noobiemcfoob

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by noobiemcfoob 7y ago
My high school calculus class was similar. I remember spending so much time on limits that our introduction to derivatives was to "invent" derivatives as a last question on our limits exam.
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by noobiemcfoob 7y ago
Anecdata vs. Anecdata: My high school calculus course (AP Calc BC, so college Calc I and II) was phenomenal. It let me jump into Calc III at college and get an A+. Ideas that there is a huge difference in high school vs. college math is mor
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by noobiemcfoob 7y ago
JavaScript is the perfect example of give hackers a bit and they'll take a damned terabyte.
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by noobiemcfoob 7y ago
I believe fbs might have massaged some of your GUI packaging problems. I haven't used it myself, but a coworker who builds a Windows GUI application swears by it. From him, "It's the package manager python doesn't deserv
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by noobiemcfoob 7y ago
Ok, but most doorknobs aren't brass.
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by noobiemcfoob 7y ago
You mean...like the doorknobs?
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by noobiemcfoob 7y ago
"Evaluate it in a try..catch or whatever your language provides." "That's not very enterprisey of you" Oooh, I'm laughing so hard it hurts. It's been a particularly 'enterprisey' week at work.
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by noobiemcfoob 7y ago
It's not just "not bad." It's scary. It makes enough coherent sense from sentence to sentence that I doubt my mom (missing a few marbles) would notice it doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Combine this...some offici
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by noobiemcfoob 7y ago
It's a similar issue in presidential debates. Someone needs to have the authority that something is off topic or off the rails or whatever, but they have to balance that against things that need to be said. And the choice has political
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by noobiemcfoob 7y ago
I just used this on a random project I happen to be building documentation for. I'm pretty in love with the minimalism of 'portray'. I wish there was a chance to get my team to use it, but I'll definitely be using it in
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by noobiemcfoob 7y ago
Ah, noted. Thanks for the education.
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by noobiemcfoob 7y ago
Gladness you don't have it is criticism you're trying to hide behind semantics. You and I seem to have different ideas of an employment social contract (or non-existence of one). Unless you're interested to dig into that di
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by noobiemcfoob 7y ago
> In my country, which (thankfully) lacks America's "at-will" employment contract I'm sorry, is that not obviously criticism? My parser must be busted again.
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by noobiemcfoob 7y ago
> it does mean that it's quite hard to fire an underperforming dev, because how the hell do you prove they're underperforming? What metric do you use? I think your criticism of 'at-will' employment is unfounded in thi
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by noobiemcfoob 7y ago
How curious that one of the best models of intelligence is one of its products created in an effort to emulate itself.
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by noobiemcfoob 7y ago
Are most people in the type of shape that 30 seconds per mile variance day to day is surprising? I don't time myself, but I'd be surprised if any two of my sprints aren't this different normally.
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by noobiemcfoob 7y ago
I don't think it's more. I'd happily argue 80% of people keep to themselves 80% of the time, but those 20% gaps are highly visible in contrast. But to the point: What's the socialite's internal monologue while being
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by noobiemcfoob 7y ago
That's my secret, Cap. I'm always faking it. /Just like everyone else. Seriously, some of the less intrusive locations on the spectrum just strike me as being particularly vocal about logical inconsistencies to one's own
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by noobiemcfoob 7y ago
Piloting helicopters is complicated. One of the features touted here is simplicity to learn. It's also a lot smaller than most helicopters. But otherwise, yeah, that's a current use case of helicopters.
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by noobiemcfoob 7y ago
Fuel efficiency, noise, flight time, max and min speed and load. Depending on these and some more I can imagine plenty of scenarios. Park rangers and other areas that have difficult to access portions come to mind.
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by noobiemcfoob 7y ago
If you won't follow our rules, I'll make another rule that says you have to!
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by noobiemcfoob 7y ago
Can a court coerce a murder witness to testimony with imprisonment?
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by noobiemcfoob 7y ago
Sure. Expand my question then to imprisoning someone to coerce testimony.
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by noobiemcfoob 7y ago
> Imprisoning people who have committed crimes That's not what is being called into question. It's imprisoning someone for the express purpose of coercing testimony that smells here.
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by noobiemcfoob 7y ago
I can accept your argument, even if it leaves me grumpier than when I first asked the question. States convention, anyone?
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by noobiemcfoob 7y ago
I like the concept, but the separation of church and state is only nominal in the first place. Barriers that obstruct one aspect of culture from influencing other aspects are good, but these aspects are ultimately part of the same whole.
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by noobiemcfoob 7y ago
How is admittedly imprisoning someone for "coercive" reasons not cruel? /I'll table the unusual bit.
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by noobiemcfoob 7y ago
Yeah, I did miss the import from protocol.py. I knew it couldn't be just 60 lines but got excited and hit enter. Regardless, to your earlier point, I don't dig into the protocol's details often and just rely on the library. M
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by noobiemcfoob 7y ago
> What is used in embedded makes sense for embedded only Certainly, with that attitude. Personally, I fight that mentality when I can. The reason to lean on technology that is used in multiple disciplines is to increase the pool of viabl
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by noobiemcfoob 7y ago
This is a much better argument than your first comment. For a persistent connection, you might want to move from HTTP to WebSockets, which also brings the bidirectional quality and some more of the pub/sub qualities. Though WebSockets&

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