davidcuddeback

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by davidcuddeback 2y ago
> Would you use the Builder pattern if the language had named variables in arguments? Yes, absolutely. I see it all the time in the Ruby ecosystem and have used it myself in Ruby. Many times it gets called by a different name. I'v
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by davidcuddeback 2y ago
> On the other hand, what's the chance of something like this happening with a much bigger asteroid. Bigger asteroids are easier to see.
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by davidcuddeback 2y ago
Sure thing! I'd reframe this as a nearest neighbor search over (start time, duration) tuples. KD trees are what I'm most familiar with for that problem, but there are others that would fit. Check out chapters 1 ("Multidimensi
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by davidcuddeback 2y ago
Elsewhere is the thread, it sounds like your range queries with inequality constraint might actually be a nearest neighbor query with inequality constraint. I'm not sure off the top of my head how feasible that would be with a priority
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by davidcuddeback 2y ago
"Nearest gap" doesn't sounds like a range query to me. It sounds more like a nearest neighbor query. It sounds like you have (start time, duration) tuples and want to search for nearest neighbor on start time with an at-lea
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by davidcuddeback 2y ago
> Many range queries also have a minimum duration requirement, so it could be useful if a data structure could take advantage of this to quickly exclude intervals during the search. Check out priority search trees. They search two dime
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by davidcuddeback 2y ago
It's really going to depend on the queries that you want to optimize. I think the best help might be to point you to a book: https://www.amazon.com/Foundations-Multidimensional-Structur... An RTree is the first structu
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by davidcuddeback 2y ago
Case in point: the same equations predict white holes, which today are widely believed to not exist.
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by davidcuddeback 3y ago
I am taking kids out of school for a few days and driving 13 hours to a cabin that I rented on a lake on the centerline. It helps that my 40th birthday is within a couple days of the eclipse.
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by davidcuddeback 3y ago
I've looked into some workshops, including his. It's not in the cards for me now, but something I'd like to do someday. I also enjoy coming back to the central coast (I went to college in SLO). Jory did some videos on his Hol
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by davidcuddeback 3y ago
Jory Brigham? Edit: Nevermind. Answered down thread. Lucky you. Beautiful area and Jory's work is phenomenal.
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by davidcuddeback 3y ago
I'm not sure about the history of these words, but astronomy also uses the noun form: "occultation" [1], for which there's not an obvious equivalent for "occlude." > Did occult mean what it does now when th
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by davidcuddeback 3y ago
Physical can be understood to mean "of or relating to matter and energy or the sciences dealing with them, especially physics." Light, temperature, and time are described by physics, so I would consider "physical" to be
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by davidcuddeback 3y ago
A similar thing happened in my community (not historically prone to wildfire) on December 30, 2021. 1000 homes destroyed. Fortunately far fewer casualties. Similar proximate causes (100+ mph winds and historically dry vegetation). I remembe
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by davidcuddeback 3y ago
> Does a garden count? Yes, absolutely! :)
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by davidcuddeback 3y ago
My dining table. It's a trestle design, made from walnut, breadboard ends, wedged and drawbored tenon joinery for the base assembly, and large enough to fit 10-12 people around for Thanksgiving. The lumber cost $1,400 and it took over
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by davidcuddeback 3y ago
> If all countries were like Bangladesh, it would cause massive issues in addition to what we have now. Isn't that exactly what they're representing by a country's overshoot day? FTA: > A country’s overshoot day is t
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by davidcuddeback 3y ago
> just no release for openbsd itself it seems. It was posted to announce@openbsd.org a few hours ago. Binary patches are available through syspatch and source patches on the errata page.
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by davidcuddeback 3y ago
Wow, no. Just no. That's not how research is done. What you're describing sounds more like writing a clickbait article than writing a research paper. Writing a research paper in that manner would damage the researcher's credi
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by davidcuddeback 4y ago
The link you provided contradicts your comment. From the link in your comment: "The average rate of cosmic-ray soft errors is inversely proportional to sunspot activity. That is, the average number of cosmic-ray soft errors decreases d
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by davidcuddeback 4y ago
> It's really frustrating to see most of the top comments calling out that it only looks so pretty because of exposure. Why? That's actually true. I've been to many truly dark sky sites. I get out to one at least once a
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by davidcuddeback 4y ago
> Do you mean big red and not big blue with that statement? I assume you're referring to Oracle here, but Oracle didn't invent Java either. Java came out of Sun Microsystems, whose color scheme seems to shift between blue and
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by davidcuddeback 4y ago
> If a breaker pops, it's easy. You have a box, maybe two if you live in a really huge house. Go there, look for the switch that's not quite lined up, toggle switch, done. FWIW, you can have the same thing with GFCIs. I recen
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by davidcuddeback 4y ago
SEEKING WORK | Boulder, Colorado | Remote only Principal engineer at a billion-dollar e-commerce company. Now a stay-at-home dad. I'm available to take on part-time contract and consulting work while my kids are at school. I've do
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by davidcuddeback 4y ago
Location: Boulder, Colorado, United States Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: I've picked up a ton in the past 20 years. Most relevant today are Ruby (Rails), Elixir (Phoenix), PostgreSQL, Kafka, C, Ru
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by davidcuddeback 4y ago
> Are these books useful reading for somebody who doesn't use FreeBSD? Yes. They'll prepare you to switch over to FreeBSD. ;P In all seriousness, the ZFS books would be helpful if you use ZFS on Linux. The FreeBSD-specific bo
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by davidcuddeback 4y ago
I haven't personally, but they were getting a lot of praise on the forums at cloudynights.com last time I researched binoculars (several years ago). I think the consensus was that the optics are good, and the image stabilization makes
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by davidcuddeback 4y ago
Citation? I think there might be a bit of "telephone game" happening here. The current science shows that avoiding allergens increases the risk of developing allergies. The hypothesis for how that happens is that if an infant&#x
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by davidcuddeback 4y ago
There is actually pretty compelling evidence. Enough so that the AAP reversed its guidelines in 2017: https://publications.aap.org/aapnews/news/12250/New-guidelin... .
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by davidcuddeback 4y ago
> Is there enough of a scientific consensus on how to prevent food allergies to drive policy To be honest, this may have already happened, but it would take a generation to see the effects. There was a major breakthrough on this a few ye

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