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by cbcoutinho 6y ago
The same 'structure' that makes it easy to onboard new co-workers because they've seen the same project 'structure' before in the past. In that sense, the bottleneck in an organization is getting people productive a
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Bundle magic: How to make 1+1=3(divinations.substack.com)
1 points by cbcoutinho 6y ago|0 comments
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by cbcoutinho 6y ago
If the path to your executable is fixed, just put it in the shebang and you're done - makes everything way more explicit at the cost of some dynamic behavior. An anecdote: Homebrew uses this method for shipping python executables.
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by cbcoutinho 6y ago
Yes, Azure Data Studio allows you to embed SQL in notebooks right out of the box: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/azure-data-studio/noteb...
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by cbcoutinho 7y ago
I do this as well and consider CTE's just a macro that is expanded when executing the query - similar to an inline view. I've run into issues before with systems where the result of a CTE is so large that it is actually advantageo
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by cbcoutinho 7y ago
That is the difference between a democracy and a republic.
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by cbcoutinho 7y ago
It's not quite _all_ retail though. The author excluded market segments that Amazon doesn't participate in - cars, gasoline, etc
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by cbcoutinho 7y ago
Someone a few days ago linked to this snippet of an interview with Naval Ravikant on Joe Rogan's podcast. Their lack of differentiating themselves from publishers has put them on a slippery slope https://www.youtube.com&#x2F
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by cbcoutinho 7y ago
In the Netherlands, we have Greenwheels, which in addition to being accessible using an app, also allows you to open the car with an NFC-enabled card (I'm assuming for the case where my phone doesn't have reception?). If the car d
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by cbcoutinho 7y ago
What do you do when you want to edit a document or compose an email offline?
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by cbcoutinho 7y ago
You mean air trekkers? https://www.air-trekkers.com/product-page/copy-of-copy-of-ai...
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by cbcoutinho 7y ago
Using floats to store monetary data is considered 'a very bad idea' in the financial world. Mostly due to how floating point numbers are rounded up/down based on the precision. https://stackoverflow.com/a&#x2F
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by cbcoutinho 7y ago
I'm not sure if you can create a project.clj, boot.clj, or deps.edn file from a pom file, but there are at least plugins available that let one tool to read the input of another. This plugin allows Leiningen to read deps.edn files for
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by cbcoutinho 7y ago
No, because of the various 'baseload' energy sources that maintain the bulk of the electricity capacity, natural gas is the quickest to turn on and off. This flexibility lends itself to be a better 'backup' than a coal o
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by cbcoutinho 7y ago
The title of tfa even says 'poised to win' - not sure why OP changed the title like this
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by cbcoutinho 7y ago
I think it's because they're all publicly traded tech companies worth over a certain market value
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by cbcoutinho 7y ago
Yes that's true that they periodically check for work to do, but cron is not smart enough to know whether a service is already running - a systemd-timer can base it's timer from the point when a service completes. I think cron jus
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by cbcoutinho 7y ago
I use a systemd timer to handle periodic calls to offlineimap, and that works really well compared to a corn-based work flow.
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by cbcoutinho 7y ago
I work at a power plant that uses Wonderware - a SCADA system that stores its time-series data in its own proprietary database that is accessed as a linked server via SQL Server. That means any query I want to fetch can't be optimized
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by cbcoutinho 7y ago
An important advantage that doesn't get mentioned a lot is that modern Fortran (imo f90+) is much simpler to write and reason about that C++, precisely because it limits what you can actually do in the language. That opens up the possi
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Variability in the interpretation of Dutch probability phrases(arxiv.org)
1 points by cbcoutinho 7y ago|0 comments
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by cbcoutinho 7y ago
I think the features themselves aren't ground breaking on their own, but I'm willing to believe they do a lot of large scale semantic text analysis (eg for abuse prevention) which is innovative at least from an infrastructure stan
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by cbcoutinho 8y ago
> pretty much nobody expects the current situation to persist for all that long. I envy your optimism
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by cbcoutinho 8y ago
Not quite, 'de Vries' in Dutch translates to 'the Friesian'.
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by cbcoutinho 8y ago
Handling exceptions might be different in Janet compared to perl, but it is possible to handle them while being embedded. You could essentially try/catch around every ffi boundary, which is the point brought up in this talk at 14.45 h
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by cbcoutinho 8y ago
Where I used to live in the Netherlands (Friesland in the north to be specific), it's very sparsely populated. Although the public transportation system here is incredible, in the more remote regions of the province they also suffer fr
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by cbcoutinho 8y ago
I use music streaming services mostly for their shuffle features, not for playing music I select. I'm not a fan of this idea, because then those services would be able to pick winners and losers (the artists) based on a shuffling algor
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by cbcoutinho 8y ago
Associated database repo https://github.com/mit-pdos/noria
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by cbcoutinho 8y ago
I moved to the Netherlands five years ago from the US - dealing with the tax agency here is such a breeze compared to the IRS.
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by cbcoutinho 8y ago
I think the python formatter 'black' came to the same conclusion - the default line width is 88 characters instead of 80

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