astockwell

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by astockwell 2mo ago
> I'd have to consider all the ways a bully eager to use their powers might misunderstand me Damn. Doesn’t that just sum up so many interactions (and sadly, relationships) in life.
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by astockwell 4mo ago
This is the fundamental trust challenge with private/profitability-driven 'science'.
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by astockwell 11mo ago
Would this logically extend to also include C-reliant languages like Python and Ruby (the latter being mostly a grammar underpinned by C) as technical debt also?
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by astockwell 1y ago
Disclosure: Didn’t read. But I did always get heckled at gatherings for inverting my controls, and then forgetting to switch them back. I think it came from whatever console you started with first (Sega Saturn), if you played early PC joyst
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by astockwell 2y ago
The inimitable https://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/contents.html , which is a great read for any programmer, not just game devs.
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by astockwell 2y ago
Chesterton's Fence
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by astockwell 2y ago
This is probably the right answer. Similar to "dont fight the police on the street, fight them in court". Can even quiet-quit during the project if you need to.. software can take an awfully long time to build.. Also, track your t
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by astockwell 2y ago
I imagine Finland's would be similarly branded a disaster if the present-day internet/social media megaphones had existed.. History books on 1945 aggressive monetary policy change: "The public didn't like it" Histor
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by astockwell 2y ago
Link?
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by astockwell 2y ago
I think you are 100% spot-on. Good enough has always been fine for the vast majority of people and the vast majority of use-cases. Couple this with decreasing costs of storage (and ideally compute), and it doesn't matter if the data mo
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by astockwell 2y ago
Go does have the `- race` flag for test + build commands [1], which can help (not 100% iirc, but some) with datarace detection. [1] https://go.dev/doc/articles/race_detector
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Passing the Postgres 65535 parameter limit at 120x speed(klotzandrew.com)
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by astockwell 2y ago
In college, in a music class (History of Jazz maybe?), I had to miss an exam, and the professor assigned me an essay to make up for it: Life and impact of Django Reinhardt, minimum of 10 pages (back in the "12 point font, Times New Rom
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by astockwell 2y ago
Felt it in Hartford, CT!
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by astockwell 2y ago
Haha having recently rewatched MIB with my daughter after ~15 years, I don't think Will Smith correctly selected the target... :'D
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by astockwell 3y ago
Many organizations pay people (or entire teams) to maintain a suite of hardened images, either for device/firmware applications, or because they use many languages in-house, etc. This is definitely one of those business models I though
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by astockwell 3y ago
Some defense against the class(es) of availability problems that occur from OS + upwards. No defense against the class(es) that occur below that (metal).
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by astockwell 3y ago
Careful, that was literally the exact same selling point of Electroconvulsive therapy 80 years ago.
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by astockwell 3y ago
I have often wondered the same thing. I think it boils down to the actual factors being “something you have” and “something you know”, where the former is the possession of the password manager file/access, and the latter is the master
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by astockwell 3y ago
$$$
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by astockwell 3y ago
> The most common sites of melanoma are chest and back in men and legs in women > The most common chemical sunscreen ingredients cause cancer themselves Both of these statements are out-of-date. Recent studies show two different histo
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by astockwell 3y ago
This almost exactly described my life as well (also 37, lived in a major metro). Not to mention the (surreptitiously unpaid) evening calls we'd have with other TZs after spending that 11-hour day, because take-home laptops.
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by astockwell 3y ago
If anyone has NOT noticed these ads running constantly on YouTube, I’d encourage you to spend 10 minutes on the site in an incognito window. I would have thought this thread was overblown had I not inadvertently done that a few weeks ago. B
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by astockwell 3y ago
A recent HN comment on another post highlighted the irony of corporate messaging: “Come back to the office” “We’ll be resuming periodic Active Shooter drills”
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by astockwell 3y ago
I feel like there is very likely some precedents for this (or at least some close examples) that other countries have implemented similar to this, I wonder if any of these folks have looked into it. Wish US elected officials would look at h
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by astockwell 3y ago
I’m curious what others have experience here, as a code base grows. I’ve been on several teams that consistently endeavor to keep the knowledge of a code base shared, but every time the code base reaches a certain size, the Bus Factor creep
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by astockwell 3y ago
It is me!
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by astockwell 3y ago
This is almost exactly the design used by BlueAir purifiers https://www.blueair.com/us/blue-family.html Can recommend.
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by astockwell 3y ago
No problem and no defense needed, just wanted to ensure I understood you.
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by astockwell 3y ago
When you say “He told me which tool I could use”, did you mean the doctor told you, or was that a typo and you meant that ChatGPT told you which tool and walked you through it? Seemed like the latter, but was too ambiguous to assume.

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