lizard

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by lizard 1y ago
Just curious, what would you consider, "absurdly small amounts of data around using big data tools like spark" and what do you recommend instead? I recently worked on some data pipelines with Databricks notebooks ala Azure Fabric.
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by lizard 1y ago
Sorry, that's the point I was making to which I may have got off track. Marriage can't be ended by one party "calling it quits on frivolous grounds" because its a legal contract between two people. Both parties must come
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by lizard 1y ago
Divorce is a legal procedure to dissolve a legal union; local rules vary, but while it can be accomplished without standing in court, in the US at least the terms of the dissolution must still be documented and--even if signed by both parti
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by lizard 2y ago
When I get frustrated enough to consider putting a kill switch in my work, I cool off by reminding myself that would prompt them to make a huge effort recovering from backups and have someone go through my code to get it working again. If I
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by lizard 2y ago
There are almost certainly different approaches depending on the environment and situation. But, especially if this is a "culture" problem one of the best fixes I've found is to make shorter meetings with a defined agenda, su
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by lizard 2y ago
In a college chemistry lab we would have to write lab reports of our work. The instructor made it very clear that he has never given 100% on a lab reports because there's always something to improve. A one of my CS cohorts happened to
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by lizard 2y ago
Is this even new for "lifetime"? A "lifetime warranty" often refers to the "lifetime" of the product, not your lifetime or the expected lifetime of any person. In that sense, T-Mobile has played this pretty str
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by lizard 2y ago
Physical attributes are easy to recognize, so if these weigh heavily in your expectations, you can more rapidly estimate the distribution. Being able to do this quickly also means you can break out populations to make more accurate estimate
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by lizard 2y ago
It's not for lack of trying. People just get a little touchy about putting us in control of anything.
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by lizard 2y ago
Reading about aphantasia was a trip. I couldn't even understand it at first, so curious if this condition fit me I looked up the test for diagnosing aphantasia which started describe scenes of a beach, now with a sunset, and so on, to
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by lizard 2y ago
I've been involved in a product review at my work. The tool hits a sweet spot of identifying a real problem and demoing impressively. I have little doubt we will purchase this tool unless the beancounters simply reject the expense. But
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by lizard 3y ago
Yeah, I get it. There's a lot of complexity. I considered including something about "when the author has explicitly said not to release it" which draws up even more complexity in this case because the children argued 'Da
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by lizard 3y ago
I heard about this on NPR this morning (which is looks like someone already posted the link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39633900 ), and it sounds like the sons justification was that the book was good and the issue
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by lizard 3y ago
> Installing multiple versions of Python? You have got to be kidding. Why? There's some overhead because it's not like everything has changed between versions, but otherwise it's a very clean way to provide exactly what yo
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by lizard 3y ago
I don't have a problem so much with the touch screen itself. It's a waste for a lot a things and I frequently just turn my screen off, but it is nice to be able to bring up a map with directions and arrival estimates. But I am con
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by lizard 3y ago
I've found the problem with transparency and any sort of acknowledgement of problems in business, is that there too many other people whoa are all too willing to say, "We're awesome, just leave it to us!" And these are u
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by lizard 3y ago
> It's hard to tell what your issue with backward compatibility was exactly without examples. I can't speak for worik, but it sounds like they are talking about backwards compatibility as a user of applications written in Pytho
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by lizard 3y ago
I've often wondered how different things would be if producers and manufacturers were required to pay for any waste they generated from their products, at no additional cost to the consumer. Individually wrapped candies in a plastic sl
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by lizard 3y ago
That's fine for a well establish course and curriculum, where its pretty well known where the students are at (or should be) and the material is presented in a consistent manner that has successfully filtered the deserving and undeserv
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by lizard 3y ago
Doesn't it need some clever acronym so politicians can talk about their DoesntMeanWhatYouThink Act? Humans Own Unsupported Software and Electronics (HOUSE) Act perhaps?
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by lizard 3y ago
Having worked as a software developer in several different areas of enterprise IT, the vast majority of the work is about "Improving {process} to increase {team}'s productivity." Businesses already know, or at least hope, tha
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by lizard 3y ago
> If you are time-sensitive, then cook more at a once to amortize your time investment. Your freezer isn't just for holding the crap that comes frozen at the grocery store. You can accumulate weeks worth of high-quality DIY rations
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by lizard 3y ago
> cybersecurity is unique in the sense that you're dealing with intelligent adversaries I disagree with this on the grounds that normal software engineering is dealing with intelligent adversaries as well. They may not be "adv
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by lizard 3y ago
You're assuming the objective was to develop a functioning program on the Pi. But what if the Pi was only ever meant as a story-telling device to get the students thinking about the kinds of things computer programs can do? Sure, some
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by lizard 3y ago
No, the argument is, "It's not cheating because it wasn't a programming assignment."
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by lizard 3y ago
This can depend a lot on the context, which we don't have a lot of. Looking at this a different way, they gave first-year students, likely with no established pre-requistites, an open-ended project with fixed hardware but no expectatio
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by lizard 3y ago
Faculty may not care about this at first, but if they suspect a cheater in their midst can become pretty aggressive in pursuit of information to make their case. The adminstration, likely not having also not thought about it hard enough to
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by lizard 3y ago
You can see the Largest Ball of Twine from the road, so you never get to actually stretch your legs, which was the whole point, and your detour ends up being a waste of time that contributes nothing to the endeavor. That seems familiar enou
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by lizard 3y ago
> The reality is that the effort in software development isn't easily divided into these streams. The article fails to address an important consequence of putting effort into fighting fires: the project plans and roadmaps of the aff
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by lizard 3y ago
Is that so bad? Ideally, if as others have suggested, you've already worked through that question and documented it, you can just refer to that documentation amd move along. If you haven't documented it, it's a good reminder

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