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by pacaro 3y ago
You can't fight Conways Law[1]. Or you can fight it I guess, but you will lose. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law
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by pacaro 3y ago
There is an ancient greek inscription on page 467r which reads (translated by chat gpt) "Whoever removes this present book from the place where the humble body of me, Theodosius the Prince, lies, let them be anathema, separated from th
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by pacaro 3y ago
I write recipes out as somewhere between a Gantt chart and a left to right dag, it can be a very compressed representation
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by pacaro 3y ago
Also the muffin step has a two hour rest, which isn't included in the total time
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by pacaro 3y ago
I don't see this as either or. Good quality asserts can be very effective when managing objects with complex state transitions For me assertions are for invariants. The code has no expectation of successful execution I also like (borro
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by pacaro 3y ago
Arguably this, and similar cases, is what motivated Microsoft to become an aggressive patent filer. I know that at various times in my tenure there (99–13) that I was on teams where patent filing was encouraged
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by pacaro 3y ago
Doe anyone know how this compares to Knots Splices and Fancywork? https://g.co/kgs/ciFr2n
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by pacaro 3y ago
But first, please share the rules for Whistenschaft
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by pacaro 3y ago
> but I will note it is a lot easier to keep spares and change out a small transformer. In my neighborhood, about once a year there's a loud pop, or quiet bang, and a bunch of houses lose power. The electric company will fix it pret
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by pacaro 3y ago
Did you ever try `cal 9 1752`
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by pacaro 3y ago
Only if you use a proleptic calendar. If you are entering dates from historic documents, you need to know which calendar the author of the document was using
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by pacaro 3y ago
Particularly the way coleslaw is presented in the US. You can make a perfectly delicious and healthful coleslaw without mayonnaise or cream (or sugar!) I just looked at the ingredients of a premade coleslaw (Safeway). The second and third i
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by pacaro 3y ago
Lmgtfy https://docs-archive.freebsd.org/44doc/usd/12.vi/paper.html
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by pacaro 3y ago
Poured concrete almost always needs reinforcement, which is typically done with steel bars (rebar), which would presumably mess with the capacitance. Maybe making cinder blocks (breezeblocks) out of this would be more interesting
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by pacaro 3y ago
Where does the undercurl come from? TFA credits kitty, which I understand to mean supporting undercurl in a terminal. My first experience of it was with the spell checker in Microsoft word circa 1993, does anyone have an earlier sighting?
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by pacaro 3y ago
In Washington state at the very least this isn't true. The default parenting division is 50:50, and there would need to be strong extenuating circumstances for a parent that wants 50% parental time to not get it. In my experience men a
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by pacaro 3y ago
A couple of weeks ago I rented an electric car from Enterprise in the US and they told me to not worry what the charge level was when I dropped it off, they'd just charge it overnight. I returned it with ~4 miles left
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by pacaro 3y ago
I worked for a while with Henrik Frystyk Nielsen, who worked on the early HTTP spec and httpd. We would give him a hard time for this — among other things. I know that Phillip Hallam-Baker probably first used that spelling in a document
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by pacaro 3y ago
Woosh. Also Henrik is Danish, he can claim that English isn't his first language
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by pacaro 3y ago
I'm not sure that I have an established opinion about TFA, but my tone was poor. I'm well rebuked
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by pacaro 3y ago
It's definitely a rhetorical challenge, and even if TFA is using a poor analogy, it does serve to illustrate this problem, which feels to me like part of what it is trying to communicate. I have a lot of experience thinking that I get
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by pacaro 3y ago
Regardless of whether you do actually get the point, when multiple comments indicate that they think that you didn't get the point that tells you that you have failed to communicate that you got the point. Doubling down doesn't he
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by pacaro 3y ago
I use vim digraphs pretty extensively, but typically for comments, and not code. It's nice to be able to concisely document anything mathematical this way, it's also cute to be able to use the box drawing characters
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by pacaro 3y ago
Some time in the mid 90s I spoke with someone who had worked on this kind of problem (and others) on the London Underground. There had been a desire to know platform occupancy, and that this could be achieved by using a NN. The story as rel
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by pacaro 3y ago
I can see some interesting approaches here. Given n threads/workers you could divide the search space into n sample points (for simplicity let's divide it evenly) and run the repeated test on each point. When a point hangs, that e
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by pacaro 3y ago
Biasing a binary search would only be beneficial if you know something about the distribution of the search space
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by pacaro 3y ago
This issue around poor writing skills is something that I've thought/worried about for a while. At some level of seniority (the more junior the better IMO) we expect developers to write design docs. The inability to communicate cl
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by pacaro 3y ago
Agreed absolutely. I've used quaternions when someone else made the decision that was what the physics engine was going to do! But when I'm the decision maker it's 3d vectors and matrices all the way
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by pacaro 3y ago
I went through the same exercise implementing trig functions for scheme in webassembly... It was a rabbit hole for sure https://github.com/PollRobots/scheme/blob/main/scheme.wasm/s... [Edit: above i
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by pacaro 3y ago
Of course gimbal lock is a thing, and there are ways to avoid it, even without quaternions, but I'm curious as to when it should be avoided. I think that gamers are now so used to it, that removing it might cause more problems than it

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