RaftPeople

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by RaftPeople 7mo ago
> I like this but would think "Semantic" is pushing it a bit It would be nice to get to the feature level, meaning across files/classes/functions etc.
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by RaftPeople 7mo ago
I've been thinking the same thing although not specifically about ASICs. I was thinking any breakthrough in hardware (e.g. spintronics etc.), even if just partially effective, means all of this hardware would need to be replaced.
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by RaftPeople 8mo ago
> Guess what the average selling price of a new car was in 1989? $12000 I bought my first new car in 1989, a Camaro with T-Tops and it cost me, $12,250.
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by RaftPeople 8mo ago
From article: > Cause and Effect: If Neuron A fires just a few milliseconds before Neuron B, the brain assumes A caused B. The synapse between them gets stronger. A recent study from Stanford found that it's more complex than this
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by RaftPeople 8mo ago
I have a friend that left Iran just before the Shah was overthrown. Over the years he has gone back multiple times to visit family and friends etc. He told me years ago that the majority in Iran were not aligned with the new regime, it was
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by RaftPeople 8mo ago
> This is why I never use a calculator. I always use the calculator. But, because the numbers that get returned aren't always the right numbers, I try to approximate the answer in my head or with paper and pencil to kind of make s
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by RaftPeople 8mo ago
The guy did seem to be wearing a warm coat and gloves so obviously pretty cold where the video was, probably just below the frost line.
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by RaftPeople 8mo ago
Central Point Software, the makers of Copy II PC, was one of our customers (we created back office software, order processing etc.). It was a pretty healthy business, not just for the copy protection breaking but also the general tools soft
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by RaftPeople 9mo ago
So did I. We joked that BPCS stood for: Better Programs Coming Soon It was actually a well designed and functional system, just too many bugs.
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by RaftPeople 9mo ago
Researchers also know that astrocytes are active participants in computation for some areas that have been studied (vision and also memory). The article seems about 5 to 10 years late.
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by RaftPeople 9mo ago
Ya, RPG assumed character based IO so probably a safe bet that they just ported stuff that ran on IBM character based terminals and just made it run in DOS. (I worked in RPG in the 80's)
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by RaftPeople 9mo ago
Except for in the brain (13% to 41% of neurons with variation, deletions, additions, etc., first discovered in 2001, study below from 2013 confirmed). https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1243472
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by RaftPeople 9mo ago
> The cells in your eyes have exactly the same DNA as the cells in your big toe Is that true? I know that cells in the brain have significant variability in DNA, but not really aware of what non-neuronal and non-brain cells in general
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by RaftPeople 9mo ago
Link to ACM paper from 1969 https://dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.1145/800195.805951 Quote: "Unit test: testing, outside of thesystem, of a part of the system thatmay have less than a complete function. Compone
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by RaftPeople 9mo ago
I liked that first one and I hope someone creates one of going back to dinosaur age, i want to see that.
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by RaftPeople 9mo ago
> Kent Beck, credited with coining the term "unit test" The term "unit test" has been used since the 1960's (if not earlier).
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by RaftPeople 9mo ago
> you're trying to twist reality to fit a premise that is just impossible to make true: that estimates of how long it takes to build software are reliable. It's not binary, it's a continuum. With experience, it's po
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by RaftPeople 9mo ago
> completely missing some elegant and profound beauty. Requires some dynamic SQL to construct, but the beauty is that you can use the SQL engine for this solution: select top 1 * from (select t1.id,t2.id,...,tn.id ,sum(t1.cost+t2.cost.
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by RaftPeople 9mo ago
> Because even the CEO of Boeing is not an engineer. Kelly Ortberg, CEO of Boeing, is an engineer. He has a mechanical engineering degree and started his career as an engineer at Texas Instruments.
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by RaftPeople 9mo ago
> If you are firmly on the other side of each of the four principles of the Agile Manifesto The agile manifesto has 12 principles (per the orig: "Twelve Principles of Agile Software") Are you thinking of a different list when
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by RaftPeople 9mo ago
> In other words, by the time code gets thrown over the wall to QA, it should already be fairly well vetted at least in the small. My opinion is further than that. I tell my people, if you can't get a piece of software working co
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by RaftPeople 9mo ago
And have some subset of people in each mtg do that every mtg every single day? I personally prefer the 5 minute gap, it's a simple and clean solution.
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by RaftPeople 9mo ago
> The only thing that consistently works: start on time, end on time, and don’t wait for late arrivals. Agree, but that doesn't solve the problem of back to back mtgs. In some cases people have to physically move from one mtg roo
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by RaftPeople 9mo ago
> mutations are random Kind of. Mutation rate of our dna is "managed" by the dna/chromosomes/genes to reduce the rate in critical areas.
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by RaftPeople 10mo ago
> I don’t see any engagement with the centuries (maybe millennia) of thought on this subject I used to be that person, but then someone pointed me to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy which was a real eye-opener. Every set of arg
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by RaftPeople 10mo ago
> That's not what I see on the market. Even the paying version of Odoo is way more affordable than traditional ERP: The system looks well organized and clearly built by people with knowledge of the domain(s), but traditional ERP h
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by RaftPeople 10mo ago
> It totally depends on how you want to test releases. For a big project, typically it involves deploying to a fully functioning QA environment so all functionality can be tested end to end, including interactions with all other system
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by RaftPeople 10mo ago
> As another example, a more complex service may require more testing. You do the same first steps, grab commit 123, test, build, but now deploy to staging. At this point staging will be fixed to commit 123, even as development continue
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by RaftPeople 10mo ago
The reason I said it would impact duration is the assumption that the previous version and new version of the system are all in the code at one time, managed via feature flags or something. I think I was picturing that due to other comment
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by RaftPeople 10mo ago
If they can just get down to 0 sales then costs will drop significantly, that should really boost the stock price.

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