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by leftbit 1y ago
Had. Now we have the "Merit Order Principle". Cheap energy (i.e. renewables) are used first but the price is determined by the most expensive energy source running. (See https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merit-Ord
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by leftbit 1y ago
But why should I put my time into reading and thinking about your article if you didn't think it worth your time to actually think about and write it? Hope the Next Big Thing (TM) is the Electric Monk.
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by leftbit 2y ago
Makes me wonder how much information from prehistoric civilizations got lost by cutting up their libraries into wedding rings...
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by leftbit 2y ago
One aspect of humor depends on cognitive flexibility. Puns work that way. So if you're not able to make the right mental context switch at the right moment, you won't get the joke.
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by leftbit 2y ago
It's difficult to reason about intelligence in this context. Human intelligence is defined by behavior we humans value. Intelligence tests are geared to measuring these aspects. Intelligence tests devised by animals would look totally
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by leftbit 2y ago
Yes, that was clever. But he showed real intelligence by never doing anything like this in front of us ever again. ;)
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by leftbit 2y ago
And they are able to show insight and planning to get what they want... Once a friend of our dog came visiting, grabbed his favorite stuffy and happily chewed it in the yard. Which our dog clearly resented. So he cleaned up the yard and hid
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by leftbit 3y ago
Reminded me of this interesting bird song visualization project: https://github.com/soundshader/soundshader.github.io/tree/ma... Less information than a spectrogram, but really visually appealing. :)
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by leftbit 3y ago
Wondering if pesticides, especially neonicotinoids play a role in this epidemic. Neonicotinoids are neurotoxic and have effects on mammals... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neonicotinoid#Harms_to_Mammali...
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by leftbit 4y ago
A pity, I'd have liked to visit Scotland again. Perhaps it's just me, but when a country decides to treat me like a criminal suspect instead of a welcomed visitor I just don't want to go there anymore.
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by leftbit 4y ago
Exactly that - the subtitle really says it all: "A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship" A craftsman is an expert in his field who applies his knowledge and techniques judiciously, not religiously or automatically.
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by leftbit 4y ago
Really don't like the enforcing. Okay, mixed feelings there. Rules should help you along, perhaps set a framework for your thinking. But they never should limit you in achieving your goal. When establishing a rule you should also speci
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by leftbit 4y ago
Don't know if this is really a bad thing - had the same problems with the book, but the apparent contradictions made me really think about the stuff. So I'm quite prepared to consider his advice, I'd never turn it into gospel
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by leftbit 4y ago
Don't think so. If the senior engineer is worth his salt he should know that programming is always about finding a balance between several aspects of a given problem - some of them technical, some of them human. As long as the code doe
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by leftbit 4y ago
> but rules are important, and this is what we're missing today. Programming rules are important - they make you think before you break them. Just don't turn rules into dogma - otherwise your devs will be more concerned with f
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by leftbit 4y ago
Just wondering - balloons aren't exactly a novel technology. And they are comparatively cheap to produce. So if spy balloons were considered a real threat - why isn't there a more cost efficient way to take them down?
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by leftbit 4y ago
Sounds familiar, especially the stuttering. Not really sure what's going on with me, but I found that sitting down for about 10 minutes and drinking one or two glasses of water alleviates the symptoms. Might be I just need the break, m
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by leftbit 4y ago
> There’s a lot of collaboration and spontaneous connection that happens in hallways and kitchenettes. Those spontaneous connections yielding noticeable results are probably an urban legend. 25 years in the business and I've never s
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by leftbit 4y ago
Quite so. As the article stated there are quite a lot of things wildcards abhor which the company needs done somehow anyway. Devs with another mentality. But that wasn't my point in my previous comment. I was thinking more along the li
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by leftbit 4y ago
Don't think so. For example some devs I know just love following an elaborate development process with as many quality gates as possible. Some like to glue as many complex frameworks together into a solution as possible. Some just love
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by leftbit 4y ago
A wildcard tends to focus on the problem solving and tries to cut on the fluff. So this feels certainly being more productive than dancing the process steps, striving for perfect code coverage by unit tests, nitpicking in code reviews and m
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by leftbit 4y ago
It's just weird learning about interesting engineering accomplishments by news that they're gone forever...
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by leftbit 4y ago
It's more likely that orbital junk will make any space based activity impossible.
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by leftbit 4y ago
Knowledge was everything, I bought tons of books and had fun digging into the most obscure and arcane language features. Just mastering things was very rewarding in itself - gave me a feeling of accomplishment and brought the respect of my
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by leftbit 4y ago
It might have started as a symbiosis between wolves and a species of particulary greedy and dumb monkeys which thought it would be a good idea to fleece the wolves for fur parasites. Still humans love to pet dogs, and dogs enjoy it. ;)
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by leftbit 4y ago
Growing up with home computers DID give you a different mindset about computers. Sooner or later you realize that you can make this machine do anything you want it do do. And it was quite simple to get started. No way you'll get this s
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by leftbit 4y ago
First thing I do is cleaning up the code base. I'm deleting unused code, fix class and method visibility according to usage, do the occasional rename if naming is inconsistent, check error handling and logging for inconsistencies, writ
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by leftbit 4y ago
Read this two times, but really couldn't understand why I'd want to do this, which practical problems this is going to solve. Must be getting old...
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by leftbit 5y ago
Yes, that's totally annoying since it really isn't very hard to get right... Swings layout managers are just made to deal with this stuff.
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by leftbit 5y ago
Now we've got jlink to bundle your application with the neccessary runtime modules into one custom runtime image... a bit late to the game, but still...

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