larsrc

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by larsrc 4y ago
Stress is a long-term thing. In close combat, you're not stressed, but terrified. The way you'd be in a car if you suddenly find yourself on the wrong side of the highway divide.
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by larsrc 4y ago
Disappointed to not learn more about the marvelous properties of compressed fibers.
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by larsrc 4y ago
The amount of control over the situation in hand-to-hand combat is extremely limited, especially for the poorly trained fighters making up much of pre-modern armies.
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by larsrc 4y ago
Methinks a key difference in "terror level" is that in close combat, you see the enemy and their deadly possibly bloodied weapons up close. Much more psychologically present. Ranged weapons give a different overall stress of &quot
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by larsrc 4y ago
The most productive programmers are the ones that make other programmers more productive. Making a tool or library or other piece of reusable infrastructure that increases the productivity of 100 engineers by 10% is 10x productivity.
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by larsrc 4y ago
Getting into "work mode" really helps. I did a similar thing during my Ph.D. studies - no reading email or news or gaming until lunch time, only work. After lunch, all options were open, but I then had work so swapped in that I ke
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by larsrc 4y ago
Another problem with presliced bread is that is goes mouldy faster due to the extra porous surface area.
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by larsrc 4y ago
Lots of good advice already (except there are better sources for writing style advice than Strunk & White). Here's one I and my linguist wife like: Write on paper first. Paper is more immediate and has fewer distractions, fewer way
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by larsrc 4y ago
That's not just him, it seems to happen to a lot of authors when they get famous. They get more clout and can push back on the editors, or the editors become afraid to cut too much, and suddenly you have bricks where half the words cou
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by larsrc 4y ago
I'd like to see a reference for them having to produce. According to https://www.neimagazine.com/opinion/opinionnuclear-in-france... , they operate in load-following mode and sometimes simply shut down over weekend
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by larsrc 4y ago
Nuclear could provide heat if people weren't all NIMBY about it. A dual-cycle reactor produces a lot of hot steam, perfect for Fernwärme.
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by larsrc 4y ago
I see the lack of runtime parsing as a security feature.
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by larsrc 4y ago
Prototypes are never cheap. Prototypes are where all the research and design costs go. Once you have a design that works and doesn't have to be customised for each instance, you can get economics of scale because now you're just p
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by larsrc 4y ago
That's inaccurate. Germany has replaced half of its _electricity_ production with renewables (modulo dispatchability), but electricity only accounts for a quarter of the energy usage. We frequently have to import electricity from Franc
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by larsrc 4y ago
Junk writing with cherrypicked examples. As mentioned by others, the collapse of the Roman empire was not slow. Blockbuster may have fallen quickly, but it wasn't any more complex than other companies of our time that have risen quickl
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by larsrc 4y ago
Put your head between your legs and kiss your ass goodbye.
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by larsrc 4y ago
There's plenty of problems with OKRs, but almost all the OKRs I encountered were bottom-up. I'm sure it was different in other parts of the company, though. Working on developer tools is the best.
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by larsrc 4y ago
Depends. If I was looking at a comparison of different camera brands and only saw ads for things for my brand, I might wonder. But that would be much, much, _much_ better than the current personalization.
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by larsrc 4y ago
Google puts a _lot_ of effort into avoiding SEO spam, but it's a red queen problem.
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by larsrc 4y ago
As someone working for a company that is big on personalization (but working on totally different things): Yes! Thank you! Even if personalization worked, I wouldn't want it. Not just for the obvious privacy reasons, but because it wou
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by larsrc 4y ago
I regularly need to hand-edit tabular data I have generated from other data when it turns out there are a few weird cases I didn't handle right. I do a lot of one-off data processing in several stages, so it's not just a question
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by larsrc 4y ago
My first thought was "pair programming", in which I like to say that you get half as much done in a quarter of the time. Doesn't scale beyond two, though.
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by larsrc 4y ago
TODO: Add highlighting by default. There, fixed it.
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by larsrc 4y ago
As a rank beginner, I was able to use Fritzing to design and get printed a simple board (~10 elements) with little effort. Yes, for anything more complex I would want to invest the time in learning a more powerful tool, but KICAD is more th
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by larsrc 4y ago
It tries to not flood your terminal when you're not interacting with it. Could be good on a slow SSH link, for instance.
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by larsrc 4y ago
How is that even a problem? Ideas bubble into my head much faster than I have the time or ability to work on them. Granted, most of them are crap, but that's because most of them are outside of my field of expertise. As for usefulness,
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by larsrc 4y ago
I notice that all the comments that agree with this one point out specific dangers, while those disagreeing basically say "Eh, bugs happen". Yes, you need to know what you're doing in any language, the difference is whether t
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by larsrc 4y ago
640 copies ought to be enough for anyone:) Congratulations, anyway.
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by larsrc 4y ago
Calling them "dad jokes" strongly implies that it's the men who aren't funny.
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by larsrc 4y ago
I was thinking exactly in the eldritch horror direction. Thanks for writing that, you have saved me the unpleasantness of finding out exactly what it was that made me loathe Tcl.

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