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by niccl 4y ago
Having thought about this some more, I guess I have got some observations that could pass as hard-won wisdom: I try to accept people as they are, without trying to change them I try to treat people with respect When debugging, I try to fix
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by niccl 4y ago
Heading towards 70 here. I find that as I get older I get less dogmatic and certain about almost everything, so I don't think it's appropriate for me to lay down a list of certainties like the OP has. Apart from that as an observa
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by niccl 5y ago
I had this problem until I found an editor that had outlining as it's core design paradigm. Now, with the outline always visible, it's _really_ easy to navigate any length file. Unfortunately, at one point I got so used to navigat
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Some AI Systems May Be Impossible to Compute(spectrum.ieee.org)
18 points by niccl 5y ago|23 comments
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by niccl 5y ago
What would an AI come up with? something for the ingnobels, perhaps?
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by niccl 5y ago
And it's little known that New Zealand/Aotearoa would have run out of accessible petrol on about Jan 3 if things hadn't been fixed A lot of the y2k thing was badly framed and over-hyped by Large Consulting Companies, but it
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by niccl 5y ago
I've had jobs that were type II. Generally anything in the entertainment industry, and most specifically being a roadie. There were moment of type I, but a huge amount of the time it was an exhausting, boring, grind, with #$@$@ tour ma
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by niccl 5y ago
A factor in there has got to be 'who pays?' If it's hostile to advertisers, then there's got to be money to pay for the infrastructure from somewhere. Maybe a tax on ISPs? I think I'd happily pay $10 extra per month
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by niccl 5y ago
other NAMEs, form the git log NAME = Trick or Treat NAME = Opossums on Parade NAME = Frozen Wasteland NAME = Valentine's Day Edition NAME = Kleptomaniac Octopus NAME = Nesting Opossum NAME = Bobtail Squid NAME = Gol
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by niccl 5y ago
And no vertical scroll bars (in vivaldi or fire3fox at least) Grr!
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by niccl 5y ago
I gather there's a strong tie-in with SAP payroll stuff (at least in sunny NZ): several of the organisations I've worked with who moved to SAP payroll/employee management have also taken kronos for timesheeting. And since you
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by niccl 5y ago
IIRC (can't find a reference), the idea was noty to be able to kill teh mosquitoes outright, but to damage their wings so they couldn't fly. _Much_ less power needed. Still an issue, though, but not so bad
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by niccl 5y ago
Fun fact: SQL does the same as C, but calls it modulo (at least in postgres, and I assume it's the standard)
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by niccl 5y ago
I think the key to learning FPGAs, as in most other languages, is to find a small project that really grabs you and blunder along with that until you've got something that works. Then you realise how you'd do it better and what yo
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by niccl 5y ago
I have no reference for this, but I understand that a significant limitation in the news print industry would be what the Linotype machines could produce. They literally produced a Line-Of-type, cast in lead. You couldn't practically m
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Every business process secretly wants to fail(devblogs.microsoft.com)
2 points by niccl 5y ago|0 comments
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by niccl 5y ago
I use this snippet, to change spaces to underscore for directories and files in the current directory and below. Haven't made it a function yet, but should. I got it from stack overflow or somewhere, but no attribution. Thanks to whoev
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by niccl 5y ago
I've always thought that conference talks should have the traffic light system that you get a Toastmasters. IIRC it's green while you've still got plenty of time, orange when you're within x minutes of the scheduled end,
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by niccl 5y ago
I think you've got an interesting version of google. For me it says 25.6666 The problem is that the arithmetic operators only associate left to right if they're the same precedence. The precedence is indicated by the old acronym B
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by niccl 5y ago
I'm really sorry, but this is distressing me no end: It should be (((7 + 9) x 8) -2) / 3 = 42. As written, it equals 25.6666...
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by niccl 5y ago
A few years ago a friend ran a camera shop. From time to time someone would come in with an SLR that wouldn't behave (long exposure, no exposure, nothing in viewfinder). He'd take it, tell them to go away and come back in an hour,
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by niccl 5y ago
Missing one that still makes no sense to me: The Ramanujan Summation: 1 + 2 + 3 + ⋯ + ∞ = -1/12 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_+_2_+_3_+_4_+_%E2%8B%AF
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by niccl 5y ago
I've been using it for getting on for 20 years. It's not the best editor (I use emacs for some things) and has some quirks, but the joy and simplicity of outlining code so far outweighs all the drawbacks that I still use it as my
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We Need Software Updates Forever(spectrum.ieee.org)
1 points by niccl 5y ago|0 comments
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by niccl 5y ago
Quintessence. That's what it means: '(In Ancient and Medieval philosophy) ether, the fifth and highest essence or element after earth air, water and fire, which was thought to be the constituent matter of the heavenly bodies a
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by niccl 5y ago
Kurt Vonnegut reportedly sat next to an indexer on a plane once, who convinced him of the value of indexes. After that he made sure his novels had indexes
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by niccl 5y ago
I've often wondered if there are perceptual illusions for blind people: Maybe a physical cafe wall would feel like the rows weren't parallel.
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by niccl 5y ago
one should always eschew obfuscation
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by niccl 5y ago
in South Africa they were known as stiffies, which has a different meaning in some cultures
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by niccl 5y ago
SCP-055 sounds very much like the mnemonomorph in the Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde. I can't remember her name... Maybe SCP-055 escaped to Jasper Fforde's universe, or vice versa

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