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by pbourke 4y ago
> I find it hard to imagine how they must see the modern world. It must seem like magic! I think this is unnecessarily infantilizing. There are a great many very complex things in the modern world, and people must employ abstractions for
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by pbourke 4y ago
It truly does depend on what you’re building, in which organization and with whom you’re doing it. If you’re building a production system with a small, stable team, and Python is a good fit for the work, then there is no reason not to use i
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by pbourke 4y ago
These are pointless nitpicks. Every language has things like this. In 4 years of using Python in anger I’ve never written a line of code that could be improved by the features you list.
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by pbourke 4y ago
Oh, good point
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by pbourke 4y ago
In the US, auto insurance policies are split into 3 buckets: collision, comprehensive and liability. Comprehensive kicks in for events which are “not collisions,” so tree falling on the car, theft, etc. You are required to have liability an
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by pbourke 4y ago
The point of your work is to contribute to society. The point of my work is to sustain my own life.
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by pbourke 4y ago
Driving a car is by far the most subsidized personal choice in the United States. It’s not even close. As for subsidizing parenthood and children: the more the better. I don’t have kids, but as a human person I have an interest in the next
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by pbourke 4y ago
Does the permanent working visa have a path to citizenship in an EU country?
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by pbourke 4y ago
The job title is just “developer” or “programmer” rather than “engineer”. Not a big deal.
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by pbourke 4y ago
I think the regulation should happen upstream of the software. Code that goes in a medical device should be subject to different levels of rigor than code that goes into a free to play mobile game. To use your example of CAD software, certa
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by pbourke 4y ago
> Weirdly i feel like there’s no really good, singular American equivalent “Portlandia” fit the bill for me. Edit: if you pull certain sketches from SNL over the last 5-10 years you get a good through-line of American absurdism: David S.
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by pbourke 4y ago
> "Imagine being given a workstation with 1024 CPU cores, a terabyte of memory, and a GPU to match. Could you fully utilise this machine to solve everyday problems in your speciality? If not, why not? What are you missing?" 1.
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by pbourke 4y ago
Python just gets out of your way like almost nothing else. I work in graph ML, and Python allows us to glue together runtimes and technologies with ease (eg PySpark).
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by pbourke 4y ago
- Paintings by the Group of Seven - The music of Newfoundland and Cape Breton, Nova Scotia - the writing of Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro - the work of Métis artisans (clothing, decorative arts) - music of The Tragically Hip
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by pbourke 4y ago
15 years here. There are a few things. Housing affordability: Canadian prices have skyrocketed in the past 10-20 years and have increased much more than the US. Cost of living: it’s generally higher in Canada. Where to live: there is much m
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by pbourke 4y ago
Fleets as in fleeting. I thought it meant “group of ships” and seriously struggled to see how the name connected. Mind you, my use of Twitter is confined to “order by time desc” and Lists.
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by pbourke 4y ago
The US maintains nuclear ambiguity. A first strike wouldn’t happen under current conditions, but one could easily imagine it happening if the US had credible evidence that Russia was preparing a nuclear attack. Nuclear logic and the ladder
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by pbourke 4y ago
> What we don't have to do is to start a process like the one that led Germany from the defeat in WW1 to desires of revenge and WW2, or Russia from the defeat in the Cold War to the current attempt to create its empire again. I note
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by pbourke 4y ago
We used Airbnb almost exclusively 5-10 years ago. We’re now back to nearly 100% hotels, with Airbnb as a backup option if there truly is not a suitable/available hotel. 1 out of 3 airbnb stays was deficient to the point of affecting th
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by pbourke 4y ago
Liability is the other side of the ethics coin. Professional Engineers have liability and carry insurance as a result. MBAs? Not so much. Look at the Boeing MCAS and VW emissions scandals. Individual engineers and test pilots were named and
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by pbourke 4y ago
Seems odd to me to call Americans of that time Victorians, but it’s common to say they lived in “Victorian” style houses.
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by pbourke 5y ago
> Manufacturing has moved to these places in some cases because many customers just can't tell the difference or couldn't care less about the difference Your argument does not hold in this case, because Etsy was established and
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by pbourke 5y ago
Seattle has, until recently, tolerated encampments on public property. The city council spends great chunks of money on outreach nonprofits that have dubious effectiveness (there are organizations doing good/effective work, to be clear
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by pbourke 5y ago
The friends in this story are naive clowns. If OP was a friend of mine I would have advised him to not get involved.
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by pbourke 5y ago
> And Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon and slaughtered them there. I suppose that’s an early instance of p-hacking.
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by pbourke 5y ago
No, that just means that the military can take over civilian functions (law enforcement) and certain rights are suspended (curfew, habeus corpus, etc). It does not classify civilians as soldiers. I’m not sure how it works with “territorial
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by pbourke 5y ago
Tell me you’re a lisp programmer without telling me you’re a lisp programmer
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by pbourke 5y ago
> Once you say that “they need you [the manager] in a time of crisis” you are putting the tragedy in a work-related context. Sometimes all that’s needed is for the manager to not be a giant fucking dick. My aunt passed away a few years a
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by pbourke 5y ago
Yeah, absolutely. The radioactive signature is highly traceable. IIRC, they were able to pinpoint the source of the polonium that Russia used to murder Alexander Litvinenko in the UK.
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by pbourke 5y ago
> I've never seen controversies like this in the .NET/Nuget ecosystem Some .NET ecosystem projects have put political messages on their documentation over the past couple of years.

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