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by jpitz 7y ago
>Checklists are not bad, but they are to be executed by humans. I disagree. People employ checklists precisely in the situations where it is most critical that every step be executed, in order, as written. The airline industry flies on c
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by jpitz 7y ago
Are you referring to medical operations, or IT operations, in hospitals? I think he is referring to medical operations, where I would expect the relevant professions to be doctors and nurses, not engineers.
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by jpitz 7y ago
I often hear these called Heisenbugs.
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by jpitz 7y ago
The purpose of the comment, to me, is to remind folks to refrain from taking your frustration with a product or a company out on a person.
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by jpitz 7y ago
Alternately, I implemented the algorithm for generating all permutations straight out of Knuth. They may be extremely dense and hard to read, but I feel like you are hanging a lot of emotional baggage on a set of reference books.
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by jpitz 7y ago
This is a big part of Liskov substitutability.
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by jpitz 8y ago
Potassium nitrate and sugar has been a very well known mixture for - what? Hundreds of years at least. We need a culture of rational and critical thought, not one that sequesters away knowledge.
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by jpitz 8y ago
I'm not sure I put a lot of faith in that study to measure anything other than that new users of a VCS are confused by the existence of a staging area.
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by jpitz 8y ago
To me it seems to be operating like a slide hammer that connects via magnetic force instead of mechanically. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slide_hammer
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by jpitz 8y ago
It was Floyd's Algorithm I was thinking of.
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by jpitz 8y ago
"The system should not allow a loop to be introduced. Obviously. But, it happened, and it'll happen again given enough time, so what else?" The algorithm to detect a cycle is pretty simple. Why not prevent them? https:/
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by jpitz 8y ago
At this level, it offers a near-perfect example of the very definition of esoteric.
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by jpitz 8y ago
Aren't the false positives in this situation representative of set elements that node b thinks that node a has but really does not?
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by jpitz 8y ago
But what about the false positives?
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by jpitz 8y ago
This isn't new, and doesn't answer that part of your question, but a Merkle Tree is a solution to that problem that can avoid sending the entire set.
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by jpitz 8y ago
For me, the advantage of mosh is that it handles network changes seamlessly.
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by jpitz 8y ago
They're ( they, the MDR 7506 ) kind of a industry standard in professional editing and mixing settings, not to mention as monitors. They sound pretty good to a lot of people. I 'grew up' on them, perhaps I'm biased. I&#x
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by jpitz 8y ago
I remember one employed by the protagonist in one of Clancey's books, Without Remorse.
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by jpitz 8y ago
I recall, back in the mid-to-late 2000s, investigating OutOfMemoryError on a Windows server, to find that the cause was an inability to create a thread, because the kernel buffer space for managing threads was exhausted ( many thousands of
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by jpitz 8y ago
Even if we accept that to be generally true, and I do, that doesn't mean that the person that you replied to was wrong.
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by jpitz 8y ago
You know, it's so much more vastly important to understand the expectation then it is to get the implementation correct the first time.
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by jpitz 8y ago
All I want is a reasonable standard where I can use a tool to format and enforce it.
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by jpitz 8y ago
The whole premise of the article is avoiding IO stalls on large EBS volumes.
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by jpitz 8y ago
I'm a vendor serving that industry segment, and that's not out of line with the coverage we have to carry.
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by jpitz 8y ago
>Money is not an issue with disney at all. I just don't agree with that. Otherwise, I think you are pretty spot on.
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by jpitz 8y ago
It seems odd to me that you single out Americans here. Do you have no experience with any other group? I have observed Europeans do this as well.
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by jpitz 8y ago
Might have something to do with being in a very dense area with some very old infrastructure.
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by jpitz 8y ago
> Citation needed :P There are plenty of citations out there, but Craig wrote most of them.
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by jpitz 8y ago
tl;dr : Replacements in mostly uncontested deployments, with a focus on a relatively inexpensive and easy to maintain aircraft, with additional roles as recon and trainer aircraft. NOT an all-out fleet replacement for the Warthog.
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by jpitz 8y ago
>Typing is a means for correct programming, not an end in itself. That's not always the case. https://aphyr.com/posts/342-typing-the-technical-interview

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