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by gnat 6y ago
Mar 2020 article.
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"Cordelia's Honor", a starting point in Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan series. So good: I'm a fan of space operas, and enjoyed the Expanse novels and Scalzi's Interdependency series. These novels are as enjo
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by gnat 6y ago
This is an example of the Scunthorpe Problem, where naive text filtering creates problems with legitimate words. (Yes, it's unclear there's any level text filtering that will stop, for example, teenage boys from putting "rude
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What a life! He costarted the Edinburgh Fringe; founded the alternative culture centre Arts Lab in London, where he mixed with David Bowie, John Lennon and Yoko Ono; ran a sexual liberation magazine in Amsterdam, and started Edinburgh'
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I work at a Windows shop, and every time they roll their eyes at the plethora of Javascript frameworks I just bite my tongue and say "mm hmm". We're looking at tech choices for our future UI development, and we have a large .
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I have always struggled, in real life and online, with people who talk about their complex lives. This gives great advice for how to approach the situation with empathy for them and for the group. Thanks for posting this!
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Forgive my ignorance: what's a "heartland" code base?
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I found that the things that worked for me as a parent also worked for me as a manager: treat them as adults, ask questions rather than assume/provide answers, include them in finding solutions to problem rather than dictate, and so on
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https://archive.is/yNPyo
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I thoroughly recommend Sarah Blakewell's biography of Montaigne. It's brilliantly written, fascinating, and never boring. https://www.amazon.com/How-Live-Montaigne-Question-Attempts/dp/1590514831
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I'm very interested in this, as I come from the web world yet find myself in a company that has a 30-year legacy of putting business logic into the database. It served them really well, and that they run quite lean in terms of hardware
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by gnat 6y ago
Could you be more specific about the problems you're hoping to fix/benefits you're hoping to gain by dragging the backend logic out of the database?
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I feel like that's the hard part of management: being able to give someone the benefit of the doubt without them taking advantage. Nobody teaches THAT!
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https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/123494652/mammoth-... "Immigration NZ (INZ) currently has just over 400 investor-class visa applications on hand, almost all of them from offshore applicants.&qu
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"Not here to fuck spiders" is beautifully Australian, but I feel like "coit" has to be a uniquely Australian swear word.
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I'm pretty sure we know that, at this time, 6G is a marketing term and not a technical term. In that light, there can be no lie when China claim, in press releases and press conferences, to have launched the world's first 6G satel
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"An organization can get surprisingly far with a huge number of bus-factors". So much this. Some managers see high bus factors as a sign of success: "we are a team of specialists: it's so much faster to give a problem to
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by gnat 6y ago
The journalist quoted, Tracey Robnett Licklider, is the child of JCR Licklider whose vision for DARPA gave us all the toys we enjoy today. If you haven't read Mitchell Waldrop's "The Dream Machine" then you should remedy
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by gnat 6y ago
Property rights did not solve overfishing problems in NZ. We have had crashing fish stocks, and new problems like exploited foreign workers.
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This is really good! Thank you for writing something that's so easy to understand.
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We take it for granted now with the prevalence and acceptance of interpreted languages like Python and Perl, but the radical accessibility of BASIC can't be over-emphasized. C, Pascal, FORTRAN, and friends all had a compile step which
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If you're used to Australia, almost anywhere in NZ will offer beautiful surroundings. And, thanks to the broadband rollout, most towns have fibre and those without fibre have cellular that's fast enough for most things. I look out
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Speculation is a choice, not a necessity. Investors make that choice, knowing that governments will choose whether or not to support it. Your economic reductionism is blind to political realities: a government that implements unpopular poli
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"This is a narrative on how computational structures such as data structures, programming constructs, and algebraic structures undergirding Computer Science display deep parallels among them." Very math, but interesting.
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There's an uninformed idea domestically and abroad that Zero Cases In New Zealand is normal, and anything else should be a headline. Zero cases in the country will never be realistic while we have people flying in, goods arriving on ai
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As @versteegen said, Thiel came in under Ministerial dispensation, not the usual visa program which has space for investors and skilled migrants. I do largely agree with your real estate operation zinger. Since Europeans came here, it has a
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After the epic shitstorm that Thiel's citizenship caused, I don't see any appetite for further dispensations of citizenship by Ministers.
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https://archive.is/Iv2OS
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This is great. Now he just needs to train a neural net to turn paintings into photo-realistic pictures, and then feed in the portrait paintings of the pre-photography Presidents ...
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This is a great story, and also serves as a demonstration of how hard it is to write history - whether ancient or proximal. Everything is contested, whether documentary evidence ("you can't believe anything in a Soviet archive&quo

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