jdmichal

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by jdmichal 6y ago
Unicode doesn't magically make this stuff go away, much less any specific encoding of it. A glyph can consist of multiple codepoints, and then those can sometimes be standardized to other codepoints. For instance, Unicode has codepoi
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by jdmichal 6y ago
And yet this is exactly what is done for farming: Paying farmers to leave fields fallow in order to maintain supply and thereby pricing. Dropping property prices shouldn't even be an issue for owners. Property value and thereby prope
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by jdmichal 6y ago
My rule is that the only sort I will ever write by hand is a bubble sort. It's basically impossible to write incorrectly. If and when that breaks performance, then I will bring in an external sorting library and figure out what works
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by jdmichal 6y ago
This reflects my belief as an engineer and now manager: That every 10x developer has an entire team of people who are supporting that person. It's very likely they would not maintain nearly the same pace if you reduced or removed tha
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by jdmichal 6y ago
I could have bought into this theory... Except that it has these four generations grouped and seems to just cherry-pick good and bad events for each to meet the narrative. I would have expected that every generation have certain crises an
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by jdmichal 6y ago
The font I'm seeing in the mono is not making this obvious: The US version has a hook on the right side. It might show up better in proportional font. /ɝ/ That hook is indicating that the vowel is rhotic aka "r-color
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by jdmichal 6y ago
> we never judged anyone on such metrics I think you need to be aware and selective in who "we" is here. Do you mean management-"we", peer-"we", personal-"I"? The post you're replying to did
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by jdmichal 6y ago
I think there's a tangible difference between something like this and a recall. A recall is a single thing going wrong at a large scale. Audi having water pumps that can short-circuit in common scenarios [0]. Samsung using undersp
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by jdmichal 6y ago
Mexican Spanish (might be a broader phenomenon) is another fun one. Limes are limónes and lemons are limas . So sopa de lima is chicken soup with lemons, not limes. However, this is how they map those terms to the varieties present
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by jdmichal 6y ago
I meant string in a more casual sense. From a more technical sense, it would be a symbol. I'll be more precise in the future.
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by jdmichal 6y ago
> And how many integers should actually be strings, unless you're dead sure this is a number. I phrase this as: If it doesn't make sense to do math on it, it's not a number. What does adding one to a customer account num
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by jdmichal 6y ago
This is fine for an open-ended query like the one given, because you still receive all the relevant data. But if you're looking at a range, for the same reason you have one extra at the end, you also have one missing at the beginnin
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by jdmichal 6y ago
> Yeah, I worked in the industry for a while based in Europe, so that's the context of my comment. Just want to let you know that I appreciate the info. Cheers!
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by jdmichal 6y ago
Calling the home insurance market less mental to someone in Tampa Bay is laughable. The only reason I'll even be considered by insurance companies other than the public-run Citizens is because I'm not in a flood zone [0]. Most e
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by jdmichal 6y ago
I don't think those seat pickers cannot be trusted for this information. I had one American Airlines flight that showed so full that I had to pay for seats so that my wife and I could sit together. When we got on the plane, it was cl
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by jdmichal 6y ago
There must be something deeper changing, because at the bottom of the page they say, emphasis mine, "Coming soon to FUTURE smart TVs."
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by jdmichal 6y ago
> If an insurer could see the future, he would give me a policy that costs (cost of my future accidents + X% profit)/(my lifetime) But what happens when (cost of my future accidents) is very high? Are you as an individual just unin
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by jdmichal 6y ago
You have to remember that French borrowings have a special place in English. The timeline of Middle English is roughly defined by the Norman conquest at the start, and the replacement of French as the literary standard at the end. So it&#
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by jdmichal 6y ago
I mean, it's obviously both skill and luck. Like pretty much anything else that's "instantly" successful.
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by jdmichal 6y ago
I have no idea how you determine that. I suspect most have no idea what AOSP Android even looks like. Almost every manufacturer has a custom UI layer. AFAIK Google's Pixel phones and the Nokia Android One phones are the only ones of
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by jdmichal 6y ago
Do you mean you're not getting pure AOSP Android or Google Play Android? Because you're certainly getting a device running the Android operating system...
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by jdmichal 6y ago
Those are just synonyms. Applying skill over and over until the luck finds you. A few people get found quickly. Others having to keep putting in the work and waiting.
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by jdmichal 6y ago
It's not fair to write that you have a "theory", then suddenly convert it to a "thought experiment" when someone points out the the one testable prediction you propose is already disproven. This is equivalent, thou
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by jdmichal 6y ago
I think being able to tell the difference would have to be answered by solving the information loss problem. Because otherwise, every property is either dependent on or constrained only by the mass. And yes, even if they were antimatter b
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by jdmichal 6y ago
> VS Code ... is based on a browser engine, so also not really light on resources? You say that, but IntelliJ is not exactly slouching on resource usage. I see far lower memory usage in VS Code than I do IntelliJ opening the same projec
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by jdmichal 6y ago
Sure, Phoenicians proper had a large trade system. But so did the Greeks and those Greek descendants writing Old Italic scripts. And then the Roman empire conquered all of those and had peak extent around 117, which means that the Latin a
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by jdmichal 6y ago
I think you misread my comment. Note that I said the Greek branch , not directly from Greek. Phoenician had several branches, but the main ones were Aramaic and Greek. Those, of course, led to several current writing systems each. The
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by jdmichal 6y ago
I mean, they're descended from Phoenician. But they descended through the Greek branch, same as the Latin alphabet. And I don't think anyone would call Latin a Semitic script.
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by jdmichal 6y ago
OK I admit to still using % and ? in pipelines. And yes, I tend to prefer keeping "unnecessary" syntax like you pointed out sometimes. Helps me parse and read the scripts easier.
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by jdmichal 6y ago
This is how I write PowerShell scripts. I use full cmdlet names, full argument switch names, and I even specify argument switches to positional arguments. I also do my best to honor common flags like `-WhatIf`, `-Verbose`, and `-ErrorActi

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