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by gbacon 3y ago
Thorough followup to earlier observations seen on HN[0] about Microsoft 365 Copilot with an overview of the architecture and tips for improving search performance. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38643406
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Second look at Microsoft 365 Copilot(paulrobichaux.com)
1 points by gbacon 3y ago|1 comments
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That’d be interesting to see modeled out in PRISM.
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Monopoly doesn’t take forever if you play by the rules. https://bowilliams.com/2007/03/you-have-won-second-prize-in-...
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by gbacon 3y ago
Anticipating social media in 1954: “Perhaps they only showed us the best, and one can hardly blame them.”
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by gbacon 3y ago
Here’s how to feel about it: MYOB. If the dealers don’t like the terms, they can sell other brands and need to stop tattling to Maman. Of all the problems, busybodies decided this was the important one to make a stand on. Fixing potholes
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by gbacon 3y ago
Combine that with the abstract test pattern, and teaching your harness how to instantiate an instance of a new concrete implementation is often all that’s necessary.
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by gbacon 3y ago
No one suggests discarding integration tests. The end of the quoted excerpt from Feathers above explicitly supports them. Tests that do these things aren’t bad. Often they are worth writing, and you generally will write them in unit test h
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by gbacon 3y ago
But my personal workflow is to prevent the errors in the first place. Too many times I’ve made “simple” changes that were “obviously correct” and whose effects were “completely localized” only to wind up eating healthy servings of crow. I
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by gbacon 3y ago
From Working Effectively With Legacy Code by Feathers, p. 14[0]: Unit tests run fast. If they don’t run fast, they aren’t unit tests. Other kinds of tests often masquerade as unit tests. A test is not a unit test if: 1. It talks to a
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by gbacon 3y ago
It’s a decaying service that even a “stubborn transit user”[0] does not want. Propping up this zombie is actively harmful. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38686993
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by gbacon 3y ago
Resources cease being infrastructure when demand for the services they’re configured to provide falls far enough.
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by gbacon 3y ago
The article links Better Bus Coalition and Link Houston. https://betterbuscoalition.org/ https://linkhouston.org/about-us/
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by gbacon 3y ago
Thanks, these are great! Do you take notes directly into Anki cards or process them later?
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by gbacon 3y ago
I built an Anki deck[0] to prepare for and pass on my first attempt the Certificated Flight Instructor (CFI) initial oral exam, considered by some to be the toughest checkride — although pass rates have been rising in recent years[1]. [0]:
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First look at Microsoft 365 Copilot(paulrobichaux.com)
221 points by gbacon 3y ago|180 comments
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by gbacon 3y ago
Anecdotes about "trust fund kids," asserting a "misguided war on inflation," and a vague conspiracy of unidentified landlords make the post seem more like a rant than serious economic analysis. Perhaps the author missed
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by gbacon 3y ago
You wrote about what "we" need without identifying whom else that statement represents. You may prefer higher-density housing. It may even be the case that a majority of people near where you live prefer high-density housing. Th
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by gbacon 3y ago
Can we agree that at least an acre of federally owned land is neither in the desert nor "50 miles from anywhere" and may be desirable for commercial or residential use?
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That’s an extraordinarily broad assertion.
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Soviet Russia isn’t the example to follow.
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by gbacon 3y ago
Don't forget their cousins "tree" and "fife" — or the overpronunciation of Papa as /papà/.
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by gbacon 3y ago
Fun to consider as both a computer scientist and a CFI. Instrument training in FAA-land requires learners to understand the five hazardous attitudes: anti-authority ("the rules don't apply to me"), impulsivity ("gotta do
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by gbacon 4y ago
Your analogy is way off. If smoke alarms worked like NOTAMs, they’d go off every time someone strikes a match, lights the fireplace, turns on the gas cooktop, uses a hair dryer, or plugs in any appliance. Oh yes, when the house is on fire t
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by gbacon 4y ago
The risk of air-to-air collision goes up. Activities are supposed to stop when non-participants unwisely enter. Doing so may be impossible on short notice. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Moncks_Corner_mid-air_col...
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Showing the halting problem’s undecidability in Agda(boarders.github.io)
3 points by gbacon 5y ago|0 comments
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by gbacon 5y ago
Do you mean Small Business Administration loans? SBIR and STTR are grant programs, not loans.
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by gbacon 5y ago
American consumers have been taught the incorrect cost-plus concept of price formation under which significant increases are tantamount to the imaginary crime of "price gouging."
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by gbacon 6y ago
Caro’s comments are about poker, but they clearly have broader applicability. The reason that you suck at poker is because you’re an emotional human being. You perceive short-term events in the course of your life history as more important
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Poker pro Mike Caro on keeping the short term in perspective(poker1.com)
1 points by gbacon 6y ago|1 comments

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