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by mcdonje 4y ago
Well that's depressing. It's also a bit confusing to me. Sonar can't measure thickness. It only measures the distance between the sub and the bottom of the ice. Altimeters likewise only measure the height. I suppose if the ma
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by mcdonje 4y ago
They might have some involvement in python libraries or tooling to interact with excel files from python apps, but the default programming support within excel is still VBA. They did add a javascript API, but getting that up and running is
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by mcdonje 4y ago
Really cool. I could see MS jumping on this because of their strong association with C#. That said, I think the ideal replacement for VB & VBA in most contexts is python. The reason is they're both high level languages with ease of
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by mcdonje 4y ago
So, I think the headline is a little misleading. The article talks about the core spinning in relationship to the earth's spin. So, the disputed claim is that it has been spinning faster than the earth, and it's going to be spinni
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by mcdonje 4y ago
I switched to Tidal and have been pleased so far. It's not perfect, but it is focused on music, has a pretty good interface, and pays artists better than Spotify does. Reasons I was unhappy with Spotify: - They went all in on podcasts
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by mcdonje 4y ago
That was a good talk. Thanks for linking it.
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by mcdonje 4y ago
I know I'm missing something, but this seems like the functional version of object classes. I've mostly favored procedural programming and only use objects when I have to because the abstraction can make the program harder to reas
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by mcdonje 4y ago
In that case, you might as well use tables. But a lot of people don't have write access for either tables or views.
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by mcdonje 4y ago
I don't get the hate for the ending. I think a lot of the criticisms missed the point. Everyone wanted a person who was consistently going mad over the course of the story to take the throne.
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by mcdonje 4y ago
>Jerod Santo: ...if I want this to be a varchar 40 and you let me put anything in there, then why did I declare it to be a varchar 40 in the first place? You know what I’m saying? >Richard Hipp: Yeah, exactly. If you say it’s a varcha
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by mcdonje 4y ago
That raises a practical barrier to forking, but someone who is willing to get a testing suite up and running can fork the project and benefit from upstream changes on an ongoing basis.
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by mcdonje 4y ago
IIRC, they didn't live inside stars.
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by mcdonje 4y ago
According to the github linked in the top level comment, it's pronounced like the Italian "Aghe", which translates to "needles". "Aghe" sounds like "Ah-gay". Not sure why they picked that name.
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by mcdonje 4y ago
>Or does every team doing microservices silently expect that one day a data team will start querying for a massive number of records-by-ID from every service, and the veterans in each team plan for this load pattern accordingly? I assume
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by mcdonje 4y ago
What other current rocket system matches the specs of the SLS, or has the same goals? The only thing comparable is Starship, which isn't ready yet. There are legitimate complaints to be made about things like cost plus accounting, but
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by mcdonje 4y ago
Who is the boondoggle decider?
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by mcdonje 4y ago
Money spent on NASA is not a boondoggle. Much of the money goes to paying talented scientists and engineers well. Their R&D is vital to our economy. You may be interested in this: https://spinoff.nasa.gov/
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by mcdonje 4y ago
Instead of low-code solutions, we need to better empower data analysts and data engineers to solve problems for BUs. DSLs, API access, config files, templates, etc. Devs own the infrastructure. BUs own the business logic. Data analysts and
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by mcdonje 4y ago
Interesting study with relevant findings. I'd like to see it replicated in Asian and African countries to see how much of it is universal vs cultural. If it turns out to not be universal, that would raise more questions to study.
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by mcdonje 4y ago
I get the saying. But in this case, Mozilla gets most of its money from search royalties, primarily from Google. We are Google's product, not Firefox's.
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by mcdonje 4y ago
I mean, PHP is pretty much a domain specific language, and we're only about a year out from log4j.
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by mcdonje 4y ago
Yeah, he didn't call the color effect fresnel. He called the reflections fresnel. You're right that the color effect is called iridescence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fresnel_equations https:/&#x2F
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by mcdonje 4y ago
>You are excluding more than 700 million people from your content. I'm sorry, but that is not a believable stat. You mean to tell me close to 1/10 of the planet is deaf and speaks ASL and doesn't read a written language? I
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by mcdonje 4y ago
Yeah, the total is wrong. It's not a weird bakers' math total. It's a wrong total. If you used the formula with a base of 1000 grams of flour, that's: water: 660g salt: 20g yeast: 6g That adds to 1686g o
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by mcdonje 4y ago
That's interesting. Per the explanation on the FCC page, it's so all numbers that start with 988 go to the 988 line. I guess they want to catch misdials by callers who need the service, but are only able to catch one class of misd
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by mcdonje 4y ago
I was going to comment that this is only 1 way, whereas the sockfish project was 2 way, if I remember correctly. This would only work if the accomplice has a visual of the game. Your solution would probably work, I guess. I sadly don't
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by mcdonje 4y ago
Very cool. My only nit is the local/nonlocal/alt switch is unnecessary. Local & nonlocal numbers have a different number of digits. Checkdown logic can determine which it is. The phone book certainly has less than 7 digits of
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by mcdonje 4y ago
Auto-discovery does sound appealing. Thank you.
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by mcdonje 4y ago
His org used jira but not confluence? Why couldn't they just document these things in confluence? Edit: This is a serious question. What is that value prop of backstage over confluence?
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by mcdonje 4y ago
I've been using tomorrow.io. It's pretty good, overall. I think they're launching their own weather satellites. https://www.tomorrow.io/ https://play.google.com/store/search?q=tomorrow.io

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