Scarblac

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by Scarblac 3y ago
You can customize the admin so it only shows some tables, you can add actions that run things in the backend, the changes go through your Django models so they run validation etc. In short you really can give it to knowledgeable admins at c
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by Scarblac 3y ago
> most systems are more complex Citation needed. We also have got a _lot_ of mileage out of it over the years.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
And yet, Verstappen plays them all the time and is also world class in sims. Maybe there are more similarities than you think.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
But does the desktop version get more functionality?
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by Scarblac 3y ago
I make frontends for our products (that we sell to governments), but they're not what drives sales. Customers by our product got features of the backend, they assume there is some frontend. If I do good work users are happy, but they d
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by Scarblac 3y ago
I never understood how I'm supposed to know that. The company as a whole makes a profit, how do you know what it would have been if feature X wasn't implemented? And ten people had a role in deciding to implement it, four in impl
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by Scarblac 3y ago
But not very precisely. I know who is a lot better than others and who are a lot worse, but the rest are all in the pretty large group that is somewhere in the middle. Especially because there are also skill differences and the differences
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by Scarblac 3y ago
We retired our last Angular.js app literally last week, and have a project ongoing to replace the final Python 2 backend. And someone seriously suggested in a meeting last week to keep part of it around...
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by Scarblac 3y ago
The other extreme is that management was talking about new functionality and we kept seeing it as just another small feature in our existing product, and kept giving them estimates of a few weeks. Until they ended up setting up a whole new
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by Scarblac 3y ago
It's not quite true. Many features can be in a very bare bones way or in a fully gold plated way, and several shades in between. Sometimes I see colleague developers estimate two weeks for a feature I consider one day at most, because
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by Scarblac 3y ago
Sprints since epoch, that's a nice one!
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by Scarblac 3y ago
In the Netherlands I think it's common to think like that in larger organizations, and so people who work there sometimes talk like that in private too.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
Imagine your favourite porn scene, but with you as one of the actors and that cute neighbour as the actor. Face and body.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
The real money is probably in services that let you upload any photo of a person and delivers custom made porn with that person in it.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
Only religious people care about distinctions between agnosticism and atheism. Religious people can't even agree on what this God concept is supposed to be, but they can make fine distinctions in the ways people don't share their
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by Scarblac 3y ago
It's also possible to love multiple people at the same time, or in different ways. Nothing about human relations is binary.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
> panpsychism, the idea that everything possesses a shred of consciousness What I find hard about that is that it would seem that consciousnesses are discrete -- mine is distinct from yours. I'm also probably the main consciousness
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by Scarblac 3y ago
Being an atheist doesn't need a "root cause". Believing in something needs reasons, the absence of belief is the default.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
Similarly, if you know BB(n), you can use it to solve the halting problem for Turing machines up to that size.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
US houses are very large. I don't think it's realistic to expect that multiple families will start living in houses intended for one, so the amount of sqft doesn't help as much.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
That's one of the themes in the books. Even if humans in Special Circumstances feel they've accomplished something (or failed at something), they never know how much of it was just part of the Minds' schemeing.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
This is Banks' own essay on the Culture, in case you really don't want to read the books: http://www.vavatch.co.uk/books/banks/cultnote.htm (another page that can use Firefox's Reader Mode). What th
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by Scarblac 3y ago
> Most of the reduction came from highly educated men working intensive jobs of 50 hours a week or more, Shin said. > “It’s actually young people, 25 to 45, who used to work very long hours, who are now cutting back,” he said, noting,
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by Scarblac 3y ago
Room for saplings is not the same as room for average sized trees. And it's only for a single year, we'd need to do this in perpetuity. It would probably use land that's currently in use for agriculture, in a time when huge a
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by Scarblac 3y ago
That's 200 trees for every single person on the planet, each year, again and again. And they need to live long enough to become average trees, so you need to plant more than that because quite a few won't make it. Where do you fin
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by Scarblac 3y ago
With climate change, they probably won't live hundreds of years. They'll die in a drought or forest fire or flood some time in the next decades, or be cut down for firewood.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
It's like pushing someone down a staircase he was walking down anyway. Same thing right? It's the insane speed of human caused climate change that's causing the mass extinctions.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
Shouldn't the mark be primarily a signal for the student to indicate how well they understood the subject, and to serve as motivation?
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by Scarblac 3y ago
In the Netherlands there is a problem of suicide by train near mental health institutions. So they placed fences. That left the nearby crossings where there had to be gaps in the fencing. There they placed "anti walk mats", rubber
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by Scarblac 3y ago
Also, think of ij as a single letter, quite like a y but with dots.

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