WkndTriathlete

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by WkndTriathlete 4y ago
And snowmobiles
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by WkndTriathlete 4y ago
Based on battery comparison between my Garmins and my wife's Apple Watches, I'd say anyone serious about endurance activity tracking of anything over an hour warrants a Garmin. Never mind the boatload of sensor metrics that Garmin
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by WkndTriathlete 4y ago
The numbers are more than sloppy, they are (technically) flat-out wrong. New York State imposes income tax on out-of-state workers based on a convenience of the employer test. (The law was passed when workers started leaving NYC for nearb
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by WkndTriathlete 4y ago
Talk to the candidate. If you (and the candidate) cannot communicate well enough in 30 minutes to discover that then either (a) you don't know enough to work well with a really good developer or (b) the developer doesn't know eno
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by WkndTriathlete 4y ago
And for 99.9999% of users the M1 performance benchmarks vs. i9 _don't matter one bit._ The use case for the vast majority of laptops include I/O- and memory-bound applications. Very few CPU-bound applications are run on consumer
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by WkndTriathlete 4y ago
Well, it's a little more complicated than that. The municipality (the county, in the region of the country I'm in) sets the budget for the year, then each property's owner pays taxes in the amount of the fraction of the prope
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by WkndTriathlete 4y ago
Mazda is doing the exact same thing. When my wife and I purchased our CX-5 that was an option and we said "hell no" even though it gets to -30 F in the winter in the Upper Midwest. The trend toward turning products into subscript
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by WkndTriathlete 4y ago
Well, to be perfectly honest, well-engineered projects manage rivers in the US as well - e.g. the system of locks and dams all along the Mississippi courtesy of the US Army Corps of Engineers. The two big problems with the management of the
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by WkndTriathlete 4y ago
> Copying memory around to enable to facilitate these immutable structures is SLOW. "Optics". No one writing serious FP code copies memory around willy-nilly.
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by WkndTriathlete 4y ago
Trane, a company that designs and manufactures residential and commercial heating and cooling systems: https://www.trane.com/index.html
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by WkndTriathlete 4y ago
> However functions still have single entry/exit that limit reusability of the contents I argue that is due to granularity of function implementation. After all, if I have: f(x) = 2x + 3 That is really g(x) = 2x h(x) = x + 3 and f(
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by WkndTriathlete 4y ago
Having read through the abstract and the first example of the specification I'm highly skeptical that the W3C process worked to produce something that is actually useful , in the sense that it ends up widely used. DID kind of strikes
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by WkndTriathlete 4y ago
I get your point, but at the same time realize that "a little quantifiable harm to get to the better solution" is a _really_ steep, slippery slope. (I could make the argument that precise rationalization led to the Holocaust and
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by WkndTriathlete 4y ago
Riding when the temperature is 42C is "uncomfortable", rather than "not a problem", if you're seriously road riding. I suppose it's only "not a problem" if you're slowly tooling around on a crui
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by WkndTriathlete 4y ago
Additionally, a lot of the county highways around Minneapolis have car-width shoulders. It's not all of them, but it's enough to ride 60-80-100 miles pretty easily without having to worry too much about getting picked off by a ve
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by WkndTriathlete 4y ago
> This is the weakness in your argument. Not all of science is interesting to the private sector. That's actually a really bad analysis and entirely misses the point. Fundamentally (in the US) too many postdocs are being funded from
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by WkndTriathlete 4y ago
> - Plugins galore. Not only that, the plugins _work really well_ for many mainstream and no-so-mainstream languages. (I currently work across typed FP in Scala, Typescript, Javascript, Java, Python, C++, and C, and VS Code plugins hand
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by WkndTriathlete 4y ago
When the Social Security trust fund runs out you're going to find out really quickly that this "wild idea" doesn't work for the same reason Marxist Communism fails in the real world: you can't get the majority of a
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by WkndTriathlete 4y ago
It's my understanding that it is already nearly impossible to purchase weapons that can cause outsized damage. Three factors contribute to "outsized damage": mass of the bullet and load of the cartridge/shell, which most
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by WkndTriathlete 4y ago
PHI must only be collected on platforms that are certified for PHI. Collection PHI on platforms not certified for PHI is a HIPAA violation and a good way to get sued for all of your dollars x10, as well as criminal proceedings. Fully-anony
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by WkndTriathlete 4y ago
Just because it currently is that way doesn't mean it should be that way. This tax situation explicitly penalizes and actively discourages two guys starting up a single business in their respective garages across state lines. Imagine
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by WkndTriathlete 4y ago
I see you didn't bother to read the article. I have no problem with California exercising its sovereignty over its own citizens. The employee in question should have been protected by California laws, being a resident of California. W
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by WkndTriathlete 4y ago
20% of good software engineering is knowing the computer science aspect of software. 80% of good software engineering is being able to translate the problem domain into software and back, as well as communication. IQ tests do not test for
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by WkndTriathlete 4y ago
Basic reading, writing, and thinking are definitely high school skills. College should be teaching _critical thinking_. (I learned how to critically think shortly after starting my Honors Physics I class after mostly skating through high
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by WkndTriathlete 5y ago
I'm surprised the law already doesn't handle that case. In Minnesota cyclists are treated as normal vehicular traffic with a handful of exceptions, and one of those exceptions is that the cyclist cannot unnecessarily impede traff
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by WkndTriathlete 5y ago
> For example, if you are a cyclist who has to stop at a red light and a car comes up that is turning right I know that sometimes creates a hairy situation if there is not a dedicated turn lane and the car might try to turn in front of y
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by WkndTriathlete 5y ago
From a commercial standpoint it's irrelevant what the license "intends." All that matters is what the legal department thinks will happen in the worst case, and for GPLv2 or v3 the "worst case" is all that propriet
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by WkndTriathlete 5y ago
Incorrect. Optics implementations can ensure updating a node in a large balanced tree is O(log n) instead of O(n), trivially, and I'm sure there are sufficiently clever collections with optics that would enable much better performance
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by WkndTriathlete 5y ago
I find the big problem with async is the libraries, not necessarily the async piece itself. I looked at Webflux (Project Reactor)/RxJava/etc. years ago and discovered that the composable async components unexpectedly maintain sta
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by WkndTriathlete 5y ago
Ugh, so many bad practices being defended in the comments here. I've been on both sides of the table: - As an interviewee, my experience is that companies that use coding exams are not places I would want to work - companies that use t

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