cdogl

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by cdogl 9mo ago
I find this quite surprising! What benefit does your org accrue by mandating that the db instance used for testing is centralised? Where I am, the tests simply assume that there’s a database available on a certain port. docker-compose.yml m
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by cdogl 1y ago
I don’t think you are naive - it’s counter-intuitive. The political context is important: Ukraine is incentivised to portraying itself as a country that respects international law and norms. The fact of life is that this includes respecting
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by cdogl 1y ago
I read it as simple humbleness, which is not too surprising given the careful management of the project and the tone of the piece.
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by cdogl 1y ago
That sounds like an awful workplace culture. I doubt the name of the git command is responsible, though.
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by cdogl 2y ago
One option for those so inclined is to cryptographically sign commits with a key that lists both work and personal email address (assuming your enterprise’s policy allows it). The employer retains control but you have a claim to credit for
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by cdogl 2y ago
My personal experience is yes. Hardware provides a substrate of reality, and software developers are asked to implement aspirations.
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by cdogl 2y ago
> FTA: "While many games are playable, newer AAA titles don’t hit 60fps yet." You’re lucky to get 60fps playing a fairly undemanding game on MacOS, even on hardware that is otherwise a dream. For example, Baldur’s Gate 3 is bar
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by cdogl 2y ago
Without universal suffrage I think the comparison between modern democracies and these examples is apples and oranges. The voters in Rome and Sparta were a small elite, so their “democracy” is more like a novel form of power sharing in an o
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by cdogl 2y ago
When GP said “most”, I interpreted it more broadly. Most applications simply do not require the guarantees of a non-GC language. When you expand that horizon, list of contenders becomes considerably larger - even when restricted to statica
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by cdogl 2y ago
Competitive games are unlikely to reach the market share necessary for a competitive gaming tournament if their casual scene is inundated with cheaters. Only a tiny handful of games even have a viable competitive scene.
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by cdogl 2y ago
I’ll take some police briefly on my property over that gamble any day.
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by cdogl 2y ago
For me personally, if I hated my boss, I’d be even less likely to follow their bizarre and probably unlawful instructions.
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by cdogl 2y ago
You’re not wrong, but in Australia where I work only 12.5% of all workers are in unions. We have some moderately union-hostile legislation (strikes are hard to pull off lawfully) but nothing preventing union organisation in principle for mo
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by cdogl 2y ago
A developer who knows the code and will own the consequences can review and merge it - easy. Just not sure why the LLM needed to get involved in the first place.
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by cdogl 2y ago
I remember seeing you at GolandSyd meetups before you took over running them. Nice job!
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by cdogl 2y ago
The Embodied Mind is a very influential work for me. Its premise that our experience can be understood by a synthesis between cognitive science and insights rooted in Buddhist practice really stuck with me. It is science for everyone.
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by cdogl 2y ago
The simply binary of government or individual choice eliminates the middle ground where almost all change happens: the collective aggregate result of cultural change within the community. We don’t have to pick one extreme to change the worl
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by cdogl 3y ago
As someone who doesn’t live in LA: I can’t imagine what your freeways are like given your characterisation of an ordinary road. Our “freeways” max out at 4-5 lanes each way. From what I can tell, getting from A to B is a stressful full time
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by cdogl 3y ago
Anyone with 2% denisovan DNA has an ancestor who was 50% denisovan! I remain astounded.
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by cdogl 3y ago
Many humans carry Neanderthal and Denisovans DNA. We are hybrids. I find that inspiring, not sad. There’s enough discord and conflict within one hominid species to go around for me!
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by cdogl 3y ago
Cognitive science. “The Embodied Mind”[1] defines embodiment quite clearly and argues for its centrality to consciousness. https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262220422/
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by cdogl 3y ago
Your comment was an excellent synthesis of the discussion that preceded it - thank you.
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by cdogl 3y ago
Distress also has a short passage explaining the collapse of the collapse of CBDs and inflation of the suburban property market and cost of living due to remote work, set in an area of suburban Sydney that’s now not far off Egan’s predictio
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by cdogl 3y ago
It’s not an easy read, but Blindsight by Peter Watts has some equally unique and compelling synthesis of scientific concepts into a big concept plot.
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by cdogl 3y ago
Egan is the only great Australian science fiction writer I’m aware of. I principally recommend Diaspora for far future post-human history with a strong focus on physics and maths, and Quarantine which is a sort of heist thriller with a uniq
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by cdogl 3y ago
> I would find one of these computers and click around until I got a Best Viewed In badge. (It was often on the Help page.) That would bypass the restrictions of the single-site browser and take you to e.g. netscape.com, where you could
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by cdogl 3y ago
> The Berlin-founded company has maintained its relevance by embracing a simple ethos: come as you are. That’s made SoundCloud the for-everybody platform—one that embraces all genres, sexualities, religions, and definitions of music and
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by cdogl 3y ago
I find this title highly contentious. No drug or treatment is a magic band-aid for complex trauma and a journey toward fulfilment.
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by cdogl 3y ago
Indeed - I’ve seen this refrain about “systems programming” countless times. I’m not sure how one can sustain the argument that a “system” is only an OS kernel, network stack or graphics driver.
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by cdogl 3y ago
Well put, but: > even going as far as saying the employer does not have to deduct dues for members (who have agreed to it) pay I'm surprised you frame this as an extreme example. Regardless of one's views on unions (they have t

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