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onetimeuse92304
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onetimeuse92304
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If you mean to actually learn to code for a job that obviously requires coding skills... While we are at it, also spend another year learning technology and design patterns to prep for a design interview. Listen, nobody gets a job at Google
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There are ways to handle it. For example, before it is firmly plugged you can just sense what is happening -- us minimum voltage and high impedance to prevent sparking and to get information about the state of the mating. You only turn on a
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Sounds about right. Remember, for most starting developers (which is almost all developers), a GitHub account is an essential part of their job search, just like having a LinkedIn account. And then at a lot of companies you get a separate G
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> Security researchers have expressed doubt about how useful this check is at preventing compromises. Well... if they are able to craft a call to a syscall from some random piece of memory you are already f-d and this little hurdle is at
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3y ago
These days I leave Lego for my kids.
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onetimeuse92304
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I always splice wires considering these good practices, regardless of what application. I just like doing things correctly and reliably. I also have a little bit of a fetish. I really enjoy it when other people do their work correctly and d
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If you sit in a rolling car and the driver suddenly presses the break vs eases it in, you could halt with the same deceleration and yet one will feel smoother than the other. The car's position is not discontinuous, the velocity isn&#x
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> This is the logic that is hard to dispute. Your arguments here are not addressing that > If you want to refute the theory you need to attack the main argument I did not mean to address any arguments for or against simulation. And de
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I think the discussion about simulation tends to fail to grasp couple important facts: * The physics of the world that is running the simulation can be completely different from ours. Just like we can put together a bit of software that run
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Blame and persecution are not counterproductive, they are crucial to improving safety. It is called accountability and if nobody is accountable for anything then there is no actual motivation to get businesses and financial institutions to
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3y ago
I think autonomous vehicles are exceptional occasion to apply similar practices to commercial airlines. The reason it could not be done with cars is the drivers. Drivers simply cannot be held to the same standard as commercial pilots or sta
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> What's your current mental model of an "ideal Lisp"? > It would be something like a fusion of Clojure and Common Lisp, (...) Mine would be, too. Unfortunately, that's not possible. Clojure is one of those few lan
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I don't have experience with Fitbit, but I have been using Garmin Fenix 7x for the past two years and I can confirm that at least in my case, its measurement of my sleep quality is only loosely connected to reality. As I am an avid run
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You mean... iterative development? It is simple, you break up whatever improvement work you want to get done into small enough pieces so that these pieces can be included to use up any capacity margin during your development cycle. You alwa
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No, it was 17-1 rule with one other judge objecting to some but not all of the measures. So: 17 judges decided some measures need to be implemented of which one of the judges objected to some of the measures. Also it is not a ruling on whet
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My wife gifted a course for me for my birthday. We know it was a little bit selfish (to get me to learn fancy coffee drinks rather than chase perfect espresso), but I enjoyed it and I learned a lot. It was directed at people who will actual
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As an engineer and a lover of coffee with a barista certificate... * soil, * climate, * harvesting process (for example, you get different results if have somebody harvest by hand the ones that are ripe vs when you send a machine to harvest
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I would like to add to it that we do not know how various seemingly insignificant signals can be correlated together to reach some more significant conclusions. I always remind myself there exist people much smarter, much more motivated and
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I had a similar situation back when Adobe lost their database. I have a personal domain with a catch all configured. So back then I would just give a name like adobe.com@<personal-domain>. When they leaked my password I contacted thei
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Yes. As a consumer, I try to avoid "free" services and products offered by commercial entities. They almost never are. I very much prefer to pay for things. When I learn something is very cheap or free, my first though is definite
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Yes. You can't prove anything by proving it is the simplest explanation. The only way to prove things is to prove that it is the only possible explanation. Occam's Razor is just a useful mind tool that helps us navigate the worl
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The basic difference and reason for me to have stuck with Linux for so long is that when there is a problem with Linux it is all about how much I can persevere trying to fix it. All code is there and I have the skills to fix it. With Window
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I have been using Linux since 1999. I have seen lots of kernel panics. But recently much less, unfortunately replaced by more problems in platform and userspace. I know Linux works more reliably for some people and less reliably for some ot
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Now we need to have a linux driver that lets run Windows after kernel panic and we can switch between them without reboot, just like we wanted 20 years ago...
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> Nearly every Google technology you know (maps, earth, gmail) started out as somebody's 20% project, I think. "Google Maps began as a C++ desktop program developed by brothers Lars and Jens Rasmussen at Where 2 Technologies. I
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Condescending on the original comment was because the authors could have asked any farmer and would get an explanation of what is happening. Condescending on a response was because a guy didn't even bother to read my comment and was
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I think it would be better if you just red my comment more carefully. Nowhere I called them "hunter-gatherers". That's something YOU wrote. You took words "hunter" and "gathered" and created in your mind
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> Now there's growing interest in the lessons their methods may hold for societies today I don't know how to tell this without being condescending, but do you guys even understand how farming works? The fertile soil is a result
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Wouldn't it be better to model imperfections separately rather than rely on PID oscillations? I can see how this can easily fail and cause some dramatic and unnatural camera movements.
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As an amateur electronics engineer... I think we can do better. I have not checked what is the actual solution, here is what I figured out on my own: First of all, the yellow light bulb might not be enough to reach with the heat to the red
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