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by perrygeo 3y ago
test developers? test departments? QA teams? It's worth mentioning that the vast majority of software orgs don't have the luxury of such distinctions, i.e. software teams are generally directly responsible for the quality of their
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by perrygeo 3y ago
The article is pretty light on details as to what makes it "Bayesian". We know that all biological lifeforms can sense and process information to inform their behavior. What makes this computation Bayesian vs Frequentist? Is it so
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by perrygeo 3y ago
Any alien that reaches our planet is by definition more technologically advanced than us. And presumably they have some reason for traveling, most likely to find resources to exploit. It's not likely they've come this far for a cu
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by perrygeo 3y ago
good point, and that probably answers my question - if you wanted to go unlisted, there was a central authority that you could contact and petition to do so. You can't call the internet anti-doxxing hotline...
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by perrygeo 3y ago
Hard to imagine that just a few years ago, every phone company would give you a free hardcopy listing of the name, address, and phone number of every person in your town. We were ok with the "white pages" but are now terrified of
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by perrygeo 3y ago
They are quite different tools. k9s gives you an interactive environment that allows for discoverability and real-time inspection. It's not just for running commands, it's for visually navigating the entire state of the cluster. P
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by perrygeo 3y ago
I feel the same way, but the countervailing force is significant group of managers and developers alike who really truly hate spending any time without a rigid structure. Having never taken the time to build a proper mental map, they are lo
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by perrygeo 3y ago
> simplify the data to lessen the load on the user's browser. Yes, that's exactly the challenge. How DO you simplify/compress the data so as to convey the same information with less bits? That's effectively re-stating
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by perrygeo 3y ago
Probably one of the most important ideas to understand about climate impact modelling: small changes to the mean equate to huge changes on the tail of the distribution. And that distribution over time has direct causal links to the health a
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by perrygeo 3y ago
> making sure the engineers really understand the problem they're solving Yes, absolutely. And how would software engineers gain that understanding? Experience is the key here. Avoiding an initial implementation because you're
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by perrygeo 3y ago
> Is ‘Throw Away then Strategize/Plan’ utilized with any regularity Yes. But I'd frame it a different way. The initial implementation is the source of empirical data that you need to formulate a viable plan. You're not bui
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by perrygeo 3y ago
Raster tiles (and more generally, server-side rendering) definitely have their place today. You mention most of the relevant points - raster tiles are lighter weight, can be read anywhere (they're just PNGs or JPEG), remain a roughly c
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by perrygeo 3y ago
In most software, the units themselves are not that interesting. Basic business logic and data transforms, surrounded by a larger codebase that glues all the integration points together into a working stateful system. I've met a few un
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by perrygeo 3y ago
Yeah, an edge case. Because you've never experienced it, it didn't happen /s. As I said, all extremely common, at least in my experience. Getting sick on "farm backwash", usually by water bottle, happened semi-regul
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by perrygeo 3y ago
As I alluded to in my comment, I have a ton of experience with such systems. And no, it was not some "golf-and-steak-dinner" - it was funded by a non-profit environmental organization, literally. I'm serious, AMA. Don't
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by perrygeo 3y ago
It takes structure and discipline to differentiate problems that truly suck (and are worth solving) from what is simply annoying to you, personally.
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by perrygeo 3y ago
ERCOT is definitely concerned with how the power is generated, I made no claim to the contrary. They just don't have the luxury of seeing it as a mutually exclusive choice based on morals. Sure, there's a political bias towards ph
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by perrygeo 3y ago
LLMs are not changing that, yet. But well over a decade ago, we had high-level frameworks for translating "models" into all the gritty details of a crud app. Model description goes in. API endpoints, database migrations, admin UI,
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by perrygeo 3y ago
It's not saving time or creating efficiency for everyone equally. It's absolutely democratizing some complex tasks. I'll stick to software here, where AI enhances the abilities of non-programmers to give them a taste of what
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by perrygeo 3y ago
Just as Natural Gas and Coal are "saving" Texas when it's not sunny and windy. A robust power grid can benefit from a diversity of sources and that's exactly what ERCOT has been doing - investing in engineering to make a
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by perrygeo 3y ago
Same. My friends in other white-collar-ish jobs, which require lots of writing, are smitten with ChatGPT and think it's amazing. Friends in tech are largely dismissive/critical of it's abilities while being skeptical/fea
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by perrygeo 3y ago
When you combine an open wound with sunscreen, road grit containing petroleum byproducts, and standing water from farms (all extremely common) you have a very serious hygiene problem if hair prevents you from cleaning it properly in the fie
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by perrygeo 3y ago
Aerodynamics is one reason. But most riders are not in the Tour de France or in any context where it makes a difference. More pragmatically for us mere mortal cyclists, you can massage your muscles, clean off dirt, treat wounds, apply sunsc
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by perrygeo 3y ago
I've worked on a few projects in the past that "didn't need all that fancy database stuff". It's frustrating to deal with the consequences. You spend most of your time building elaborate workarounds to re-invent bas
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by perrygeo 3y ago
The skepticism comes from a keen awareness that technology is not a solution in itself. You've made a common logical fallacy; it is true that factory farming and solar panels can solve specific problems. But measuring the progress of t
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by perrygeo 3y ago
I really enjoy Helix. The toml configuration and built-in Treesitter and LSP support are stellar. It works well enough to be a daily driver. But after 20 years of Vim muscle memory, I can't deal with the keybindings. Not that they&#x27
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by perrygeo 3y ago
Every working application got to where it is by making technical decisions. So from one perspective, those decisions are in the past and there's nothing to talk about. You might need to accept that you can't re-litigate those deci
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by perrygeo 3y ago
> almost no chance of coming true I agree, with caveats. The worst case emissions scenarios (RCP 8.5) are not likely to happen because we'll hit economic limits that prevent us from accessing every last drop. We're already past
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I'm a father and very concerned about climate change. I talk to my son about greenhouse gases, fossil fuels and their unique role in our economy, and the current impacts to extreme weather. Importantly its all about observations of tod
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Sequence diagrams are a secret weapon for designing any complex system. The y direction (relative time) actually means something, unlike most abstract diagrams. The x direction (actors) highlights the discrete set of participants. The arrow

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