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by olau 10y ago
You are forgetting the time other members of the team are spending explaining things.
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by olau 10y ago
Physics-based synthesis is an active research area, and will be for decades, I think. We are still pretty far from the mark.
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by olau 10y ago
It was exactly the same with previous crashes. Electric vehicles are dangerous etc. etc. People would read one or two reports and jump to the conclusion that the cars were not safe.
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by olau 10y ago
You can rent bare metal with the hardware managed by the hosting center. Hetzner.de provides this. If there's a problem with the software, you fix it, if there's a problem with the hardware, you tell them and they fix it.
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by olau 10y ago
My son is in a Waldorf kindergarten. He loves it, especially the silly little rituals. I think of it as a trade-off. Most of the ideas Rudolf Steiner had are harmless, at least in the way they are practiced today, but others are clearly ben
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by olau 10y ago
Can't remember if it's Seven Day Weekend or Peopleware were they talk about the furniture police. I don't understand it either. I think some people find it threatening that the employees are actually human, silly as it sounds
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by olau 10y ago
Indeed. One search, and it's all in memory in the disk cache - the files involved are typically small so it should all fit.
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by olau 10y ago
Does anyway know if there's an easy to encrypt a docker volume in a dev environment? So basically, I'd start a docker database container, it'd ask for a password and then decrypt and start the container and the database. When
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by olau 10y ago
Python is a good language for writing glue code. Django abstracts a lot away with its ORM. If you stick to just providing an API, you'll still get some help from it. Now is it better than assembling a little stack yourself with an ORM
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by olau 10y ago
"The article reminds me of a similar situation I have at work. I work on a large legacy application (but I am not a DM, I am not really invested in it yet), which should be slowly replaced by company, because we have a costly dependenc
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by olau 10y ago
Write them in terms of user requirements. When someone does X, they expect Y to happen. If a test breaks, it should mean that a user somewhere would think there's a problem. See for instance this: http://rbcs-us.com/doc
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by olau 10y ago
You have obviously previously been relying on a context-sensitive IDE. Those things exist for Python too, or you can turn a text editor like Emacs into one by installing various packages. It's true that there are limits to what they ca
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by olau 10y ago
There are in fact some refactoring tools available for Python, but yeah, personally I have ag (find + grep like tool) installed with the ag and wgrep-ag Emacs packages, and don't consider renaming a major hassle. There's a pyflake
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by olau 10y ago
Magnatune?
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by olau 10y ago
This comes from a confusion of definitions. In common language, a berry is something small that you can pick, usually to eat. That biologists studying plants operate with another definition is really a separate concern. It's similar wi
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by olau 10y ago
Just to expand a bit upon this: That you can assume a single thread simplifies the code immensely, e.g. when modifying state. It's important to be explicit about when this assumption is broken.
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by olau 10y ago
I think the reason plainly is that they are not competitive, perhaps because their advantages aren't important enough disadvantages for horizontal axis turbines. Wikipedia has a short section: https://en.wikipedia.org/w
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by olau 11y ago
Wind pioneer and former CTO of Siemens Wind Power is currently working on energy storage using rocks instead of a molten salt - he's blogging about it in the Danish engineering news site ing.dk. Molten salt is efficient because of the
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by olau 11y ago
Electric cars: no, in fact it's the opposite. Electric cars are much more efficient compared to burning gasoline, so we can save a lot of the energy spent in the transportation sector once most cars are electric. Most people would neve
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by olau 11y ago
You don't need baseload. You need to always meet the demand. Nuclear can't do that either because it's too damn expensive. You'd never build a nuclear plant to fill in at peaks. What is needed in a future with lots of re
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by olau 11y ago
No, it's not, that's a bit too simple. In reality, time is the metric the matters, human time. All that stuff you talk about costs human time to build. That's why it's not being built - it's cheaper to do something
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“Staying in the same place” (emacs-devel)(lists.gnu.org)
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by olau 11y ago
It's awesome that they won. I recently read the paper, and there are a couple of things you need to keep in mind to understand the scope and how general the result is. They were using a big cluster to do a brute-force tree search (not
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by olau 11y ago
Man building tool vs. man. :)
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by olau 11y ago
My understanding is that they'll generally keep you if the experts have good reason to believe you're still a threat to other people, otherwise you get pardoned at some point. There aren't very many of these sentences, I thin
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by olau 11y ago
Mercurial has some warts of it own. Common case of working on something, then wanting to update the repository in the midst of it to get something from a co-worker isn't handled exactly stellar. So you can shelve. When you have enabled
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by olau 11y ago
The fallacy here is that when you look at the numbers, they're not just using ordinary deductions - they can't because then they couldn't arrive at these results. These kind of things work by deliberately setting up perverse
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by olau 11y ago
What are you talking about? These treaties exist to give a fair treatment to companies and individuals that do not cheat on the scale.
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by olau 11y ago
I find the Chinese greenhouses described in the follow up intriguing: http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2015/12/reinventing-the-green...
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by olau 11y ago
Apple's contemplating building a server farm not terribly far from where I live, so no, I don't think they're using Amazon. I think that comment is supposed to mean that they all have access to big clusters, not that it'

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