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by drderidder 3y ago
Including your future self.
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by drderidder 4y ago
An oldie but a goodie. The site has been around since 2011. What’s great about this site is the general idea that you don’t necessarily need a framework (ie React) for everything.
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by drderidder 4y ago
“Never rewrite” is a popular cargo-cult that sprang from a well known blog article that made the rounds some years ago. The urge to rewrite can be a naive impulse for sure, but there are LOTS of cases where new and better technology can res
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by drderidder 4y ago
Sorry, but it’s not out of date. Based on very recent extensive travel and living there. But yes of course there are additional places to get cash (yubinkyoku etc) and various rail passes. The JR pass really is a nobrainer though.
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by drderidder 4y ago
Basically no. But if your company has a Japanese branch and is willing to transfer you there, then maybe. But be aware that visiting Japan as a tourist vs living and working there are very different experiences, and plenty of expats burn ou
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by drderidder 4y ago
SevenEleven ATMs generally take foreign interac debit cards if you need cash (yen). Most places accept credit cards. When given the option on the debit card machine to pay in yen or convert to USD / CAD etc always choose yen, to avoid
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by drderidder 4y ago
Of course. Foreign keys are elementary. Try recursive CTEs. You can get ridiculous performance gains by not having to marshal data into the application space. It’s all about using the right tool for the job. If you’ve done solid system-leve
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by drderidder 5y ago
This may not be a popular comment, but if you have to ask, then no. In Canada at least, engineering is a regulated profession. No one can legally call themselves an engineer without a four-year Bachelor of Engineering degree from an accredi
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by drderidder 6y ago
My first ever mobile app was an experimental bit of Android Malware. It got demo'd by my colleague at Blackhat [1]. I'm definitely not a hacker, but with a few basic tricks I was able to create a pretty effective trojan which we t
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by drderidder 6y ago
Excellent post, if only for the fact that its a great way to share "what works for me" at a time when most of our local JS/Web meetup groups have been put on hold due to the pandemic, or gone onto Twitch / Zoom, so its h
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by drderidder 6y ago
Nobody seems to be talking much about favipiravir, which seems a bit like not-invented-here syndrome. If it stood to make a lot of money for some US big pharma company I suspect we'd be hearing more about it.
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by drderidder 7y ago
New motto: "Don't get caught being evil".
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by drderidder 7y ago
After using TypeScript for the past couple of years, I've come to see it as simply another "embrace and extend" maneuver by Microsoft carve off a chunk of JavaScript mindshare, preying upon the naïveté of less-experienced dev
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by drderidder 7y ago
It matters a bunch. All kinds of noise can get picked up over cables and bleed into your audio path on a digital rig. It happens all the time just with power cables which is why every musician carries a handful of "ground lifts" e
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by drderidder 7y ago
Lack of soil accumulation does not mean the soil evaporates into thin air; it is taken up by the watershed and redistributed downstream. The same carbon cycle is in effect; accumulation in any particular terrain has really nothing to do wit
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by drderidder 7y ago
From experience, and supported by the Sqlite docs, I can tell you that trying to run sqlite on files on an NFS mounted filesystem will not work. See section 2.1 of this document [1] and the related discussion HN discussion [2] [1] https:&#
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by drderidder 7y ago
It doesn't get more than a passing mention, but section 2.1 is worth noting. Don't try to use sqlite files on an NFS mounted drive.
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by drderidder 7y ago
That's basically, well, not true. When trees break down they contribute to soil organic matter. Approx 58% of SOM is carbon (SOC) making soil one of the largest carbon sinks on the planet. See https://en.wikipedia.org/w
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by drderidder 7y ago
That's a fair and valid point. I should have expanded on the list of possible factors to include living in a "bad" environment in general, where "bad" can be defined by a huge number of things, including poverty, ho
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by drderidder 7y ago
All I can say is he must be a really good programmer if he needed to deliberately install logic bombs to make his software malfunction after a period of time. I've got my hands full just making things work properly in the first place!
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by drderidder 7y ago
No doubt pollution will make you sick, but I'm inclined to think that depression has a lot to do with just living in an over-crowded, unattractive, big industrial city environment, having little contact with the natural world.
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by drderidder 7y ago
Don't confuse a US-centric view of medical technology development, western medical journals, US trials etc with something developed in Japan. This is Toshiba, working with the (Japanese) National Cancer Center Research Institute and yo
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by drderidder 7y ago
They're slides intended for a live presentation. You can use space bar or arrow keys to flip through as well. We've found this format to work well for our 2000+ member meetup group, but I might follow your suggestion to write it o
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by drderidder 7y ago
This simple intro to machine learning with node.js has been one of the more popular talks I've given: http://73rhodes.github.io/talks/MachineLearning/#/
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by drderidder 7y ago
Somebody needs to tell this guy about a thing called a "database".
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by drderidder 7y ago
It became much more common knowledge after the Canadian government issued an official apology [1]. I recall seeing a documentary about it[2]. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_Canadia... 2. https
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by drderidder 7y ago
I think this is also known as the fallacy of the fungible engineer / myth of the interchangeable programmer.
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by drderidder 7y ago
End users should be the ones grading Siri's responses anyway.
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by drderidder 7y ago
It seems they are simply assigning patients to the top risk decile (more accurately than before). Telling someone they are at a high risk is different than a flat-out diagnosis. Better efficacy of the predictive model (fewer false positives
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by drderidder 7y ago
TLDR but 95% correct does not necessarily equate to 5% false positives: you can also have false negatives. The bottom line is the new algorithm increases the efficacy of the prediction.

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