mbeex

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by mbeex 5y ago
> (or really `refs/heads/origin/`) It is worth the time to fully understand refspecs. Once people do, they tend to understand all essential ramifications of branch and repository naming.
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by mbeex 5y ago
Reading the comments, I get the impression that many people are somewhat lacking perspective. I've been writing software professionally for more than 25 years, > 30 years in total. gnuplot has been around all that time. Developed in
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by mbeex 5y ago
I started walking three years ago at the age of 55 for ~2000 km per year since. There was Hypertension and a suspected heart problem at this time, so I was cautious about running. I also have a nice area of wood very close to my home. It tu
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by mbeex 6y ago
As someone else remarked here, if you are good enough to become employed, this would in my opinion statuate one kind of level (among many possible) describing something reasonable final (I agree of course, after this you will learn a lot mo
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by mbeex 6y ago
I'm a trained mathematician, but old enough to elude anything serious regarding computers during my studies more than 25 years ago. I did some Turbo Pascal + Assembler for my own interests completely self-taught during that period, th
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by mbeex 6y ago
Where are the other 700 comments?
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by mbeex 6y ago
I'm in no way a native speaker - but even I recognize that in English 'master' has - and always had - many different meanings. One of them completely equal to the German 'Meister'. It is all about context. Question
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by mbeex 6y ago
> The German way is What exactly do you know about "the" German way?
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by mbeex 6y ago
First and foremost, it is a disproportionately loud group in terms of the media, small or not. This is the important issue.
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by mbeex 6y ago
I got the impression, that he refers more to the fate of his own hopes.
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by mbeex 6y ago
No, and in particular by speaking about slices with a lower dimension d-1 it becomes not immediately clear, what their volume has to do with the one in dimension d of the original body, mentioned at the begin of the article.
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by mbeex 6y ago
It is. But unfortunately, most people are not willing to separate the concept of progress from something that is magically inherently good. Same as with evolution or agile development :-)
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by mbeex 6y ago
> This is not how politics work in the rest of the world. On the contrary, a strengthening of this very pattern can be observed everywhere.
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by mbeex 6y ago
> The deal breaker for me is the fee for bank transfers, something I've never paid for before. You are too young :-). This also might change. German banks start again to take monthly fees for accounts, so why not for single transact
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by mbeex 6y ago
> Sounds like your personal experience. You can say exactly the same from the opposite perspective. I'm a freelancer and while I am _personally_ more than happy with remote work (prefering it for many years), many people are not. It
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by mbeex 6y ago
> but the differences between individual VGA cards were too big. Buyed the programming manual for the ET4000 GPU (>100DM for this manual alone, a lot for a student from the eastern part of Germany at this time), opcodes and all. I lik
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by mbeex 6y ago
> and they always made it seem like I was the crazy one for thinking this. Ask them a specific question about their code three months later.
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by mbeex 6y ago
Not this simple. Refactoring might mean invariance, but the more comprehensive your tests are, the more they also test the moving parts. That means, they have to be changed too. Many people forget the maintenance costs (and this has a much
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by mbeex 6y ago
I tried it (again). First impression: No support for the black formatter. We have 2021 - really? https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/PY-39750
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by mbeex 6y ago
> But for f-strings, it has full support for the "inline" variables. Is this complete (meaning: it also includes more complicated expressions, referencing these variables)? I'm asking, because some Python development tools
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by mbeex 6y ago
> never any time pressure in life is a bit naive Missing the related point from the comment is... what? Deliberate?
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by mbeex 6y ago
I dont buy this, reading many of the comments here. I'm not a native speaker and not certain at this moment if the figure of "hamster wheel" exists in English. But "rat race" does, as well as "cog in the wheel
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by mbeex 6y ago
> It shouldn’t be discouraging that professional & motivated amateur chefs are faster than you I don't see, why cooking should be a competition for speed in the first place.
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by mbeex 6y ago
What, if your ability for imagination is lacking? What, if this would be true in general? What do these implementers actually implement then? I also think, I have another definition of 'idea' than most people here. It is common es
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by mbeex 6y ago
> Ideas are so cheap and easy. I doubt this.
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by mbeex 6y ago
In this case, give DeepL a try. Translations between English and German at least, are magnitudes above Google, IMO. Not without errors, of course.
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by mbeex 6y ago
"Neural Network weights are learnt via Gradient Descent and Neural Network architectures are learnt via Graduate Student Descent." Like it!
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by mbeex 6y ago
Another issue here is an extremely narrowed definition of productivity. It has cog-like traits, Fordian belt work comes to mind. Yes, in this context you can become less productive for one reason or another. But all these micro-optimization
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by mbeex 6y ago
> freshwater body This implies volume. Baikal doubles LS in this respect.
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by mbeex 6y ago
Never could I. What helps me often is to consider the C language heritage of Python. There, the beginner also has the slightly confusing some_var[y][x]=some_value, caused by the computers memory model behind. Consequently, I'm always l

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