drewcoo

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by drewcoo 3y ago
I loathe Zuck, but warhawk Lindsey Graham telling him "he has blood on his hands?" That's beyond the pale.
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by drewcoo 3y ago
Thank goodness! In my experience non-technical roles need to invent names and processes to claim to be more technical. If no one is non-technical, that can finally stop.
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by drewcoo 3y ago
I'm flagging this because I want to swear at commenters.
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by drewcoo 3y ago
Having to understand probability problems like this by writing code is like having to count the dots to multiply. It's functional innumeracy. Not something to be shamed, but something that needs to be fixed. What is 3 x 2? . . . . . .
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by drewcoo 3y ago
This is not about Monty Hall or his doors. ROT13: Gur zber erqf, gur zber yvxryl lbhe svefg chyy vf erq. No one is making changes based on your actions, like Monty did.
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by drewcoo 3y ago
For issues in the field you really want metrics and logs. That way it's easy to monitor for the state of things and to zoom in on the specific data you need when you're investigating. OMG right now! Or days or weeks from now. With
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by drewcoo 3y ago
Let's rephrase the options from the author's point of view: 1. accept the problem 2. become part of the problem 3. complain - but please don't I can't help thinking there must at least be some fourth way . . .
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by drewcoo 3y ago
And Google is Alphabet . . . MAMAA!
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by drewcoo 3y ago
> I always wonder why Netflix not Microsoft is included? FAAMG would be strange though. Because by the time the term was coined, Microsoft was a slow-turning behemoth that had shed a lot of talent to help create the internal engineering
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by drewcoo 3y ago
Great. Can we all just Mencia this Chad Kultgen dude and be done with it?
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by drewcoo 3y ago
> These people are idiots who do nothing but hurt their own cause Maybe. Why do you think activists trying to raise awareness about food safety are idiots? How does barely having any time before barriers surrounded them and the MSM not e
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by drewcoo 3y ago
It may be a disincentive for future potential protesters see that they won't be able to get lots of attention and the MSM will refuse to even explain their protest. It's probably intended to avoid copycats.
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by drewcoo 3y ago
> They should institute a voluntary conscripted amnesty/asylum Conscription by definition is involuntary.
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by drewcoo 3y ago
> High schools are designed to provide a bare floor of knowledge a citizen should achieve. That's a bold claim. Can you back it up? On the flip side, an actual path to citizenship is military service. https://www.uscis.go
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by drewcoo 3y ago
> I used one of the unofficial, unsupported, yet well known and commonly used tricks to get through the setup process without having to sign in with a Microsoft account > It turns out that if you skip the Microsoft account sign-in ste
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by drewcoo 3y ago
And to pick up the other point, the "contest" was not about #2, the general well-being of people everywhere. They're businesses.
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by drewcoo 3y ago
> per-capita emissions were revealed to me to be a trick that corporations have played As opposed to individually moving to a rural area "since it’s better for the environment?" To be fair, for Zaphod Beeblebrox "per capi
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by drewcoo 3y ago
> Most academics didn't choose the career for the management side of their responsibilities Except for MBAs, who did? And why exactly should academics be some kind of special case when it comes to money?
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by drewcoo 3y ago
> but he notes he only took a poster if there was more than one pinned up in the neighbourhood Not a quote from Bolles but from the article.
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by drewcoo 3y ago
Agree. Without the USSR, things look very different. Russia is not the USSR. Also, the US is the main aggressor in the world today, as opposed to a distant secondary power in the early 20th century. A lot of the comparisons in the article j
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by drewcoo 3y ago
Everyone is "fake it 'til you make it" today. But Microsoft really was, too. There was some story about a shared tie that was worn to talk to the "shirts" at IBM in the early days. No idea about garters, which were
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by drewcoo 3y ago
Much as I'm a fan (and still consider myself context-driven), the quibbling over hazy definitions is where I balk a bit. Not the ALLCAPS so much as the sentiment. What is "testing?" Well James (or Cem or . . .) will proclaim
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by drewcoo 3y ago
There are ways to avoid running all night, which I assume is a side-effect of combinatoric explosion of the test space. Check out pairwise (a.k.a. "all pairs") testing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-pairs_
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by drewcoo 3y ago
> it implies checking is only possible with a complete specification of the program No, it doesn't. If exploratory testing has any value at all, that implies that there cannot be complete test coverage with checks, thus there cannot
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by drewcoo 3y ago
As already mentioned by GP, reliance on someone else to catch bugs can mean devs don't pay as much attention. The old saying is that "you can't test quality in," devs have to code it in. Someone else doing your testing a
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by drewcoo 3y ago
Bought a klein bottle from Cliff Stoll a few years ago. https://www.kleinbottle.com He enclosed a really nice brief note. Amazingly nice guy!
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by drewcoo 3y ago
https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2022/urban-ru... > Despite the increase in the urban population, urban areas, defined as densely developed residential, commercial, and other nonresidential a
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by drewcoo 3y ago
So . . . you never did anything wrong, selflessly threw your body on grenades, and suddenly out of the blue your cofounder wants to leave you? I don't think you're being honest with yourself here on many counts. Have you considere
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by drewcoo 3y ago
A blog called "Grognardia" that's not by or for old grogs, but mostly about fantasy sorcery stuff? Hmm. Did the term "grognard" shift meaning on me? I hope I'm not in for another "what timeline am I in&quo
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by drewcoo 3y ago
If anyone had told me in the 80s that Hewlett Packard, the coolest place for an engineer to work, would turn into Gillette, I would not have believed it. That said, I don't think building a "better" unprofitable, archaic devi

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