DougWebb

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by DougWebb 7y ago
Actually, Blazor is a compilation of the C# runtime (CLR) to webassembly, and a mechanism for downloading standard C# dll assemblies to the browser to execute there. The C# code is compiled normally; it doesn't know/care that the
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by DougWebb 7y ago
The chart on that page shows the solar radiation as a (somewhat) instantaneous measure, against the global temperature which is a cummulative amount. The annual solar radiation jumps from a lower value to a higher value right about where th
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by DougWebb 7y ago
You're right, as software developers we have the advantage of being able to create an offline replica of the software we're working on, which we can experiment with without doing any harm. We've learned, through experience, t
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by DougWebb 7y ago
Exclusively? I don't believe you can have a software development career working exclusively with PHP, JS, or RoR. That's far too limited a breadth of knowledge. At best you might make some money on the side if that's all you
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by DougWebb 7y ago
Jokes, sure, but not any that could be taken to be offensive or problematic.
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This question feels similar to "I decided to switch my career and become a surgeon. Which organs should I focus on first so I can start earning income right away?" It doesn't really work that way. "Web Dev" is not a
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by DougWebb 7y ago
I'm pretty certain that my 20 years' worth of /work/ chat logs and emails do not contain any offhand comments, jokes, etc. Perhaps you're not working with professional people.
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by DougWebb 7y ago
100 people per day out of how many people driving per day? I'm pretty sure it's a very small percentage. How does that compare to the percentage of self-driving car accidents relative to the number of self-driving cars? My gut fee
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by DougWebb 7y ago
I've been losing weight using a keto diet, which is very low-carb: - No more than 20g of NET carbs per day. (Carb grams minus soluble fiber grams in the US; food labels in other countries may already show Carb grams with the fiber subt
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by DougWebb 7y ago
I've been using Waterwise distillers for 20 years or so. I used the 9000 model for a long time, and for the past several years I've been using the 3200. I make 1-2 gallons of water a day, every day. Buy a spare container so you ca
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by DougWebb 7y ago
On Windows, I just use the Microsoft Sticky Notes app. I'd used text files for a long time, and tried various local and web-based apps, but the key feature for me is that the note has to be visible or I'll eventually forget about
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by DougWebb 7y ago
I found that just deleting all of the font-size and line-height css rules made the page much more usable. Let the browser's defaults take care of that. Use relative font-sizes if you must on board names to make them larger, but it&#x27
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by DougWebb 7y ago
That's a necessary component of how it works: these devices don't do the speech recognition locally. They upload it to their cloud and run it through their machine learning network. They're not supposed to upload "everyt
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by DougWebb 7y ago
There are no mountains or rivers. There are only valleys. Some are bigger.
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by DougWebb 7y ago
As developers, the most useless bug reports we get are "It's broken". The NFRs you describe sound like "The system must not be broken", which probably makes a lot of sense to someone who's likely to submit a us
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by DougWebb 7y ago
How quickly could you pull CO2 out of the air if you were scaled up to make full use of a typical nuclear reactor for the electricity? If you just stored the output of that process rather than refining it into gasoline, diesel, or jet fuel,
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by DougWebb 7y ago
Two of those things is not like the other.
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by DougWebb 7y ago
In my experience, developers understand and appreciate range-based estimates. But when those numbers start moving up the communication chain, some non-developer is going to either not like or not understand the point of the range, and will
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by DougWebb 8y ago
I agree; LotR is really a fantasy book for fans of walking places.
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by DougWebb 8y ago
That's not a standard, it's a common practice. It only becomes a standard when it gets documented and everyone interested in implementing it agrees to follow the document.
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by DougWebb 8y ago
Buying the wrong land, or overpaying for it, will still get you into trouble. You might be able to sell it, but not for as much as you paid for it. Student debt has the same problem: get the wrong degree, or overpay for the degree you'
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by DougWebb 8y ago
If your IDs are completely unique, you could add them to a Bloom filter [0] when cleaning up the resource. Then you could use that to determine if an incoming ID has possibly been used before or definitely not. [0] https://en.wik
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by DougWebb 8y ago
I think that price, in the context of a site like Amazon's, deserves one of those "Wrong things developers believe about X" pages. Any given item in Amazon's database (where 'item' == 'something that has i
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by DougWebb 8y ago
I would guess that scientists are conservative in their predictions, so that they don't over-estimate effects. As new information comes in and predictions become more accurate, it's more likely to lean towards worse outcomes becau
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by DougWebb 8y ago
One example I can think of is this: if you write perl using 'canonical' expressions, your code will often get compiled to optimized function calls. But if you use non-canonical expressions to perform the same operation, the compil
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by DougWebb 8y ago
It's not just a requirement to use old plugins. There are still serious drawbacks to upgrading from Win7 to Win10, and Edge is not available on Win7, while IE11 is available on Win10 (because Edge wasn't viable yet when Win10 wa
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by DougWebb 8y ago
I'm absolutely not an expert, but I believe there wasn't any mass at first; it was all energy. It had to slow down to become mass, at which point it was spread out enough. Or something along those lines. Another possibility is tha
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by DougWebb 8y ago
What you're describing sounds like the way pre-fab homes are built. A computer model is created which specifies every part, and that gets sent to the factory floor where all of the wood is picked, cut, and assembled into pre-fabbed shi
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It also requires a lot of careful thought, observation, and planning if you want to get a flat wall that will be easy to tape, mud, and paint, and will look good when it's complete. Like all skills, there's a big gap between &quot
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by DougWebb 8y ago
My impression, back then, was that The Semantic Web would be the sort of thing that you could create a real, general, AI upon. But populating the SW accurately, and maintaining it, was far too large a task for a small group of people and re

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