crdoconnor

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by crdoconnor 7y ago
>The one advance that might finally challenge the 'no silver bullet' rule is machine learning. Definitely not. Machine learning is up there with 2012's nosql movement as one of the most overhyped silver bullets. The improv
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by crdoconnor 7y ago
30% is not nearly enough. It's still a free lunch for property/landowners.
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by crdoconnor 7y ago
Ah I see, yes that makes perfect sense. I've used integer keys too. Sorry, I thought by non-string you meant non-scalar - i.e. the idea of using lists as keys (allowed in YAML).
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by crdoconnor 7y ago
JSON alternative with lighter syntax and comments is basically what I tried to make StrictYAML. I made it largely because I saw a disconnect with what YAML was, and what people - including me - thought it was (which is what it should be). D
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by crdoconnor 7y ago
Have you tried writing JSON by hand or diffing it in a pull request?
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by crdoconnor 7y ago
The main issue I had with TOML is how much more syntactically noisy it is. Equivalent files with 2-3 levels of nesting usually become at least 50% longer than equivalent YAML. More here : https://hitchdev.com/strictyaml&#x2F
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by crdoconnor 7y ago
That's why StrictYAML always interprets as string unless there's a schema. Cuts out the surprise type conversions.
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by crdoconnor 7y ago
The fundamentals appear to be intrinsic scarcity + facilitating illegal transactions easily (circumventing currency controls, drug deals, malware ransoms, etc.). I haven't seen much intrinsic value beyond those two things. Everything e
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by crdoconnor 7y ago
Theranos was a fraud to consumers and regulators. Wework isn't so much a fraud as the next pets.com waiting to happen.
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by crdoconnor 7y ago
Doesn't seem like it would be easy without a firehose of metadata and I doubt Google would be amenable to providing that for a competing service. At this point to enable that kind of competition would have to have legislative protectio
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by crdoconnor 7y ago
There's a bigger ideological drive to show that taking US oil assets in the country and diverting the funds toward social programs was a dire mistake.
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by crdoconnor 7y ago
I always thought the fact that it described rising wages and living standards as a disease pretty clearly indicated that there was something wrong with them.
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by crdoconnor 7y ago
It's not just that though. It's also seen as a way of criminalising undesirables.
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by crdoconnor 7y ago
Metaphorically. On the first day airbus got about 100 orders and Boeing got none.
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by crdoconnor 7y ago
Or maybe they just don't want to buy aircrafts that crash. The Paris air show wasn't good for Boeing either.
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by crdoconnor 7y ago
>To get an ICLA all legit while you are employed, run it by the legal department of the company you are employed by, and they can give you an idea if any changes to the agreement is needed (and of course, if you are allowed to spend comp
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by crdoconnor 7y ago
There are many arguments I can think of for using docker but "standard" is a pretty poor one. Directories, bash scripts and package managers are also arguably "standard" and sufficient to install most software. We should
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by crdoconnor 7y ago
>And I don't think you need to be an expert to realize that full autonomy is a Really Bad Idea. All you have to do it look at how the 737MAX MCAS debacle is unfolding. Thank you for this. Boeing's hard on for de-skilling pilots
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by crdoconnor 7y ago
This is my experience too. Realism in testing is criminally underrated while code coverage is criminally overrated. IME unit tests can only effectively substitute for integration tests where you're testing logical/algorithmic code
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by crdoconnor 7y ago
I think his point might actually have been the point he made rather than the different point you made.
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by crdoconnor 7y ago
If there's some level of confidence you're missing when using python because of the explicit types, you'd be better off making up for it using asserts rather than additional tests.
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by crdoconnor 7y ago
The same reason why automating farming led to the creation of jobs: we never run out of things to do if we never run out of things to want.
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by crdoconnor 7y ago
shrug I meet a lot of young people without degrees doing jobs that didn't exist 10-15 years ago too (e.g. social media managers). And there are way more people with degrees these days. I think there are other less impersonal, more
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by crdoconnor 7y ago
>But this report presents a more nuanced view, stressing that the productivity benefits from automation should boost growth, meaning as many jobs are created as lost. Way to bury the lede, Rory.
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by crdoconnor 7y ago
He is a fool who pretends to be playing one. The upper echelons of the conservative party are not at all meritocratic - you do not have to be whip smart to get there, but being personable counts. He's made enough self inflicted strateg
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by crdoconnor 7y ago
It's also about power. There's a good book called carbon democracy about how coal naturally led to the upsurge of democracy because it was labour intensive - he who can interrupt the flow of energy controls society and coal requir
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by crdoconnor 7y ago
This "unit tests substitute for static types" is a common straw man. Asserts catch similar kinds of bugs to static type checkers with a similar level of effectiveness and cost. Moreover, they're typically able to do more soph
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by crdoconnor 7y ago
>Of course, as your system grows, you start to want static checks I've been working on large scale python systems for about 10 years. For me, the most cost effective checks as a system grew have been asserts. They allow extremely so
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by crdoconnor 7y ago
It's probably a lot more than 300 and China can turn off the tap on day one.
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by crdoconnor 7y ago
>Unique today. But what about tomorrow? It's not like another country can't do the same thing. It requires the willingness to throw public money at it and depreciate the currency, decades of patience and favourable trade cond

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