devurand

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by devurand 6y ago
A healthy second to this suggestion! The channel and community they've built is a high quality, informal classroom with some really thought provoking content. They actively engage with audience questions, provide "homework" i
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by devurand 6y ago
Sounds like you want Unison: https://www.unisonweb.org/docs/tour/
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by devurand 6y ago
I think the position of this article requires a poor assumption with regards to the "marketplace of ideas." It assumes a majority of rational, fact-checking, good-faith actors which is just not the case in the real world. And with
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by devurand 7y ago
Exactly. I did layout for awhile. Some boards you knew weren't going to come back. Customer was just paying for us to turn a schematic and BOM into a board with the least amount of cost possible. Quoted low. You could let the autoroute
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by devurand 7y ago
When I started to learn other languages after learning bash then Perl first, I was really dismayed at how clumsy it was to build up a data structure of any complexity. So verbose in the Java/C++/C# land. Having those constructs so
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by devurand 7y ago
> it took ages for a complete Perl 6 release to be available. And unfortunately, the brilliant minds that worked on Perl 6 spent so much time rewriting the compiler tool chain and basically treating just that part as a research project,
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by devurand 7y ago
> The fact that I do programming at the weekend for fun on my personal projects does not in the slightest imply that I have fun at the kind of project that I have to do for the employer. So, judging by this criterion is a really bad idea
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by devurand 7y ago
Texas in the spring is wonderful. Everyone is out taking pictures in the massive fields of bluebonnets and indian paintbrush. Of course, it can also cause traffic issues as people pull over to do the photo op in the medians.
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by devurand 7y ago
> I don't consider myself FUCKING SMART, quite the opposite, especially at that company with those coworkers who were despite the sound of it actually really smart, but unlike my coworkers I had not accepted the situation but felt t
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by devurand 7y ago
Empathy. Definitely practice empathy. Hacking brains is a lot more difficult compared to hacking code.
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by devurand 7y ago
This is painfully on point where I currently am.
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by devurand 7y ago
> I'd like to see some weighted reputation system used instead, where academics can give their "vote" to papers they like, giving it a total weight, however such systems have been proposed in the past and haven't got
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by devurand 7y ago
Good ol' localroger. I never knew I wanted to read singularity fiction that included zombie rape and forced incest until Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Metamorphosis_of_Prime_In
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by devurand 7y ago
Sign-up wall prevents reading the article. Here is an outline.com link for this article: https://outline.com/4MwGTX
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by devurand 7y ago
I am glad I wasn't the only person thinking about LPL for this. I wonder how much he would charge for a internet consult and recommendations on tools. Might end up being way less than the try-every-combination-or-we-drill-it locksmiths
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by devurand 7y ago
"The future of emulation in compiler optimization LLVM haskell" Bad: 0.0004 - Good: 0.9996