hugatest

8 ms·

1.
by hugatest 3y ago
I checked out the blog and noticed the book "Quantations". > How does the theoretical world of quantum physics create our everyday life? "Quantations" explains this with wit and clarity, making the imaginary real. I a
2.
by hugatest 3y ago
Yeah, same here. In a sense I'm looking forward to retirement. And in a sense I dread it, since once that day has come it would mean that I'm old and the last third of my life has firmly started already a few years ago and nothing
3.
by hugatest 3y ago
Wow, this is brilliant!
4.
by hugatest 3y ago
Then you need a better mail client.
5.
by hugatest 3y ago
This is quite cool, but I'm wondering why we need to re-invent the wheel for all those threaded discussion platforms. The OG is definitely email. What would really rock would be an IMAP gateway which you subscribe to with your favorite
6.
by hugatest 3y ago
As long as you know the implications, you don't need to know how the values are stored. You may say it's easier to know how they are stored, then you can derive the implications anytime you need them. Maybe that works for you, but
7.
by hugatest 3y ago
> >Ketamine is a life-saver > Anyone who talks in such terms shouldn't have their opinions on medicine listened to. Criticizing hyperbole by using hyperbole is a questionable strategy.
8.
by hugatest 3y ago
> It’s really not uncommon for some trials to fail to differentiate from placebo when it comes to depression studies. That doesn’t make this study “rubbish”, it just shows that you need to examine the body of evidence rather than cherry-
9.
by hugatest 3y ago
Right. You can know these abstract properties though without knowing how a float is actually represented in memory.
10.
by hugatest 3y ago
In the olden days it was IRC. Already then it was about controlling yourself. Whether you would get distracted or not. If you want to get into the zone, it's up to you how to do that. If you have an IRC or Slack window on the side to l
11.
by hugatest 3y ago
And why is that necessary knowledge? Don't get me wrong, once you go down to embedded you sometimes do need to know and sometimes it just improves your understanding (and it's kinda cool anyway), but if you do high-level work, per
12.
by hugatest 3y ago
I do embedded and it's fantastic. I could never do the cloud/web grind.
13.
by hugatest 3y ago
At uni, different styles do cluster. There are the circles in which the nerds cluster who are really in the tunnel about whatever subject it is, here it's programming or CS in general. They do it for fun, they come home and sit at the
14.
by hugatest 3y ago
Those who think they are unit testing but are actually integration testing. This is not just about terminology. If you don't have actual unit tests then your testing is much more complicated and heavyweight than it needs to be with cos
15.
by hugatest 3y ago
If your unit test needs root privileges, then it's not really a unit test in all but very few exceptional cases. It means you are interacting with the actually running kernel, which means you are integration testing, not unit testing.