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by markbnj 7y ago
This is a really interesting project, thanks for sharing. I think it's going to be difficult to get the model to the point where it generalizes well for lots of different designs, but that's no reason not to try. Really hard probl
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> they take as long as they take Sure, agreed, which is not to say that time budgets don't exist, and aren't exceeded :).
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> And secondly, they will forget how much time it took, but not how well it was made. Absolutely. Not saying speed is never an important metric, but virtually all complicated engineering and construction projects are difficult to schedul
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by markbnj 7y ago
You posted this exact thing above, there was no need to copy/paste it a second time.
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Software engineers don't depreciate as they get older. Software engineers who stop learning depreciate whenever, at any age. I'm 58 and I've seen it over and over again: the people who find it hardest to stay employed are the
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by markbnj 7y ago
My personal experience with walking began six years ago. I weighed 270 pounds, felt tired and lethargic all the time, huffed and puffed any time I had to climb stairs etc. I decided to make a change, dropped sugar from my many daily coffees
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by markbnj 7y ago
> I don’t have to think about which hosts the (random) http client used in my application is configured to talk to because I can just magically retarget it at the container level by manipulating networking configuration” — is that a thin
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It's mentioned in the section where the author discusses the wide use of greenhouses to grow produce.
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> Cities do not want apartments because that doesn't generate revenue The property owners still pay tax on it don't they? I'm sure it is less lucrative per square foot than commercial development, but I assume it is still
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by markbnj 7y ago
How many working developers actually have CS degrees? When I began a long time ago it was quite rare. In fact most of my peers had liberal arts degrees. I definitely meet more CS grads among younger devs now, as well as EEs and SEs, but I w
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by markbnj 7y ago
Well whichever advantages of containers are important to you I don't think you lose them just because the process reads and writes persistent data. It seems like you're really questioning whether it's as compelling a use case
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by markbnj 7y ago
You're correct that container root file systems should be considered ephemeral, and writing anything that needs to be persisted to them is a smell. However you can mount persistent volumes to a container specifically for the purpose of
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by markbnj 7y ago
Really appreciate the detail and operational insights in this post-mortem. Great work. Also appreciate the heads up and detailed explanation of the issues with backtracking in regexes. Turns out we use those expensive patterns in a few plac
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by markbnj 7y ago
The article referred to specific insulin products and the specific practices of the manufacturers in those cases, not "insulin" in the generic sense. If you feel the article is in error then responding to the incorrect points woul
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by markbnj 7y ago
The whole point of the article is that the manufacturers aren't developing new drugs. The drugs haven't changed in decades. They're making small changes to delivery systems and other ancillary aspects and then patenting these
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by markbnj 7y ago
Remote for over ten years and like other commenters, not going back to an office anytime soon if I can avoid it. Obviously there are professions this sort of arrangement doesn't work as well for, but I think over time there is reason t
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by markbnj 7y ago
If after all of this the much more knowledgeable pilots are willing to get on the thing and fly it, I'd be comfortable getting in the back.
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by markbnj 7y ago
And for what it's worth, the moving company analogy is extremely flawed. Most people apply for jobs in good faith. Moving companies (one of which I used to drive and load for, years ago), don't look to hire males or females. They
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by markbnj 7y ago
> That last paragraph says a lot. If you have a company and you want employees that are “tech-natives”, whatever that may mean, that is not the same thing as discriminating based on age. "[W]hatever that may mean," indeed. It d
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by markbnj 7y ago
> One of the things I don't like about webdev (among many) is that I even have to Google in the first place. Manpages are so much more immediate and accessible. I don't really get this response. First there's the notion th
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by markbnj 7y ago
It's been a few years since I wrote one but at least back then windows installers were an amazing mess. We used Wix as an abstraction on top of the underlying libraries (which at the time were still win32, not sure what's happened
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by markbnj 7y ago
Thanks for the recommendation, it's a great book and I've already gotten some value, as well as some perspective, out of it.
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Thanks for the great feedback. I have no expectations for this other than the learning, and it's already been successful on that front. Just seemed like a fun thing to poke at when most other hobbyists seem to be doing image analysis a
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That's true, of course. If the technique worked here then it would be because there really are location independent features that can learned. I view it as similar to translating and transforming images in the MNIST digit set to accoun
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by markbnj 7y ago
I've been playing around with using lstm recurrent nets to find patterns in forex trades, with no real expectation of anything other than learning about recurrent nets (and td convolutional nets). I was able to access 15 years of histo
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You could argue this endlessly from different perspectives, but it's not at all relevant to what the article actually discusses. They're comparing redis against itself, not other examples of things that might or might not be datab
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I agree that it's a likely theory and fits much of what's known, but there can be other reasonable explanations for the things mentioned above. The aircraft was already assigned 35k feet, was a climb to 40k feet really necessary t
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by markbnj 7y ago
I enjoyed this write up by Langewiesche, but the one thing that bothered me was the credence lent to the depressurization event without disclosing what if any evidence there is that it happened? Is there some? In the article he simply says
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by markbnj 7y ago
> There’s some disadvantages, like people not giving their all at work slowing things down. Compared to the previous role, it’s glacial. Maybe they've figured out that getting work done as fast as possible isn't the end goal of
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If that command really were used as the article suggests then you'd think it would be followed by a bunch of other sigint derived from an increase in activity by the units that received the command.

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