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by rickmode 11mo ago
Isn’t it the cheapest AWS region? Or at least among the cheapest. If I’m correct, this incentivizes users to start there.
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by rickmode 1y ago
See a psychologist or counselor. If you an underlying diagnosis, you could be suffering more than necessary.
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by rickmode 2y ago
Pronoun confusion. The second pronoun is ambiguous. Since we are all “hackers” here, I’ll be pedantic… “While it is a great language…” The “it” pronoun clearly refers to the C++ language, as I’m sure you intended. “…ir would profit from les
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by rickmode 2y ago
In context, this means “self-inflicted harm”.
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by rickmode 2y ago
I’d say it’s like the mental health distinction of a trait versus a disorder: if this is negatively impacting your day to day life, consider therapy / counseling. (As an aside, I think of counseling as “optimizing my life”. Perhaps tha
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by rickmode 3y ago
To be pedantic, this would be violet. (Purple is a mix of red and blue light.)
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by rickmode 3y ago
Naive question: why not remove all sensitive data, or all data, from the notification and leave the context for a secondary API call?
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by rickmode 3y ago
Maybe a bit more hand for the woman. She’s got a bit of a stump going on there. But otherwise I like the image!
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by rickmode 3y ago
Generic reply to siblings here… I get the intelligence argument. My _main_ point is that there’s a non-trivial question to answer here. I’m not qualified to answer (though I’ve offered up my non-expert opinion). It certainly seems to quickl
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by rickmode 3y ago
I believe we first need to answer the question of whether the copyright of the AI model’s source text or images affects the output. My opinion — and note I’m a software engineer, not a lawyer — is that an AI, being a statistical model and n
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by rickmode 3y ago
I agree though I’d say non-technical people are naive and so don’t know why the experience is not ideal or fun or smooth. I suspect if asked the right questions, non-technical people would also complain. Computers have always been just usef
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by rickmode 5y ago
The answer, I think, is warranties. As soon as software can no longer be delivered “as-is”, the profession will need to change. Hobbies will still exist, just as they do for almost all other professions, but as soon as software is required
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by rickmode 5y ago
I use Hover for my personal domain, and added a "small mailbox" for my email address. For calendaring, I use iCloud, which works fine since I'm an iPhone user and that thing is _always_ with me. I switched my personal website
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by rickmode 5y ago
Indeed. In email threads I will sometimes say “To amplify, …” to make it clear that I’m adding on, rather than rebutting.
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by rickmode 6y ago
"Simple != easy." --Rich Hickey The closest I get in my career is striving for the simplest approach to building something in software, which is not all the easy path. The easy path always leads to complexity -- just look at any e
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by rickmode 6y ago
For me, the big drain was running Google Chat in Firefox. I switched running GChat using Google’s app and that solved the problem for me. Now the only big drain is WebEx. (This is a work laptop, and my work uses GSuite and WebEx.)
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by rickmode 6y ago
I had this same belief but there is one other useful situation where an interface plus just one implementation class helps, and that's when you want to hide the noise of implementation details from another part of the program. This can
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by rickmode 6y ago
Ah. Understood. The Patriot Act is the problem. We knew it at the time. Sounds like we all agree on that point.
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by rickmode 6y ago
I don't think this is a good example. If memory serves, the threat _was_ detected, however it was not acted on. There was lots of finger pointing about lack of coordination, but (as I recall) the core problem was that it was one threat
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by rickmode 7y ago
Are you sure about the "do whatever you want" part? Just because there is no need to register with the FAA doesn't mean the FAA rules do no apply.
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by rickmode 7y ago
See my reply to bryanrasmussen for a full explanation. Basically: you reindex ES periodically, so when a user is deleted from the primary, it will disappear from ES upon the next reindex. The old index is deleted at the file system level.
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by rickmode 7y ago
When using ES for indexing and not the primary store, you can (and should) periodically fully reindex the data set. You can use a blue / green pattern — create a new index then swap from the old one to the new one. ES supports aliases,
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by rickmode 7y ago
4 months for my 2016 Model S. Most of this time (all but 2 weeks, I think) was waiting for airbag related parts. Missed the entire summer last year -- accident in May, got the car back in September. Suffered crappy rental cars. This was a l
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by rickmode 8y ago
Amdahl's law for sure. We all know most software sucks, so in this vision (simpler cores), that reduces us to taking the performance hit and optimizing elsewhere. For example, older ARM-based systems do not use speculative execution, a
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by rickmode 8y ago
How about CPUs without speculative execution and simultaneous multithreading (SMT / Hyper-Threading, which has similar issues)? We would, of course, need other optimizations to claw back the performance loss--an engineering problem I f
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Thankfully, the technology to combat rogue drones is getting better(economist.com)
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by rickmode 9y ago
Maybe Apple has embraced one of these "Agile" methodologies where you basically eliminate your QA group in the promise that developer created unit and integration tests can cover the quality gap. QA and dev approach software with
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by rickmode 9y ago
I totally get this. I finally got an ADHD diagnosis as an adult and the mild stimulants they prescribe help me plow through work that would otherwise be literally too boring for me to force myself though. On the flip side, these same mild s
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by rickmode 9y ago
Take the break without "unloading" the problem from your head. Get up, get some coffee or whatnot. You're brain will retain the problem you are working on with no effort on your part. This works much better when working remot
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by rickmode 9y ago
Salary comparisons happen anyway, with the same effect, although you typically have to do it in secret because in many company's, sharing salary information is against company policy. In my anecdotal experience, the angst doesn't

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