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by brlewis 6y ago
When I look back at my life and think of the number of times I've taken a bathroom break during live TV commercials, or fast-forwarded commercials on my VCR, or switched to another radio station when commercials came on, it's a wo
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by brlewis 6y ago
I'm too lazy to do this manually for each server, but I change the hostname color in my prompt based on its hash. https://gitlab.com/brlewis/brlewis-config/-/blob/master/bash...
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>very experienced developers in their 40s I'd say they were experienced developers. Only after accidentally deleting databases were they very experienced developers.
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> We're teaching kids to code, and next week they'll all be billionaires! Sure, that's not true. But they will gain a better understanding of how to organize and process information. This understanding will help them even
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> or perhaps, doesn't care to exercise any power it may have This would be the first hypothesis I'd investigate. That politicians would launch investigations for mere political purposes seems plausible.
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Patents are one tool to promote the progress of science and useful arts. Publicly funded research is a different tool. Usually, patents are based on privately funded research.
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I have not yet tried https://www.minetest.net/ but this provides some motivation. Do others have experience with it?
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Are you saying that because large numbers of typical users have not yet switched to desktop Linux, we can conclude that desktop Linux is not a reasonable option they can switch to?
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by brlewis 6y ago
That's probably it. I'm not a great singer, and I wanted to see if it could recognize my attempt at a challenging melody. It got "Everybody Wants You" by Billy Squier, first try.
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But in a molten core, won't hydrogen sulfide and methane bubble out from the center, leaving only iron and heavier elements and compounds in the super high pressure depths?
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You are dismissing the paper's authors when they say "exposure levels and durations in our studies were greater than what people experience" by assuming they're ignorant of exposure levels and durations that people exper
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by brlewis 6y ago
I assume, for the sake of my own sanity, that "observation" means the particle becomes a cause for some kind of effect, e.g. colliding with something in a way that changes the something's state. Quantum mechanics experts, ple
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by brlewis 6y ago
> Unless I'm reading it wrong The quote in the article from the civil complaint makes it sound like the malware itself used MSFT trademarks. If there's another "it" you're reading besides the article, where said
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Yes. Find "civil complaint" in the article.
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Trademark law says you can't mislead consumers into thinking your thing is the trademark owner's thing. Malware fits this perfectly. There's no new precedent here, dangerous or otherwise. The car manufacturer / road irre
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> The other difference with sports is you don't have a fixed team size. You found a 10x guy, good for you. Now with the 999 other people you have 1009 people's worth of productivity. In a sports team, you absolutely want CR7 or
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> Having bad programming gets you a lot of programming This is true. I'll add that machine learning is arguably the computer doing a lot of bad programming.
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These two examples are interesting. They're both cases where what was being created was a system where software was an important component, as opposed to the software written by the vast majority of us where the hardware components of
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Yes. https://dev.fitbit.com/ https://gallery.fitbit.com/apps
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Sounds like they sell ads but do not sell the data to others, much like Facebook, etc. Am I reading it right?
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Do what you're paid for. If your compensation is based on visibility, then communicating the importance of your work is as important as doing it. If your company will pay you more if you spend less time working and more time communic
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That's likely a holdover from when mysql had a better replication story than postgresql. I think enterprises will come around.
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Comments should be sparse, used only where code is not self-explanatory. If you follow that rule, spotting obsolete comments in code review is easy. I've seen it.
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In my experience, the mistake of updating code without updating the accompanying comment is commonly made, but does not commonly survive code review.
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>True. But the flip side is that comments can outlive their relevance, accuracy, or purpose. >This is a good reason to reject most comments: they're an additional maintenance cost that can't be automated. By the same line of
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by brlewis 6y ago
The article now has an update that confirms your reading: I can see that by using an abridged and edited version of my analysis of the data for this blog post that I’ve unintentionally spread confusion. I’d like to clarify the intention be
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If it's true that one can evaluate the performance of a programmer, what does that mean? Can it be reduced to a vector of scalar values? I hate doing performance reviews, and I especially didn't like when at a former employer I wa
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> Vue is the only one of the most popular 3 frameworks that can I don't know if you intended it this way, but the start of this comment makes it automatically flamebait. Discussion around release announcements can quickly turn into
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> Most transmission is person-to-person, there isn't a ton of person-to-surface-to-person spread So I've heard. Doesn't this mean that the UV news is of little impact?
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by brlewis 6y ago
I've never had an AOL email but you just inspired me to sign up for one.

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