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by hnben 3y ago
> Waterfall doesn't mean not to iterate I don't want to be pedantic, but waterfall does mean exactly that by definition (or at least it used to). There are plenty of variations, that include prototypes or MVPs or iterations (e.
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by hnben 3y ago
i guess, that since each app is a function, each app only has access to the parameters it was called with.
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by hnben 3y ago
cargo cult programming is real though
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by hnben 3y ago
> I'm seeing this happening. Are you seeing the "provoke China to attack Taiwan"-part or the "grab the talents from East Asia"-part?
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by hnben 3y ago
> 5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero%27s_journey
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by hnben 3y ago
you could try out https://ground.news/
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by hnben 3y ago
it is very rare that algorithms from theoretical comp sci papers actually get implemented and executed.
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by hnben 3y ago
> and cloud infrastructure nowadays focus on other stacks, instead of being yet another UNIX clone could you elaborate? I was under the impression, that most clouds heavily rely on unix, both for host and guest systems (and containers)
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by hnben 3y ago
I think dynamic prices in itself are a good thing for the reasons you mentioned. On the other hand: if the end-user prices rely solely on market-pricing, than utility-companies don't have any incentives to provide a stable energy gener
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by hnben 3y ago
do they use cow tools there?
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by hnben 3y ago
LCOE is in the linked article as well, and it does paint a similar picture
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by hnben 3y ago
> conventional grid sorry, I should've said "conventional power generation". I mean it like "using old school tech, like coal and oil".
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by hnben 3y ago
> I am discovering that mathematicians cannot tell the difference between “proof by contradiction” and “proof of negation”. I am glad to learn, that I just as dumb as the average mathematician lol. > Proving a negation is not a proof
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by hnben 3y ago
> I would need to assume that I can solve a problem in polynomial time, and then find a contradiction iirc that's actually how many of these proofs work. > To me it is really hard to see a useful path forward from there. yes, CS
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by hnben 3y ago
Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan It kinda feels like an alternate history fantasy novel, but it's actually real. It tells the history of the world, but from a central asian perspective.
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by hnben 3y ago
when proving a negativ in math, you often do a proof by contradiction precondition: Either A is true or it is false. question: is A false? solution: 1. assume that A is true 2. <math stuff> 3. find a contradiction 4. ==> A can not
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by hnben 3y ago
From glancing over the article, I am not sure how type_spec is actually invoked. Is it a separate build step that emits the language-specific type-definitions?
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by hnben 3y ago
> Coal power: $4,074 > Solar PV with storage: $1,748 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source#... and for the fun of it > Nuclear $6,695-7,547 regarding you question: In large scale project
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by hnben 3y ago
I think it probably was some weird glitch, but I also think they decided not to fix it. Orgs and people have that weird bias, where they prefer to do things that benefits them. My guess is, that some engineer noticed the glitch and then som
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by hnben 3y ago
> It's disheartening to realize that the frontend space is no better now than when I began my career in 1990. I disagree. Since I started programming some 20 years ago, I relearned web (and especially JS) every 5 years or so. And ea
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by hnben 3y ago
> The closest we are to real “communism” I would say is in Switzerland Most swiss people would probably disagree with this statement.
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by hnben 3y ago
> Grimmer found that the fastest sequences always had one thing in common: The middle step was always a big one. So... it's like binary-search, but you don't know the maximum before hand? (i.e. you double the step size until yo
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by hnben 3y ago
there is a web interface [1] and also an eclipse plugin [2]. It would be nice if there was an intellijplugin as well. [1] https://github.com/google/git-appraise-web [2] https://github.com/google/gi
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by hnben 3y ago
> Kindle: attach book to Kindle email address, send. I like to image, that jeff bezos dies a little inside whenever I do this.
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by hnben 3y ago
> Devs, of all people, should be the ones advocating for their customers. why?