danmaz74

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by danmaz74 8y ago
Just to clarify, I wasn't criticising sqlite, I was criticising the idea of judging their code quality "for this reason alone!" - ie that they have so much test code vs implementation.
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by danmaz74 8y ago
Automated testing is useful and good. But I really feel it's reached a lever of fetishisation that is quite concerning. Testing code is code which needs to be written, read, maintained, refactored. Very often nowadays I have to wade th
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by danmaz74 8y ago
That's great, where it's feasible. Which isn't enough places, as you need abundant water, a higher reservoir, and a lower reservoir.
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by danmaz74 8y ago
Producing hydrogen when there is excess power from renewable source could be a great addition to the mix of "how to store energy when we produce more than we need, and use it when we need it".
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by danmaz74 8y ago
As a very long time and satisfied-but-worried Amazon customer, I think that prices going up was something to be expected and not a surprise at all. Instead, the way they're dropping the ball with customer satisfaction is really surpris
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by danmaz74 8y ago
I (a EU citizen) still hope that Trump - and his peers over here - isn't going to last long enough as a president to do permanent damage.
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by danmaz74 8y ago
> except maybe if you are really big, like the US or China Or, potentially, the EU...
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by danmaz74 8y ago
I also recently bought one and noticed the same, but then I think I understood the reason for not persisting the maps, when the robot found a closed door: after I opened the door, the robot just wouldn't cross it because of the (tempor
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by danmaz74 8y ago
Out of curiosity, how much manual work that can't be automated does this require?
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by danmaz74 8y ago
I see. For me, dismissive is one thing (and I could agree with that), uncivil is something much worse.
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by danmaz74 8y ago
Out of curiosity, if the comment started with "In my opinion that's a misreading of computer history...", with everything else left unchanged, would it still be uncivil in your opinion?
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by danmaz74 8y ago
Don't worry, the market will sort that out too. The rich will have the machines, and only less worthy individuals will die. /s
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by danmaz74 8y ago
I think that there is no better alternative to Rails to write the back-end for web/mobile applications in a very efficient and maintainable way, unless you have very demanding (and uncommon) requirements for performance and "web s
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by danmaz74 8y ago
Actually, heating with a heat pump is much more efficient than using a resistance.
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by danmaz74 8y ago
> One can argue that distributed power generation is a benefit, as it reduces the need for increased distribution capacity Unfortunately, that's only true if the power is generated at the time when it's needed, which isn't
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by danmaz74 8y ago
That's exactly the reason why anti-trust regulations exit.
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by danmaz74 8y ago
> The material they used in the original Molten Salt Experiment was great at resistance but re-qualifying this (or anything) to modern standards is incredibly difficult. Care to elaborate? Looks like a very interesting problem.
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by danmaz74 8y ago
I remember that in the beginning the recommendations for the streaming service were pretty good. But they became worse and worse, at least for me.
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by danmaz74 8y ago
Yes, it's illegal, but it's part of every real market that has ever existed, and will ever exist. The circular logic IMHO is in thinking that the market can prevent this by itself, without having to go through corrections like we
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by danmaz74 8y ago
> Were actual, material numbers to have been objectively published, we wouldn't have had a crisis in 2008, because nobody would have bought bundles of crap, and the market would have needed no correction because it wouldn't hav
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by danmaz74 8y ago
Do you have a link to a video of the demo? I'd love to check how much I notice a difference with movie scenes.
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by danmaz74 8y ago
> But you can't invest in things you can't quantify. You can't make money off of good vibes and authenticity without metrics Having metrics is important, but thinking that metrics - any set of metrics - capture the whole o
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by danmaz74 8y ago
I actually agree with you. The comparison is not correct, but useful. It reminds me of Box's comment that "all models are wrong, but some are useful". This comparison can (and is/will be) abused, but it's still usef
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by danmaz74 8y ago
I'm curious about what do they mean when they talk about dismissing complaints. They mean that the complaints weren't investigated at all, or that action wasn't taken after an investigation?
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by danmaz74 8y ago
1929 was the year of the market crash. The depression lasted 12 years, most of them during the 1930s.
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by danmaz74 8y ago
Thanks, this was really interesting!
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by danmaz74 8y ago
> demolitions of 2009-2011 that were catastrophic to the industry Sounds interesting; any references?
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by danmaz74 8y ago
Yes, the title is completely detached from the article - usually there is at least a small reference in the copy to justify sensationalist titles, but here I didn't find any.
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by danmaz74 8y ago
Hi, my name is Dan. Now you know one :)
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by danmaz74 8y ago
Python has much better support for data anlysis/machine learning, but, honestly, I don't hear about django or other python web frameworks anywhere as much as I hear about rails. Have you got a source for your first point?

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