CRConrad

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by CRConrad 9mo ago
> The Holocaust was carried out by people who had to invent their own religions (their variant of neo-paganism and "positive Christianity") to have religions that could be reconciled with their ideology. Their ideas were more r
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by CRConrad 9mo ago
Nobody said he can be sure.
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by CRConrad 9mo ago
Yup. Which was why some (probably Nietzsche, but AFAICR several people before him too) called Christianity "a religion for slaves": It's very very useful for elites throughout the ages, from Roman patricians to current techbr
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by CRConrad 9mo ago
> Apologies I am not familiar with how to quote back here. Copy the bit you want to quote, paste it into the edit box, type a "> " before it. Old Skool. HTH!
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by CRConrad 1y ago
Seems to me, from the bit you quoted, that their answer would be something along the lines of: "I would restate the point of the post as talking about how SQL is bad at hierarchical data, while using bad SQL to defend this argument.&q
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by CRConrad 1y ago
Or maybe between "What developers want / think they need" and "What SQL provides".
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by CRConrad 1y ago
> First, there is the question of the mythology of the author. Would Shakespeare be himself if he had an AI ghost write his books? Would we care as much? Idunno... Would Homer? Shakespeare is one thing; we have at least some biographical
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by CRConrad 1y ago
Then the "an" tells us that the author pronounces "LLM" as "Ell-ell-em".
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by CRConrad 1y ago
> An "acre" is a medieval unit of measure defined as one "chain" by one "furlong", the area a single man can plow in a day with a team of oxen. Although people have been plowing with horses since the 12th ce
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by CRConrad 1y ago
Actually, calling geothermal energy "renewable" is a bit of a misnomer, isn't it? At least if the heat energy in the Earth's crust, which is what "geothermal energy" harvests, comes from the inside. The Earth&#
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by CRConrad 1y ago
Yes, obviously? It was an example, intended to show how using the language of day-to-day engineering in interviews is a mistake.
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by CRConrad 1y ago
Funnily enough, TFA links to an article on that subject too: https://idiallo.com/blog/how-meetings-should-be
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by CRConrad 1y ago
> Interviewing is mostly a different skillset from day to day work. > It’s not, really: Funny -- I'm halfway down the page now, and haven't seen your top-level post stating how and why the entire point of TFA is wrong. >
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by CRConrad 1y ago
To answer the question of your user ID: Pork, please.
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by CRConrad 1y ago
I don't get it: How can you not see that eating food you don't need to eat is wasting food? If you throw away food, it has been made for nothing and goes to waste. If it hadn't been made, that would have saved resources, an
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by CRConrad 1y ago
> Prejudices by, for example, the English or American against Greeks or Italians lasted into the 20th century. Which is a bit funny, considering how they asdmired the ancient Greeks and Romans. Why did they consider their culture and s
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by CRConrad 1y ago
It's Tim Snyder; he's pro-truth and pro-Ukraine. So he's only incidentally anti-Trump, because Trump is anti-Ukraine and anti-truth.
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by CRConrad 1y ago
Intuitively: Every seven years. Remembering leap years: In 28 years, tops. Thinking about it: Has to be more often than that; there are only seven weekdays the year can begin on. This is only considering getting the weekday for every date r
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by CRConrad 1y ago
> ...Business Intelligence in basically every flavor. Ouch! That's precisely[1] what I've been working with for a quarter-century now. And for the most part, my colleagues and I have been suffering from the exact same ills. It&
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by CRConrad 1y ago
Oh? I must have forgotten / never known / got that mixed up. (I'm thinking the most likely is I mixed it up with some other, later, MS TLA.) Thanks!
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by CRConrad 1y ago
> No mention of C#, which of all the languages I've seen makes the best distinction... It's the "I've seen" that does the heavy lifting here. I'd guess it's C# for you only because you haven't seen
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by CRConrad 1y ago
Cuneiform? Bah, fancy-pants! Soot from torches onto the stone walls of our cave was good enough for us, shoulda been good enough for you too.
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by CRConrad 1y ago
"The trick is to realize that you never even needed to think at all"...
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by CRConrad 1y ago
Ah, seems you missed the glaring issue there: "Sure, it says <<whatever>>, clear as day, but damn, 'typing it in' on these tiny little buttons on this darn 'keyboard' thingy..."
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by CRConrad 1y ago
Visual Studio 2022 still occasionally crashes or hangs on me.
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by CRConrad 1y ago
> Borland's OWL predated MFC... I myself started with Borland's tools on MS-DOS, moved to Windows with straight Win16/32 SDK programming and then moved to VC++/MFC before moving away from Microsoft platforms So you to
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by CRConrad 1y ago
End of TFA: > The only way to get to the bottom of the issue is to do more and bigger RCTs until reproducible findings emerge. Until then, expect some heated debates. Added the emphasis on that penultimate word. I'm pretty sure t
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by CRConrad 1y ago
Heh, I went and found this equivalent https://archive.is/jE4mr before seeing your comment.
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by CRConrad 1y ago
> I've found that certain posting times lead to more upvotes for what feel like the same type of stories. So was that post a while[1] ago about how some times get much more interaction on HN posts by you? IIRC the result was that yo
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by CRConrad 1y ago
Yes, but only for comments. And it's limited not only by karma, but time: It's only available for a rather short time after a comment was posted. Dunno how long exactly, but feels like something between... 12 and 24 hours?

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