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by hnick 2y ago
I think that could cause a huge shift away from contributing to or being the maintainer of open source software. It would be too risky if those standards were applied and they couldn't use the standard "as is, no warranties"
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by hnick 2y ago
In my case at least, they probably accounted for it somewhere by adjusting rates elsewhere so it works out. So it's a bit risky to just change, similar to code that is known to be wrong but too hard to change since "everything wor
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by hnick 2y ago
> you are teaching them a deeply flawed process, which is highly specific, highly limited and something which the developer would never use themselves. That kind of lock-in can be a feature from the employer's perspective. I did act
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by hnick 2y ago
As a programmer who had used Excel for years, seeing my accountant start typing a formula, change sheets, select some cells, go back, repeat, was a learning process. I didn't even know you could do that, and also, I hated it. But it wo
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by hnick 2y ago
Most times in my career that I've seen people talking about visual programming, it's not about the developers - it's about lowering the bar so that (cheaper) non-developers can participate. A Business Analyst may or may not h
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by hnick 2y ago
Mathematically it would be simple, but I don't think it's as simple as just splitting based on time. They'd probably argue the song or movie clip added more value e.g. if I used a famous song in my 10 second introduction clip
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by hnick 2y ago
They tried the safe harbour argument against Viacom. It didn't go that smoothly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viacom_International_Inc._v._Y... . That whole debacle spawned Content ID and yes, now they're hap
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by hnick 2y ago
I think semi-persistent internet is not such a big deal for a lot of providers. For Opal here in Sydney AU it uses a connection for some features. Cards can be anonymous or assigned to an account, the account shows all your trips online, so
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by hnick 2y ago
I think the modern ones are all fine for the basic stuff like that. For my work, it was the highly detailed low level stuff. Pre-flight checks/profiles, content tree (object level, including text fragment) browsing, flattening, convert
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by hnick 2y ago
Yeah this was Woolies too, but late 90s. And I also still do the casual facing up. It's kind of satisfying, but also my wife is a bit short so there are times when someone her height can't see any stock left and I've had to d
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by hnick 2y ago
Let's just say I have the typical mindset of someone on this site and so for larger buys I add ingredients into Excel per recipe/need then rearrange into sections (Meat, Fridge, etc) roughly in order of store sections, 2 column la
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by hnick 2y ago
In Australia they called it "facing up" (e: seems there's a wiki article calling it "facing" and maybe my boss just Aussied it a bit) and it was something I had to do every night while/after packing the stock.
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by hnick 2y ago
It's a large part of why I always shop at the same supermarket despite having closer options now. I feel like it takes twice as long with even minor layout differences. Then they go and move things anyway. My first order of business up
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by hnick 2y ago
I've used it. I've never had a job using it. Most people haven't.
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by hnick 2y ago
I think that mostly works (as an aside, last time I looked at this in Windows, we couldn't do something like sudo reliably because there was no secure way to provide the password without user interaction - it seems they've just re
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by hnick 2y ago
I've been waiting for functional programming to have its day for more than 20 years. It just seems fundamentally at odds with how most people want to work. You can make individual functions pure in any language, but do many languages e
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by hnick 2y ago
I had the same thought years ago, I think some people have looked into it a little, but nothing popular yet. Imagine if you could look at a function, and know, undeniably - this, and anything it can call, absolutely cannot alter the file sy
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by hnick 2y ago
I agree with this. Easy to change often means good tests too. I worked in Perl. Yes it has a reputation for being hard to read, but that was not the problem. Our scripting was pretty basic and easy to read. It's the loose typing, the r
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by hnick 2y ago
An IDE can help a lot. Coming from Perl, everything you said was true. I wanted everything in one file as much as possible, and breaking tasks off into functions just meant I had to jump around to try and rebuild the flow in my head. I spen
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by hnick 2y ago
> fluidly produce all of the words as I say them It's been a few days but I was thinking about this, and really - are we sure? Deja vu exists, and as I understand is a bit of a processing issue where something we only just did seems
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by hnick 2y ago
It really was eye opening how much difference a small 10mg dose made, and the structures of the modern world made a whole lot more sense with the knowledge that maybe a lot of people are just like this, all the time. I had experienced focus
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by hnick 2y ago
Right or wrong, people talking their way around around keywords during the pandemic, when not even discussing the pandemic, was weird. They were scared of the YouTube algorithm falsely identifying them and harming their livelihood so would
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by hnick 2y ago
It's not 100% for me but just the vast majority. I do visualise things that are almost purely spacial like geometry or recalling how to do an exercise. Though from what I've read, even this is news to some people who express surpr
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by hnick 2y ago
That's interesting. I read your comment in my head while counting and seemed able to keep up, but something more complex might be hard, such as reading out loud. On another tangent, I've been trying Ritalin after speaking to a doc
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by hnick 2y ago
I feel like my grasp of language allows some very complex thoughts, but I often wonder if it is limiting. I seem nearly unable to think without forming phrases in my head, and even if I anticipate the conclusion I feel the need to go throug
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by hnick 2y ago
> The fact that she associates a sensation of contraction in the forehead as thinking is very interesting. Makes sense to me. A furrowed brow is a common trope of thinking hard about something, it'd make sense if the same happens on
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by hnick 2y ago
We said it in FFXI a few years before that. I thought maybe it was a pun since the game has a spell called Bio and people would highlight the word using the auto-translate function, but I just checked and this says the term dates back to th
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by hnick 2y ago
> Hunger as a response to mild dehydration makes sense though. We get a significant proportion of our water intake from food. This is truer than I used to think. Our dogs are mostly on a raw diet - some days I don't even see the old
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by hnick 2y ago
Sorry just wanted to clear this up - do you mean it delivers an extra set of DNA that does its thing alongside what is already there, rather than editing the main sequence like CRISPR wants to?
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by hnick 2y ago
One example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Couch_to_5K 9 weeks. I have basic fitness but have never been close to completing a 5km run (I think I finally realised I have breathing issues - seeing an ENT soon).

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