mr_gibbins

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by mr_gibbins 4y ago
I agree, but there has to be a balance between doing it for love and getting a living wage. One of my colleagues, an Associate Professor, works in Halfords (shop/garage chain in the UK) on the weekends. That isn't right. And ma
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by mr_gibbins 4y ago
The pay gap is real, and a huge reason why perfectly good software folk (and scientists, data specialists, etc.) move out of academia and into industry. I have an industry job with good pay with a side of academic work stemming from my PhD.
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by mr_gibbins 4y ago
Hmm. It's a lovely design, a bit preachy throughout, promoting the Startup Agenda, but plays fairly well. I hit a 'dead-end' very quickly on the first run through as I chose to continue to self-fund rather than seek investm
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by mr_gibbins 4y ago
I was writing from the perspective of the debt-holder, that if you have expensive unsecured debt (and many poorer householders do), then as bills rise there is less disposable income to work with, debt payments eat a larger portion of outgo
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by mr_gibbins 4y ago
That's good to know (no sarcasm intended) - I was intending on holding onto my modest stash of diesel for a few months at most, but probably worth finding out a bit about how quickly it goes off!
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by mr_gibbins 4y ago
All of this is the opposite of what the government will want you to do, since (arguably) the best way out of a recession is to spend one's way out, but, tragedy of the commons aside: - Get rid of debt, right now. Interest rates are sk
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by mr_gibbins 4y ago
I'm not an artist and I don't understand art, beyond liking something tangible with an aesthetic that appeals to me. So I'll buy prints, or originals, that I like, and that I don't mind looking at every day, and hang the
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by mr_gibbins 4y ago
Too much here to deconstruct in a comment, but some choice responses: * How does the author suggest non-blocking DDL is actioned? You'd have to snapshot your entire table using e.g. a similar method to snapshot isolation at the row le
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by mr_gibbins 4y ago
One slightly problematic aspect of their methodology is that 'Casey ... [found] 8,555 to have an overlap of features highly correlated with fake/spam accounts'. Which features were they? How reliable are those features? Wha
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by mr_gibbins 4y ago
My tips (as a DB architect amongst other things): - Get your business requirements as detailed & complete as possible before you begin. - Break down your requirements into nouns, which will be entities, and adjectives/properties&#x
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by mr_gibbins 4y ago
Any database primer e.g. intro-level textbook would do, for the basics of relational integrity. But try finding a developer these days who has read a book or shows any interest whatsoever in writing SQL. Most of them just want to work wit
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by mr_gibbins 4y ago
Ooo, you're giving me LaTeX vibes!
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by mr_gibbins 5y ago
Possibly the first time I've ever laughed out loud at something in the Guardian: "“The first time I opened the box, I swiftly concluded that it was way out of my league, and the only way I’d even have a shot at it was if I were fo
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by mr_gibbins 5y ago
Why is this here? It is a sales link to an e-Book.
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by mr_gibbins 5y ago
No, I'm sorry, I'm not going to pull out heaps of regurgitated quantum information to back this up but that's straight-up wrong. The red ball and the blue ball exist as physical objects, it is us, the observers, who are unawa
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by mr_gibbins 5y ago
I agree entirely. Industrially, I work a role within an IT team. My work is, I hope, useful and strives towards a purpose - my employer's purpose/business model. Do I 'go home' - leave my home office - and think about
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by mr_gibbins 5y ago
We used to have the sum total of human knowledge, or at least a good facsimile of it. Unfortunately, with the Internet as we know it transformed into a handful of walled gardens, finding detailed knowledge is increasingly difficult. Wikipe
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by mr_gibbins 5y ago
I doubt it, since in academia there are two gods, Word and LaTeX. It is very rare to find journals/conferences who don't specify one template or the other (with the possible exception of ACM, who are a law unto themselves). TexM
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by mr_gibbins 5y ago
Users saving videos is a commercial problem for the owners of those videos. And we can't be having users enjoy videos without ads now, can we? The Reddit 'gods' may have decreed that this bot must die, but of course the real
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by mr_gibbins 5y ago
Now it'll be Bezos with the asterisk next to his name as the *second person to reach sub-orbital altitude in a passenger spacecraft. Imagine having $200bn and still coming second. Well-deserved to Branson and his team.
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by mr_gibbins 5y ago
Wow - thank you for this, TIL.
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by mr_gibbins 5y ago
Not to be a dick but what's your source on that? I understood it to be 40% up to 150k, not 60% as per https://www.gov.uk/guidance/rates-and-thresholds-for-employe...
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by mr_gibbins 5y ago
My issue with Feynman, the one I cannot get past (no matter how much I like his lifestyle and intellect), is the work on the Manhattan Project. His defence was, essentially, that a war was on, and the US needed the same capabilities as oth
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by mr_gibbins 5y ago
You'd love Ruby My Dear. A French outfit putting out some excellent albums. I've been an Aphex fan for more than two decades and their music is very much along the same lines, albeit a little less ambient and a bit more banging
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by mr_gibbins 6y ago
I can relate to this by using an analogy. I'm a big fan of Magic: the Gathering, particularly the MTG Arena format. Not so long ago I was beating myself up constantly: why can't I get to Mythic? Why am I getting beaten, 3, 4,
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by mr_gibbins 6y ago
Nice share, but it's an infomercial, the plug for her app is about halfway down. Not a bad idea for an app though, on the face of it, if a little under-featured.
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by mr_gibbins 6y ago
No matter how clever or acclaimed Arnold is (or was), this speech is nothing but an extended rant on how deficient in skill and intelligence he finds his peers, his students and his contemporaries, and by implication how incredibly clever a
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by mr_gibbins 6y ago
This should be top comment.
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by mr_gibbins 6y ago
Often I remind myself that interviews are a two-way street - companies forget this, to their detriment. You are there to impress them, but they are also there to impress you - do you want to spend the next few years with them? Companies wh
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by mr_gibbins 6y ago
In my maths GCSE (UK) one of the teachers observed I was having some trouble expanding brackets and whispered a mnemonic she had taught us weeks previously to help. One data point, one observation... but yes, I can believe it.

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