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by grog454 4y ago
> I'm not sure why you say "in my version" because I didn't say I believed in reincarnation That was just shorthand for "in what you mean when you say reincarnation".
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by grog454 4y ago
> reincarnation The idea leads to so many questions. In your version, is the reincarnated person conscious of their past selves? If not, is that any different than a clone? What happens between death and reincarnation? How does the math
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by grog454 4y ago
Not a parent so this is a legitimate question: why not try educating your child on these dangers and how to spot them? These dangers exist to varying degrees in every system involving humans on the planet. This includes ones that are less v
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by grog454 4y ago
Some languages handle massive parameter lists better than other (ex with defaults). There are also design patterns for this type of problem (ex a PizzaBuilder).
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by grog454 4y ago
What is the value of ethical and moral intuitions that can't be applied to real-world situations?
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by grog454 4y ago
> I've never gotten why so many people think that the physical act of pulling or not pulling makes so much difference. One reason could be because your presence at this railroad switch is exceptional or at least unusual in some way.
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by grog454 4y ago
> with prometheus, grafana, worker nodes that can scale independently of web service, a CI/CD pipeline that can spin up complete stacks with TLS automated through nginx and cert-manager, do full integration tests, etc. > I found
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by grog454 4y ago
I think it's just beginning...
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by grog454 4y ago
> For a non-sealed cup of hot liquid, the significant majority of cooling happens at the exposed surface with the air, through a mixture of convection and evaporation. I don't know enough to argue with any confidence but this is ver
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by grog454 4y ago
Why would you not consider that caveat? The cooling rate should be generally proportional to both the surface area and the current temperature delta between the liquid and whatever it contacts. Taken to the extreme, if you added the creamer
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by grog454 4y ago
> but if you can't declare and populate an associative array in the main language you're interviewing in you shouldn't be surprised if your interviewer fails you. What if I can google how to do that in all of the language
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by grog454 4y ago
I guess thinking isn't encouraged in the game in general, so your comment makes sense. The parent (like you) didn't see how D2 could be interpreted as politically incorrect. The parent's parent did. I was trying to bridge the
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by grog454 4y ago
A Gheed quote: "You're a brave soul! I'd sooner thrust my sacred scepter into the foulest, carbuncular trull than set one boot into that cave." https://diablo.fandom.com/wiki/Gheed Don't really
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by grog454 4y ago
It appears to be a different (and more direct) way of framing the same problem: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/langley/joint-nasa-noaa-study-f... A better argument for solar panels is that per kwh of useful energy,
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by grog454 4y ago
> Any wavelengths which were gonna heat the air by absorption, were absorbed on the way in and didn't reach the roof in the first place. What is the basis for this? Intuitively (I am no expert) it seems more likely that the amount o
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by grog454 4y ago
> The PVs absorb a lot of thermal energy, too, more than the shingles themselves do. I've found this to be interesting going back as far as middle school, where we're taught renewable energy sources like solar panels can help r
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by grog454 4y ago
In other words, assuming falling probability doesn't vary with height, its estimating what % of time people spend at each height * probability of a fall being reported at that height * probability of death at a given height.
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by grog454 4y ago
> I've often wished there was a way programming could produce art as a by product That's pretty much what computer graphics programming is.
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by grog454 4y ago
I prefer to know what it is I'm being given before I decide whether its worth it to figure out how I'm allowed to use it. To each their own.
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by grog454 4y ago
I had a similar problem once. I normally use the dvorak layout but was on a qwerty keyboard. I don't remember exactly why, but I had to muscle-memory type the password as if the keyboard was dvorak and manually remap the characters usi
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by grog454 4y ago
> In future American OEMs may move to a more European model where vehicles are built to specific customer order. That's it, I'm moving to Europe.
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by grog454 4y ago
> We don't hear phrases like "I used to read and write English, but since I moved to management I have stopped" Maybe we do. Wouldn't a better analogy be professional writers moving toward an editor/director role
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by grog454 4y ago
If you like this kind of intuitive problem solving you might like "Proofs without Words". It was one of my favorite "math" books in highschool.
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by grog454 4y ago
The vast majority of your coworkers will have gone through a similar if not identical interview process. Do you prefer to work with people that pretend they've never seen a question before when they have? Then do that. Do you prefer to
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by grog454 4y ago
From [2], is this post really your source? > Capital One / Eng NewHere1 > 23 Comments > How many people interview vs get the job ? > > My guess /estimates (avg company wide) > ... Or some other post behind the
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by grog454 4y ago
> The bar seems to sit somewhere around setting a server room on fire. Ah yes, literally burning the bridge (if the servers utilize a network bridge).
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by grog454 4y ago
> someone has to pay to feed the children and keep the lights on at my village back home. Why are you solely responsible for this?
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by grog454 4y ago
>I don't wake up excited to make schematics or lay out a PCB. I do it because it's a good job and I want money, I see this a lot in computer science / SWE too. I realize you don't have the life experience to answer th
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by grog454 4y ago
> "great buy Mark" Am I interpreting this correctly as sarcasm? If so, it seems to suggest that the product was overvalued, the acquisition a mistake, and the "success" more to do with luck or duplicity than "la
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by grog454 4y ago
> If you want your fence to stick around: document the rationale. That way, later people know if the reasoning still holds. And if you're at the point where the fence is being removed: might as well bite the bullet. The way I see it

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