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by fegu 4y ago
Pomsky will look very similar to Pornsky in many fonts. quiet laugh
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by fegu 4y ago
I agree he is a genius in this regard, seeing the core of an issue clearly. I also think the world tolerates more from brilliant people, and this is why you in some workplaces have primadonnas. But look at some of the things Torvalds says,
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by fegu 4y ago
Could it be the other way around, perhaps anxious people drink more soda?
34.
by fegu 4y ago
I thought this was a well established fact.
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by fegu 4y ago
Definitely. I was charged with fixing Y2K problems at a hospital in the late 90ies. The software scheduling checkups for pregnant women was first, because it had the estimated birth date, i.e. up to 9 months ahead.
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by fegu 4y ago
Because LOB (line of business) apps don't need to be as polished as customer-facing tools. Lowcode will mostly get you almost there, but not perfectly. For internal tools it can be good enough.
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by fegu 4y ago
This is why neverssl.com exists. I always use that when I need the login page of a wifi.
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by fegu 4y ago
Swapping two variables without a temporary using xor.
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by fegu 4y ago
The doom square root trick. Reducing an expensive function to almost nothing with low error. Many writeups on the web far better than I could give.
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by fegu 4y ago
That article was today's most fascinating read for me. Thanks!
41.
by fegu 4y ago
Is there any statistics on whether women drink more green tea than men? It certainly seems that way.
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by fegu 4y ago
This is similar to the choice between a salary (quite predictable) and a startup (maybe a lot, might just as well be zero). Or, in a company, between doing consulting or in-house product development.
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by fegu 4y ago
I love the occasional drink and sometimes getting drunk. But an alcohol dependent work culture is not something to strive for. It is completely ok not to drink and work events should not be completely centered around alcohol.
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by fegu 4y ago
It sounds like he needs to try Haskell, or strong typed functional in general. Less boilerplate, less testing, less worry when changing code later.
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by fegu 4y ago
Has anyone designed referral programs for online B2B products? What payback works, and is legal?
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by fegu 4y ago
Yes, the port will close automatically. It is a bit fragile and vulnerable piece of thin plastic when open, but all in all a harmless prank.
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by fegu 4y ago
Will definitely try this. I sometimes used latex at work for things like contracts and other documents that should look formal. But occasionally you need to share it with someone to get their input before it is final. Lots of people are unf
48.
by fegu 4y ago
Magnificent. A lead you down the garden path kind of trolling of the brain. Your brain.
49.
by fegu 4y ago
In the UK, and sometimes Ireland as well, employees are not always treated well by European standards.
50.
by fegu 4y ago
I have a FreeBSD certification gained from an exam at EuroBSDCon some years (many years actually) ago. FreeBSD is great, and we still run it at work. Great docs is part of the reason we like it. (Btw this page is extremely annoying to read
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by fegu 5y ago
Handheld PC (HPC) was a thing in the 90-ies as well with some great hardware such as the Psion 5. Eventually the acronym was "stolen" to mean High Performance Computing. I absolutely loved my Psion.
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by fegu 5y ago
This is less than 1/10.000 of people. What is more often mentioned is "the 1%". But how much net worth is needed to be a 1% in different countries? Anyone have a source?
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by fegu 5y ago
I would love for sqlite to add import of JSON. They have great CSV import and export. If we could easily import, say, JSON arrays to a single column table, it would make JSON conversion to/from CSV easier. Especially since jq is slow a
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by fegu 5y ago
In Haskell, getting the time is an IO operation. Because of this one tends to use the exact pattern you recommend.
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by fegu 5y ago
This a marvellous job done by a marvellous group. Keep it up! Haskell is great, I absolutely love my Haskell projects at work. And it all depends on work done by volunteers, or contributions from big corps.
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by fegu 5y ago
ThinkPadding for 22 years. From the A21p or A31p (I think that was my first, but it has been a while) to the Nano now. Thinkpads are not the same any longer. My nano spontaneously overheats and shuts down out of nowhere when Windows runs th
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by fegu 5y ago
The 10% is not guaranteed. But it is average over several years. Although I prefer to go for global index funds which is more like 7% and less risky.
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by fegu 5y ago
I do have a friend who often replaces "I" with "the <lastname>". Peculiar thing. Sometimes slightly cool, most often just annoying.
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by fegu 5y ago
Norwegian Health Department sent floppies to doctors until 2016 on a large scale. See https://gundersen.net/functional-floppy-disks-in-2015/
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by fegu 5y ago
Me too. 20 years, actually. Mine was called todo.txt. It got unwieldy. I am now on todo2.txt.

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