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World Locality Transit Graph(jaza.github.io)
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Thoughts On FastAPI(greenash.net.au)
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by jaza 2y ago
Thanks for that final paragraph! I'm going to quote you from now on, when trying to explain to someone (for the thousandth time) why ChatGPT isn't about to become super-intelligent and take over the world.
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by jaza 2y ago
Thanks! That article demystified quite a bit of the magic of Makefiles for me. However, even after 10+ years of professional dev work during which I've regularly crossed paths with Makefiles, they still scare me, and I've still ne
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by jaza 2y ago
I remember the first time I ever saw the WWW, I think it was 1996, I was in 5th grade (in Australia). The whole class sat down cross-legged in the "computer room", where the school's brand-new Internet connection had just bee
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by jaza 3y ago
WTF? You are the product of your genetics AND your life experience. If anything, I've always felt that the latter, not the former, is the dominant factor. Granted, there are other biological factors apart from genetics that may disadva
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by jaza 3y ago
We are indeed doing well by historical standards. Looking back to Dickensian times, for example, those at the lowest echelons of society were lucky to make it to their teenage years at all! Infant and child mortality was far higher than it
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by jaza 3y ago
Don't know about the US, but in Australia at least, mechanics / electricians / welders / plumbers / etc ("tradies" as we call them) generally do quite well financially. Income often above the average for a
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by jaza 3y ago
https://www.linkedin.com/pub/dir/Jia/Tan Take your pick! 1600+ to choose from.
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by jaza 3y ago
Gonna be one hell of a retro...
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by jaza 3y ago
Even if (this is a challenge for the average English speaker like myself) you maintain in your conscious mind "fenestra = window", I think it's still so funny, because it sounds like you're removing the window from the p
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by jaza 3y ago
Makes my brain tingle in weird ways, reading different snippets of this article. Where it talks about "A:" being the floppy drive, suddenly I'm an early 90s kid again, learning the basics of my first home computer (an Olivett
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by jaza 3y ago
All Your SSH Are Belong To Us
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by jaza 3y ago
An innovative and refreshing take on font design! Almost all other articles that I've come across on font design, are written by graphic designers who are at least moderately 1337 typographers, and who are pretty anal about things like
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by jaza 3y ago
30 minutes minutes or 30 Windows minutes? :P
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by jaza 3y ago
Where do you think the weirdest bits of the English language came from?
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by jaza 3y ago
Tests! Tests! Tests! If the author had written thorough unit tests first, they could have then engaged in fearless refactoring, they would have been orders of magnitude less likely to have broken any functionality, and what's more, nob
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by jaza 3y ago
Taking kids to weekend sport in Australia is not a one-off occasion. It's every Saturday morning. It produces its own peak hour (approx 10am-1pm Sat), focused in certain suburban areas, that's often worse than weekday peak hour in
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by jaza 3y ago
As others have said here, if you want to do it nicely and avoid break / continue, then do it in a proper FP way with chained limit / filter calls, rather than doing it per my example. I accept your criticism, that my example is mu
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by jaza 3y ago
That's the nicest counter-example to my example, thanks for that! I wasn't familiar with take_while() (looks like that's Rust, and looks like Python has a similar itertools.takewhile() ), TIL a neat FP version of break. My ex
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by jaza 3y ago
Yes, I agree, that's the way to do it. Although it isn't always so obvious how to break it up into limit / filter steps, my example was quite trivial. But there should always be a way somehow.
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by jaza 3y ago
I don't mind early returns, but I'm infamously anti "break" and "continue" statements (and all my colleagues to date have disagreed with me and have found my stance hilarious and/or infuriating). My ratio
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by jaza 3y ago
I don't deal with splines much, but when I do, I'm reticulating splines.
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by jaza 3y ago
Amen. Everything else in this article I can stomach. But onclick - just say no.
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by jaza 3y ago
Every system has arbitrary hard-coded constants deep down in its bowels somewhere. Why should the foundation of all knowledge be any different?
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by jaza 3y ago
Maybe you would find it less unsettling - and I believe you would be better understanding Kant's ideas - if, instead of thinking about it as "an underlying reality ... which we can never know", you think of it as "someth
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by jaza 3y ago
Thanks for that - never heard of Ennigaldi-Nanna's museum before. Amazing to think that ~2,500 years ago, they had artifacts on exhibit that were already ~1,500 years old at that time. And labels in three different languages - all they
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by jaza 3y ago
Sorry. No and no.
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by jaza 3y ago
I'm quite impressed with "The Weeping Willows of Winnipeg", I'm happy to commend ChatGPT on it more than Atwood does. Sure, Atwood is an acclaimed professional, but hey, I've written dystopian short stories worse th
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by jaza 3y ago
Here in New South Wales, Australia, we switched to European-style alphanumeric route numbers about 10 years ago. You can still see signs with the old-style route numbers (just numeric, and inside either a shield symbol or a hexagon symbol)

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