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by niccl 7mo ago
Sadly, I think the only answer is some other form of payment than ad clicks. I've no idea what that could be, though.
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by niccl 7mo ago
All. The. Time. And I hate it. Imagine giving a customer a rebate based on buggy code. You fix a bug, the customer comes back and wants to check that the rebate was correct that last time. Now you have to somehow hard-code the rebate they d
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by niccl 7mo ago
But at least they're taking _some_ stance. Yes, it could be higher, but it's better than nothing, and requires courage
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by niccl 8mo ago
I invoke Hanlon's Razor [0]. Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor
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by niccl 8mo ago
back working on my lighting desk, after a couple of years of hating it because the communications bus between the many different modules was flakey and so the whole thing wasn't fun to use. I bit the bullet last year and re-implemented
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by niccl 9mo ago
obligatory xkcd https://xkcd.com/882/
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by niccl 10mo ago
This is one of the things I actually remember my mother saying. Festina lente [0]: Make haste slowly. I've always tried to stick to it because when I have I've found more to appreciate in whatever I'm doing (as TFA says) Sadl
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by niccl 10mo ago
_totally_ off topic, but what sort of brain must Ms Collier have that she can play a game at the same time as giving a cogent lecture on String Theory with very few hesitations? I could hardly concentrate on the lecture because of the game
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by niccl 10mo ago
One thing not mentioned in TFA but I came across following the 'we're hiring' link to the Back-end Engineer role. They use PERL (v5). That certainly surprised me!
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by niccl 10mo ago
Brilliant! Mr Boole would love this
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by niccl 10mo ago
I really, really, hope so. Local live music seems to be dying where I live.
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by niccl 10mo ago
I had a gig last night. Small local band with a bit of a following that hasn't performed for a few months. Audience of 120 or so. Great fun. My occasional hobby is lighting live music so I have to take what bands I can. Fortunately I r
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by niccl 10mo ago
It's just the way I am. anxiety disorder? I dunno, but conflict really stresses me
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by niccl 10mo ago
Not the original poster but: * that the interaction with a peer _is_ the problem. I know we should all be grown up and able to talk about these things in a mature and effective way, but I can't cope with conflict in any shape or fo
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by niccl 11mo ago
In reference to the suggestion that the 1986 theft was an homage to a 1911 theft: > In 1911, Picasso and his contemporary Guillaume Apollinaire were both suspects in the Mona Lisa theft > but were cleared of any association with the c
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by niccl 11mo ago
I understand many cars nowadays have some sort of auto-levelling feature that is supposed to adjust the where the beams point as the vehicle load changes or related to tire inflation. I know some cars used to have a manual control for this.
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by niccl 11mo ago
> But when you actually do know the truth about a subject, you realize how completely full of crap they too often are The Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect
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by niccl 1y ago
Douglas Hofstadter went there with his Letter Spirit project/concept/something. I can't find a decent single link about it, but there seems to have been an HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37
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by niccl 1y ago
A round-turn and two half-hitches is also useful. And a highwayman's hitch, just for fun
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by niccl 1y ago
I thought that. they look hand-wound. I'm sure they can't be, unless this is a prototype that escaped somehow
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by niccl 1y ago
I'd really like to see a citation for 25 Hz. It feels to me like a decimal point might be missing. And how does the knife moving at twice the frequency of the vegetables being cut work? do they do two complete cycles of the knife for e
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by niccl 1y ago
It's just dawned on me that one possible reason is that you don't know which docs to read. I've recently been forced into learning some JavaScript. Given the original question I wouldn't have known where to start. Now th
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by niccl 1y ago
and the wonderful https://arovideo.co.nz
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by niccl 1y ago
Hmm. and PERL is not one of the most popular languages these days. In contrast with Python and its There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it. It does not seem coincidence to me
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by niccl 1y ago
I have a recollection that Intel used to do this when Andy Grove was in charge. There was a fair amount of noise about them 'spending through the recession': building FABs and other plant so that when the recession ended they&#x27
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by niccl 1y ago
I much prefer the art of fugue on strings. The Delme Quartet is the best rendition I've found. The two pauses in contrapunctus 1 are, in my opinion the two best pieces of silence in the whole musical canon. I always think of the chord
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by niccl 1y ago
There was a deep technical reason for it, too. I suspect I'm one of the very few living people that know what it was., so I'll share it with HN so the knowledge doesn't die :-) A relatively early type of mechanical telephone
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by niccl 1y ago
That was fascinating. And contained some interesting stories relating to the function profit = f(lives_lost)
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by niccl 1y ago
A way to think about it I've seen a few times: continental drift is roughly the same order of magnitude as the rate your fingernails grow!
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by niccl 2y ago
> Nearly every large company I've interviewed with would comply with a reasonable accommodation request for a legitimate disability so neuro divergence isn't a legitimate disability?

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