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by l0b0 6y ago
Space pen and tiny laminated notebook made by my SO. Infinitely better than firing up a text editor on a phone and worry about effing notifications, filenames, whether I'll remember to spend a few days setting up a decent backup soluti
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by l0b0 6y ago
Original post: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/05/12/weak-men-are-superweap...
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by l0b0 6y ago
> A resume will never tell you if a person is genuinely interested in uncovering unknown truths about nature. But a 30-minute conversation will. A 30-minute conversation with a friend might, but this is implicitly talking about a
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by l0b0 6y ago
I suspect most of the time that's because you can't justify keeping a team idle for even a week between projects if that's what it takes to ready the next project for them to work on. I'd be surprised if most businesses
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by l0b0 6y ago
tl;dr: The only way to limit the cost of solving a problem is to limit the LOC count allowed to the developers. This ignores real world issues: - It is utterly trivial to work around this one, since every popular language lets you write an
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by l0b0 6y ago
Fantastic! I wonder if anyone has researched how quickly users can find what they are looking for on different search engines, after a super quick introduction to the basic controls. Of course, everyone has been primed by whatever search en
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by l0b0 6y ago
> The real issue with nix is amount of building that needs to take place. Good point, but this is one of the best problems to have: it can be solved with modest amounts of money for build infrastructure, and it's unlikely to ever ge
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by l0b0 6y ago
That does sound useful, but at the same time I can't help thinking that it would be better if the validation was pushed further up the stack, because trying to fix someone else's bad data is just going to end in worse data.
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by l0b0 6y ago
Do you mean as a package maintainer or as an end user? I expect automation and reproducible builds to make this near trivial as a maintainer. As an end user binary diffs will be helpful (not sure if Nix supports them yet), but modern hardwa
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by l0b0 6y ago
Some big Python shops will move to faster languages with static types, stable package management, stable configuration management and well-defined change management.
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by l0b0 6y ago
I hope Nix (or something like it) starts eating market share from other package managers, Docker, and the like. Nix solves this sort of thing at the cost of one of the cheapest things available, disk space. Every discussion about it mention
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by l0b0 6y ago
I can't tell why I would want this based on a quick skim: - Why check `expect_column_values_to_not_be_null` rather than setting the column `not null`? - Why check `expect_column_values_to_match_strftime_format` rather than making the c
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by l0b0 6y ago
Ethernet was introduced in 1980 [1], 41 years ago. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet
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by l0b0 6y ago
Some acceptance tests for a software engineer: - Should know many tools to the level where they know their strengths and weaknesses. This allows them to select a useful collection of them for any new piece of work. - Should produce incremen
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by l0b0 6y ago
> There are step-by-step instructions in the comments explaining what's going on. This is a big red flag. As everyone has been saying since decades, comments are for the why, not the what. Also, recall should be upper bound to t
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by l0b0 6y ago
I've self-administered vitamin D for decades, 2,000 IU daily for the last few years. When my GP heard about it, they ordered a test. Even with that intake + a reasonably healthy diet I was in the lower 1/3 of the healthy range, so
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by l0b0 6y ago
Can we change the link to https://nautil.us/blog/vaccines-are-the-safest-medical-proce... ?
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by l0b0 6y ago
I assume a publication like Physics Today gets a lot of submissions, and that probably the majority of them are rejected. Maybe there would've been a better chance of acceptance if the article (and presumably also the letter to the e
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by l0b0 6y ago
I can't help but feel cynical about this piece: 1. 20 years ago the author wrote a paper asserting that string theory was a fruitless field of study. 2. The paper is written in a confrontational and snarky tone, for example: "The
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by l0b0 6y ago
My current Bash go-to header now includes set -o errexit -o noclobber -o nounset -o pipefail - Exit the script at the first non-zero exit code. - Do not allow clobbering existing files (overridden on a per-line basis when I actually
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by l0b0 6y ago
Excellent technique, and one of the main ones I use for a Bash course & other material. I feel like being upfront about caveats is a good way to enable non-expert users to choose between languages based on their shortcomings rather than
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by l0b0 6y ago
A blanket statement like > each of the people you are recruiting they have a lot on the line whether it is leaving a bad job or putting food on the table for their family or whatever else... isn't helpful, because there are a lot of
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by l0b0 6y ago
I worked on one rewrite of an old system which I can't really talk about, but which was very successful (the only thing we kept was the data). I also remember reading many years ago that every major version of Windows is essentially a
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It's telling that 20+ years later Netscape/Mozilla is still the go-to example of why rewrites are a bad idea. That gives us basically three possibilities: 1. Nobody is doing rewrites from scratch anymore. That's just not th
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by l0b0 6y ago
Good overview, but I'm not sure I agree with the assertion that OAuth/OpenID is unconditionally more secure. It still depends on both the provider and the intermediate site doing things properly, like generating actually random va
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by l0b0 6y ago
tl;dr: Rehash of common Git gripes in the form of sarcastic koans. Funny & true, though.
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> XML, however, was universally rejected in favour of things like JSON, Yaml, HCL, Toml - all free of structure, with zero indication whether a computer would find your prose gibberish or the next Shakespeare play until you actually push
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by l0b0 6y ago
YouTube has Atom feeds for each channel, but their markup doesn't link to them. This is a simple workaround - after saving the bookmarklet any channel feed is only a click away.
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YouTube channel web feed bookmarklet(gitlab.com)
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Thank you for the detailed response. I wonder if the Arch User Repository approach of relegating anything not guaranteed in any way to a separate repo, with some well-understood promotion/demotion process related to how many active mai

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