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811.
by pbourke 7y ago
I thought the visuals were well done, but I agree that they should have just scrolled normally on mobile instead of capturing the scroll to advance the animation.
812.
by pbourke 7y ago
Well unfortunately we don’t live in a spreadsheet where you can just drop the rows that pull your average down, but rather a real country. Somehow the other countries have done better despite facing their own challenges.
813.
by pbourke 7y ago
> Welfare benefits are very hard to claw back. I agree with your post, but I would note that this is not entirely true in the US. Benefits that such as SNAP and Medicaid that are only used by a vulnerable segment of the population have b
814.
by pbourke 7y ago
Yeah he’s gonna need to take 10-20% off
815.
by pbourke 7y ago
Except when the made up numbers are the whole damned business. Or not (waves at Experian)
816.
by pbourke 7y ago
Give me a fucking break, this is so ridiculously sanctimonious.
817.
by pbourke 7y ago
What’s special is that they are inherently visual instead of symbolic. What happens when the culture shifts and :bug: is replaced by :pile-of-shit: ? We now must remember that 5 years ago, we used :bug: to mean software defect but after tha
818.
by pbourke 7y ago
Test suites are one leg of the stool. The others include memory safety, type safety and (for real-time applications) resource guarantees, as well as a formal development process that includes rigorous code inspections. Put everything togeth
819.
by pbourke 7y ago
Wow - you could conceivably use a Nimitz carrier to power a city.
820.
by pbourke 7y ago
I honestly can’t tell whether this is satire.
821.
by pbourke 7y ago
Another way of looking at things: Today’s phones are quite a bit more capable than the first generation of smartphones, and they only cost twice as much.
822.
by pbourke 7y ago
This conversation is a perfect illustration of the difference between a significant part of US culture and that of many other western nations. As a Canadian, even after living in the US for over a decade, I find your comment baffling. For b
823.
by pbourke 7y ago
To many of us, Trump's election felt like some kind of discontinuity in the timeline - sort of like the train had jumped tracks and now was on a different course. I wonder if it always feels like that during stressful times, or whether
824.
by pbourke 7y ago
> humans might be incapable of emotional empathy outside of tribal brotherhood Imagine no possessions I wonder if you can No need for greed or hunger A brotherhood of man
825.
by pbourke 7y ago
> Aren't things like this governed by local laws? In the US this is governed by a patchwork of federal, state and local laws as well as employer policies.
826.
by pbourke 7y ago
Stuff like this, back in the day: a RAIDed filesystem. Nowadays: a blob object store (like S3 or Azure Blob Store) or distributed FS such as HDFS
827.
by pbourke 7y ago
Spain or China are not parts of Canada, where the official languages are French and English
828.
by pbourke 7y ago
> Meanwhile I think Delta will be bringing the A220 to Seattle They‘re on the SEA-SJC route now, at the least. Great planes.
829.
by pbourke 7y ago
Are the people interviewed in that article role models that we should all aspire to emulate? The takeaway seems to be that those with less education and more economic stress don’t pay as much attention to politics.
830.
by pbourke 7y ago
Yes, I can see that being tiresome. Our projects are closer to simulations, so rather than focusing on a tight core at first, we have a number of factors that can be in play during each time step. Rather than worry about figuring out struct
831.
by pbourke 7y ago
Yes, definitely a good approach as well. One point in favour of the Python-first way is that you can prototype and test much quicker in Python than in languages that are closer to the metal. On my team, we've been successful with this
832.
by pbourke 7y ago
Given the success of the Python numerical computing stack (numpy, scipy, etc) it would probably be a good idea to do just that. Of course you’d profile the library and move some of the performance-critical bits to C / C++ / Rust.
833.
by pbourke 7y ago
> I never quite understood why so much Americans are out there just "to make a lot of money". As a counterpoint, the US is perhaps the most charitable advanced nation (in terms of charitable giving per capita). Take from that w
834.
by pbourke 7y ago
The article basically discusses the OLTP side. You can always export from the DB to a more analysis-friendly OLAP system or just write a new set of views on the same DB that are geared for reporting.
835.
by pbourke 7y ago
You’re assuming that they live in the US.
836.
by pbourke 7y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBS https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ProPublica
837.
by pbourke 7y ago
> Medical providers not being able to provide the total cost for a non-emergency procedure up-front but then expecting people to pay whatever price they make up after the fact is practically fraud. The fact that it leads to outrageous co
838.
by pbourke 7y ago
He should be an honorary software engineer.
839.
by pbourke 7y ago
There was significant flooding in NYC just a few years ago due to Hurricane Sandy.
840.
by pbourke 7y ago
Is your argument that adopting democracy and the rule of law are risky to elites and the ruling party? Well, yeah - that’s sort of self-evidently true. > How about tweak the thinking a bit: What's in there for China to totally embra

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