Leherenn

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by Leherenn 1y ago
Grit, or willpower, or whatever you want to name it isn't a unique, constant value. There are plenty of athletes who could spent hours training every day but are overcome by addictions. People who grind at work but cannot fill paperwor
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by Leherenn 1y ago
Isn't it the modern equivalent of "let me Google that for you"? My experience is that the vast majority of people do 0 research (AI assisted or not) before asking questions online. Questions that could have usually been answe
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by Leherenn 1y ago
I mean, that was over 40y ago. Same thing for the Ariane 5 failure which is a staple of safety-critical classes (at least in Europe), it's not getting any younger. If all the examples you can conjure are decades old*, is it any wonder
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by Leherenn 1y ago
Not the GP, but I think it's fairly reasonable, yes. Ultimately, what we care about, from a grid policy perspective, is the cost to provide 99% (or whatever) guaranteed 24/7/365 power. Each energy source will have its own cha
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by Leherenn 1y ago
Although wealthy foreigners in Switzerland were (and still are I believe) negotiating their taxes directly with the cantons. Wealth tax might not have applied to them if they qualified. See: https://www.efd.admin.ch/en/
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by Leherenn 1y ago
But the first time it was due to be handled privately and this time by the state. And that was one of the main arguments against it at the time. So I don't think the GP is that far from the truth.
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by Leherenn 1y ago
I believe it's because tipping implies they need a money incentive to do a good job. Essentially insulting their professionalism.
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by Leherenn 1y ago
Interesting, thanks for sharing! Do you know what happened with the program and people hired this way? Was it generally successful?
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by Leherenn 1y ago
Not really (274 vs 227), especially if you consider that ~40% of the land is unusable due to being mountainous.
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by Leherenn 1y ago
According to the Swiss government that's actually the case there: https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/en/home/statistics/mobility-tra... "Degree of coverage of motorised road traffic infrastructure co
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by Leherenn 1y ago
Sure, but so far the cost is very minimal. Like 1 minute per PR on average. A crash in production and the subsequent falloffs is probably a good week of work and quite a bit of stress. That gives me quite a few PRs. And it's not even s
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by Leherenn 1y ago
Only has a sanity check/better hints. But I use it for my own PRs, not others'. Usually it's not much to review and easy to agree/disagree with. I haven't found it to be really useful so far, but it's also very
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by Leherenn 1y ago
I think we might be using it in a slightly unusual way: collect data for a while, do one big query once in a while to aggregate/transform the data and clean everything. Rinse and repeat as it's a background app. So lots of allocat
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by Leherenn 1y ago
Keeping it in memory. After a few days, the memory usage reported by the Activity Monitor (so not the actual resident memory, but the one customers see and complain about) grows from maybe a few 10s MB to a few hundreds MBs. But as far as I
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by Leherenn 1y ago
I have had some bad experiences with Sqlite for local desktop apps with regards to memory usage, especially on MacOs. Insert and delete a few thousands rows per hour, and over a few days your memory usage has ballooned. It seems to cause a
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by Leherenn 1y ago
They're not really solutions if they're not achievable in practice though. Otherwise why not add nuclear fusion to the mix? To give some example: Switzerland is roughly electricity neutral over a year, but there's a significa
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by Leherenn 1y ago
I read it as "statistically significant", i.e. above noise/error level. Sounds pretty well defined to me, at least in a scientific paper.
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by Leherenn 1y ago
We do this as well, but the main drawback is that your DB is "unusable" without those functions, and the functions are application side only. So if you get a DB from somewhere else and want to open it in whatever tool you use for
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by Leherenn 1y ago
I think it's pretty clear with the constantly increasing durations of negative prices, so far we haven't found a way to do so profitably. Carbon capture or anything else for that matter. Anything that would really love free energy
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by Leherenn 1y ago
It depends what preindustrial means exactly. Most of the forests in Western Europe were cut well before that, I believe around 1800 is actually the trough. Your 80-90% figure is probably back to the original state, but I would guess it&#x27
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by Leherenn 1y ago
That's the thing though, in many places Europe people usually aren't paying much for university, and higher education is funded by the state. So the state has a keen financial interest on people not failing/doing over because
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by Leherenn 1y ago
My only issue with defensive codding is that often it doesn't play nice with code coverage requirements. I've been in situations where I would like to add defensive coding just in case, but then the PR doesn't pass the covera
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by Leherenn 2y ago
I'm all aboard this, in fact it's how I like to write my "unit" tests, but still I'm unsure about this nullable and test code with prod. What I do is I simply mock as little as possible (leaf nodes such as timers, r
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by Leherenn 2y ago
I googled a bit around because I found the requirement weird, and it's slightly misleading. Candidates need to have a separate bank account for the election, so that it can be monitored (there are various limits to how much funding the
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by Leherenn 2y ago
It also has "geôle", which is also old fashioned.
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by Leherenn 2y ago
> If there is excess power at zero marginal cost someone cunning is already planning on making some coin off it. I'm not sure it's that simple as evidenced by the ever increasing hours of negative electricity prices. As far as
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by Leherenn 2y ago
France is totally paralysed right now and in the foreseeable future by a political crisis.
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by Leherenn 2y ago
They're from levels.fyi, and if you look at Switzerland, something like 20% of all salaries are from Google employees. 100-110k is probably a better number. I kinda disagree with other posters, even after CoL adjustments you're wa
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by Leherenn 2y ago
Something that has always been really appreciated, and can be an easy "first commit": update/complete the docs. There's always a missing step, something unclear, an outdated link, and undocumented "whys", somet
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by Leherenn 2y ago
I think this works well with at least somewhat interested students (like in university), but I'm not so sure before. My experience when I was younger is that a significant proportion of students don't do anything outside of school

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