RaftPeople

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by RaftPeople 7d ago
I've listened to the noise on local TV news where they went to the location (here's a youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wDr2dec474 ) I would put the noise in the "fact" column.
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by RaftPeople 8d ago
> Some of the least comprehensible functions I’ve deciphered had quite low cyclomatic complexities. In agreement with your post, this research that measures cognitive load via EEG and time spent shows that the metrics we use for comple
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by RaftPeople 12d ago
I was thinking in terms of a broad usage of "design" which tends to match what you wrote about architecture.
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by RaftPeople 12d ago
> I've never experienced a situation where a software design document meaningfully improved the overall process. If you don't have a document, then how do you make sure that internal team A and internal team B and internal te
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by RaftPeople 16d ago
Reminds me of SNL Happy Fun Ball: "Announcer: Yes, it’s Happy Fun Ball! The toy sensation that’ssweeping the nation! Only $14.95 at participating stores! Get one today! Warning: Pregnant women, the elderly, and children under 10 should
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by RaftPeople 16d ago
I've reverted to an actual paper notepad.
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by RaftPeople 18d ago
> nothing was fixed The issue was determined to be a documentation issue and was assigned to that group to add a knowledge base article with additional information.
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by RaftPeople 22d ago
> like literally too, 20k films at let's say 30m average is 400+ continuous, unbroken days worth of content You could run them in parallel, like a Zoom or Teams mtg, but with each square a different movie. Would be more entertaini
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by RaftPeople 1mo ago
I don't think you can learn without doing the actual work where normal constraints apply so you can test and see the pros and cons of different approaches to different aspects of the problem(s). You need a limited budget, limited timel
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by RaftPeople 1mo ago
I built a little front end that allows me to group stuff easily so I can visit the site for short durations during the day without having to repeat sorting through items. I have some checkboxes on articles and a couple manual buttons to tri
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by RaftPeople 2mo ago
> In which countries are Software Engineers not allowed to call themselves engineers unless they are professionally qualified engineers? I think a better question is: what is the criteria those countries use to determine if someone can
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by RaftPeople 2mo ago
> It’s well known that the moat of system of record is how difficult it is to extract your data into another system. I think that is one aspect but not the biggest issue. The specific shape of data and shape of functionality gets built
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by RaftPeople 2mo ago
> forecasting-type activities AI/ML yes, LLM's no (unless someone is naively using LLM's for forecasting)
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by RaftPeople 2mo ago
> The paradigm shift from ETL to ELT is what went wrong with Data Lakes. It wasn't exactly the shift from ETL to ELT, it was the stated goal of putting "T" on read with no intermediate schema. In my experience, it's
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by RaftPeople 2mo ago
> See also: DB table normalization. Pragmatic approach: generally end up with an average of around 2.72 normalization across all tables.
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by RaftPeople 2mo ago
> I would charitably say that it’s a function of a different time and place in programming. I really think it was just one persons opinion that got published. I started in the 80's and at each software company I worked at they ha
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by RaftPeople 2mo ago
Re-route all phone traffic to Comcast Customer Service.
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by RaftPeople 2mo ago
I worked on as400's for about 15 years so I can give you some thoughts: 1-Stability: The as400 is the most robust/stable environment I've ever worked on for business applications. Many of our customers had no IT staff, jus
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by RaftPeople 2mo ago
> I discovered I could count and sing at the same time by visualising the number in my head, instead of using my inner monologue. But it requires more focus to maintain. Funny timing for this comment, just last week I was running slowl
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by RaftPeople 3mo ago
> Uncle Bob is a snake oil salesman I think it's not as bad as a snake oil salesman that knew their product was not good. In reality, most software design and dev advice is well intentioned but is just based on personal opinion, t
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by RaftPeople 3mo ago
> I still think it's far more likely that people aren't describing the same thing. People are very, very bad at interpreting and experiencing their mind's inner workings. Are you thinking that the term "internal mon
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by RaftPeople 3mo ago
> Have you ever reasoned through a complex coding or maths problem? Tell me, how did you do that without words? When I'm working through complex software design issues it's almost all abstract images/conceptual. Testing
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by RaftPeople 3mo ago
> I'm very reluctant to believe people when they say they don't have an internal monologue. Why would you choose internal monologue as the default position and no internal monologue needs to be proved? It seems the natural po
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by RaftPeople 4mo ago
> I recently encountered a query that deadlocked on itself because it used a parallel execution plan and updated multiple indexes in a manner that the different threads could conflict with each other. MS SQL? We've had to set MAXD
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by RaftPeople 4mo ago
> A biological synapse's weight takes effect whenever its input changes. I don't think it makes sense to try to compare our brains to ANN's, they are apples and oranges. A synapse's weight is dynamically modulated b
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by RaftPeople 4mo ago
Ya, I just started using them in File Explorer recently and I really like them because I frequently had multiple windows open within the same tree, this is much cleaner. I can't believe it took me so long to actually click the "+&
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by RaftPeople 4mo ago
Those example are exactly the problem that has not been solved yet. They are the best we can do so far but are pretty inadequate to communicate complex designs in a way that a person can easily absorb all of that info and then reason about
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by RaftPeople 4mo ago
Based on available info, NomadGo doesn't rely on an LLM. The issues reported had to do with incorrect object recognition.
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by RaftPeople 4mo ago
This comment brings back memories of a project. We were working through many complex business flows and running into exactly what you describe in many areas. Some of the project people with less experience complained that we were spending t
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by RaftPeople 4mo ago
> But I don’t think we should be calling these people “domain experts”. I think we should reserve that name for the other group, for the people who truly and deeply understand the domain, the whys and whats and why nots. I've spen

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