DougWebb

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by DougWebb 5y ago
my @result = map { blah blah blah with $_ } @data; I became a Perl developer at the tail end of the 90's. I learned a lot of functional development and Lisp before I had any idea what they were.
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by DougWebb 5y ago
Thanks, I'll check it out.
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by DougWebb 5y ago
Cool, thank you for the details. None of their marketing or FAQs for Glacier mention that getting the data back means going to S3 first and then paying S3's outgoing bandwidth costs. As deceptive as I expected. I'll check out Goog
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by DougWebb 5y ago
I'm trying to figure out the costs. To back up my NAS at full capacity, I need 10TB of storage. Using S3 Glacier Deep Archive, that seems to cost $10/month per full backup image I keep. That's not bad. What's confusing i
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by DougWebb 5y ago
That, and "it suites my needs" makes me reluctant to just install and run this software without carefully examining the source code first, and maybe building/running from source myself.
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by DougWebb 5y ago
There's no such thing as "physics defying". There's physics we understand, and physics we don't understand. The job of physicists is to change the latter into the former. Whatever these phenomena are, sharing all of
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by DougWebb 5y ago
The side ports are just USB-C internally, and they're going to release reference materials for people who want to make compatible modules to plug into them.
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by DougWebb 5y ago
Late 10s: Social media. Not all revolutions are good.
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by DougWebb 6y ago
Replace Rails and similar server-side frameworks with CGI scripts, and you're done. Every request is a new process with its own memory space. Yes, performance is an issue with that old approach. Around the turn of the century I was res
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by DougWebb 6y ago
node 1 child of node 1 node 2 : (2)
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by DougWebb 6y ago
They said "You're taking your shoes off, otherwise you're not going to fly today, you're going to get locked in a small room while we go through everything you've got with you and endlessly question you." It&#x
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by DougWebb 6y ago
I can give you an example from my career. We were building out a new webapp feature to deliver medical textbooks, which we had as xml documents direct from the publisher. Our customers, mostly large academic libraries and medical research c
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by DougWebb 6y ago
Absolutely nothing in that blog post applied to what I intended, because I did not say that a generic method that looks up implementations in a registry should be used. My static method would be explicitly coded to return a particular imple
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by DougWebb 6y ago
The way to manage this without DI would be a static method someplace (Startup.cs or elsewhere) which creates the new MyService, stores it, and returns a reference. Then any controllers or pages that need the reference call the static method
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by DougWebb 6y ago
I think most people would disagree with your definition of "quite simple". Going from three meals a day to a 16:8 eating pattern (16 hrs fasting, 8 hrs eating window) isn't too bad. It's basically skipping breakfast. Sho
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by DougWebb 6y ago
CGP Grey has excellent videos on this. Here's one that discusses the problems with the system the US uses now (in most states): https://youtu.be/s7tWHJfhiyo
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by DougWebb 6y ago
That's true about the oil; coal too. If we're not completely wrong about how those resources are created (there are some alternate theories) then we're the first civilization to use them. However, most of what I've read
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by DougWebb 6y ago
I spent a bit more than half of my professional career developing in Perl, on a large web application implemented across 100+ modules. All of my work was done through a terminal connected to a remote server, using vim. When I had to rename
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by DougWebb 6y ago
One way would be to allow companies to pay employee's healthcare premiums on the employee's behalf. That's almost like the current system, but still decoupled: 1. Employee buys their own plan from healthcare.gov. 2. Employe
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by DougWebb 6y ago
The FDA wouldn't be picking winners and losers. It would be picking scientifically valid lines of research, based on proposals from private companies. These are government employees; they're not buying lambos. Do you see CDC scien
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by DougWebb 6y ago
The organization will "appear successful" if it brings useful drugs to market at a reasonable cost to patients. There would obviously need to be unbiased criteria for deciding what's useful and what isn't, and the decisi
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by DougWebb 6y ago
For the viagra example, what's your point? R&D has research right in the name, and research can turn up unanticipated results. If the FDA is funding research into a compound that might be good for hypertension, and it turns out t
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by DougWebb 6y ago
Such as? Corrupt behavior of government employees is already illegal, so if your concern is that they'd approve R&D funding for a drug and development company they have a financial stake in, that wouldn't be allowed and would
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by DougWebb 6y ago
If it wasn't obvious, I'm talking about changing the FDA's mandate to nationalize drug R&D, while contracting the work out to private entites. I would actually require those entities to operate as non-profits too, in orde
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by DougWebb 6y ago
I believe a workable solution for this would involve: 1. Pharmas separate drug R&D from manufacturing and sales. 2. R&D companies submit proposals to the FDA for new drugs they want to develop. The FDA can also send out RFPs for dru
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by DougWebb 6y ago
This is basically filtering the plasma to remove harmful stuff, which is present in the older mice but not the younger. That's probably because the older mice's liver and kidneys aren't as effective as they used to be. The
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by DougWebb 6y ago
Hook up a cattleprod on a timer? Or, maybe better, glue on a stopwatch.
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by DougWebb 6y ago
I've ended up in the same place, but I use a text file. After years of trying to use time tracking systems, TODO systems, and journaling systems, I could never get past their data-entry-inefficiency compared to just opening a text file
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by DougWebb 6y ago
I would imagine that if a national UBI program were implemented, the amount would have to depend on the local cost of living, probably with caps. How they'd work that out, I don't know. If that's not done, then UBI would enco
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by DougWebb 6y ago
The literal purpose of UBI is to ensure that taxpayers do owe each citizen a fixed amount set at an average living. Not average . It's Basic . It's just enough to get by. That's the incentive to work: most people want to

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