greggyb

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   by greggyb 7y ago

   In short, yes, but there are limits. A really ( really ) rough analogy would be filling a tank of water. If you fill it faster than it can drain, eventually it will overflow. If it is sealed, it may burst. The grid equivalents of an overflo
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   by greggyb 7y ago

   The challenge with many environmentally-powered renewables is specifically that they can't be used for spot production. Nuclear tends to share this. Most nuclear reactor technology is not optimized for rapid swings in production. A rea
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   by greggyb 7y ago

   Thanks for letting me know. As I said, most of my knowledge of these is just osmosis from comments here. I've used TFS, Visual Studio Online / Azure DevOps, GitHub, GitLab, and SourceHut. My knowledge of the others is purely from
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   by greggyb 7y ago

   Sourcehut: https://sr.ht Savannah: https://savannah.nongnu.org/ GitLab: https://www.gitlab.com BitBucket: https://www.bitbucket.org SourceForge: https://www.sourceforge.net If
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   by greggyb 7y ago

   An additional aspect is focus. By being expensive and not part of the normal reporting hierarchy, a consulting firm working on a project can have the luxury of focusing on just that project. This is a huge benefit.
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   by greggyb 7y ago

   Horseman. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow popularized the myth of the headless horseman. This is a headless browser given a head. If we gave the headless horseman a head, he'd just be a horseman.
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   by greggyb 7y ago

   Firefox has a built in reader mode which works on Bloomberg (and basically all places I've wanted to use it). https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-reader-view-clu...
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   by greggyb 7y ago

   I had the same reaction. Bandwidth is only one metric of interest. I think time spent is a better proxy to the true metric of interest, which you rightly called out as attention.
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   by greggyb 7y ago

   Attempted assault is a bit weird, simply because the crime of assault is typically defined to include both attempts at and successes at causing bodily harm to another. That said, the concept of punishing attempted crimes is well established
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    by greggyb 7y ago

    I'm not trying to pull a "gotcha!" or oversimplify your position or anything else devious. I am honestly curious about your answer to this question, given your position above: What do you think about cases where the accused i
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    by greggyb 7y ago

    I see a lot of people playing language lawyer with what it means "to die." I think another fruitful thing to think about what "for life" means. It is not unreasonable to interpret "for life" as "while livi
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    by greggyb 7y ago

    Sad, yes, but unsurprising. In the heyday of cable, consumers in aggregate proved that they are more than willing to stomach complexity and fragmentation to have access to a wide range of video content. Sure, many people complain about it,
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    by greggyb 7y ago

    The suggestion is to not use foreign key constraints in the database. The suggestion is not to eschew columns which might be JOINed on in a query. I.e. "Don't enforce FK relationships with a constraint in the DB. Make sure the v
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    by greggyb 7y ago

    Also, C# can be read as C++++. C ++ ++
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    by greggyb 7y ago

    My favorite is their cloud platform, Azure, named after the color of a clear blue sky.
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    by greggyb 7y ago

    For some prior art in this space, it may be useful looking at ESR's shipper: http://www.catb.org/esr/shipper/ And some blog posts he's written on it: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?s=shipper&amp
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    by greggyb 7y ago

    Don't forget Hy and Clojure (which pop to mind, but I don't intend to be exhaustive).
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    by greggyb 7y ago

    Brainfuck, then. Eight commands oughta be enough for anyone, amiright? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck#Commands
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    by greggyb 7y ago

    There are already helicopter tours and other companies offering this same air-taxi service. Is your worry new upon hearing this news, or is Uber somehow more dangerous?
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    by greggyb 7y ago

    Vaguely related, I came across this talk the other day, and it is interesting to see this sort of thing come up twice in short succession for me. The talk is about building an exchange from Jane Street. Leaving it here in case anyone is int
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    by greggyb 7y ago

    Turns out it's just a regular interpreter, and there are strict semantics about how things must be named. That's what they meant by metacircular interpreter in SICP, right?
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    by greggyb 7y ago

    Ah, I more fully understand your complaint. (Now only 1/4 related and 1/8 serious.) I thought you were opposed to nondescriptive names, but instead you just want to have a minimal set of orthogonal constructs which can be combined
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    by greggyb 7y ago

    Half related and only quarter-serious: I bet your code is full of functions with names like: takeCustomerIDAndDateThenQueryDatabaseToReturnArrayOfPurchaseOrdersWhichConsistOfPONumberAndNetSalesPrice takeCustomerIDAndDateThenQuer
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    by greggyb 7y ago

    While I agree with the technical criticism you level, I think the more important thing is whether the truth of the matter is: 1. "Links asking someone to add you on another service are not allowed on Instagram." or 2. "Links
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    by greggyb 7y ago

    I was involved with design and planning for a solution to predict unscheduled maintenance and warranty claims for vehicles. I think that we had a pretty similar problem. Unfortunately I did not stay with the company I was working for, so I
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    by greggyb 7y ago

    Just an FYI for you. HN does not support Markdown, but does automatically make URLs into links. Unfortunately, its parser doesn't play well with Markdown syntax. Your link goes to the URL below: https://teachyourselfcs.
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    by greggyb 7y ago

    MDX isn't a relational language, though. It's a dimensional language. The best short description I can give about MDX is that it's the language your pedantic uncle would come up with after falling in love with Ralph Kimball,
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    by greggyb 7y ago

    Sure would. Not for every trip, though.
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    by greggyb 7y ago

    > making sure that the cars work when out of reception is a “mission-critical success factor” for the company I guess mission failed then... It is so easy to call something mission-critical. I am always tempted to ignore it when I hear i
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    by greggyb 7y ago

    Punishment should be commensurate with crime. If the penalty for robocalling is death, then there's no disincentive from performing worse crimes to avoid punishment for robocalling. If I'm already at risk of death penalty, I'