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by jyounker 2y ago
> Why does it always have to be an accident? Because that's a surprisingly common way for things to be discovered. Saccharine? Somebody working in a lab didn't clean their hands well, licked their fingers, and discovered it was
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If you have unknowns, then your planning process starts with, "let's figure out how to use this new technology." And that process can involve a bunch of prototyping. Having to make a choice between "make a design documen
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Every time you interview a user or set up a survey to determine customer preferences, you're using techniques developed from social sciences.
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It's easy to say they're probably no threat. The number of ways for something to be a threat is much smaller than the number of ways of something being a not a threat, therefore the probability of them being a threat is very low.
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Strong/weak typing is very specific thing. It refers to the ability to create invalid types within a language. In strongly typed languages it is hard to defeat the type system. In weakly typed languages it is easy to defeat the type sy
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A simple solution might be to put the charger on a timer.
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Which is also a fantasy, since if you did achieve it, you'd just have tests that verified that all your bugs were in place.
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Setting up an exhibition can take many days, and the hours can be extreme. There is limited time between when the previous show goes down, and when the next show goes up. It's crunch time for the artist, and what exactly is involved wi
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It's about relationships. Abstraction is the tool for understanding those relationships.
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Mathematical definitions are precise. If you miss one part of a definition, then you cannot actually understand what the definition actually means. You have to internalize the meaning also, but you must know the definition precisely.
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And the problem with that is? Honestly, the more experienced a developer is, the more their code naturally seems to look like what Go shepherds you towards. It's not a perfect language, but it's a pretty good language for building
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I think your recollection of Python is a bit off. Python wasn't really obscure or developed in silence. If you needed a glue language for a unix system, then there were really only three choices: Perl 5, TCL/tk, and Python. If you
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I'd expect flats on cars to be correlated. People tend to buy tires in sets, so age related factors affect them all. Similarly they tend to get driven on the same roads, so are subjected to similar environmental damage. Also, people ar
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I live in Berlin. Judging Berlin by the traffic on the streets is silly. Berlin has the lowest car ownership of any Germany city. Part of that is the excellent public transit. Another part is the extensive network of bike paths (combined wi
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If Ukraine falls, the war is coming whether we like it or not.
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Nine years ago I was in Riga talking with a Latvian friend, and even then she was telling me how Russia was broadcasting separatist propaganda into Latvia While the EU may not be at war with Russia, Russia is already at war with the EU.
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You're free to do that, but I'm not sure that this is the best thing in the world. Of the people who I know who were in the US military, generally the more highly placed they were, the less faith they had in the command structure.
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Yes, you can extend the language with more syntax. This kind of proves my point. If there weren't deficiencies then you wouldn't need to define more syntax, and so many work-arounds wouldn't have already been created. The de
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The issue with Python and most other non-LISP family programming languages is that they don't allow you to easily treat programs as data. Things that are simple to express with Scheme become complicated exercises when using mot another
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The covid analysis seems like a pretty good example: https://colab.research.google.com/github/EvgSkv/logica/blob/... A good exercise might be converting it to the corresponding SQL and comparing the two
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> Basically, SQL syntax makes easy things easy. This gets underestimated a lot, indeed people seem to have contempt for it. I think that's a serious mistake. The flip side of that is SQL makes hard things nearly impossible. SQL does
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> No weird OOP-style class instantiation for something as simple as just getting the name. I understand the desire to no waste your time, but I think you're missing the big idea. Those statements define logical relations. There&#x27
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But lesser convenience and with more hassle.
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I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. I've seen too many software systems that failed in undetectable ways, and the user was disbelieved. The damn thing is fly-by-wire and if the instruments are failing for unknown rea
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But it didn't land itself, unlike the cornfield bomber: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornfield_Bomber
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This seems like a stretch. As far as I know, usually DNA evidence in exonerations is more along the lines of, "The DNA is 98% match for a known killer who was arrested for similar crime a few years later."
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I'm not really sure what argument you're trying to make here. Plants regularly use toxins to kill off competitors. We even know how at least on of them works now: https://www.mpg.de/9731123/plants-allelochemic
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It's worth noting that the worst weeds in this story are all traditional native american crops. We are investing huge amounts of money to kill food.
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If they didn't understand the intent, why would they check with a lawyer to see if they could get away with ignoring it?
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The statistics back you up. Violent crime in the USA is about what it was in early 70s, far below it's peak in the late 80s/early 90s. [Most of the decline seems to be linked to legalized abortion and elimination of leaded gasolin

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