JohnL4

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by JohnL4 5y ago
That sounds good, but having no demographic stats is the opposite of sunlight. I don't believe it makes systemic racism go away, it just sweeps it under the rug.
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by JohnL4 5y ago
Not relevant to the original topic, but yeah. I'm still an individual, private user of dyn, and when oracle bought them, what they charge me jumped significantly. Moving to another provider is just low enough on my priority list that i
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by JohnL4 5y ago
http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2021/07/blog-backlog-2.html
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by JohnL4 5y ago
I had to Google it and scroll a blog post.
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by JohnL4 5y ago
Right. Liquid hydrogen is fluffy. Energy density by volume is 4 times lower than that of jet fuel. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210401-the-worlds-first...
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by JohnL4 5y ago
I read this and i think about the builder who ADDED rebar to Falling Water's cantilevered concrete. Wright was pissed, but I understand it's the only reason it's still standing today.
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by JohnL4 5y ago
Didn't read every word of that, but it seemed a particularly long-winded version of Moore's Law.
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by JohnL4 5y ago
We don't need no book larnin! [Writes an n^3 nested loop] Maybe I'm just traumatized by 00s coders, but I hear rejection of college as rejection of knowledge and critical thinking. I admit school ain't all that, but you CANNO
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by JohnL4 5y ago
Pretty sure AI, like fusion, is the technology of the future and always will be. When we solve the halting problem, AI can write software. Until then, it's Intelligence Augmentation, not AI, and humans will remain in the loop.
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by JohnL4 5y ago
2nd. I'm a heavy org-mode user but the problem w/org-mode is that it's got emacs in front of it, and you are just not going to get uptake. Pandoc's not really a solution, either, apart from a one-time extraction of org
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by JohnL4 5y ago
Gah. Tablet died. Brilliant comment lost. https://developers.google.com/machine-learning/crash-course https://aws.amazon.com/machine-learning/mlu/
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by JohnL4 5y ago
«There are useful low-code tools that can help you learn about working with classification models. Try Azure ML for this task» I'm guessing this is how Microsoft wins and the other giants lose: easy on-ramps to Azure. Does AWS have som
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by JohnL4 5y ago
Huh. Strong statement. Maybe look into M-Pesa. «Customers who sign up for the M-Pesa service can convert between e-cash and real cash (these are called cash-in / cash-out transactions), and can transfer e-cash from their account to tha
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by JohnL4 5y ago
On a quick scan, I'm not seeing any mention of OS/2, but I feel like this extensible behavior of the shell first showed up there. Not sure if that was an IBM thing or a Microsoft thing (or both), but it was WAY WAY WAY different f
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by JohnL4 5y ago
THAT comment contributes nothing to the thread.
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by JohnL4 6y ago
Yeah, i forgot to add my thoughts on PowerShell. It's great for Windows and nothing else. Its power isn't syntax (which is a bit weird) but the fact that it interfaces with all the Windows APIs. I can't really imagine it on a
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by JohnL4 6y ago
Can you be more specific than "fatigue"? That sounds like ennui, in which case maybe consider a job switch instead of a language switch (not being sarcastic or intentionally mean). Bash plus all the Unix tools (awk, grep, sed, tso
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by JohnL4 6y ago
Within striking range for any single trillionaire. Reminds me of this article (which also mentions algal blooms): http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/09/how-to-t... «Few experts think that r
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by JohnL4 6y ago
We've had some examples of cost-center-based thinking leading to disasters, SolarWinds and Boeing being two recent ones I can think of. I'm sure there are others. I wonder if b-school/management types put serious thought into
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by JohnL4 6y ago
This sent me down a HUGE rabbit hole, and I wound up here: https://uncpressblog.com/2020/02/17/author-interview-jill-d-... , having somehow downloaded this entire book as pdf into my tablet.
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by JohnL4 6y ago
Check to make sure you're not working too hard to deny racism.
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by JohnL4 6y ago
Primarily the fact that vim is EVERYWHERE and starts up instantly with zero config, so it's great when you find yourself on J. Random Server and need to edit something. It's good to know some basic basics.
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by JohnL4 6y ago
https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/LearnEmacsLisp looks pretty good, too, actually.
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by JohnL4 6y ago
More replies than you can shake a stick at here. https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/47318/how-can-i-st... (I've been cluelessly hacking at emacs for decades, and there's ALWAYS something new to le
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by JohnL4 6y ago
Study joseki, lose two stones, eh?
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by JohnL4 6y ago
I'm a heavy org-mode user. I'll also pop into emacs for comment formatting, macro-running, and the occasional column-based copy/paste. Plus an auto-numbering function I wrote when I wore a younger man's clothes. Plus a c
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by JohnL4 6y ago
I just use plain org-mode (orgzly on my phone), storing files on Dropbox (personal) or One Drive (work). AutoHotKey to emacs, then org-capture. (Evernote if I find web content that's good.)
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by JohnL4 6y ago
Yup. I put a couple of metrics for failures of a couple of types in the load script and ship them out to InfluxDb/Grafana for plotting in the very first graph. That way, if I see a lot of "failure" color, flags go up. Otherwi
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by JohnL4 6y ago
I think of "plain old" as meaning "not having dependencies on any framework" as opposed to "not inheriting from anything" or "not having logic".
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by JohnL4 6y ago
I wonder if an intermediate step between "not understand what the code is doing" and "modify the code to reduce technical debt" might be "do some archaeology and document the discoveries (preferably, in the code its

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