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by pbourke 3y ago
XML is only concerned with whether a document is well-formed, not its conformity to a given schema. Schemas like XSD, DTD, etc can be plugged in later. Many systems just have an ad hoc schema. > At least with JSON and HTML, you don'
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by pbourke 3y ago
It’s not easy to tie two orthogonal yet equally-depressing subjects together.
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by pbourke 3y ago
Counterpoint: I am much, much more comfortable at the cheapo place at the mall than at some fancy pants salon. Find what works for you.
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by pbourke 3y ago
As time goes on, I more and more have the feeling that maintenance is 95% of the value in any software system. A well-designed system at launch is not sufficient to provide sustained value, but competent ongoing maintenance is. Phrased anot
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by pbourke 3y ago
Wouldn’t the time-of-day effect be amplified with enough EVs? Everyone arrives home at 6pm after work and plugs in.
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by pbourke 3y ago
I guess Elder Millenial is the new Boomer. Incoming on-brand Gen X comment: it’s funny that they even skip over us when handing out pejoratives.
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by pbourke 3y ago
I have donated a few times and always got a personal email from Bram in thanks. These were not large amounts by any means. Rest in Peace, Bram.
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by pbourke 3y ago
That stability comes from having a handful of banks declared too big to fail, and holding oligopoly power. Canadians enjoy some of the highest retail banking fees when compared with peer nations.
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by pbourke 3y ago
Not to mention: Wolfenstein 1992, Doom 1993, Doom II 1994, Quake 1996. Unbelievable pace.
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by pbourke 3y ago
> Once the code from step 1 is ready, stick it in the scaffold and debug until it looks good One thing that has stuck with me from Steve McConnell’s “Code Complete” is his use of PDL (“Program Description Language” - I think). The genera
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by pbourke 3y ago
A man wakes up in a strange room He doesn't recognize the woman next to him He gets out of bed, there's a wallet on the dresser He opens it up, looks inside at the driver's license in there with his face on it An
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by pbourke 3y ago
Yes! By the time I was in high school in Ontario (early 90s) we had PCs as I recall, but in grade school there were Pets and then later ICONs. At home a lot of kids had C64s, though my family’s first machine was an IBM XT clone. I vaguely r
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by pbourke 3y ago
David Pogue observed them visiting the Titanic. https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/david-pogue-misinforma...
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by pbourke 3y ago
> The controller itself is basically irrelevant. It's irrelevant until it fails with no backup mechanism when maneuvers are needed.
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by pbourke 3y ago
It had made several dives to the Titanic in 2022
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by pbourke 3y ago
> High-risk people should get periodic tests for the things they're at risk of, and people should be in a position to report issues they discover in the course of their lives. How do you know if you’re at high risk for something? T
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by pbourke 3y ago
> Think of this quote and it will be clear: "The future is here it's just unevenly distributed" > Where "future" is synonymous with "hope, life, time, joy" You have dropped the crucial last word from
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by pbourke 3y ago
> has no ambition to ever leave the continent. There’s a lot to do on most continents.
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by pbourke 3y ago
> If you want an expensive car, you should pay for the insurance to cover it. Do you think there’s a difference in insurance premiums between the 2005 Ferrari and 2005 Hyundai?
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by pbourke 3y ago
Medicine, law, accounting, professional engineering. Notice something in common with all of these? With the exception of law, automation has already arrived in all of these fields (to accounting first, 1-2 generations ago) and there are now
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by pbourke 3y ago
> I suspect that rich people have more friends for this reason; they have more surplus so they're not constantly (subconsciously) thinking about how to exact resources from everyone around them; Research points to the opposite concl
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by pbourke 3y ago
Canada isn’t a single language market.
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by pbourke 3y ago
> It's certainly illegal in at least the US, Canada Are you sure about that? In the US, I’ve read anecdotal reports about people with Southern accents facing discrimination. In Canada, the Maritime provinces have a distinct accent a
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by pbourke 4y ago
Your comments are disingenuous. A decline in the quality of life in a city due to crime, substance abuse, homelessness and untreated mental health disorders has an immense affect on one’s well being. That goes doubly so for people with spou
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by pbourke 4y ago
> In one placebo group, people were told by a friendly, trustworthy, and empathetic researcher that the videos had a physiological impact that activated “early conditioned emotional schemata through the color green.” > “It was a fake
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by pbourke 4y ago
> Anyone got any other experiences with things that cause brain fog? Vitamin B-12 deficiency due to lack of intake (a risk for strict vegan diets) or pernicious anemia, an autoimmune disorder. The former is addressed by over the counter
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by pbourke 4y ago
Are there no sleep clinics in the UK?
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by pbourke 4y ago
Also customer support, and various flavors of clerical and administrative work. Under the BLS classification scheme, these jobs are sprinkled around under various industrial categories such as medical, logistics, business services, etc. the
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by pbourke 4y ago
In enterprise systems, it’s always easier (organizationally) to add a feature than to subtract one. Subtraction usually puts some work in the queue of some team, which is usually not politically viable. For instance, say Team A is used to r
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by pbourke 4y ago
> their actions weren't to recapitalize the bank As I understand it, VCs manage pools of money that are structured as limited partnerships. Each pool has an investment objective, and presumably “recapitalize a failing bank” is not o

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