dmh2000

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by dmh2000 1y ago
Do you want mainstream (rust) or relatively obscure (ada). Yes I know it's been around since 1980 when it was a cash grab for defense contractors.
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by dmh2000 1y ago
I'm 72, a dev for 40 years. I've lost a step or two. It's harder to buckle down and focus, but using AI tools have enabled me to keep building stuff. I can spec a project, have an agent build it then make sure it works. I jus
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by dmh2000 1y ago
I'm a 72 year old dev. Ai and Claude specifically are great because I can't focus on code like I used to. Ai has extended my viability for a few years.
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by dmh2000 5y ago
isn't it typical for data engineers to be paid less (way less?) than the modelers?
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by dmh2000 6y ago
"The trick was to use a Cholesky factor of the covariance matrix as the dependent variable in an equivalent Riccati equation. " I'm going to use that as my next pickup line
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by dmh2000 6y ago
I took my first university course in Ada in 1981. I also worked for a company that provided an Ada runtime in the mid 80's. Ada was sabotaged early on because it was 'mandated' by the DOD for new programs. That meant that all
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by dmh2000 6y ago
since I can't get past the paywall, I'm guessing its the government and military. They have lots of legacy systems running on ancient hardware and the cost to upgrade is too high.
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by dmh2000 6y ago
I use and like Google Voice, but I do find that some sites won't accept a google voice number for text messages. usually for 2factor. I would like to know what the difference is?
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by dmh2000 6y ago
I can't believe #18, developers should be able to write code and the summary saying that he got some/many? candidates who couldn't. Its not that developers can't code, its that recruiters paid on commission will send an
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by dmh2000 6y ago
'The most common way to force an SQLite database to exist purely in memory is to open the database using the special filename ":memory:".'
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by dmh2000 6y ago
I smell the irony
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by dmh2000 6y ago
I saw a headline about this on google news "Google to allow work from home until July". I thought, wow July is almost over. ...oh
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by dmh2000 6y ago
apparently the difference is between temporary and permanent blindness.
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by dmh2000 6y ago
So anyone who wants the federal government to take over direct action on the coronavirus situation should think twice about having a federal police force running things.
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by dmh2000 6y ago
that wouldn't explain why Gov Cuomo is also a fan
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by dmh2000 6y ago
isn't it the azithromycin that causes the arrhythmia and i heard it is recommended to use doxycycline instead for anyone vulnerable to that side effect.
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by dmh2000 6y ago
Sweden's mortality rate (2.97) is significantly higher than Germany (0.78), South Korea (1.59) and the US (1.75) among others. As of 3/29/2020 https://www.statista.com/statistics/1105914/coronavirus-
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by dmh2000 7y ago
After a glance I thought, 'why a storage unit?, where do they get power, how do they cool it, its not physically secure, etc'. Then, oh, that kind of storage unit. Yes, I'm dumb.
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by dmh2000 7y ago
If that's in the Google employment agreement, I salute them for using plain understandable wording, so one can agree or not. instead of EULA-ish doublespeak.
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by dmh2000 7y ago
And helium is getting expensive. I worked on an airship project in the early 2000's and it cost $100,000 to fill it. And there is always leakage from diffusion.
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by dmh2000 7y ago
it would be interesting to know the frequency of bugs that are due to mistakes about operator precedence. even by experienced programmers. a lot? do use of parens reduce the frequency?
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by dmh2000 7y ago
Social Security + about $100 a year from an oil royalty i inherited
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by dmh2000 7y ago
its a good question : could the dictator get the support of the military? Would the people in the military from the top down be willing to, say, decimate a resisting US city with artillery and bombs?
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by dmh2000 7y ago
here's an article about how the idea of AWS came about. the main takeaway is that it evolved and the article has a lot of 'we' in it, not only 'jeff' https://techcrunch.com/2016/07/02/
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by dmh2000 7y ago
https://www.fema.gov/news-release/2019/04/18/fact-sheet-fema... 'FEMA is not a first responder'.
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by dmh2000 7y ago
there will be feces everywhere if more than a few hundred show up. there are only a few toilets in the area and they will be overloaded immediately.
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by dmh2000 7y ago
https://www.coursera.org/learn/algorithms-part1
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by dmh2000 7y ago
Where does she get insurance for 1500 annually? 'And that doesn’t include the nearly $1,500 she pays in annual insurance premiums.'
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by dmh2000 7y ago
if Vegas becomes like this, then Phoenix is in big trouble.
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by dmh2000 7y ago
the theory and original paper was developed at google (according to Wikipedia). my guess is that if they had the original tech, then they can patent it. but by publishing the paper in 2015 they created prior art that stops others from claim

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