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by linspace 5y ago
I think there are two points of views: 1. This is unnecessary regulation between private parties 2. This is power balancing between individuals and big corporations Obviously legislators are aligned with case 2. I think they have realized t
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by linspace 5y ago
I know nothing about distributed programming, but Leslie Lamport's paper [1] from 1978 about distributed systems already reads very close to the typical intro in special relativity about clock synchronization. I would be surprised if
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by linspace 5y ago
We right now use astrology so it will be an improvement
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by linspace 5y ago
I have no idea, I'm no doctor. I find it surprising that a doctor would advise him to play at a competitive level nevertheless if he has some cardiac problem but who knows. Anyway I want to say that as a matter of fact if a court allow
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by linspace 5y ago
Anyone who thinks Djokovic is at fault. I don't support executive power bypassing courts but I think this doesn't diminish the merit of the winner. He was more intelligent.
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by linspace 5y ago
Well, it would be the opposite to what we want: R inside vscode. Anyway, we have yet to try R inside jupyter notebooks
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by linspace 5y ago
My wife has been learning Python (not a programmer) and now is looking at R. I thought she was going to like it as I personally think RStudio is nice. I was surprised she didn't like Rmarkdown after being exposed to Python notebooks, i
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by linspace 5y ago
I have apologized to new hires I knew were going to work on my code
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by linspace 5y ago
I'm a Python dev. The python devs I know are average on average. I have never met a Ruby dev. But I'm sure I'm first rate!
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by linspace 5y ago
I'm going to quote (I think) Jesús Gil [1]: "it's easier to quit jail than poverty" [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jes%C3%BAs_Gil Completely off topic: It's fun showing to young people You
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by linspace 5y ago
I see my children not giving a crap about graphics. Their favorite games being Roblox and Minecraft. And Fortnite lately because they play with school friends over discord. I think I'm from another age, of Doom and Quake, when changing
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by linspace 5y ago
Tex being Turing complete is what allowed LaTeX in the first place. HTML not being Turing complete requires Javascript and CSS separately. Do you find them easier? Maybe, I'm not sure, but you cannot escape your language being Turing c
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by linspace 5y ago
Scientific calculator were there before NFTs
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by linspace 5y ago
Corruption is rampant in non democratic countries, which is completely unsurprising. It's unsurprising also that there is silence around it.
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by linspace 5y ago
> Compilation errors are really non-helpful. In programming, if I omit one side of a bracket or parentheses somewhere, I'll almost certainly get an error with a reference to the line number right at or below the issue. GOOD LUCK fin
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by linspace 5y ago
“The word for all this is ‘mature programming environment.’ Basically, when hardware performance has been pushed to its final limit, and programmers have had several centuries to code, you reach a point where there is far more signicant cod
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by linspace 5y ago
The interesting part is putting a number to this: 4 vs 12 hours. Just the direction of the inequality is of course unsurprising. I have looked superficially at Rust since I have no use case for me right now and it's truly complex but p
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by linspace 5y ago
I think management simply has way more variance, and maybe, I'm not sure, more expected returns.
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by linspace 5y ago
> innate intelligence: something that does not change over time or by learning Isn't it a contradictory definition? If someone is intelligent then it will learn to improve on a test, otherwise, it's not intelligent. Maybe we s
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by linspace 5y ago
It depends on your objectives but for most people it would be better something with support for array programming like numpy, Julia or Matlab since the ecosystem is better. Otherwise I would try J.
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by linspace 5y ago
Insightful comment. And I will add that we constantly complain about how there are just a few hours daily of truly useful work. Adding more money will not change anything. Paid overtime also can give people the wrong incentives. Edit: what
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by linspace 5y ago
There are two interpretations: in one you put a metric and when you find people is cheating you move the metric. In the other interpretation you really don't have any idea what you want and when people give you concrete results you cha
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by linspace 5y ago
For most tasks programming it's more an engineering discipline than an intellectual pursuit. In that context complexity must always be justified. I know, and have been told, to have written hard to read code. In my case it's usual
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by linspace 5y ago
> the researchers find that a 10 percent rise in average Amazon wages is associated with an increase of 2.3 percent in the average advertised wage at non-Amazon firms in the same labor market. > When large retailers raise minimum wage
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by linspace 5y ago
We are totally under the obligation to justify funds. To start with, because taxes, but also there are a lot of legislation put in place to prevent money laundering under threat of very high fines for non compliance, even if no laundering h
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by linspace 5y ago
> Surprisingly, git seems quite humane, even when you screw things up it gives you a lot of safety mechanisms to recover. You have to earn it. I admit that when I started using git sometimes I made a copy of the repo just in case I ended
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by linspace 5y ago
I can do that with Emacs. What other tools make it easy to branch in history?
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by linspace 5y ago
Congratulations, you have completed the game. Now you are asking for easter eggs, hidden maps and how to unlock the next difficulty level. My advice as someone in a similar life phase is to play something different. I understand you want mo
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by linspace 5y ago
Some day I will burn a day of my life to learn it inside out and be done with it. Meanwhile I use magit. Mercurial was much better IMO but people argued about performance, because, you know, the CPU is the bottleneck when I merge code. How
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by linspace 5y ago
> The whole reason for mogrify's existence is that it overwrites the original image file. Then it should not exist. To save one "rm", doesn't look like a good idea to me.

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