mtVessel

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by mtVessel 5y ago
Oh, how I miss physical switches. It's not so much the lack of control, but why, oh why, does every action have to lag so horrendously?
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by mtVessel 5y ago
What do you imagine all that "exploitation" was about? Which "power-hungry individuals" benefited, and how? Everyone ended up with loved ones sick and dead. The governors and mayors who implemented mandates did so kno
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by mtVessel 5y ago
Something I've never understood is the requirement to have separate people doing the design and the implementation. How does that provide greater legal protection than one person doing the design, a lawyer signing off on it, and that
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by mtVessel 5y ago
Sorry, all I get out of this is 1. Buy domain names 2. ??? 3. Profit
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by mtVessel 5y ago
Chewing, not eating. The gum isn't really designed to be edible, just a medium to deliver nicotine.
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by mtVessel 5y ago
2010, in the U.S.[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC
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by mtVessel 5y ago
That's right. The theory of Roko's basilisk[1] does not specify which one will evolve into our next (glorious!) overlord, so best to be nice to all of them. [1] https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/rokos-basilisk
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Bitcoin mining operation in New York runs up against state's climate law(gothamist.com)
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by mtVessel 5y ago
The absolutely terrifying thing about Kaczynski's manifesto is that much of it is a rational, if utterly cynical, reaction to modernity. How a man who could think so clearly about the implications of our societal choices could conclud
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by mtVessel 5y ago
That's such a pet peeve of mine. They don't know when I'm viewing the page. They only know when the request to render arrives. On longer timescales it's not as important, but still.
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by mtVessel 5y ago
As of when?
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by mtVessel 5y ago
If ever I saw a solution in search of a problem...
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by mtVessel 5y ago
I agree, which is why I feel it's worthwhile to expand one's vocabulary, and expose yourself to a variety of communication styles. It's so subtle, it's hard to tell how much your choice of words influences your thinking
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by mtVessel 5y ago
Yes, of course, that's the better approach. But you can quickly get bogged down in a ton of extra parameters/environment vars/config scripts/whatever depending on how granular you want that control to be. My laziness of
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by mtVessel 5y ago
When I write code that has multiple, interrelated parts, before I ever run it I step through it in the debugger to verify that my logic is correct, I didn't make any off-by-one errors, library calls return what I expect, etc. I especia
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by mtVessel 5y ago
Also known as the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity
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by mtVessel 5y ago
I wonder about the churn in the user community. If the community doesn't regularly refresh by attrition and new-joiners, then it must be aging. If that were the case, you'd expect to see quarter-life crises, mid-life crises, etc
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by mtVessel 5y ago
I think I would understand was is meant by an "information service", but what exactly is an "information society service"? Such odd wording -- does it have a specific meaning?
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by mtVessel 5y ago
The point of figure 4 is to admit that the neat step-to-step iterations in fig. 3 don't always happens. Sometimes testing reveals flaws that are bigger than the preceding coding step, and you have to back up to design or even requirem
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by mtVessel 5y ago
Read the original paper [1]. By definition, treating the steps as iterative is a recommended practice. [1] http://www-scf.usc.edu/~csci201/lectures/Lecture11/royce1970...
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by mtVessel 5y ago
In my experience, many data engineers and data scientists know nothing about software engineering, unless they've had a previous life as a coder. Most data engineers who claim they know python really only know pandas, and many couldn&
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by mtVessel 5y ago
Did I read this right? You took a full-time job as a "holiday" from the stresses of being your own boss? I guess the grass truly is always greener.
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by mtVessel 5y ago
Well, bang goes that theory. Maybe it's the intangibility of computer files that is tripping them up.
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by mtVessel 5y ago
Good points. Maybe educators need to consider updating their metaphors -- any of these could work. The real problem might be that computer files are intangible, abstract entities, making it harder for students to fully grok the model.
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by mtVessel 5y ago
A very apt description. IDD (Igor-driven development) is probably the most common software engineering methodology in use, at least in the enterprise.
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by mtVessel 5y ago
The file cabinet/folder/document metaphor was almost universally understood back then. How many of today's students have ever used a physical filing system?
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by mtVessel 5y ago
Yes, but it's possible this generation has never done it. They've never used a paper-dominant system, never used a file cabinet or a physical folder. The metaphor falls apart when the source is no longer well-understood.
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by mtVessel 5y ago
There are levels?
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by mtVessel 5y ago
How quickly we forget the dark days before PDF print drivers.
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by mtVessel 5y ago
Sorry, I disagree. > If you need some sort of a sanity check, see how your friends and peers (that don't work in software) configure their systems Everyone I know who doesn't work in tech "configures" their system by

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