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by naringas 6y ago
>I've always thought that the engineers in QC should be just as skilled and qualified as the ones building the product. I agree, but then they need to be equally well payed... and I don't think it is possible to find a manager
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by naringas 6y ago
I would have expected them to use formal verification tools in the vein of TLA+ and such... or maybe use ADA for mission critical systems? But they only mention Astree[1] which seems to be a propietary analyzer for C code [1] https:/&
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by naringas 6y ago
in a society with digital technology the publishers are basically rent seekers. aggregators will end up replacing them. a business model for aggregators other than advertisement is needed.
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by naringas 6y ago
> Now I'm thinking of deploying k8s at home, not to learn, but because I know it's easier for me to deploy nextcloud, or an ebook catalog can't you do that just with containers?
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by naringas 6y ago
> They have a fixed life, some number of months, and then they end and, if you still own them, you have to take delivery of oil. so far so good, this creates stability for companies depending on oil. > You can build a perpetual strat
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by naringas 6y ago
"but what about SEO?" --boss' first question
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by naringas 6y ago
> in the same way you can pay with cash in the real world. but stuff on the web is not at all like stuff in the real world! this is a hugely understanted problem. digital artifacts have zero reproduction cost (beyond a few volts and a c
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by naringas 6y ago
maybe it's pretty much feature complete? (and they seem to be focused on sublime merge) what else do you think it needs? keeping in mind that it's a text editor, not an IDE
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by naringas 6y ago
I really like being able to selectively hide branches, it's a cool git history exploration tool are there other git gui's which can do that? (surely there are, but I don't know them)
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by naringas 6y ago
a good criterion is whether it's pathological i.e. do you incur in self-harm in order to satisfy your habit? do you pass up on opportunities because of it? e.g. would you pass up a chance to engage in some activity because you know the
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by naringas 6y ago
overall good write-up yet I get a strong sensation of black VS white and there is no gray. either you're addicted or you're free, no middle ground, no gray areas, no better days in which is easy to overcome one's compulsions
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by naringas 6y ago
but, alas, they are a great idea if you are sufficiently scared...
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by naringas 6y ago
Best tidbits from the article: > Software developers should provide expertise [...], but also in the externalization of mental models to facilitate communication and enable collaborative modelling. > Software development is largely a
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by naringas 6y ago
the curious thing about such flags is that they are obvious in retrospect but somewhat imperceptible when you needed to notice them
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by naringas 6y ago
so... they are bringing offerings presumably hoping this will make their free meals return... so curious reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propitiation
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by naringas 6y ago
because bigger nation invades?
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by naringas 6y ago
fantastic summary of some pretty interesting research from 2019... alas, it's likely that nobody in any position to do anything about this will bother
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by naringas 6y ago
Why 10%? Why not 5%? or 25%? Also, how would you chose who gets to stay? In any case I find it quite hard to justify a reduction of population based on being able to have better sights
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by naringas 6y ago
the countdown pattern reminds me of shopping television's "but call within the next fifteen minutes to receive a second FREE product!"
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by naringas 6y ago
I agree, my go-to example of declarative programming is SQL you say what you want, and the DB figures out how best to get it.
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by naringas 6y ago
it's only forbidden if you get caught?
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by naringas 6y ago
I think they meant to say it can lead to confusion or be misinterpreted ironically, their misuse of the term harmful can also lead to confusion or be misinterpreted all in all, we should use more precise words (and thinking), but this requi
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by naringas 6y ago
I would classify "A short hike" [1] in this category. it's a very nice game. [1] http://ashorthike.com/
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by naringas 6y ago
> The threat of punishment ...? if this is the only reason not to harm others, then you'll probably look for (and likely find) a way to harm others and avoid punishment.
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by naringas 6y ago
> Modern science is accurate enough to produce technology I would argue that this is better called "engineering" rather than science. In this sense engineering is a design discipline which applies science-made theories to creat
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by naringas 6y ago
Modern science is just barely science alas, I cannot back this up with any data but note that backing my assertion up with references is not sufficient to make my statment scientific. but I can add some resasoning to my claim: modern scienc
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by naringas 6y ago
or if during the hack, the code was deleted after copying regardless, I agree.
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by naringas 6y ago
they were organazing lots and lots of "data" long before computers even existed
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by naringas 6y ago
I have a pretty decent trackpad experience on linux. grated it has been a little glitchy but not as much anymore.. in any case I blame propietary vendors for preventing better open source support.
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by naringas 6y ago
now imagine such an attitude in a non-academic setting where instead of a professor replying to a student it's the division head or president or chief executive replying to a junior staffer: "I don't really know what is going

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