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by mathw 6y ago
I'm not sure it's the end of boredom. Kids still get bored, even with all this stuff at their fingertips. I suspect the act of consumption itself becomes boring, even discovering new things can be boring, and you have to shift som
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by mathw 6y ago
I get why you'd want it, but I'm not sure they should be reusing => for it, since that already means something in Ruby.
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by mathw 6y ago
Distributed grids with lots of generation points have their advantages but are really hard to manage. Somehow I doubt this is going to go to the point of having a small fusion reactor in every building, so we have to have some kind of grid.
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by mathw 6y ago
Likewise. Also, it says there has been little progress, but there are numerous test reactors providing loads of data, ITER is being built, there's a lot of knowledge about how to do this now. It's still tremendously difficult and
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by mathw 6y ago
No, there are bad programming languages. It's just that it's all of them . We have yet to develop a language which lets you tell the computer what you want it to do and have the computer do it in an efficient manner without hav
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by mathw 6y ago
I agree, but I tend to view it as proof that we don't know what we're doing yet and, to some degree or other, all our programming tools are still awful. The best you can do is look at your problem and your preferences and choose t
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by mathw 6y ago
I've never worked with a green threads system in any real sort of environment where I was actually solving real problems at scale, but I always wonder, does the underlying runtime ever push them into actual real threads that can actual
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by mathw 6y ago
async/await isn't really concurrency. It's syntactic sugar over callback hell, which can be used to write concurrent software in the "spawn something, wait for it to finish later" model. It has absolutely nothing to
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by mathw 6y ago
We live in an unethical economy. Do you expect everyone to be able to live off founding an ethical startup?
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by mathw 6y ago
There are countries freer in practice if not in stated principals. But there are definitely a load of countries which make America look great, and if that's not a sign of how much progress humanity has still to make I don't know w
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by mathw 6y ago
There is some indication that exposure to some other coronaviruses may improve immune response to the pandemic one, but I think it's still a bit vague and undefined. Since there are coronaviruses in circulation which cause colds, this
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by mathw 6y ago
Well it is a Tesla, you can buy it with "Full Self-Driving" so surely it doesn't actually need any pedals...
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by mathw 6y ago
Windows path length limits are infuriating, and also really exciting because what the limits actually are varies depending on what API calls the program is using to access the filesystem. What fun!
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by mathw 6y ago
Several vaccine projects have reported good stimulation of antibody production in trials. The big problem is that we don't yet know what kind of immunity that may provide or how long it might last. But it seems getting people to produc
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by mathw 6y ago
If I could get a nice wide-brimmed sunhat that didn't blow off in the slightest breeze I'd be a happy man indeed.
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by mathw 6y ago
Slack is behaving in the same way as innumerable instant messaging clients in the past, because they consider themselves in that category rather than perhaps in an IRC sort of category which is maybe where you see them? And there's an
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by mathw 6y ago
None of which really had mainstream visibility with the kind of people who actually made the decisions about what language your company would be using.
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by mathw 6y ago
Yes it is. The delay on a Twitch stream doesn't mean they don't have to deal with encoding and transmitting frames at full speed. If Twitch wasn't real time, you'd only be able to watch live streams slowed down!
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by mathw 6y ago
I raised a similar idea with my team a while back and we stopped doing sprints as an experiment. We haven't restarted. It has been mentioned a small number of times, but the consensus is always that we don't think it will help. Fo
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by mathw 6y ago
If you have no idea what the task list is before the planning meeting I'd say you definitely need to get your process changed. That's astonishing.
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by mathw 6y ago
Yes, it's evolved into a steaming mess which people still believe is based on some pure idea of what is REST and what isn't, whereas what this article argues, i.e. that we're completely wrong about that, clears up a lot of th
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by mathw 6y ago
Actually no that's incredibly hard, because you have to specify somehow every possible relationship within your domain and write an engine which can use them appropriately.
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by mathw 6y ago
I would expect a few simple things - GET doesn't change anything in the server's state (nothing externally perceivable anyway), a 4xx error code means I sent something wrong, a 5xx means the server has a problem, a 2xx is some sor
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by mathw 6y ago
Oh I'm sure they'll have one. It'll just be slow.
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by mathw 6y ago
Apple have never used their own CPUs for desktop computers, only for phones and tablets.
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by mathw 6y ago
Just remember that it's entirely possible to do awkward and inconsistent UI in native apps, and there's a very long tradition of it. But at least it's generally faster when you do it!
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by mathw 7y ago
The only thing we know for sure about this virus is that if people catch it they might die, and various people are at higher risk. Everything else is still up in the air. We have to buy time, time to find effective antivirals (work in progr
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by mathw 7y ago
Not if you're renting you can't. Renters and the self-employed still largely ignored by the government's support package.
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by mathw 7y ago
It's only hard to tell if you don't talk to the developers who were working in the late 90s.
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by mathw 7y ago
Oh the number of applications which had (and still have) a File menu when they don't really do anything with files...

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