Scubabear68

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by Scubabear68 4y ago
Not sure where the problem is. If I stop at a light I see it slowly catching up.
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by Scubabear68 4y ago
I have 2022 Kia Telluride that gets a lot of this right, it there is one major issue - Google maps on Car Play starts falling behind where I am on the route. Like you to half a mile. It has put me in some very dangerous situations where
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by Scubabear68 4y ago
Without a definition of what the author means by “polished”, this reads like a student who got a C on an assignment and isn’t happy about it. To be a better submission, the author needs concrete examples that set the context for the reader
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by Scubabear68 4y ago
Whenever I look at client’s Salesforce setups, I always wonder in the back of my mind what they will do if Salesforce has a significant down-turn? The lock-in to the platform appears to be very fierce. Are there viable routes to exit Sales
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by Scubabear68 4y ago
God taught me this one neat accounting trick…
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by Scubabear68 4y ago
A lot of this goes back go the Clean Water Act from the early 70s, and how it’s precedent enabled more local laws and bodies to focus on water quality (like the Delaware River Basin Commission near me protecting the Delaware River watershed
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by Scubabear68 4y ago
This reminds me of 750 7th ave in NY. A lot of Morgan Stanley IT was (is?) houses there. Rumor had it the building design was copied from a building in Texas. The problem? The beautiful terraced glass surfaces had a tendency to pick up s
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by Scubabear68 4y ago
Amen. I have been frustrated at many jobs where developers were so proud of endlessly writing mocks and spending more time on their tests than on core functionality. Over time I have favored very basic unit tests and leaning in more on aut
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by Scubabear68 4y ago
When I interview, two things I always look for at as things to be concerned about are many short term (and not contract) jobs, and big inconsistencies between LinkedIn and their submitted CV. This is of course on top of discussing their rec
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by Scubabear68 4y ago
I think Heinlein hit an essence in The Moon is a Harsh Mistress for AGI. It needs many inputs and many outputs into the real world. A true AGI sees the reaction of the world to its own actions. That is the root of sentience.
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by Scubabear68 4y ago
I agree, all products die, but how you integrate is all the difference. When you start reaching into the private guts of the system (in this case, the database), you are hopelessly intertwined with them. There are much cleaner ways to d
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by Scubabear68 4y ago
This reminds me of situations where people “buy then customize”. Such as buying a payments gateway, then using its internal RDBMS tables directly for reports and integrations. Or buying Great Plains and then massively building on it. Then
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by Scubabear68 4y ago
I read Light from Uncommon Stars this week. It was a little uneven in spots, but overall it was very well written and an awesome fusion of many genres and topics (sci-fi, demons, violins, transgender teens) that sounds crazy but works. The
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by Scubabear68 4y ago
The oil and gas lobby in the US is staggeringly powerful. Many US regulatory bodies (like FERC) have been captured by industry for years. It has been very difficult to do anything that might negatively impact the oil and gas industry. So
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by Scubabear68 4y ago
I came to the conclusion long ago that mandatory code reviews are a waste of time. For critical stuff, absolutely. But PRs and review cycles over burden dev teams and don’t seem to move the quality needle higher one bit. A better way is to
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by Scubabear68 4y ago
Our septic is gravity fed on a small hill. It is very basic, and we do not need multiple inspections per year. Are you sure these aren’t County required inspections? I live in Hunterdon County and never heard of it. That said I know it d
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by Scubabear68 4y ago
Lots of us out in the country are on septic systems and wells.
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by Scubabear68 4y ago
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. In my mind it was really Heinlein’s peak. He explored the dangers of single points of failure in computing systems, explored sociology-economic implications of a moon-warren society beholden to Earth to survi
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by Scubabear68 4y ago
I don’t understand. “!” is bang. Full stop.
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by Scubabear68 4y ago
This reminds me (in somewhat the opposite direction) of the circular processes at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), which has broad powers over interstate electricity, hydro, and natural gas pipelines. Unlike the SEC that goe
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by Scubabear68 4y ago
I have always found this to be a useful distinction, but software is blurring the lines in many cases For example, when I worked in Wall Street as a dev/SW architect, you could call that staff. But in fact software was so vital to how
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by Scubabear68 5y ago
In our case (NJ in US), we went through extensive adopt/foster training provided by State government. They were very blunt about the range of potential issues, the fact that most adopted kids will have some level of attachment disorde
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by Scubabear68 5y ago
We adopted two older kids (age 3 and 7) when we were in our 40s/30s. It was very difficult and life changing in many ways. We sacrificed a lot to bring them into our lives. But - we knew that going into it. It has caused stress and st
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by Scubabear68 5y ago
Sadly it has bit rotted away, but Steve Yegge made a passing reference to my short blog entry on “perlaphobia” some fifteen-ish years ago. Perl had a strange, mystical effect on my generation of developers, truly a frenemy kind of relation
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by Scubabear68 5y ago
I experienced this in marathon training and researched it. It is the body’s reaction to the oxygen needs of your body being prioritized over that of your brain to keep your muscles firing. If you are pushing yourself in running and try to
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by Scubabear68 5y ago
I remember the crazy hype they had around this when it was introduced over a decade ago. All the bizarre claims comparing it to being “a million times faster than RDBMS databases” when in fact it was just in-memory objects that were period
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by Scubabear68 5y ago
I have very fond memories of my time there, I joined not too long out of high school in the late 80's. I transitioned from QA to development while learning C, learning how to program a few different assemblies, putting together a TSR (
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by Scubabear68 6y ago
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