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by atx42 4y ago
On the other hand, I find most frameworks don't allow for DRY. The typical case is making a 40 char DB field, and then having to code a check in the payload to ensure field is 40 chars. I've wondered if any system has achieved suc
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by atx42 4y ago
I'm similar, I find (instrumental) Jazz works, although it's generally not my first choice of genre.
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by atx42 4y ago
I'll claim the only universal truth in programming as in anything is: "moderation", and it's corollary, "there is no silver bullet". They are all rules of thumb, and knowing when to apply them is the most impor
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by atx42 4y ago
If you've read the book, the movie is a supreme disappointment. Such good stuff in the book that disappears in the movie.
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by atx42 4y ago
I don't think they did real world testing on the "improved" ones. I'd say it's obvious the number thirty could use a degree sign after it, but making it smaller and putting a box around it instead of in water, makes
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by atx42 4y ago
My take is we were asking the wrong questions, and now we know that, so hopefully we can figure out the right questions.
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by atx42 4y ago
Always upvote articles that imply Agile can be lacking. Really, meta-processes are the way to go, and can be defined by checklists. E.g. For this effort, will documentation be helpful? check yes/no. Then you aren't blindly just do
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by atx42 4y ago
I'd think the Keystone pipeline would have been the lesser of the two evils.
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by atx42 4y ago
Don't worry, they will just ask their next interview candidate and then they'll have the solution.
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by atx42 4y ago
It means they just need to solve the "halting problem" first and then transactions can get back to normal.
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by atx42 4y ago
Replace "consciousness" with "gobbledygook". Does it exist? Can you get closer to it? Can't apply science to it. I think you are saying we have a rough idea what it means, but then it's a sliding scale as far a
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by atx42 4y ago
I think consciousness probably requires pleasure/pain, and no, just setting negative/positive values in training does not mean pleasure/pain is involved. The best a neural network could is pretend it is conscious (I'd ha
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by atx42 4y ago
My quick take on "gifted" programs. * These are really supposed to be for kids that learn differently, not necessarily "smarter". * The percentage of kids in these programs is higher than should be expected. * The numb
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by atx42 4y ago
Interesting. I guess it gets back to "first cause" argument. If life is organizational, does it require an organized process to form. Isn't metaphysics the only thing we have to figure out how we got here? Provable or not? Ev
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by atx42 4y ago
Wouldn't the Big Bang represent a much higher level of entropy than now?
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by atx42 4y ago
Does reversing time makes it "easier" to get life, than the current direction?
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by atx42 4y ago
I've wondered why we don't just assume the arrow of time was reversed in the past? We know that in the past the universe was more organized (had less entropy), so it doesn't seem like much of a stretch from believing entropy
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by atx42 4y ago
I think Go and Angular should have died, and would already be footnotes in programming history if they had not been introduced by Google. Let's make procedural programming great again? I get it, you can compile it and it has concurrenc
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by atx42 4y ago
Thanks, I didn't know there was a name for it. But every single code example out there is an anti-pattern to this as far as I've seen.
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by atx42 4y ago
Why do we organize by shape, and not by function in our monoliths? We put all our controllers in a package, all our DB accessors in another package, all our "data objects" in another package. Even in OO languages like Java where w
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by atx42 4y ago
I disagree. If you are able to merge them you spent the work to originally have them split. So more work to start with microservices. It goes back to agile, the easy solution is have a monolith and figure out later how it can be well-split.
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by atx42 4y ago
I find it bizarre that anyone familiar with software development would think this is a good idea. I mean if gov't creates a useful API (eg. weather), or creates some reusable useful module (eg. something like hibernate), that would be
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by atx42 4y ago
I think it's called a toll road. Around me they are owned by some French company.
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by atx42 4y ago
Exactly! Where do you draw the line? Does CIA/NSA have to drop their shorts?
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by atx42 4y ago
Actually, it's going with the wind, but faster than the wind. Veritasium also has a video of the dead fish going upstream though.
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by atx42 4y ago
From the wiki source, my inference is that the tunnel is at least 4 inches long if he was able to line it with 4x4 boards... But aren't 4x4 boards typically called "posts"? I'm amused by how poorly Time reported this.
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by atx42 4y ago
The entry on Seymour Cray is disappointing. An "8ft x 4ft" tunnel? What does that even mean? I thought tunnels are 3D.
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by atx42 4y ago
Was thinking the same thing. It would also predict that animals with higher body fat would have less burials as well. Not sure if that could be checked.
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by atx42 4y ago
Also, not an expert, but I'd think that would stop after one is dead? Although some differing (male/female) chemistry at death could come into play.
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by atx42 4y ago
It does seem like some sort of survivorship basis, either before death or after (heh - after death sounds like an oxymoron). Females have more fat (?) and might float better in a flood keeping them clear of the burial material longer. Maybe

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