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by nrr 3y ago
I think you might be reading stricter definitions into some words than I intended. If Everett, WA; Renton, WA; and North Charleston, SC, are not urbanized areas, what are they? If a factory with a ZIP code in San Antonio, TX, isn't in
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by nrr 3y ago
I used to drive the Case to the Rural King every so often. While it was fun trolling the suburbanites heading to work during rush hour by going 25 mph in a large piece of farm machinery that they couldn't run off the road, I ultimately
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by nrr 3y ago
Oddly, the call to put the SWEs in the on-call rotation was one of the original goals of site reliability engineering as an institutional discipline. The idea at conception was that SREs were expensive, and only after product teams got thei
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by nrr 3y ago
Do you have anything other than context clues to go by when making this assertion?
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by nrr 3y ago
I've seen some presentations over the last half a decade that are trying to couple this to fission as a form of cogeneration, and the carbon capture story for the resulting hydrocarbon synthfuels is pretty compelling.
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by nrr 3y ago
I usually get away just fine with Control+Command+f to fullscreen the window, and Control+Up will open up Mission Control so that I can get two fullscreened windows side-by-side. It's all built into macOS. Windows 11 adds snap layouts,
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by nrr 3y ago
Why are windows hard to manage under macOS?
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by nrr 3y ago
This workflow rocks and is basically the same one I try to use whenever I'm shoehorned into project management. I'm always the weird guy with the index cards and tape and string. (: > Issue tracking is pretty orthogonal to proj
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by nrr 3y ago
They are. You use git-svn as a tool to prepare patches for submission and branch in Subversion only for a release series. It works remarkably well.
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by nrr 3y ago
> Agile methodologies simply refuse to answer "when will it be done"-related questions. Even with perfect estimators, it's an intractable problem when you can add new features of unknown complexity to the backlog at any ti
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by nrr 3y ago
Paper masks (and, by some measure, even gaiters) are for source control, and they work just fine for that purpose if the literature is anything to go by. Every software project needs it, and our squishy bodies are decidedly not an exception
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by nrr 3y ago
Is it really that unreasonable a question to ask? The purity inherent in insisting on using only free software is laudable, but evangelizing is only effective when there's reach. (It's also much more compelling when it demonstrabl
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by nrr 3y ago
Sorry, I'm not sure I follow. What does socialism have to do with markets or the lack thereof? I always conceived of that as, like, worker cooperatives, not command economies.
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by nrr 3y ago
To get an answer your question, consider the PI on a grant who's located in, say, Champaign, IL, or Carbondale, IL, and who needs to fly internationally to attend a conference. (Or, perhaps more direly, needs to attend some family emer
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by nrr 3y ago
What's funny is that what you did with a Pi Zero and Plan 9 is basically my ideal when put in conjunction with one of Lenovo's USB ThinkPad keyboards. The TrackPoints on those have three mouse buttons and work well, and the keyboa
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by nrr 3y ago
I would agree if I were considering unit tests, where the implementation details fall into testing scope, but I was deliberate in my word choice. Integration tests exercise behavior at the boundary of the system under test, where it integra
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by nrr 3y ago
Oddly, your username is relevant here. It's a common refrain of mine when I hear about someone undertaking a rewrite that becomes something of an albatross. The only times I see rewrites succeed (where success is measured by how often
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by nrr 3y ago
This makes me smile a lot. Whenever I pick up a new programming language, one of the first projects I tackle is writing a port of a similar MU* server because of the same breadth of concerns, so it's very nice seeing someone else recog
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by nrr 3y ago
No. The court reporter normally won't have the transcript proofread by the time deliberations start.
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by nrr 3y ago
Not really. My mother still had her materials from school (and could still read it), and I drilled the alphabet a lot. I think the biggest benefit is had by giving someone else your steno outlines and having them pinpoint where your strokes
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by nrr 3y ago
The last time I had jury duty, I took a complete transcription of the trial proceedings with Gregg because of a general prohibition on computers in the courtroom. I also get a fair amount of utility out of it for math lectures because, fran
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by nrr 3y ago
Somewhat paradoxically, it's actually safer from a consumer safety perspective to assume that you don't have a polarized connector. The big reason is that the consumer can see fit to make modifications to meet their circumstances.
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by nrr 3y ago
I appreciate the follow-up, but I must confess that I'm still scratching my head here. Is this legislation outlawing building sparsely? Please correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems meant to strengthen Sacramento's ability to
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by nrr 3y ago
Forgive me, but who's being forced out and how?
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by nrr 3y ago
It's unclear whether you mean that it's simpler to make a query and iterate over the rows to massage the result in your application or to make a query and then iterate over the returned rows to make more single-row queries. (Or pe
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by nrr 3y ago
Hey, thanks for following up. I always felt that repeating myself to the compiler (down to `procedure subprogram is begin`…`end subprogram`) or otherwise being verbose was something of a feature in the vein of defense in depth than the synt
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by nrr 3y ago
It's unclear exactly what you mean by your remark that Ada's syntax hasn't aged well, let alone what a 21st-century overhaul would look like. Is there any chance you'd expand on that? I'm curious to know your though
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by nrr 4y ago
In short: You don't. At least, not in quite the way that the orthodox expansion of TDD implies. I've found that TDD with a reading of "Testability-Driven Design" was useful for driving adoption of certain architectural p
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by nrr 4y ago
Hey, thanks again for following up. I have the feeling that the hype about the integrated database functionality might have more to do with the fact that the storage engine goes pretty deep than the fact that there's a frontend for it

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