UmbertoNoEco

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by UmbertoNoEco 4y ago
One often overlooked aspect of technical writing is the formatting/ease of navigation. You could have the most wonderful documentation, very clearly written, but if its navigation is a pain it will degrade the experience and frustrate
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by UmbertoNoEco 4y ago
Expect being flagged in 3 ... 2... Conform, consume, follow or ...simply die. That's our era's motto.
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by UmbertoNoEco 4y ago
I very much doubt you can pinpoint the date of the appearance of viruses, let alone a full 800 million years after the appearance of bacteria. That site is a click-farm operation.
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by UmbertoNoEco 4y ago
Nothing says romance like a sha-256 hash. Neruda,take notes.
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by UmbertoNoEco 4y ago
This is of course, correct, but it is something not exclusive to Elon Musk, you just have to read the stream of accolades some of the darlings of this site receive here when they are just your run of the mill capitalists with all the usual
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by UmbertoNoEco 4y ago
This makes as much sense as saying all the nice Americans are the ones who decided to leave the US. But somehow that would be outrageous.
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by UmbertoNoEco 4y ago
This is one of the most discriminatory posts I have ever read in this site and that's saying something.
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by UmbertoNoEco 4y ago
Funny how Amazon or Microsoft are perfectly happy to have mostly the same prices worldwide. Let me know when I can call them both to be priced at my country COL. There is always a justification or theoretical argument to avoid giving worker
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by UmbertoNoEco 4y ago
High side? If I am understanding OP correctly he says one only has 30 years to "make it in live" or you're fucked and if I am understanding you correctly you think that is too high. If that is the case both of you are wrong
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by UmbertoNoEco 4y ago
Probably correlated https://www.science.org/content/article/fatherhood-decreases...
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by UmbertoNoEco 4y ago
The best proof of that is to read some threads of 2,5,10,12 years ago and see how ridiculously wrong most of the predictions by the commenters were.
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by UmbertoNoEco 4y ago
The technical CS/Programming discussions have some very good comments. For other fields here it is barely better that the Daily News comment section. There are very nice people who can help you with difficult-to-find information. As
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by UmbertoNoEco 4y ago
I love every time this topic comes along because there are a bunch of answers where the authors try subtly (or not so subtly) to imply there is such a thing as a 10X developer because they're living proof of that.
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by UmbertoNoEco 4y ago
Why a mythical guy like that would choose to be managed by a "lowly" 1X?
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by UmbertoNoEco 4y ago
Even worse, at least in a emulator you are making native calls, with wine you need to pray the "compatibility layer" + the OS + the program play nice. I have never had a pleasant experience with it, every program sooner or later
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by UmbertoNoEco 4y ago
That's good to know, but it is way too much, besides I hate all kind of virtualization (Docker, Wine, VMWare), hate it. The only one I tolerate ins QEMU 'cause I can play with my toy OSes there. From time to I design a plan to mak
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by UmbertoNoEco 4y ago
Go to a professional. Half of the people here are clueless and the other half want to one's up each other till the end of times. You dont need that.
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by UmbertoNoEco 4y ago
You come across as very judgemental with no empathy whatsoever.
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by UmbertoNoEco 4y ago
Why in god's name would they do that? I miss the reader, too bad is not available in Linux
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by UmbertoNoEco 4y ago
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/388242/the-definitive-c-... One of the good things of the language being so all and pervasive is that there is a lot of very good learning materials.
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by UmbertoNoEco 4y ago
Writing as someone just learning Rust (knowing more C++) I think a comprehensive Rust book would be in that scale too (+1000 pages). > Learn to embrace the pain. Judging by how much I suffered just to try to implement a sqrt function g
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by UmbertoNoEco 4y ago
I've read books or articles by far worse people. Reading != morally approving the character of the author. Even easier in this case when the content is very interesting and relevant and the criminal author is not getting any revenue fr
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by UmbertoNoEco 4y ago
Plenty of John Deer loving farmers would disagree with you.
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by UmbertoNoEco 4y ago
You just need to get on with the times. To read somebody now, you must: A) Be sure that whatever they wrote you agree 100% with. B) That person must share your full worldview and must have a pristine moral reputation. Anything else is dange
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by UmbertoNoEco 4y ago
Meh, it is documented since many many years ago and it is grammatically correct even if it is not considered "standard Spanish", although it is part of the common usage of many native speakers (me included), many similar construc
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by UmbertoNoEco 4y ago
There is no such thing, as there is no "standard English pseudocode". What usually happens is that they use terrible translators for technical books, and we end up with monstrosities like this one. Why bothering to "create&qu
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by UmbertoNoEco 4y ago
Supongo eres hablante nativo, pero la sintaxis es horrible: "Para i=1 hasta 7 hacer" no hace ningún sentido. En todo caso sería " Para i en (1..7)" o "Desde i=1 hasta 7" o "Para i=1 mientras i < 7; i++&
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by UmbertoNoEco 4y ago
> Based on Backblaze’s stats, high-quality disk drives fail at 0.5-4% per year. A 4% risk per year is a 2% chance in any given week. Two simultaneous failures would happen once every 48 years, so I should be fine, right? Either I misunde
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by UmbertoNoEco 4y ago
You still have to work under a licensed lawyer as an apprentice as a requisite for the test.
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by UmbertoNoEco 4y ago
This is just partially true. University education has lost a lot of its appeal, that's correct, some sort of tragedy of the commons. But that part of "Self-taught people with impressive portfolios " is hilarious, navel gazing

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