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by _dain_ 3y ago
Just like Coca-Cola isn't competing with Pepsi, but with water; most B2B SaaS companies aren't competing with other SaaSes, but with Excel. Many of them don't even realize it. Excel seems to have a kind of "hacker repuls
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[ I work at Antithesis ] Concurrent/distributed system bugs can be really finicky because they may depend on subtle timing conditions to manifest. So you might see a bug once, then try to re-run the test using the "same" inpu
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Sir Humphrey Appleby : Didn't you read the Financial Times this morning? Sir Desmond Glazebrook : Never do. Sir Humphrey Appleby : Well, you're a banker. Surely you read the Financial Times? Sir Desmond Glazebrook : Can't und
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Yeah it's not a secret that this is happening. UK/France/Germany are helping with targeting.
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The uniform distribution is in some sense the most random distribution you can choose, given that you have a finite number of cards. Formally, it's the maximum entropy distribution on a finite domain. But what if the domain isn'
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I know of some Python libraries that do this: https://github.com/bradbase/xlcalculator https://github.com/dgorissen/pycel https://github.com/vinci1it2000/formulas You gi
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nobody pays for windows in non-first world countries
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> Did you learn to learn online, too, or did you get an education with in-person teachers? where's the dichotomy? I had an education but it's debatable how much learning happened. the bulk of everything I know how to do is s
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>You don't think a human teacher is better than education-by-software? almost everything I do at work, I learned online, not from an in-person teacher
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Came here to say this. It's as simple as: (sending computer) computer-1$ croc file-i-want-to-send.txt Did you mean to send 'file-i-want-to-send.txt'? (Y/n) y Sending 'file-i-want-to-send.txt' (555
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Not every tech-interested person has been in that kind of corporate SWE workplace. There are students, hobbyists, scientists, artists etc here. It's a big world out there!
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>tracking what's being changed and by whom git >You won't know what's included in your release release notes >nor if it was tested properly. CI
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[I work at Antithesis] >But since software is always deterministic, you just have to guarantee determinism in the inputs. This is technically correct, but that's a very load-bearing "just". A lot of things would have t
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[I work at Antithesis] The system can certainly revisit a previous simulated moment and replay it. And we have some pretty cool things using that capability as a primitive. Check out the probability chart in the bug report linked from the d
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I don't have a textbook at hand but I remember being taught this history by physics lecturers in my undergrad. I find it strange that many people in this thread are gainsaying the existence of this narrative. It's surely a commonp
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Premature pessimization.
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People always seem to think "premature optimization" means "premature optimization for speed ". But there are lots of otherwise-good things that you can prematurely optimize for: - modularity - readability
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if the Replication Crisis ever comes for criminal forensics there will be hell to pay.
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>Can you give me a single example where a pie chart would better convey information than a table? there's a specific type of pie chart that's good: a "clock chart". this is when you're depicting how long some c
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pie charts really are inferior in practically every context though.
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God I'd forgotten about that awful Steve Jobs one: https://s3.amazonaws.com/edwardtufte.com/pie_apple_marketsha... (the green segment is made to look larger than the purple one because of a perspective trick)
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Novella, free to read: The Epiphany of Gliese 581 https://borretti.me/fiction/eog581 > A linguist, a chemist, and a comparative psychologist explore the ruins of a dead superintelligence.
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>avid cyclist Why do I only see this phrase when someone is blaming cyclists? I bike everywhere but I'm not an "avid cyclist", it's just a tool for getting around. What is there to be "avid" about? I suspe
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>A large number of pedestrians struck by cars each year (at least in North America), are themselves intoxicated, and not fit to walk along roadways. There are many cases where the driver should not reasonably be at fault for a pedestria
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You don't even have to compile it though ... just set up rust-analyzer to run in your IDE and it will tell you about type errors and ownership fuckups every time you edit the file.
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Operant Conditioning by Software Bugs (2012)(blog.regehr.org)
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this is the final frontier. we've conquered the land, the oceans, the skies. some people live in orbit, men have walked on the moon. but you can still carve out a new world for yourself. you can still go down . there's enough roo
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>I've been seeing this sentiment since 2001 at least. No one ever follows through; if they did we would have seen this already in the desktop stats. There has been an inflection point crossed lately, because of Proton and the Stea
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A Slow and Steady (But Bittersweet) Victory Against Arcane Parking Mandates(strongtowns.org)
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This is the stated justification but it doesn't really correspond with reality. The specific values chosen for parking requirements are based on nothing at all, literally just copypasted from other cities or made up out of thin air. Th

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