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by kd5bjo 7y ago
Yes, he says this pretty explicitly in the essay. Some relevant excerpts: "Programming in this sense primarily must be the programmers' building up of knowledge of a certain kind, knowledge taken to be basically the programmers&#
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
You won’t ever catch me saying that vanilla vim is the best editor out there but it’s sufficient , as are all of the others you named. At some point, the bottleneck becomes thinking up the correct solution and not the data entry. In my o
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
My layman’s understanding is that all results are realized many times. The values that we usually interpret as probabilities are really the proportion of universes in which the event occurs; a 95% probably of an experimental outcome means
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
Before we can even get to addressing making the correct choices, we need to expand the universe of potential solutions that people even bother to consider. That’s the hard but doable task of counterbalancing the widespread consumerist prop
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
As far as I can tell, the primary fault there has been our failure to teach basic life skills (home cooking), learning skills (teach yourself how to cook), or problem solving skills (realize that you have a problem that can be solved by tea
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
I rewrote an internal tool from scratch to replace an old one that was being used by a few thousand people. It turned out that fully half of the users only ever used it to see the auto-filled partial results that populated into one of the
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
> 1, 3 and 4 ... As we’re talking about comma usage in English, it may be worth noting that there is wide disagreement about the Oxford, Harvard, or serial comma[1] in lists; no matter which choice you make, it will look wrong to many pe
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
English uses commas more liberally than many languages. None of the commas OP used are particularly surprising, but some of them would be considered improper in more formal contexts. They are used to delimit the boundary between dependent
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
That’s fair enough, I guess. At this point, I’m happy enough with my workflow despite (or maybe because) I don’t know what most of those things do. Some novelists use fancy purpose-made software and others use old-fashioned yellow legal p
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
Overall, the sentiment is right, but this line seems off: >Note, he was a software engineer, not QA or a network engineer. But he didn’t let the role definition stop him. QA is about determining when things are broken, which they weren’t
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
> It's not like using them will make you forgot the basic commands, movements, etc, to use vim in some unknown remote machine. No, but time I spend setting up and tweaking a custom environment is time I could be spending internalizi
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
Moving to another country means life will be both completely different and entirely the same at the same time.
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> Is this really a common thing? How can you try to implement something without first having had thought of the solution? There appears to be two distinct kinds of programmers that are about equally effective: ones that think through the
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
...No? What part of my statement gave you that idea? Just because I believe they should have controls in place, doesn’t mean I approve of any control scheme they may think of— that would be absurdity. For example, I also wouldn’t approve
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
When dealing with a retail establishment (as opposed to a private sale), they should have controls in place to correct such mistakes before the sale is finalized. The key point here is that the error passed through enough people/sys
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
> Running out of "stuff" to do. This happens to me after about 2-3 weeks of crunch time; I’ll have replaced my normal habits with working, and there’s a confusion when there’s suddenly no more work to do.
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSX_8888_incident Is the only other one I know about; the engineer got off to change a turnout and was unable to reboard as the train accelerated away.
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
Those reports came from people working in Anaheim, CA— according to the article, she visited Disneyland (not WDW) and talked with employees there.
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
If you have a specific problem that you believe will be solved by the migration, seriously investigate the possibility of migrating . This is a big change, and it's likely to both solve and create problems; take it slow and steady, a
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
We need to weigh the purposes and drawbacks of policies and try to strike a balance in practice. In the case of public records, the purpose presumably is to fight corruption and maintain an informed electorate; the injury to personal priva
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
All craftsmen take an interest in their tools, and in software the tools are made with the same processes we use on a day-to-day basis. It’s the same with blacksmiths and woodworkers to varying degrees.
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
I got both of those from Audible years ago, looks like I was misremembering about GoT being full-cast, but here’s the entry for Dune: https://www.audible.com/pd/Dune-Audiobook/B002V1OF70?qid=156...
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
> It’ll likely take heavy fines before people will care to go through the whole process of “cookie-lawing” and “GDPR-ing” their websites again. This line is a bit disingenuous, as all of these guidelines are simply what “GDPR-ing” was su
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
Not necessarily lesser, but different. My brain doesn’t generally visualize anything, but it’s good at building a semantic web that connects cause and effect. If you ask me to describe the physical characteristics of a character in a book
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
There’s lots of recordings around from decades ago, but not much is produced for broadcast now. Sometimes, you find a “full cast” audiobook, where every character has a different reader; That was my first introduction to both Dune and G
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
>I started with a book I read already some time ago so it wouldn't be such a big deal if I miss something. This is where I’m at in learning a second language. The audiobook will keep marching onwards, so I won’t get road blocked by
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
“And if any appear never to assume the chair, but always to stand and serve, it is because we do not see the company in a sufficiently long period for the whole rotation of parts to come about. As to what we call the masses, and common men;
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
Take two nominally identical physical products (from IKEA, for example), one that’s on the shelves today and the other produced several years ago. There’ll be lots of subtle changes that got made as the manufacturer figured out how to impr
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
Even if this debacle drives Boeing out of business, all of the expertise, factories, tooling, and designs still exist. Is there a realistic path forward that has Boeing ceasing operations, but transferring the assets to a new company with
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
“Free nights” from rewards programs also sometimes require the payment of the resort fee, even when some of the items included in that fee (like internet access) are also included in your status level.

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