mr_gibbins

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by mr_gibbins 2y ago
This is RBAR by any other name.
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by mr_gibbins 2y ago
An extraordinarily arrogant approach to presenting a project. The TEXT datatype is deprecated in most RDBMSs. A minor and insignificant point but following the 'remove the brown M&Ms' rider principle, it makes me question the
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by mr_gibbins 2y ago
The number of times I mis-spelt Stonebraker in my Ph.D thesis... An absolute pioneer. I'm glad he's still around and active - sadly unlike many of his late contemporaries.
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by mr_gibbins 2y ago
5-stage recruitment process too, including referencing! And no salary indication.
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by mr_gibbins 2y ago
How about finishing Azure first
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by mr_gibbins 3y ago
I agree, doing things to prevent a penalty is probably worse than classic positive reinforcement/conditioning, doing things to get a reward. It's not healthy in the long-term. However some things are generally pretty awful (such
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by mr_gibbins 3y ago
Thank you, this is news to me, I've been using the 'Learn French with Alexa' series on YT, plus a French dictionary and some magazines etc. I'll check it out!
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by mr_gibbins 3y ago
When I procrastinate, it stems from the thought, 'I don't really want to do this (right now|at all)'. So one way to jump that hurdle is consider the consequences of not doing it, and how that makes me feel. For example, le
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by mr_gibbins 3y ago
What I find interesting is that on HN, downvoting doesn't seem to have a negative impact, not as much as Reddit anyway. And I wonder if that's because folks who use HN really care about HN - I do - and make a good-faith, concer
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by mr_gibbins 3y ago
I've always felt the downvote option was a colossal mistake and just allowed controversial or unpopular points of view to disappear, strengthening the filter effect for everything else. I mean even 4chan doesn't have downvote func
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by mr_gibbins 3y ago
Maybe it's the ol' HN hug-of-death but I'm getting a mostly blank screen on the #ALL page with a single post from 'Krazy', contents a single < symbol, and nothing else. Browsing tabs doesn't change the main
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by mr_gibbins 3y ago
triggered
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by mr_gibbins 3y ago
As someone in this space I can attest that AI teaching in most (UK) universities is generally poor on detail, abstract and behind industry by at least 3-5 years. Not to mention that there is zero appetite from undergrads or postgrads to get
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by mr_gibbins 3y ago
When you're dealing with SQL you're dealing with items in sets, and really all you're doing is joining, slicing and filtering sets of data to obtain the results you want, perhaps with some extra sugar like aggregation, but in
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by mr_gibbins 4y ago
My Twitter feed started showing hot takes from more and more right-wing nutjobs, probably because I am naturally slightly conservative (small-c) in my views. Eventually I got fed up with seeing so many posts from Lotus Eaters / Alex J
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by mr_gibbins 4y ago
This looks like a great tool, I would like to ask if it really is AI-powered? AI is a term that's been heavily co-opted by the expert systems crowd, especially when marketing solutions. Does this tool actually learn from user input and
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by mr_gibbins 4y ago
I'm sorry to say that Notepad, then Notepad++, have been my tools of choice for nearly 20 years. To-do lists, work journals (immensely useful as a knowledge base especially in short gigs), assignments, coding, the lot. I wrote most of
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by mr_gibbins 4y ago
Hasbro are attempting to do the same thing to the D&D brand, sadly. I don't know the details but the idea is to move to One D&D from 5e, which will inevitably come with more online/offline integration. Why they can't
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by mr_gibbins 4y ago
I've recently held a senior management position then left and obtained a technical position at a different organisation. Not kidding, I nearly cried with happiness moving away from SM and into a tech position again. I was GIVEN work t
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by mr_gibbins 4y ago
Do you think it's something to do with the medium, rather than the content? I am an avid book-collector and much prefer to pick up a technical manual and find guidance there, but at the same time my job demands fluency with online docu
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by mr_gibbins 4y ago
No, that isn't correct. The query planner optimises query execution in a layer of abstraction below the representation of the tables, the relational integrity and structure of the user-accessible objects. Tables, their attributes, rel
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by mr_gibbins 4y ago
I can manage 15 minutes or so on my aging Oculus Quest but that's about it. There's a Netflix option on there, I can relax in a virtual cinema with surround sound and a screen sized big enough to feel like a cinema screen and I&#
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by mr_gibbins 4y ago
To echo the rest of the comments, hybrid is fine if and only if I get some kind of private space in the office itself, a cube is OK, a desk with partitions is OK, but I want to be able to isolate myself when necessary. A layout where someo
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by mr_gibbins 4y ago
Thanks - see comment above.
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by mr_gibbins 4y ago
Yes - you are correct :)
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by mr_gibbins 4y ago
Not to cop out but a HN reply isn't the best place to provide a full explanation. Suffice to say I use the ZF axioms as a basis to teach how sets both differ from and are similar to tables, particularly using the more accessible parts
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by mr_gibbins 4y ago
Nope, nope and nope again. I refute this utterly, as a teaching academic. Contact hours at most universities are around 2-4 hours per week per 15-credit module. To gain a degree, you have to take 120 credits a year, typically two terms of
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by mr_gibbins 4y ago
I like Bill Wadge's stuff and this is a great explanation of the axiom of choice. I spent a fair bit of time on ZF set theory + AC working in databases, and AC is essential for data-driven set-theory to function. Bit confused about th
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by mr_gibbins 4y ago
In the UK tax is somewhat disconnected from payroll. So that e.g. a second job would attract a different tax code. Different tax codes are applied for many, many different reasons though. I'm still a company director, although the co
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by mr_gibbins 4y ago
This is an underrated comment.

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