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by cgh 6y ago
Absolutely agree. Learning data normalisation was up there with Typing 9 (touch-typing class in grade 9, not Hindley-Milner whatever) in terms of long-term usefulness.
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by cgh 6y ago
“Hunger” by Knut Hamsun
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by cgh 6y ago
Argh yes, scp -P vs ssh -p. I get bitten by this regularly as we have something running on a non-standard port.
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by cgh 6y ago
> here's a nice video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADqLBc1vFwI This made me laugh way more than it should have. "Why don't you pattern match my fist all over your faces!"
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by cgh 6y ago
Static methods in general that create side-effects suck. PowerMock allows you to deal with these troublesome classes though so unit testing is possible.
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by cgh 6y ago
The blog post was inspired by The Recursive Universe by William Poundstone. I read this book years ago and found it amazing. I recently read another book by him, Fortune’s Formula, which features the Kelly Criterion, Claude Shannon beating
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by cgh 6y ago
Cattle only enter feedlots during the final weeks of their lives. For nearly the entirety of their lives, cattle are indeed grazed.
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by cgh 6y ago
Actually, there's already a definition for type III fun: it's not fun and you'll never think it was fun. The fun type system comes from the climbing world. Climbing offwidths is commonly cited as a type of type III fun. This
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by cgh 6y ago
Agreed, that keyboard minus the numeric keypad and equipped with Cherry Blue switches is basically my dream keyboard. I use a Filco Majestouch 2 and it's great but I prefer the MS keyboard's ergo layout for sure.
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by cgh 6y ago
We moved to a small town some years ago and I agree with you. A lot of our "leisure" time is taken up with our somewhat massive garden and food processing in general, which we enjoy. We are also building a new greenhouse, fixing f
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by cgh 6y ago
Vancouver has SkyTrain: "SkyTrain is the oldest and longest, fully-automated, driverless, rapid-transit system in the world." https://www.translink.ca/Schedules-and-Maps/SkyTrain.aspx
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by cgh 6y ago
That is really interesting. I have an ancient T61p from I think 2008 running Fedora, which works fine for basic stuff. I would love to upgrade it because it's built like the proverbial brick shithouse and has a great keyboard and a 4:3
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by cgh 6y ago
It's also likely because they are trying to suppress mail-in ballots. These are overwhelmingly used by people who can't get to a polling station because eg it is too far away and they don't own a car - in other words, they ar
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by cgh 6y ago
Thanks for this recommendation. I just bought the book. Years ago, I read Poundstone's "The Recursive Universe" and loved it so his writing combined with this subject should be great.
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by cgh 6y ago
Essentially, it's investigative reporting. It sounds like they want to focus more on "news" as defined by press release, which probably is not a good thing.
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by cgh 6y ago
I do the same. I've often thought they should publish a book consisting solely of obituaries. As morbid as this sounds, it would be almost like a history of the last 100 years viewed through a very different lens.
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by cgh 6y ago
I had a copy of the Programmer’s Reference Guide and I read The Transactor magazine, both of which featured lots of low-level stuff. And I grew up in a place that commonly had one to two metres of snow on the ground, so I was inside a lot s
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by cgh 6y ago
> They don’t travel well, so you’re unlikely to find them fresh outside of Ontario, Quebec. They grow in massive quantities in BC. They are a major food source for black bears and their frequently-encountered shit is packed with seeds fr
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by cgh 6y ago
One of the advantages of the Commodore 64 was its crappy BASIC dialect. To do anything with graphics or sound, you had to pretty much learn assembly. I'm pretty sure that whoever decided to stick Commodore BASIC v2 in that thing had no
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by cgh 6y ago
Small nitpick: 1984 was significantly less than a half century ago. But otherwise yes, the greater point is history tends to teach us nothing.
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by cgh 6y ago
Plumbers and electricians are a lot more useful than programmers.
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by cgh 6y ago
If you are curious about China's ambitions and possible future in the wake of the American pullback from the international order, I recommend the book "Disunited Nations". It also profiles Germany, Iran, France and various ot
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by cgh 6y ago
Some comparative info for Canadians: Taiwan is slightly larger than Vancouver Island but has roughly 2/3 the population of all of Canada.
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by cgh 6y ago
This is why Canada detained Huawei's CFO Meng Wanzhou. I'm also guessing this news is why Telus, a major Canadian telco, just dropped Huawei for its 5G rollout and went with Ericsson instead. This is in line with other Canadian te
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by cgh 6y ago
EAT-Lancet: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
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by cgh 6y ago
Diabetes is likely a factor: https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/931132 And obesity is strongly correlated with diabetes: https://www.diabetes.co.uk/diabetes-and-obesity.html There is a distinction to
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by cgh 6y ago
Bear Stearns, Washington Mutual, WorldCom and many others are evidence to the contrary. I'm not sure if Boeing will be "allowed" to fail if it's on that path, but your statement that "Mega corporations and banks are
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by cgh 6y ago
If you own a pickup truck, put a junk hauling ad on Craigslist. Charge $50 + dump fees. You will have to err on the side of caution here, as dump fees are determined by weight.
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by cgh 6y ago
Let's say, just hypothetically, that someone was burned out from working for ValleyBigCo Inc, has no need or desire to work full time+ and wanted to transition into teaching something to do with the creation of software - design, actua
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by cgh 6y ago
Yes, you are right, of course. I shamefully misread the article. It's closer to listen/accept/fork.

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