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by nrr 2y ago
"You need to run your own platform people." What problem does this solve? I'm someone who's been on the business end of a subpoena for a platform I ran, and narcing on my friends under threat of being held in contempt is
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by nrr 2y ago
What's funny is I remember when those Microsoft Management Console snap-in tools were brand new, and what came before them was a lot less nice to use. (They might be MFC. Windows 2000 is about the right time for Microsoft to be C++ hap
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by nrr 2y ago
"The only notable software produced ... is ... essentially a UML editor ..." Yes, correct. It's a CASE tool, at least when you have a computer to assist with using it. For harder-hitting software applications, I never took mu
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by nrr 2y ago
I'll try being more direct. I have a tightly-defined universe of discourse here, and you are operating almost completely outside it. Why is your engagement with my comment relevant beyond the connection to DRAKON? So far, I've s
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by nrr 2y ago
"The cultists claim that it IS a machine language." Cultists? I'm still left scratching my head as to how this is relevant to my comment. I wrote about the Fregat upper stage, DRAKON's expressiveness as it relates to rec
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by nrr 2y ago
Forgive me, but I'm left scratching my head. I can't find where I mentioned any of this. Buran's cancellation predates (given my limited command of Russian, what I think is) the first evidence of DRAKON's production use
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by nrr 2y ago
I feel like the degenerate case is the happy path for basically any sorting algorithm: the computer doesn't need to do work. That'd make the leftmost skewer in the Wikipedia version of DRAKON quicksort perfectly fine. As far as
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by nrr 2y ago
You have a firm deadline and presumably something with a lot of unknowns that needs to be shipped. That's pretty risky. Here's how I've tried to get a handle on similar risks with a background in statistics and operations res
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by nrr 2y ago
I've long used the US international layout with Alt-Graph deadkeys. (For the full experience, you can perhaps buy an ANSI format keyboard from the Netherlands?) It takes some practice getting AltGr+y as ü and AltGr+w as ä and AltGr+p a
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by nrr 2y ago
No. On German and Swiss layouts, that key is a dead key: it doesn't type anything by itself when you press it. It's meant to combine with another subsequent keypress in order to yield a whole glyph with a diacritic as in, e.g., ba
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by nrr 2y ago
I suppose this makes sense if you have relatively few windows that each themselves encompass self-contained task state: one terminal window with a bunch of tabs, one VS Code window with a bunch of tabs, and so on. I've always found thi
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by nrr 2y ago
My argument is exactly about the ergonomics. If the goal is to target Gnome in particular and take advantage of C interoperability (ideally, without the overhead of a foreign function interface), Vala seems like a solidly ergonomic soluti
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by nrr 2y ago
I'm talking beyond saturation. There are actually quite a few resources for which I'd like to maintain something resembling steady-state saturation, like CPU and RAM utilization. However, it's when I've overcommitted t
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by nrr 2y ago
"A desktop environment does not need its own language ..." I'm unsure that I agree. Given that part of Vala's raison d'être was interoperability with C and that it integrated well with the parts of the desktop env
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by nrr 2y ago
One thing to be aware of is that up/down alerting bakes downtime into the incident detection and response process, so literally anything anyone can do to get away from that will help. A lot of the details are pretty application-specifi
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by nrr 2y ago
I used to work on this particular site (and all Turner properties more broadly), and there was a culture internally of talking about the site visitors not as customers but as the audience. Our real customers were the advertisers after all.
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by nrr 2y ago
Unfortunately, I have no idea what godot is. I would like to know more though if you're so inclined. (Surely not the game engine? That's the only thing my disambiguation machinery can come up with.)
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by nrr 2y ago
"... I think FP programmers seem to have a distaste for debuggers ..." I'm unsure that I'd make this assertion so broadly. For Haskell, I'm usually left using Debug.Trace because I've found the traditional symb
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by nrr 2y ago
This has also been my experience, yeah. My interviewers were very interested in watching me rifle through that core dump. (: Ultimately, it feels to me like selecting for people who both can navigate existing code and interrogate a runnin
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by nrr 2y ago
It comes down to how the standard library makes you do things. I don't think there's any reason why a more stringly-typed way of handling JSON (or, indeed, a more high-level way of using HTTP) is outside of the realm of possibilit
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by nrr 2y ago
They do! A lot, it turns out.
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by nrr 2y ago
Is this true? This doesn't jive with my lived experience, particularly when you consider walkability/wheelability. The suburban shopping mall, oddly enough, is something of a counterexample. People in aggregate will easily put up
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by nrr 2y ago
When you conceive of Teenage Engineering first and foremost as a design firm that incidentally tends to release neat synthesizers, so much of what they do will make way more sense.
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by nrr 2y ago
I'm honestly unsure whether djb would actually find anything other than his qhasm tolerable (yes, even Zig). I find this particular commentary from him unsurprising.
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by nrr 2y ago
I think you may be close but likely for the wrong reasons. I had to sit down with this for a moment to feel comfortable with it. If we take your 10% base rate to be disease prevalence, that gives us 100 sick and 900 well. Of the 100 sick, s
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by nrr 2y ago
"Whether you project needs that or not is something you should definitely explore in depth before you set out and try to use it." Unfortunately, as someone who's written these kinds of orchestrators a few times already (going
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by nrr 2y ago
We're in the realm of probability, which is mysterious sometimes even to people who have a math background. I didn't fully grok it until I studied intensely for my first actuarial exams. (: This kind of thing is almost always a we
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by nrr 2y ago
Aha, yeah, restricting your population could certainly have that effect on the specificity. Thanks for clarifying.
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by nrr 2y ago
I mean, part of the reason why I ask this question is that specificity and sensitivity tend to be inversely related: as a test becomes more sensitive, it tends to become less specific, say. (While I'm here, in case folks are lacking th
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by nrr 2y ago
"The test has both 90%+ specificity and sensitivity." This by itself feels like a big deal, even if we strip away the Alzheimer's context. Do we have a lot of blood tests that are both sensitive and specific to this degree?

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