perrygeo

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by perrygeo 4y ago
> Why do people think they can "play with new technologies" at work, which is wasting not only company money, but other people's time as well. Because that is where new ideas, new approaches, innovation and knowledge creat
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by perrygeo 4y ago
"PostGIS in Action" is a good option. Also check out https://locatepress.com/ which has a few more books in this niche. > a dataset of roads which were broken up into short segments, which I wanted to merge bac
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by perrygeo 4y ago
> one kernel dev has a side hobby trying to block openzfs Can you elaborate?
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by perrygeo 4y ago
I found some value in this list (read it, but didn't watch) but I agree that 50 unorganized bullet points is too much. I think they could break it down into 6 or 7 larger themes: communication, being a good citizen, using a systematic
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by perrygeo 4y ago
You can judge the quality of a project management tool based on one simple metric - when you sit down to use the thing, do you spend your time thinking about the actual content of the work items? Or do you waste time in the meta-structure o
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by perrygeo 4y ago
"Biofuels" - let's call it what it is - Corn and sugar processed into a liquid oil-like substance to be used as a fossil fuel substitute. And boy do these plant products provide energy - just barely more than the fossil fue
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by perrygeo 4y ago
The linkage between the tech culture and the Dead/Jam Band culture has always interested me. I was a tour rat for years before I discovered that I could make a living creating software. The culture of freely taping and trading live sho
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by perrygeo 4y ago
I don't know if I'd consider Dead "boomer music". Just yesterday, I met a bunch of new people from my wife's workplace, all 20/30 yo clean-cut career and family types. Surprisingly the Dead came up and about 1&
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by perrygeo 4y ago
That's accurate I think. Hobbies are about building something to scratch an itch - and my itch has absolutely nothing to do with configuring editors and build tooling. If I was working on a paid Clojure project, I'd just put in th
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by perrygeo 4y ago
Similar experience here. My first Clojure(script) projects used leiningen, now everything is deps.edn and the clojure CLI. Cool, changes happen. But editor integration, REPL tooling, even which compiler to use, etc are not consistent either
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by perrygeo 4y ago
My perspective is that code reuse is a problem when "business logic" gets fused together with implementation details. When you evaluate bringing code into your project as a dependency, the primary blocker is all the operational as
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by perrygeo 4y ago
This is my approach to "higher level rust" - When the borrow-checker and lifetimes start getting too complicated, there's usually an easier but less-optimal fallback. (RC/ARC + mutexes, clones, Strings, Box dyn) Rust can
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by perrygeo 4y ago
There are plenty of part-time remote consulting opportunities in software, if you can already demonstrate your worth in a valuable niche. But there are relatively few part-time employment opportunities - the 5-day, 40 hour week "comp
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by perrygeo 4y ago
> This is how soft totalitarianism works: no gulags, no jail time, just being excluded from the marketplace. Are we supposed to take this rhetoric seriously? The marketplace IS excluding certain types of expression, this is true. In fact
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by perrygeo 4y ago
Yep, the flow of money is almost perfectly correlated with flows of energy and material. Fuel/material consumption and GDP are basically measuring the same thing ("useful work accomplished") with a different quantitative lens
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by perrygeo 4y ago
The fact that there's a claimed generational gap here speaks more to the values of the generations re: passive vs active entertainment. I could also ask: "Why do all these 60-Somethings have the TV on as background noise while doi
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by perrygeo 4y ago
But taken together (I believe the statement should be written with commas instead of periods) that sentence fully answers your question - what is eating correctly? mostly plants, minimally processed. If you do that, you'll have no trou
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by perrygeo 4y ago
The dogmatic opposite view is that science need not respect anything but its' self-stated goal of maximizing the acquisition of knowledge. Does anyone believe that there should be literally no boundaries to such an endeavor? Not saying
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by perrygeo 4y ago
The need for "work" is still absolutely necessary in the physical sense. All we've done is replace human/animal labor with cheap fossil fuels. The only way it could appear efficient is with dishonest accounting - intenti
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by perrygeo 4y ago
It's an interesting model for a small subset of domains. Within those domains, things get very complex if you need consistency guarantees and non-trivial downstream pipelines to process those events. And maybe most importantly, the maj
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by perrygeo 4y ago
The actual headline is bit more direct - "The Fossil Fuel Industry Will Probably Collapse This Decade"
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by perrygeo 4y ago
See also babashka, a native Clojure implementation for scripting. https://github.com/babashka/babashka
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by perrygeo 4y ago
I see this all the time in software development. No media hype involved. I worked with a senior engineer who had a brilliant knack for finding design flaws in review (usually security or performance issues) and would put in heroic efforts t
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by perrygeo 4y ago
Exactly. These calculations make it sound like propelling the vehicle itself from A to B is the goal. Nope - the goal is to transport goods from A to B within practical size and weight limits/restrictions. If the volume and weight capa
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by perrygeo 4y ago
> Bullshit Sorry for the language but the argument that you can have economic growth without energy/resource consumption is just plain false. I'm deeply frustrated that people continue parroting that view without any credible e
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by perrygeo 4y ago
> some government agency divided the ‘allowable’ levels of these chemicals by 40 million That's one way to put it, yes. Another way is that recent scientific studies have shown these chemicals are way more harmful than we once thoug
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by perrygeo 4y ago
Everything but the technical stuff. Programming comes easily once I know what software I'm trying to write and everyone has clear expectations about the outcome and timeline. Getting to agreement on that, muddling through agile plannin
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by perrygeo 4y ago
Quality of Life is too fuzzy to make such a strong statement. But if we take economic output as a proxy, it's your view that is demonstrably false. You're roughly claiming that "Decoupling" (economic growth without resou
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by perrygeo 4y ago
Gifts serve social and political purposes and are not simply a medium of economic exchange. Historically, gifts were a way of signaling surplus to gain trusted friends, establish status, make alliances, compensate victims of wrong-doing and
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by perrygeo 4y ago
Sorry you got ghosted like that - it happens way too often and it sucks. But I think you're using your understandable frustration with this company to dismiss a highly-effective interview technique. Programming is largely solo work pun

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