GlennS

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by GlennS 5y ago
> That's not giving other developers much credit for critical thinking. Au contraire, I think it's you who is not giving tech evangelists and marketers enough credit in their skills at persuading people to adopt bad ideas. If y
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by GlennS 5y ago
Seconded, that's a really interesting comment and I'd love to here more about it.
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by GlennS 5y ago
One of the keepers at the Sydney Wildlife Zoo told me their cassowary seemed to get lonely when there were no people to watch (I visited in-between lockdowns). Which, uh, obviously doesn't fit their reputation. If you visit on a day th
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by GlennS 5y ago
I would be all in on the avocado toast and pomegranite seeds diet.
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by GlennS 5y ago
I agree with your overall thrust, but I certainly wouldn't have picked those examples. The diet threads just make me roll my eyes and think "Californians will believe anything"! (Sorry California, I know you don't all fi
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by GlennS 5y ago
> the only good solution (nuclear) has become politically untenable Not just politically: also economically untenable. At the moment, gas peakers remain the only good solution to this. Hopefully in the future overbuilding renewables or s
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by GlennS 5y ago
I really enjoy even the supermarket own brand whole grain mustards.
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by GlennS 5y ago
Well, that was educational, and now I finally understand the Grey Poupon scene from Wayne's World. In future I will be less snooty about "American mustard", which before reading this I had assumed was all like French's m
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by GlennS 5y ago
As a student I used to drink "Irish Nights" at about 1/5th of the price. Couldn't really tell the difference from real Baileys. My partner tells me she used to drink "Delayleys" (spelling lost to time), but wou
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by GlennS 5y ago
It's just unrealistic to be honest. Most people don't want publicity.
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by GlennS 5y ago
I think this may be a matter of different expectations. When I moved to Sydney 3 years ago and picked up a job within a week writing JavaScript at $130k + super (£80k then, £70k now the exchange rates have shifted a bit), I was very happy t
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by GlennS 5y ago
I had a really different experience. Sydney is full of jobs, and they're much higher paying than any I had in the UK. I never lived in London though.
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by GlennS 5y ago
The fraction of a given population that will voluntarily migrate is pretty low I think. The gap between London and UK-but-not-London salaries is probably pretty comparable to the one between London and San Francisco, but most people won&#x2
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by GlennS 5y ago
The idea that Substack have a moat seems a bit implausible, given how new they are. Have they finished displacing Medium yet? Who in turn only appeared a few years ago? Have any normal people even heard of these companies?
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by GlennS 5y ago
I think there's more to it than just that: Being around good people can inspire you to try to become better yourself. Being around good people can give you the nudge you need to behave better when that's difficult. Lastly, as much
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by GlennS 5y ago
Oh yes, that's definitely better.
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by GlennS 5y ago
Is the answer to (2) just something like this? If len(word) is even, check that all the characters in it appear an even number of times. If len(word) is odd, check that all the characters in it appear an even number of times except 1.
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by GlennS 5y ago
How do you take "inflation is extremely high" from that chart? 56% over 20 years is 2.25%ish per year.
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by GlennS 5y ago
I would argue that rather than trying to find a balance, we just need to make sure all these measures are temporary. In normal times an unwavering commitment to freedom in its citizens is a great strength for a country. In normal times, the
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by GlennS 5y ago
Keep at it: some crusty guy telling me to just read the sodding error 12 years ago opened my eyes. I think there's something about certain kinds of tools that are cryptic, unpredictable, and frustrating that can teach you to be helples
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by GlennS 5y ago
It's a plausible position, but is there evidence for it?
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by GlennS 5y ago
I think in most countries it isn't vaccine recitence that's the problem, but lack of vaccine supply.
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by GlennS 5y ago
> Also if a software engineer is good enough they may simply choose to work for an American firm This seems a bit unlikely to me: 1. Ignores patriotism. 2. The number of good programmers in China is going to overwhelmingly outnumber the
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by GlennS 5y ago
I think this is not wrong. When you are using the better quality IDEs (for example C# with Visual Studio, or Java with IntelliJ), they offer you a lot this isn't there in Emacs or VIM. I currently mostly work in Python using Emacs, bec
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by GlennS 5y ago
Hah, it probably is width. Maybe gamers should all start using it that way. Then people who want a big list of knobs to fiddle with will be able to find the games they like easier. I feel like Dwarf Fortress and other games in the simulatio
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by GlennS 5y ago
I'm a little wary of games which boast of their "depth". Oftentimes it means "we didn't have a cohesive enough vision to reject any features". All that said, I do like Settlers 2, so I will give this a try.
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by GlennS 5y ago
> I think you will find that comes from the Torah, Jewish wisdom. Thanks for the correction. > Personally I think if that were still true Christ died for nothing. I'm suggesting it's just a rather obvious statement of inheri
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by GlennS 5y ago
I think this is the wrong way to look at it. You're looking at it from an individual/market economy point of view as a transaction (tax for services). But that's not how the people setting the tax are looking at it. They&#x27
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by GlennS 5y ago
I think that's a reasonable response to the phrase taken at face value, but... It's been pointed out to me that this is probably an observation of how the world is rather than a commandment for how it should be. (Despite the phras
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by GlennS 5y ago
When optimizing `findItem`, did you consider storing the original index of each item on itself and using that as a starting point? Obviously this might move later (maybe it can only increase?), but usually not by much, so I would guess it w

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