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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
"The current best estimate for the mass of Earth is M⊕ = 5.9722 × 10^24 kg" (wiki) so ~6 × 10^27 grammes, so 90mg ~ 28 orders of magnitude smaller. So very, very much the former.
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
90 mg... that is beyond gobsmacking
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
@pessimizer, @SuperCuber - So educate me. Let's base it on something I've actually done, a code analyser. For this you parse the code into an AST, and to deal with lexical scopes of declarations of procedures/variables etc. y
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
It wasn't clear. If he meant data structures then say data structures. If he meant something different or broader by 'data model' then I don't know what that was. I value plain, simple code and equally plain, simple writ
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
Speaking as a pro, or so I like to think, I'm not sure what you mean by data model. Are you simply talking about data structures?
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
Nothing. What's wrong is choosing through arrogance not to rise above amateurhood.
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
The number of times I've intervened on HN with someone for whom functional programming is God's answer[1] to everything and anything procedural suxx, it gets you down a bit. [1] used to be OO but God moved on I guess
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
selection or reporting bias. You don't hear of the arseholes that fail.
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
> If you use a non-English version of Excel you cannot use "if" but rather have to use whatever the word for if is in that language (for example "wenn" in German) bloody hell, they seriously do that?
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
> Fundamentally every single piece of python code ever written will have to stop and now worry about potential race conditions Except for every single piece of python I have ever written which will continue to work just fine.
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
Slap 'art' on it and everything goes, right? Critical thinking becomes passe.
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
> I have lost a friend due to addiction So have I. The drug was alcohol. Adults make choices and live with the consequences. shrug
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
Autobiography of an archaean organism reflecting on itself and its place in its world. No idea what I'm supposed to take away from it.
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
is this your summary or chatGPT? Serious question, no judgment
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
I've done similar to this and it has worked. You dump the onus onto them. If they don't explicitly reject it then they've tacitly accepted it, and you've got it in writing too.
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
> Stories are powerful ... but everyone recognizes their power I don't. What is 'power' and do all stories have it?
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
She may have a valid concern. How good is your driving? :)
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
Had you laid on the sarcasm a bit less thickly I might be more sympathetic but I'm not, Mr. smartest-person-in-the-room. Keep looking down on all the idiots who think they know more than you and wasted their lives producing blatant rub
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
> is this like a minefield waiting to be walked over "This looks odd to me so no one else can possibly understand it"is not a rigorous argument. Both Scala and C# have this. I've used it in my own code to clean things up.
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
I've seen plenty of people from a low education background, and I also come partly from a family of peasants 2 generations ago. Education gives some ability for critical thinking. Absence of education leaves people extremely manipulabl
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
If a SAT solver is so efficient, distinctly not taking the lifetime of the universe to produce an answer, what exactly is it about these things that makes them so efficient; what is it that guides them? How do they work at a high level, tha
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
> By wikipedia... This is exactly what I'm talking about – provide the bloody link so we can actually check your claims. Provide a link! Don't just tell us, allow us to verify! Edit: from https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
> The HN audience is for a large part in favor of nuclear energy Maybe. Do you have anything to back that up? > There's also a group that may not like it but sees it as a quick win in climate change That would possibly include me
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
Seems to me it's effectively impossible to get evidence of shilling, but if this is indistinguishable from shallow dismissals – which it precisely is – this post should be dealt with in an equivalent way. That said, the moderators are
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
Has anyone else noticed these kind of posts appear quickly for certain vested-interest areas, get voted to the top but don't have much if any backup to them? Let's break this down. > rather than cost-benefit must be some sort o
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
When people do want to take pictures of me in, I usually say I prefer not, but if I let them I say "this does not go on social media okay?" and it's never been a problem and nobody's asks me why I object.
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
> they specifically insisted on being compliant with the standards that's wrong?
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
It depends what company culture actually is. I have worked at companies where documentation has been frowned upon – I'm not exaggerating either. That is something I most definitely will try and subvert.
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
I haven't seen that list for a while and it's a good one. Looking at it now it's even better because point 1 is: Do you use source control? I wouldn't even bother asking because the answer is obvious. Everyone has it. Un
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
You're right, scrub 'best'. In their particular area of recruitment, the largest and arguably best known in london. (No names if you don't mind).

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