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by zikzak 10mo ago
Yes, I think when you work in implementation, it's obvious that you made a bad decision (to yourself before others see it) and you are quick to say "I made a mistake, let's fix it before the mess gets worse". Your skills
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by zikzak 10mo ago
Ice forms on the roof and they need to get up there manually and clear it off and I don't think they do. :) I was driving the Gaspe coastal road once after an ice storm and we were on the road with a bunch of semis early in the morning
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by zikzak 11mo ago
I once spent a couple hours debugging a perl cgi script. Nothing worked. Called in my colleague. Looks fine. We both were tearing our hair out. Sent it to the line printer, ordered pizza, and one of us read the code while the other typed it
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by zikzak 1y ago
Um, ok. I think he's still doing ok and his fellow academics would prefer he didn't openly speculate about pet theories. They think it is embarrassing. But ask yourself where we'd be if noone ever asked what if. There's
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by zikzak 1y ago
No, he's the new "we should consider what this would look like if it were an artifact of an alien civilization" guy. You know, open minded. He's also a well respected and very accomplished person who has acknowledged thi
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by zikzak 1y ago
I go for "I can understand experts, but not add much to the conversation" as a benchmark for knowing enough to participate in discussions at work. Then I use that "I can solve my immediate problem" method going forward.
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by zikzak 1y ago
I was sitting with my dog in my yard one night and a green meteor lit up the evening sky like the day. It also made a sizzling noise (or maybe crackling). I found out that the green was probably nickle content and the sizzling sounds also h
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by zikzak 1y ago
I am tired of people mocking me for my interest in this topic so I won't bother to back this up too much, but this article doesn't really do what you say. It is itself disinfo designed to provide a simple, easily digested explanat
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by zikzak 1y ago
Many can accept forwarded emails and some will offer an email address you can use to subscribe to newsletters. I prefer the former because you can cancel the forward rule if you don't want to continue with a given rss app or service.
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by zikzak 1y ago
When I was in cooking school, it was assumed we would not have the time or equipment to constantly be monitoring temps with a thermometer so we had techniques for determining fairly precisely the temp of things. Poaching liquid was evaluate
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by zikzak 1y ago
I tend to agree here. I haven't been allowed to code for a few years now but I spend a lot of my time talking through code with developers. I find many of the people on my teams lack a perspective I can provide to frame a problem or ev
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by zikzak 1y ago
Did he say it was definitely a starship?
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by zikzak 1y ago
Did he conclude it was a starship or argue we shouldn't dismiss out of hand that an object like this has a non-zero chance of being an artifact of another civilization?
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by zikzak 1y ago
I spent a very frustrating 20 minutes with someone this week (a nice person I like, which is why I spent this time) explaining that the Python code chatgpt had provided them would just copy files from one folder to another and was no differ
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by zikzak 1y ago
I recently deleted my Reddit account after a million years because every other post was obviously AI generated "am I the jerk" posts (use your imagination for variations on "jerk"). I used to participate in some subreddi
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by zikzak 1y ago
All industrial generators undergo regular shutdowns for maintenance and recalibration. This is costly and time consuming when they are on land. Also, I am thinking about all the ocean factors beyond salt corrosion. There's tons of crap
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by zikzak 1y ago
If you ignore the black piece that should be captured, it's a legit Go game. A configuration that would probably never occur in real life but noone would ever place a Go board on their leg like that. I'd file this under the same c
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by zikzak 2y ago
Kernighan's Law - Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.
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by zikzak 2y ago
My father was born in 1930 and shared a bed with two siblings around ages 5-8. The bedroom was a small room at the top of the house and was on the wall where the electrical supply attached to the house from the street. During a bad storm on
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by zikzak 2y ago
I was in a "101" undergrad compsci class the first year the program used Java (1997, I think?) and so this asst prof was showing a simple example of some Java syntax. I had been programming in C for a while, learning from K&R,
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by zikzak 2y ago
Not an AI expert but this sounds a lot like code review. Most people are using systems to facilitate code review these days (we aren't sitting around boardrooms with printouts these days) so I wonder if there is a way to use the code r
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by zikzak 2y ago
Is this like writing "walla" for "voila"?
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by zikzak 2y ago
Same, but in our case he's doing it all in class. The kids that can't get it done or choose other activities are taking it home.
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by zikzak 2y ago
Agreed. The things I look for most when hiring programmers (assuming they have a resume showing they have the skills) are attention to detail, empathy, and ability to communicate without feeling like I'm arguing all the time or pulling
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by zikzak 2y ago
I had tried using Kagi just for home use since the bulk of my searches are work related (Kagi is not something I can claim as an expense, before you ask) but still found little added value beyond "I think I like this more". I did
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by zikzak 2y ago
I tried Kagi and even signed up for the basic plan but ultimately cancelled. If the basic plan included twice as many searches per month, I'd be all in. However, I find Startpage results are "just as good" and free. I didn&#x
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by zikzak 3y ago
I did find it interesting that the dod approved their release retroactively: https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/216571... Because that's what happens when you release classified i
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by zikzak 3y ago
I am definitely not saying any of those interpretations of the event are correct (I'm a skeptic) but I do find it interesting that some people do seem to have a period of increased focus and productivity afterwards.
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by zikzak 3y ago
Contact with mysterious phenomenon that seems to communicate with the witness is not unheard of and many people seem to undergo an intelligence boost afterwards, even if short lived. This is often considered a religious experience while mor
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by zikzak 3y ago
Probably referring to Bigelow Aerospace https://www.bigelowaerospace.com/pages/news/ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bigelow Does the report claim all sightings can be definitely expla

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