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by kerblang 5y ago
I appreciate the humor, but I'm not. There are bitter disagreements based on different interpretations of the facts, and there are bitter disagreements based on a complete disregard for the facts, a refusal to verify assumptions, a per
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by kerblang 5y ago
My problem in everyday work is so often I have to deal with so-called software engineers who fancy themselves quite the scientific thinkers but whose irrationality borders on delusional. In fact a lot of them believe "I'm very sma
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by kerblang 5y ago
I was actually expecting this would have something to say about programming frameworks that abuse system resources, waste memory and peg client & server CPU, and maybe even about programmers who blame the equipment for not accommodating
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by kerblang 5y ago
I'd like to propose an "informative" button and a "political" button so that I could ask to see things that are useful & intelligent but have nothing to do with politics.
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by kerblang 5y ago
The essential question is about extrapolating the arc of human progress: If it continues asymptotically, we become as gods "soon"; if it turns into an S trapped by an upper bound, progress grinds slowly to a halt; and if it invert
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by kerblang 5y ago
Purely anecdotal, but a long time ago I read a book by Mark Vonnegut, Kurt Vonnegut's son. He explained how he was diagnosed with schizophrenia, and warned that for him, marijuana made his condition much, much worse, and he learned ear
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by kerblang 5y ago
Sort of off-topic, but before building a shared library, I strongly recommend reading up on Jeff Atwood's "Rule of Threes". It's harder than most people think, and I've seen them do far more harm than good because a
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by kerblang 5y ago
> If you want to personally pick up a programming language in order to become a better coder in whatever other languages you use, F# is the best overall teaching/coding language you can find. Great, we're back to this nonsense
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by kerblang 5y ago
Here, have a re-up. It seems weird that Woz is treated like a god, yet kept at arm's length; you'd think everybody would beg him to be CEO of their company just for the street cred. Alas, even posing the question pisses people off
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by kerblang 5y ago
> by not respecting property rights Ref. the movie Viva Zapata! Which has Marlon Brando playing a Mexican revolutionary hero facing this kind of disillusioning outcome over & over. (Mostly bringing this up because I went to the troub
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by kerblang 5y ago
It can just as easily mean that the attacker found a second exploit after the first was resolved.
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by kerblang 5y ago
It's that concise, straightforward, efficient & flexible are often contradictory instead of complimentary: You're typically sacrificing others for the one. It often helps to be specific about which traits you are/aren&#x2
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by kerblang 5y ago
So apparently in february tesla bought 1.5 billion in bitcoin as part of a plan to accept payments, then announced today they won't accept those payments and took a nasty hit on the value of that bitcoin because of it. Do I just interp
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by kerblang 5y ago
> Never understood why people deem it has too many features I'll start with one (key)word: `implicit` I agree with your distaste for metaprogramming though.
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by kerblang 6y ago
If it helps any, I usually squash-merge my final output into sparkling, concise commits with nice messages (my original branch usually has "x" for every commit message). And yes I have a dedicated script for squash-merging too...
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by kerblang 6y ago
I have a dedicated shell script for each thing I do in git, because it is impossible for me to memorize the original syntax and I'm terrified I'll gut the repo by getting a flag wrong. I have an "undo" script, that just
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by kerblang 6y ago
I often look at web versions of man pages because it's just plain easier to deal with when researching mega-commands like curl or openssl. The green-screen-text-only bastard in me argues vehemently against this, but the pragmatist in m
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by kerblang 6y ago
Random guess: Is it because people are less likely to be alone at home (family, roommates), making it harder to pull off the act without someone intervening?
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by kerblang 6y ago
Since the specific question is "how do you keep track of", my build & deploy script copies a quick one-liner dump of git information (SHA, date, environment, branch, etc.) to a directory on a shared server, as a text file. Lat
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by kerblang 6y ago
I would refer to the latter as "technical death", as in a terminal disease you never recover from, because it comes from an incurable culture of dysfunction. I say "incurable" anecdotally, and I'd like to be wrong a
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by kerblang 6y ago
I suppose what you want is possible provided the reviewer gets as deeply invested in the process as the author. Most of the time we're lucky if we even know enough about the project to understand what the author is trying to do - in fa
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by kerblang 6y ago
If I recall correctly, Microsoft licensed java and Sun sued them for violating the terms of the license. Google never had a license; they were sued for violating copyright. Neither lawsuit determined that embrace/extend/extinguish
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by kerblang 6y ago
Sorry that I find it necessary for yet another answer to your verbosity question, but: The real verbosity is in the standard libraries. What would be a one-liner in any other language is usually at least 2, often 3, and sometimes enough t
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by kerblang 6y ago
Hey, would somebody mind breaking down the different not-necessarily-AI things? Like is machine learning the same as neural nets or a subset? This would be tremendously useful! I would assume "expert systems" falls somewhere at th
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by kerblang 6y ago
They might as well have included the granddaddy example (as the age of computing goes): The vietnam war, mcnamara & body counts.
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by kerblang 6y ago
While the parent comment isn't all that helpful, I suspect they meant "...in exchange for a temporary change..."; in other words, not that that depression is temporary, but beneficial effects of ECT are.
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by kerblang 6y ago
The only one that kind of bothered me was "The Legacy Maintainer" which argues that your legacy maintainers _want_ to be stuck on a legacy project with their career in ruins. In my experience, nobody wants that, but neither can th
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by kerblang 6y ago
I know you're joking, but this is highly useful in this regard, because flat-earthers often swear up & down that they can see beyond the "ostensible" horizon limit without understanding that refraction effect. This one is
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by kerblang 6y ago
OK I'm game... maybe I'll learn something > - If it was supposed to represent a meeting in Asia/Tokyo and that region changes offsets (DST or political reasons), we don't have enough information to update the timestam
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by kerblang 6y ago
Replying to myself because I can't seem to find an edit button: If you're interested in Cassandra, the free online DataStax training is highly recommended. You'll learn all the gotchas ahead of time instead of after you wen

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