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541.
by narag 4y ago
I just, can't imagine what benefit you get from opening an X gigabyte file. Maybe I don't fully understand the context, but... why shouldn't you open a big file? I haven't read the whole article, but I did read that th
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by narag 4y ago
That's exactly right. There were good and bad things. Some method was needed, but too much method is lethal to productivity. Agile was sold as less rigid method, but for many shops it's simply too much. You need first to make it w
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by narag 4y ago
That's attributed to Big Bang because most people believe there was a Big Bang. Maybe it comes from another phenomenon. Or maybe they're right.
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by narag 4y ago
Any straight line you draw from earth to any direction in the sky will then reach a star. Only if you think that there is infinite matter, all of it forming the same kind of stars, uniformly spread over the infinite space and there is no
545.
by narag 4y ago
It's not just red shift that demands an explanation, but also that the sky (space) is dark. If space wasn't expanding then the skies would be bright white. Another thing is the second law of thermodynamics, which very strongly im
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by narag 4y ago
The funny thing is that since we've been observing the universe for so little time, and we're so small, most of the evidence for the big bang and expansion is not direct , but a chain of deductions. I mean that we can't obs
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by narag 4y ago
I don't even like Succession so much, just didn't want to pick a fight with its many fans :) Actually it's an objetive fact that you can't say too loud that you don't like it, or else... anyway, I'd rather no
548.
by narag 4y ago
I feel the same way. There are a few funny shows, like Succession, but most other series, even if they have an interesting start, decline very fast. Visually they're all OK to very good. But the writing is boring, often appalling.
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by narag 4y ago
punched in the face or being perceived... "or"
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by narag 4y ago
Is the storage really the complex part? Isn't gathering the actual information and avoiding errors (...) the hard part? Not for someone that works in consulting, or at least it wasn't. I remember that I had Access access to the
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by narag 4y ago
TFA, to me, touches about something I've wondered about a very long time ago... It was a little more than ten years ago for me. I realized that a hard disk could store a database of every human alive, including basic information, lin
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by narag 4y ago
the hackers left a looooong time ago... At the moment I write this, the title has a "(1995)" so it could explain the disconnect.
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by narag 4y ago
The comparison with Kermit is, for people of certain age, very natural. We first knew both of them at the same time. And Tamariz used to appear in TV for children. Not only he performed awesome tricks, he also made us laugh with his explosi
554.
by narag 4y ago
I bet a similar effect could happen with the desktop part. Not around price, or we would've already seen it. Actually, I suspect that's really the reason "the year of Linux on the desktop" never materialized: that Micros
555.
by narag 4y ago
That Pareto is everywhere and, when applied to knowledge, a comprehensive study plan, like courses or a book, for most subjects, tend to obscure what's the meat. Waking call: https://sive.rs/kimo Corollary: a place whe
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by narag 4y ago
It wasn't better. It was cheaper. Cheaper is better, all other things equal. If the other systems were ten times more expensive, were they also ten times better in some other metrics to compensate?
557.
by narag 4y ago
Thank you, also to the others that suggested alternatives. I'm not much of new year resolutions, but this 2023 I'm promising myself to set some limits with our digital landlords. Always a difficult relationship, but these last two
558.
by narag 4y ago
I've wasted the best part of the past hour trying to find a phone that's supported and under 200€ in the online page of a nearby shop. Not sure about the reason, there are older and newer phones in both, but never at the same time
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by narag 4y ago
That's me most of the time. I used to describe my position as troublemaker . Of course I also used to do things to compensate that perception. Anyway, whatever the reason, for the company it's interesting to have both the right p
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by narag 4y ago
For me it was people in the gym that skips legs day. Actually a good metaphor is absolutely required to create some ambiguity.
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by narag 4y ago
I've seen a good amount people that identify themselves as DB people or QA people or sysadmins and wanted to know nothing outside their corner of the woods. As in "don't even explain that to me, just do your part" that w
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by narag 4y ago
I find it fascinating that we have names for base 60 and base 12. They seem very similar to ordinals and partitive numerals in Spanish. Those words are being quickly forgotten except low values and powers of ten. But they were common know
563.
by narag 4y ago
I can understand the first paragraph just fine. It's been forty years since my year of Classic Greek. I still have the dictionary somewhere, so it seems I could make use of it.
564.
by narag 4y ago
Pascal had a standard (ISO 7185:1983) Doesn't "1983" tell you something? I don't mean to snark. Maybe my comment wasn't clear enough. I've talked of two different periods: the first in the seventies, the seco
565.
by narag 4y ago
I think this was a reason for C’s success back in the day. Nop, more like the other way around in the 80's. Before, there were two reasons: lack of a standard (Pascal was a learning language, not intended for professional use) and th
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by narag 4y ago
Sure, I was responding to the question "what are they going to offer in return" with "probably they're already giving us something in return," it's an ongoing collaboration, only their part is not always public
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by narag 4y ago
What is the US going to offer in return. I suspect, without proof but read next paragraphs for some evidence, that the US offer their surveillance net. If EU police is searching for someone, even in our own territory, it's easier for
568.
by narag 4y ago
I won't dispute that calling yourself a programmer is bad for your career. But now that nobody is listening, let me tell you my little dirty secret: I can't think of any other occupation label that defines me better. And, it might
569.
by narag 4y ago
Indeed, good catch.
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by narag 4y ago
Oh, for testing we used other tricks, config files or the more modern instrumentation. The flags that I dislike are the ones used to add functionality as an afterthought.

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