jlg23

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by jlg23 5y ago
As a German who nowadays speaks French most of the time, I long for my simple German numbers... 99 in French is quatre-vingt-dix-huit (four-twenty ten-eight)
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by jlg23 5y ago
That only works for those who read all of the article, not just the headline. Even worse, the correction might be in another article...
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by jlg23 5y ago
That is why, in Europe and Africa, I follow a simple rule for choosing facilities on highways: do they have many trucker customers? If they do, that usually means they are professionally managed, clean and food is good and plentiful.
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by jlg23 5y ago
I prototype business logic in prolog by turning client requirements into predicates. This allows me to formalize their prose and to verify I understand it correctly by asking the client for expected results for a given input/scenario.
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by jlg23 5y ago
ISO Prolog and SQL matter for me a lot: I sometimes write both, but overall not much. Sticking to the standard makes revisiting code years much easier and code can survive a few major version bumps of compiler/database without problems
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by jlg23 5y ago
Yes, I do. Just because I know how to speak/write some language I don't have to love it. And I rather do something I enjoy than dragging myself to work every day. Increased productivity is just a corollary. (I'll still accept
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by jlg23 5y ago
From the article: "The Pentagon uses its more remote military bases, many in the American West, to test how its forces operate under GPS denial."
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by jlg23 5y ago
> And given who was and who wasn't implicated in this and given which news orgs received these papers, it's pretty obvious that CIA or NSA or some other part of the US IC community was behind these leaks. Maybe a little bit too
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by jlg23 5y ago
But when your deployment costs run into the 7 to 10 digit numbers, you might long for better peer review of your code. Formal proofs provide that.
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by jlg23 5y ago
Department #1 does the hardware setup, signs off their forms and the next day department #2 integrates the new hardware into monitoring?
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by jlg23 5y ago
> "oh my god please don't actually use this for anything real" Dare do explain why? If all you need is a form to pop up and some way to save the data, this is probably the least steep learning curve for anyone who already
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by jlg23 5y ago
We could just start with people dying from starvation or wars globally. My guts tell me, if we can reduce this number, we will reduce the number of terrorist attacks as well.
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by jlg23 5y ago
That is a fine tradeoff until you realize that a single , manual verification of these 1.3MB telephone numbers costs more than developing and maintaining the unit tests...
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by jlg23 5y ago
> The problem with REPL-driven development is that when taken too far it makes you capable of creating programs that simply cannot be understood by someone without the "lived experience" of the path taken to arrive the solution
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by jlg23 5y ago
That you can be "engrossed in solving a problem" is a luxury. One that I enjoyed when I was responsible only to myself. Once my wife and daughter entered my life, it was gone. And even before, from time to time, I had to make spac
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by jlg23 5y ago
I think they are aiming at the elderly; most babies dont need their glucose levels monitored constantly...
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by jlg23 5y ago
> My fallacy is that there is a billion things that I am good at, but I don't consider them difficult (how could they be, if I am good at them) This reminds me on a cartoon in which a rocket scientists plays down his work "it&#
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by jlg23 5y ago
Hrhr. I actually know a legit one who fits the description. But that is exactly one :)
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by jlg23 5y ago
> we'd have to ring the "office manager" (ex-SAS) I'm not sure what's the fetish with the SAS, but I apparently know more people who where in the or with strong ties to the SAS than regular British folks... OTOH,
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by jlg23 5y ago
If I get the essence of what you are saying... "the only victims would be both ends of the communication"? ;)
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by jlg23 5y ago
> The reality is they've been used for hundreds of years for cooking, without complicated maintenance routines. But they have been used routinely: They seasoned themselves just by being used and they never saw strong detergents. &qu
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by jlg23 5y ago
Well, what about land? There ain't any new land. The supply is limited, well measured and it won't change much....
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by jlg23 5y ago
> And if your problem is that you just don't like acronyms, you probably picked the wrong industry. Once upon a time, I worked for a company that bought a lot of IBM's 8656-1RY, which was later renamed to "x-series $whatev
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by jlg23 5y ago
Their blog was much more insightful to me, here the Spring 2021 Progress Report: https://openinsulin.org/our-blog/spring-2021-progress-report...
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by jlg23 5y ago
> Yes, exactly! We can already observe the effects through such metrics as marriage rate and birth rate in e.g. Germany or South Korea. I am missing the proof of causation here. One can equally assume that a good social safety net reduce
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by jlg23 5y ago
> more responsibilities without any traditional patriarchal privileges it makes it less attractive. If one was raised in a patriarchal setup, maybe. But some societies have already a third or even fifth generation that never knew this.
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by jlg23 5y ago
Others have gotten very rich creating a world in which poor pedestrians can now expect to be threatened by SUVs. But what exactly was your point with regard to the story?
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by jlg23 5y ago
> At least in japanese, the other days of the week are also associated with celestial bodies The naming scheme also holds for French, except for Saturday (samedi [0]) and Sunday(dimanche [1]), which originates from "Day of Shabbat&q
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by jlg23 5y ago
What could be the benefit of dragging OO into this?
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by jlg23 5y ago
If all dead ends were as thoroughly documented as a scientist's whole career tends to be, we'd have a lot of dead ends less to re-discover again and again.

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