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by patrec 7y ago
I hate to break it to you guys, but the reason Shitsville, TN has has a higher multiplier is not because someone at Gitlab is terribly confused about the relative cost of living in Shitsville, TN vs Paris and London.
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by patrec 7y ago
They pay people less not because of "relative purchasing power" or because they want them to have the "same relative quality of life" or some such sentimental nonsense but because they can get away with it. The cost of l
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by patrec 7y ago
Out of curiosity: when you go full throttle on red yellow, dark <-> light goes from red to orange to yellow. Is that really as it is meant to be? I'd (intuitively) expect to be able to go from orange to brown by adjusting the dar
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by patrec 7y ago
Thanks – they are very high quality, but sadly go out of their way to forbid download.
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by patrec 7y ago
Thanks a lot for teaching me the right term and linking this data set!
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by patrec 7y ago
I agree that the sad state of color (in particular) reproduction (lemon market?) greatly diminishes our art enjoyment in general. And I encourage anyone to take an exhibition catalogue to an exhibition of old masters and compare the colors
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by patrec 7y ago
You can't appreciate Klee without seeing his works in the flesh. I can't think of another painter who used color so masterly and, sadly, this is still something that does not survive in reproductions (I've seen).
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by patrec 7y ago
Thanks for sharing! I'm not a big fan of changelogs, personally, except for publicly released projects. I prefer to have workflows that use version control for this. Reverting on master, but tracking the prototype in the changelog is
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by patrec 7y ago
I find the temporarily localized documentation idea quite interesting – anyone else here tried that? > Such an approach only works if your system is small, I see no reason why this wouldn't scale if you (and other people working on
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by patrec 7y ago
Can you say more about what you see as the Swedish tradition of brainwashing people into policing each other? Sweden has a reputation for extreme political correctness, which I guess could be framed as a more polite way to express the same
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by patrec 7y ago
Examples to base this discussion on would help. I'm not a hardcore DB person, but I've designed and modified schemas and queries for quite a few DBs over the years and not once can I recall feeling the need to do an outer join for
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by patrec 7y ago
Thanks! The ratio of CT abnormalities and proportion of severe cases in young-ish patients in that one is scary. 40% of people in 14-49 age bracket were classed as severe cases.
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by patrec 7y ago
The data is great, thanks! Unfortunately (or fortunately for Japan so far) it's a very small sample.
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by patrec 7y ago
Yeah, I'm aware of the JHU dataset. Unfortunately working out useful CFRs from that is not easy. You need to be able to figure out infected_at_t_and_dead/(infected_at_t_and_recovered+infected_at_t_and_dead) for some time t suffici
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by patrec 7y ago
Does anyone know of any good, publicly accessible case data (for any country)? E.g. for each case, date of detection, age of patient, ongoing|recovery date|date of death
766.
by patrec 7y ago
Why would SQL (fundementaly) need outer joins? "Because it has them", is not really a compelling answer in this context. A "pure" relational model (like the one C.J. Date has been going on about for decades) has no outer
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by patrec 7y ago
Since I'm getting downvoted, I find nulls way more useful than outer joins, if you disagree I'd be interested in examples.
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by patrec 7y ago
Easy: select school, (select array_agg(teacher) from teachers where teachers.school = schools.school) from schools; If you don't like nulls any more than outer joins, you'd probably want: select school, (select coales
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by patrec 7y ago
Why would you need outer joins any more than nulls?
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by patrec 7y ago
Distributed transactions are a non-starter – I already said I want to run master-slave with synchronous replication, which is basically what you want to do in >99% of cases where you have a DB with important stuff in it.
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by patrec 7y ago
It's kind of revealing that there are zero replies to this, 10 hours later.
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by patrec 7y ago
> clusters should be treated like cattle, not pets So my understanding that the official k8s way to upgrade your cluster is also to throw it away and start a new one (with some cloud provider proprietary alternatives). Let's say the
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by patrec 7y ago
This is was my impression as well, hence asking. I dimly recall him getting zinged by some fringe enforcer group once or twice, but not because what he was saying was genuinely heterodox, simply to tighten the overtone window a bit on that
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by patrec 7y ago
Well, I'll settle for BS if it's heterodox BS -- any examples?
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by patrec 7y ago
> But on the other hand, I’m one of the few people who can say heterodox things without worrying about getting fired. So if I don’t say these things, who will? Has Paul Graham ever made use of this freedom?
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by patrec 7y ago
Of course in the rare cases I want deep equality without case (and number) folding, I can always implement it myself using... ooops!
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by patrec 7y ago
Yeah, equalp is a really useful abstraction. Deep equality mashed together with case-folding. Something I've always wanted.
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by patrec 7y ago
Thanks, that's a nice discussion! Do you know if a similar, more granular approach (scope(exit)=~finally, scope(failure)=~catch, scope(success)=else) over go-style defer=~finally is implemented elsewhere than D?
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by patrec 7y ago
Yup, all those FAANGS were founded and are currently run by evil MBAs. In reality of course, even Cook started out with a STEM degree.
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by patrec 7y ago
I tend to do my homework – system programming language is not some narrowly defined concept with an universally agreed on definition. People frequently put Go and Swift in that category (see the wikipedia). Are you suggesting Swift is syste

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