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by codeulike 3y ago
Telescope naming conventions need some work https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very_Large_Telescope https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very_Large_Array https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal
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by codeulike 3y ago
Right, and its nice to have shiny new tools to play with. But ipads and laptops are actually pretty good for music production too. Not really like preparing a meal with a Swiss Army Knife.
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by codeulike 3y ago
Whereas an Analogue Synth actually does something analogue that (in principle) a laptop could not emulate, a standalone sampler like this is just a digital device in a box with nice buttons, right? So it does the sortof thing you could do o
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by codeulike 3y ago
For what its worth, here's a thread from someone who used to work with Sam who says they found him deceptive and manipulative https://twitter.com/geoffreyirving/status/172675427022402397... I have no details
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by codeulike 3y ago
This is solid advice. Particularly: Have a staging system where you can practice your migrations - ideally you should have a full migration into staging at some point and the users (whoever they are) look at the results and sign it off (o
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by codeulike 3y ago
Innovation is a gamble. If we knew that a Starship design would definitely work (i.e can it reach orbit? can it come back down? can all of the complexity be managed well enough to make it economically feasible?) then someone would have done
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by codeulike 3y ago
almost as if programming is a genuine craft but management is easier to bullshit at than it is to do properly
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by codeulike 3y ago
SQL Server doesn't have boolean literals like that, hence the (1=0) trick
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by codeulike 3y ago
Actually yes now you remind me, SQL Server doesn't recognise Rand() as non-determinstic but it does recognise some functions as being non-deterministic, e.g. if you use newid() you get a new value for every row
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by codeulike 3y ago
in practice SQL engines will know whether functions are determinsitic or non-deterministic. So with random() it will know it needs to re-evauluate it all the time because its non-deterministic. with left(somecolumn,2) it knows its determini
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by codeulike 3y ago
suprisingly often in real situations when I just want to get the columns of a table with no data I have done select * from table where (1=0)
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by codeulike 3y ago
Refreshingly they did not talk about InternalFrameInternalFrameTitlePaneInternalFrameTitlePaneMaximizeButtonWindowNotFocusedState but tried to explain the reasons for separating code into objects and the difference between a class and an ob
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by codeulike 3y ago
why?
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by codeulike 3y ago
Yes. While I'm sure sociopaths exist, there's nothing more subjective and relative than one persons opinion of someone else. And its very easy to mislead oneself with an explanation of what is happening that pushes the problem ont
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by codeulike 3y ago
Its annoying, but to be fair we dont hear about the people auto-date-detection has helped or the time it has saved because those people mostly remain blissfully unaware of it
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by codeulike 3y ago
That headline bought to mind a very strong image of Vlad the Impaler sitting at a desk fiddling around with settings in Word to get the font spacing he wanted.
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by codeulike 3y ago
USDS, 18F, and the Digital Services Coalition have made remarkable improvements to how digital services are delivered for government. Right, and thats because USDS and 18F kick out all the big old 'enterprisey' consultancy compa
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by codeulike 3y ago
It's not that the people who built the original healthcare.gov were stupid people Thats very kind of you but they probably were, if not stupid, then just large companies who routinely do these big government websites and mess them up
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by codeulike 3y ago
I wonder how much this was influenced by the Gov.uk site made by the UK Government Digital Service in 2011 and 2012 - which took the same approach of hiring people who could actually build stuff and kicking out all the usual big consultancy
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by codeulike 3y ago
Spreadsheet stacks are actually effective - and often robust if the Copy Paste technician has a little bit of nous This is true. Sounds like they have cobbled together a system using Excel because thats why you have to do when processes c
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by codeulike 3y ago
I know what you mean. But reading again the recruitment process was for "third-level specialist training position (ST3)" which I think is the 3rd year of a 5 year training. So everyone was in training, its just that the relative r
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by codeulike 3y ago
Tesla has sold 5 million cars. I think a good proportion of those will have been driven in heavy rain at some point. If this was a common problem someone would have some stats. Speculation: I suspect somewhere inside the car they have marke
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by codeulike 3y ago
SNL, All Drug Olympics (1988) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAdG-iTilWU Addresses the main problem with this approach.
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by codeulike 3y ago
Talking to anyone is pretty good, so you're not far wrong. A counsellor or therapist has training - think of it as a mental toolkit - to help explore things with you. Depends on their exact approach but most of them wont give advice fo
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by codeulike 3y ago
"You appeared in 1 purge this week"
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by codeulike 3y ago
A Few Notes On The Culture, which Iain M Banks posted to rec.arts.sf.written on 10 Aug 1994 should be much higher up in this thread http://www.vavatch.co.uk/books/banks/cultnote.htm
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by codeulike 3y ago
Just trying to think of what the equivalent in code would be, and so calculating actual values seems like the closest analogue, but I know its not really comparable. I'm grasping for ideas of how can we compare the concept-density of m
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by codeulike 3y ago
I studied maths at uni 30 years ago and have forgotten it all and I love how completely uncomprehensible all of these examples are if you're not in the field: The Busemann-Petty problem (posed in 1956) has an interesting history. It a
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by codeulike 3y ago
Sophists have an unfairly bad reputation, if you'd just take the time to listen to them uncritically then I think you'll find much of what they have to say very convincing.
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by codeulike 3y ago
Brunel was great, but if you look at the financial history of the Great Western Railway (GWR) in the 1800s you can see that even back then, mega-projects that everyone admired didnt guarantee you a fortune in profits. It cost twice as much

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