or gotten someone with experience in a type on the radio. But I could imagine a company contemplating building the remote-pilot-for-emergencies serv
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by andrewg 7y ago
M600 has onboard radar (it's the pod on the right wing).
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by andrewg 7y ago
Autoland, as used in a capable airliner, is much more limited than this. For an airliner, it's a procedure with lots of configuration and monitoring done by a pilot, in cooperation with air traffic control, which usually concludes with
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by andrewg 7y ago
Very cool! The effect on page layout sounds like it would be pretty similar to Oracle's hybrid columnar compression[1], but they claim average compression ratio is more like 10:1. Any idea what would make so much of a difference? [1]
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by andrewg 7y ago
Specifically they run IBM zTPF on their mainframes, which is also used by airlines. Some installations have uptimes measured in decades. https://www.ibm.com/it-infrastructure/z/transaction-processi...
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by andrewg 7y ago
Just bought a ‘99 BMW and I couldn’t be happier. All the important stuff (airbags, ABS, etc), comfort (a/c, heated seats, power windows/top), and beautifully simple controls. Nothing else.
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TensorFlow Hub: A Library for Reusable Machine Learning(medium.com)
4 points by andrewg 8y ago|0 comments
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by andrewg 8y ago
https://www.tensorflow.org/hub/
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Universal Sentence Encoder(arxiv.org)
89 points by andrewg 8y ago|34 comments