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by no-s 6y ago
>>Rather than defunding epidemiology, how about giving them enough money to hire professional programmers? See "Moral Hazard". We should not expect integrity issues to be solved by throwing money at the perpetrators. It&#x27
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by no-s 6y ago
ground beef. but it does seem dubious at best. and also like totally the Soviet Way.
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by no-s 6y ago
>There's probably some civilizational complexity limit where the unexpected interactions between seemingly isolated pieces of tech become so bad that we cannot introduce anything new without introducing legion of weird bugs. Come to
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by no-s 6y ago
on the subject of "dumb problems" and undeserved acclamation: One day I walked into the break room and observed one of the dev team leaders pissing on about how the vending machine didn't have the snack he wanted. I tapped on
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by no-s 6y ago
Risks Digest was on my daily reading list for years. I've been in computing since the early 70s, the history of computing is fabulous background to inform e.g. debugging, or SRE.
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by no-s 6y ago
I had a loaner machine (RS-6000 minicomputer) that would have unrecoverable ECC errors when the cover was on. The tech would come and try to diagnose it, but with the cover off, everything would work fine. He'd swap the memory anyway a
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by no-s 7y ago
I used to leave copies of Mythical Man Month on the seats of the MUNI in SF during the DotCom era. Also PeopleWare. Actually Patti Dunn gave me a few hundred extra copies of PeopleWare from some Barclays event I accidentally attended and I
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by no-s 7y ago
It's not a simulation, it's a data model for reducing the pain for what's really a hard problem - names we call people are not unique, they are colloquial identifiers (HHOS).
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by no-s 7y ago
Wasting your design time allotment in rationalizing futile compromise is the flip side of seeing everything as a dichotomy. The reality modeled by human discourse may be only consensual, not actual...
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by no-s 7y ago
> "the filing cabinet is a place where you find things, not lose them" "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." - Santayana “Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always
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by no-s 7y ago
it turns out I have everything I need to manufacture small qty runs (100s) of effective masks at about $1.60ea. So I'm just going to do it to stock up my household for the duration. QC is my only concern, since I have to use a qualitat
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by no-s 7y ago
nevertheless 8511 masks disappeared from the market, and Amazon is telling me they are available only to gov't and institutions. On eBay the masks are listed at over $25 apiece. Unfortunately when doing dusty work one mask will only la
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by no-s 7y ago
>Why wouldn't an automated interface be able to give similar recommendations ? you being sarcastic? If only we had an automated interface to make decisions about what code to write, then we wouldn't need programmers. Look how w
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by no-s 7y ago
the 8511 masks used in construction have a one-way valve for free-flow exhalation. The mask only protects the wearer from particulates in the environment. It doesn't protect the environment from particulates exhaled by the wearer. Thes
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by no-s 7y ago
I bumped this because it's an underappreciated topic in CS. I never really had any formal education but PID and MPC have been in my bag of systems hacks for decades now. I wish I had more lives to expend in enjoyment of the pursuit of
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by no-s 7y ago
now this is a cool site.
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by no-s 7y ago
Hah, this is ironically bittersweet for me. Sadly I disliked J and K because they didn't scan like APL to me. Programming after APL in so-called modern languages seems like wordy drudgery in comparison.
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by no-s 7y ago
People seem to always talk in absolutes, black and whites, concerning this topic. Maybe this is just my cynical perception, but I often hear people try to justify situational bad practice by citing outliers unrelated to the situation at h
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by no-s 7y ago
The practice of speed reading is not the same as the ability to read quickly. I don't speed read, I read very quickly and often at the rate of page at a glance (I often tell people not to leave confidential papers exposed so I won&#x27
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by no-s 7y ago
IMHO, as an American native, I like the cultural experience of americanized Chinese cuisine as adapted to locally available ingredients, especially in the southwest US (with it's subtle leavening of Chinese culture dating from the rail
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by no-s 7y ago
I'd love to point out that in a strictly RESTful design, your client is supposed to be discovering the data model from queries, not embedding it in code. Ergo data and schema migrations should be no trouble at all. Not sure I understan
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by no-s 7y ago
im curious - why not insert from table value list instead of multiple insert statements in your fixtures population? Does this not work well in Postgres?
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by no-s 7y ago
I have a greyhound. If she is not exercised enough she will find a way, but so far it’s cost me about $4500 in breakage. For instance she discovered making a kick turn at the end of the hall could lead to crashing through drywall, so then s
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by no-s 7y ago
reminds me of that software development conference where a developer could receive a tattoo with a favorite language icon from an O'Reilly book cover - thus becoming a better programmer, no doubt!
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by no-s 7y ago
"First not null, Middle null, Last not null" represents an a priori assumption that everyone has a First, Middle, and Last - but sometimes we don't know what the Middle is. Allowing a zero length string in any of those attrib
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by no-s 8y ago
So true. The problem is in the system at a higher level. It is not really a software defect that killed all those folks.
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by no-s 8y ago
Misfeasance is the real issue here. Wikileaks exposed it. I don't care if Assange broke the cited law, if the US govt is up to no damn good as a US Citizen I have a right to know. If the govt is using the law to retaliate against journ
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by no-s 8y ago
I am also applying a similar discrimination to HN forum participants. Too many of whom seem absurdly credulous of the govt claims...
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by no-s 8y ago
Also not particularly religious here but the Bible is certainly full of useful source material.
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by no-s 8y ago
>These individuals are free to create their own businesses and websites which facilitate whatever kind of discourse they please, nobody can take that away from them. This is not just about free speech and freedom of association. It'

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