notdonspaulding

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by notdonspaulding 4y ago
I struggle to think of real-world examples where I've just needed to chain and chain and chain values of different types more than a handful of times. The claimed need for the pipe operator is this construction: function bakeCak
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by notdonspaulding 4y ago
Exactly. As the proposal contemplates this alternative, it claims: > But there are reasons why we encounter deeply nested expressions in each other’s code all the time in the real world, rather than lines of temporary variables. And the
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by notdonspaulding 4y ago
My hypothesis about git apologists is that they fall into one of 2 groups: 1. People who have an organizational development model and workflow which is equivalent in complexity to the Linux kernel development model and workflow (i.e. thousa
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by notdonspaulding 4y ago
It's different for the same reason math teachers want you to "show your work" in addition to simply writing down the answer to a problem. They way you as a human have approached the problem and worked it out is valuable info
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by notdonspaulding 4y ago
> I am never going to put my life in the hands of some software doing image analysis using machine learning. Well...on your car, at least. I'm not sure how comforting that approach is when you're surrounded on the interstate b
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by notdonspaulding 4y ago
> original christians (at the time of Paul) were at odds in practically anything, including the idea that Jesus came in flesh (you will find this being condemned in the new testament itself). What are you saying is being condemned in the
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by notdonspaulding 4y ago
I like this idea. I have no clue whether all the concerns here about ToS/legal/chargeback issues are valid, but I've thought a service like this should exist for a while now (whenever a relative asks me how to get started wi
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by notdonspaulding 4y ago
I'm neither a statistician nor a pilot, but I think the author here actually undersells the need to be 100% right in your decision-making. Because the decisions are actually linked together by the fact that they occur on the same flig
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by notdonspaulding 4y ago
Doesn't the range of an EV drop as the heating load of the cabin of an EV increases? And doesn't the heating load of the cabin increase as the air velocity over all of its metal and glass surfaces increases? Isn't the shell o
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by notdonspaulding 4y ago
Justice is what happens when people are held accountable for the wrong things they've done. Nothing about justice requires that punishment be meted out in strict accordance with the demographic breakdown of a population except insofar
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by notdonspaulding 4y ago
How would alphanumeric addressing help anything? You currently have an address hierarchy like <AS Number>:<Network Allocation>:<Subnet>:<Host>. That hierarchy is conveniently conveyed in a single 128 bit number. Wi
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by notdonspaulding 4y ago
https://webstersdictionary1828.com/Dictionary/guaranty
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by notdonspaulding 4y ago
https://archive.ph/jzkgs
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by notdonspaulding 4y ago
My Dad is currently battling a GBM. Do you have any advice for a web dev who wants to get his toe in the door of understanding the computational biology of gliomas? I don't expect I'll be able to do much, but all of the treatment
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by notdonspaulding 4y ago
I'm far from an expert, but my Dad is currently battling a high-grade glioblastoma multiforme tumor in his brain. So I've learned a little. > so this can put the breaks on cancer, but it can't fix cancer? "Putting t
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by notdonspaulding 4y ago
> Not a conspiracy: Biden himself stated - quite publically - that they would do it. It has been done. I have no strong opinions yet in the argument over whether or not the USA conspired to sabotage the NS pipelines. I'm just here
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by notdonspaulding 4y ago
In terms of claiming the results of the election is illegitimate, "voters were influenced by Russian propaganda" instead of "votes were impacted by direct fraud" seems like a distinction without a difference to me. http
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by notdonspaulding 4y ago
simonw's version control plan would be my step 1. Step -2 is what you are doing now, OP, getting informed about the best way to go about this. Step -1 is forming the battle plan of what you're going to change and in what order of
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by notdonspaulding 4y ago
Both the parent and grandparent to your comment were referring to a toaster oven.
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by notdonspaulding 4y ago
What makes software developers "so much more special than <insert skilled tradesmen>" is that their output to the business is teaching a dumb-but-very-fast-and-cheap-and-capable machine how to do a previously-only-done-by-hu
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by notdonspaulding 4y ago
Regarding your last point: One thing I did in my B2C startup that helped tremendously with this is to have all customers pay monthly up-front, with no contracts and no free trials. I think most folks avoid this because it "leaves mone
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by notdonspaulding 5y ago
This is the good faith interpretation. The more people learn to do this, the further we'll get in our discourse. I'd love to watch a breakdown of current news stories done with charitable interpretations only. Does anyone know of
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by notdonspaulding 5y ago
Not to beat a dead horse, but the reason you keep getting these kinds of replies is because it seems like you have an idea about a second type of Professional Network that is different than what you described as your network of friends. Ev
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by notdonspaulding 5y ago
I follow this advice with one small modification. Namely, mine goes: - Make it once. - Make it right. - Make it fast. "Make it right" as the first step can trick an unseasoned developer into never finishing
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by notdonspaulding 5y ago
https://www.servethehome.com/ News from the datacenter and networking world. https://rumble.com/c/russellbrand I disagree with almost every policy Russell Brand proposes, but he points out behavior tha
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by notdonspaulding 5y ago
Huh? This seems like it works fine in python? filter(lambda x: x < 10, map(lambda x: x * x, [1, 2, 3, 4])) But even for more complicated logic, it also doesn't seem like it's that burdensome to just throw a name on th
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by notdonspaulding 5y ago
Presumably entry_number is unique_together with blog_id. Otherwise the original code is also not handling the MultipleObjectsReturned exception. Generally speaking, I tend toward the cleanest code being: blog = Blog.objects.get(id=1)
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by notdonspaulding 5y ago
By taking a cut of the sale price of the banana as margin to cover it's costs and profits, and then passing the rest down the supply chain to Some Banana Company? Flipping your question around, why does the banana cost 20 cents and not
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by notdonspaulding 5y ago
Along the lines of this advice, I've been trying to find an article I read at some point in the past with advice that sounded like: > On day 1 of a new hire's employment, I explain what it will look like if and when I come to f
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by notdonspaulding 5y ago
Microwave links (including point-to-point "line-of-sight" links) transmit a cigar-shaped cone of signal which raises the noise floor for all receivers within earshot of a given frequency at a given location. The absolute physical

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