jdmichal

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by jdmichal 3y ago
I remember for the first few days no one was saying anything certain. But once the official reports started flowing after those first few days, they were very certain about the fact that the sub had imploded.
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by jdmichal 3y ago
Looks very similar to knots used to join fishing line, like the blood knot.
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by jdmichal 3y ago
I used to do the same with just Excel. First sheet called 1040, one row per line. Schedules and worksheets got additional sheets, so I could easily pull in the values from and to other sheets.
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by jdmichal 3y ago
I called Spectrum before I canceled to specifically ask if they could get me faster internet without changing my TV package. They said no -- I was on a grandfathered plan from a prior company they had bought, and they would have to recreat
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by jdmichal 3y ago
They identified a thing that changes, but in a consistent way across the sample population. That's a very important distinction, because synchronizing vocalizations is not easy. Humans spend a long time learning it. And failure to do i
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by jdmichal 3y ago
It's funny that you phrase this as such, because this exact kind of simple geometry is my go-to example for why this stuff is not as simple. Let's look at a square. Everyone knows a square is a rectangle, right? So of course
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by jdmichal 3y ago
I think people are surprised by the wording of it, but the Supreme Court of the US (SCOTUS) is de-facto the same. The facts are taken as ruled in the lower courts. So unless there is a question regarding how the facts and the law interact
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by jdmichal 3y ago
The professor's story is potentially this one detailed in the very Wikipedia article you linked: > Six adult axolotls (including a leucistic specimen) were shipped from Mexico City to the Jardin des Plantes in Paris in 1863. Unaware
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by jdmichal 3y ago
The web is essentially UI development. And UI frameworks and libraries have always had lots of churn. Even ultra-conservative Java has had AWT, Swing, and a couple varieties of JavaFX. And then a few more developed by other groups like S
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by jdmichal 3y ago
I mean, yes, you can... But summer squashes (zucchini, yellow squash, etc) and winter squashes (pumpkin, butternut, acorn, spaghetti, etc) are not the same. And it's usually the former that home gardeners are trying to foist off on o
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by jdmichal 3y ago
Different cultivars that grow and yield at different rates can help some too.
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by jdmichal 3y ago
Audi lists a volume of 332,981 vehicles for Ingolstadt in 2022. https://www.audi-mediacenter.com/en/audi-in-ingolstadt-5543 Tesla posted a tweet regarding 5000 vehicles in one week in Gruenheide on March 25, 2023. Tha
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by jdmichal 3y ago
Ideally you know that because banks have KYC (Know Your Customer). And Zelle accounts must be populated by a bank. Individuals cannot just create a Zelle account. They must open an account with a bank -- and thereby undergo KYC -- who th
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by jdmichal 3y ago
> You could measure the efficiency of a language by computing how many bits are required to store the semantics of a word/phrase/sentence losslessly. Assuming ideal encoding to bits of course. Think of things like perplexity an
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by jdmichal 3y ago
I'm just a hobby linguist, but I believe research has generally shown that speech information density is relatively fixed. Languages with more complex syllabic structures end up speaking slower, but they can also code more information
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by jdmichal 3y ago
I still run all my PROD JVM applications with `-Xms=a -Xmx=a` to just remove all questions about heap memory. I already allocated that slice of the machine's memory for the application; I don't need the JVM trying to handle shrin
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by jdmichal 3y ago
Java the language has a lambda / function-literal syntax, not first-class functions. (You know this, obviously.) The `struct` bit can refer to a few things: value typing, stack allocation, and explicit memory layout. I think records
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by jdmichal 3y ago
Let's be clear what Flash was though. It was a native binary that would paint to a region owned by the browser. So yes, it was performant because basically the only thing it was doing differently than any other native application was
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by jdmichal 3y ago
> Does the farmer now need to waste time to make 2 separate trips to make each deposit < 3000? In the US, that's called structuring and will result in some very uncomfortable conversations.
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by jdmichal 3y ago
Let me see if I can repro with a sanitized file. In the meantime, I popped open Process Explorer. Here's a slightly abbreviated stack of the only running thread -- the rest are in waiting states. I don't know much about Qt, so t
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by jdmichal 3y ago
I'm using this on Windows 11 and it's locking up trying to copy a single cell. As in, here's the entire repro: 1. Open Modern CSV. 2. Open any file. 3. Select any cell. 4. Hit ctrl-c. Expected: The cell contents would be cop
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by jdmichal 3y ago
CSVi is cute and clever in exactly the way you don't want to be. It loses the entire audience of people who are Excel jockeys working with CSV files and maybe frustrated with the experience. Software engineers and system admins know
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by jdmichal 3y ago
I would use that feature. We do data processing, and for testing I developed a version that runs locally on CSV files. It can take a few minutes to work through a large file, but it's stream processing so it starts writing almost imm
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by jdmichal 3y ago
The fans in air conditioners also need a 3-inch x 2-inch capacitor to start.
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by jdmichal 3y ago
Solar pool heating is very much an established thing, and it does eat up a good chunk of a roof. So yea, if the quantity of hot water is an issue, that would certainly be a good place to dump it. On the other hand, pool water has chemistry
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by jdmichal 3y ago
Even the 1 out of 5 that was selected, the press release was very clear that it's a partially-suspended fine. I understand that the language is a bit weaselly -- 99% suspended feels like a stretch for the word "partial". Bu
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by jdmichal 3y ago
I wish our number system was duodecimal. Then we probably would have ended up with base-12 metric, which would have been freaking awesome.
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by jdmichal 3y ago
Exactly. Handling message queuing and distribution is likely a core capability for Bloomberg, so it makes a lot of sense for them to develop something tailored for their needs. LinkedIn did the same with the original Kafka development, wh
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by jdmichal 3y ago
This is supposed to read: I'm quite aware of your advice regarding using `*` against tables. However, I'm talking about using `*` against subqueries and CTEs where the pieces of the table have already been extracted. I was unable
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by jdmichal 3y ago
I'm quite aware of your advice regarding using ` ` against table. However, I'm talking about using ` ` against subqueries and CTEs where the pieces of the table have already been extracted.

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