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by GlennS 6y ago
A sort of "build your own metadata database with configurable workflows" tool focusing on data management, provenance, security, privacy etc. Maybe I've gone too far there. Jira has configurable workflows too, and I guess no-
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by GlennS 6y ago
Would you consider something like Collibra https://www.collibra.com/ to be no-code? They seem to be exploding at the moment. How about SAP or Salesforce?
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by GlennS 7y ago
Writing as someone who is mostly baffled by religion, this was a very useful and interesting post to read. Thanks.
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by GlennS 7y ago
Pydantic https://pydantic-docs.helpmanual.io/usage/settings/
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by GlennS 7y ago
This is very much an area of active research. See: https://soundcloud.com/energylive/podcast-energy-live-evoene... for a lab in Australia. The main use of hydrogen is longer term storage than you are suggesting. For ex
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by GlennS 7y ago
So, what's actually going on in this chart? Are people mass buying this fund as its price drops and hoping for a rebound?
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by GlennS 7y ago
Aren't you basically describing Khan Academy? It has good education material - including exercises - that you go through at your own pace, and is organised as a tree of learning. Last time I looked it didn't go into university lev
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by GlennS 7y ago
I suspect they are using a single server. I found uwsgi's mules and cache2 very useful in that situation. If someone finds that Redis and Celery are more complication than they need for a given task, then I think they're probably
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by GlennS 7y ago
This is what I have used in the past. I think they're very convenient if you are just running one instance of uwsgi and want to share some state quickly without going through a persistent database. If you're worrying about tweakin
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by GlennS 7y ago
I actually think that part of the popularity of Postgres - and relational databases (RDBMS) in general - is that they are good enough for most analysis work. Not specialist stuff, Postgres isn't really a competitor if your business i
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by GlennS 7y ago
This is quite a specific thing though. If you want to do spatial things in the database, then PostGIS for PostgreSQL or Spatialite for SQLite are definitely your best options. For general performance, PostgreSQL is consistently excellent, b
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by GlennS 7y ago
Clojure is my favourite language to work in, although I only had the opportunity to use it professionally for 6 months. It gives me an overwhelming feeling of quality, forethought, and careful design. So does most of its surrounding ecosyst
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It's pretty interesting that a starfish is more closely related to us than it is to, say, an octopus or a crab.
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by GlennS 7y ago
If you are in a job that pays well, save and invest a large chunk of it while you have the opportunity.
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by GlennS 7y ago
I think this is a pretty good question. My dad told me about how, 50 years ago, getting a toolmaking apprenticeship was a license to print money. That certainly changed, and I don't know if anyone expected it? My guess is that the job
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by GlennS 7y ago
I appreciate that you are trying to defend people who are doing their best, but I think overall that was an unfair and uncharitable comment. In my experience, homeless people act cringeing and fearful, and often call people Sir or Ma'a
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by GlennS 7y ago
I like coding tests. They give me an opportunity to differentiate myself.
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by GlennS 7y ago
Muana Kea also has a (permanent?) tropical inversion layer . This means a layer of warm air some way below the summit. What it looks like in practice is a very thick layer of dirty clouds topped by pristine, cloudless air. Additionally, Ha
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by GlennS 7y ago
I visited Mauna Kea as a tourist some years ago. At the time, there were protesters present. They appeared to believe that they had been promised there would be a limit on how many telescopes were build, and that the astronomers had broken
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by GlennS 7y ago
I've recently been reading through the Amazon letters to shareholders [ https://ir.aboutamazon.com/annual-reports/ ]. It's clear from those letters that Amazon is not an experiment, but rather a flawlessly exec
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by GlennS 7y ago
Funnily enough I had the same thing thing moving from Bristol in the UK to Sydney in Australia. My salary jumped more than 2x, I've got no idea how to spend it all despite my best efforts to drag everyone to the pub, and so at current
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by GlennS 7y ago
It seems plausible to me that Brexit would cause lower house prices in London without affecting the rest of the country. 1. London has (had?) a lot of immigration from the EU. 2. London's economy is very connected to the EU. Lots of Eu
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by GlennS 7y ago
Here is a source which says otherwise, and includes references: https://withouthotair.com/c18/page_103.shtml Warning this book is quite old now. While the discussion of theoretical limits should probably still hold u
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by GlennS 7y ago
There's really not much Lisp/Scheme left in R these days. Function arguments/environments are still pairlists: a type of cons cell. You can manipulate the parameters to a function as symbols before you evaluate them. This is
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by GlennS 7y ago
Another piece of software that I thought made Windows productive in the 90s was Microsoft Publisher. We got this bundled with...something? Maybe a printer? And I used it a lot for schoolwork. It was clean, neat and powerful. You could use i
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by GlennS 7y ago
I like to combine Nix with direnv (and direnv-mode for Emacs - there are also similar plugins for most other editors). Then you can `cd` into your directory and your environment appears. The downsides are that there is a steep and long lear
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by GlennS 7y ago
I agree. While I'm in theory in favour of alternatives to CSS, my experience with css-in-jss using the React Material-UI framework has been pretty painful. Definitely worse than my usual approach of writing some LessCSS and trying to b
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by GlennS 7y ago
I do this as well for the moment, but I find it slightly annoying, because it doesn't play nicely with Magit or zsh autocomplete.
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The Great Lakes in Africa are close to the equator.
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There's been talk of a "banker's oath", because behaviour that is a little bit slimy or reckless - but not criminally so, nor perhaps even unambiguously unethical - can hurt a lot of people when your job involves looking

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