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901.
by dgb23 4y ago
Yes, I think the author meant to say the Web, which is often used to refer to what is built on top of HTTP, HTML etc.
902.
by dgb23 4y ago
It's a perfect use case for SQLite or similar. It's a low overhead solution (just a library) and you get a lot of benefits out of the box. A text file? Maybe if it's an append only kind of deal.
903.
by dgb23 4y ago
I'm an autodidact and a big fan of state machines (specifically mealy machines). They can easily be expressed as plain data structures of three layers that map the name of a state to possible inputs/events to the appropriate name
904.
by dgb23 4y ago
I appreciate your advice, but from a general viewpoint, just adding layers doesn't necessarily lead to interesting complexity. StarCraft Broodwar is an interestingly complex strategy game, not because it has a lot of layers, or even lo
905.
by dgb23 4y ago
This happens to me with _any_ project if I don't: - set a clear time boundary and a date, typically by estimating chunks of the work, it's better to make wrong estimations than to yak shave the crap out of something for way too lo
906.
by dgb23 4y ago
My fighter is somewhat wise but not so smart. At least he knows he isn't the smartest, thus he writes everything down in a journal he deems important. He doesn't come up with the most interesting or cunning solutions. But he knows
907.
by dgb23 4y ago
Thank you for the clarification. I tried to exaggerate my point, but what you say is obviously true and much more nuanced. In fact it's so easy to forget or ignore that we humans were just as smart and creative thousands of years ago a
908.
by dgb23 4y ago
The word for German in many Slavic regions is something like Njemacki (and similar). Loosely translated it means "Those who cannot speak". Of course, Germans can speak and languages of German descent are just as rich, precise and
909.
by dgb23 4y ago
The job of administration should always be to _reduce_ the bureaucratic burden of an organization. Think of a small firm that doesn't have a dedicated admin and/or accountant. Leadership and productive workers might constantly be
910.
by dgb23 4y ago
Getting burned by a hot liquid like coffee can lead to severe injury. But don't underestimate the danger of getting beat to the head. It's very common in popular media, but very dangerous in real life.
911.
by dgb23 4y ago
With a little bit of effort you can make it work. But I believe Racket has specific language definitions for some of these books so you can follow them more or less seamlessly.
912.
by dgb23 4y ago
Lisps and nil have a symbiotic relationship, not an adversarial one. They are an everyday falsy value that you program _with_ not around. Nil doesn't signal that you forgot to initialize a value. It simply means stuff like "I don&
913.
by dgb23 4y ago
With data I mean information, knowledge representation etc. Not real time video games and other graphics intensive stuff. Not device drivers, embedded and hardware specific stuff. Not bits/bytes level of programming… There are more, bu
914.
by dgb23 4y ago
1. Unlike Python, Clojure actually is functional and is optimized for it, with persistent immutable data structures and a huge library for functional transformations. You get faster, more expressive code in Clojure than in Python if you’re
915.
by dgb23 4y ago
Regular cows getting stuck and breaking their legs still happens sometimes except maybe in industrial farming. The cows in the Swiss alps (Wallis) for example are much sturdier and smaller to accommodate for rocky and steep terrain.
916.
by dgb23 4y ago
If we could create a sentient being, it would be the first evidence of it being possible at all. If this casts doubt in the mind of a believer, then it tells us more about what belief is than anything else.
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by dgb23 4y ago
> and there's no cross polenation except when they are open sourced This is true of software dev as well. Open sourcing things is something you have to sell well and demand up front.
918.
by dgb23 4y ago
Developers are allowed to call themselves developers at any layer of abstraction. Why shouldn't that be the case for System Administrators?
919.
by dgb23 4y ago
Apparently much of the usefulness of ChatGPT comes from human guidance via reinforcement learning. The base model seems to be quite useless, but with only a little bit of human input it becomes deceptively smart.
920.
by dgb23 4y ago
I think of machine translation as a tool for people who are not translators, but admins, writers and so on, but need cheap translations that are good enough.
921.
by dgb23 4y ago
Might be a chicken and egg problem but countries with low crime rates typically have well educated police who apply deescalation, plus much higher social security and public service standards. It’s very simple. People who are never looked a
922.
by dgb23 4y ago
Which professions hire like this? I can’t think of any.
923.
by dgb23 4y ago
Why are people doing this? Why are the police even reacting to it?
924.
by dgb23 4y ago
Every job is about solving problems. A programmer solves problems via programming. That’s what programming means. Telling the computer what to do in a language it understands. We are typically well practiced at abstract, logical problem sol
925.
by dgb23 4y ago
Patience/grit in a very specific way. I don’t know who I’m quoting. But being able to stare at a screen for hours is the key. Relentlessly technical? Stubborn hacker? It’s definitely not an intelligence thing. Being smart helps, but th
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by dgb23 4y ago
Thank you for this inspiration! Talking about our limitations is extremely important. Ignoring them can lead to very bad outcomes. I think we should do this more.
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by dgb23 4y ago
Reminds me of the book “Schule des Denkens” AKA “How to Solve It” by Polya. It’s all about the art of asking questions in order to solve problems.
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by dgb23 4y ago
That’s a wasteful approach though. Ideally you want your auth, validation/parsing, routing, db connection etc. all ready to go when a request comes in. There are parts that ought to be stateless and parts that shouldn’t.
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by dgb23 4y ago
In a game loop you can typically pass in the time (delta) since the last frame update. Everything else is a function of that plus the values since the last update.
930.
by dgb23 4y ago
Rich Hickey also came to mind, but a different talk[0]. There he talks in part about software stability and how spec (the primary way to encode data and function contracts in Clojure), is about communicating what is required and provided by

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