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by pfarrell 4y ago
In addition to changing to roasting, and depending on how old you are, brussels sprouts may have literally been different when you were a kid [0]. Dutch biologists worked to alter the sprouts we eat and have changed the bitterness. That&#x
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by pfarrell 4y ago
> Use GPT-3 to identify GPT-3-generated snippets. I just lost the game.
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by pfarrell 4y ago
Location: Ann Arbor, MI, USA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python, Kotlin/Java, C#, ML, and many others Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrickfarrell Email: mr.patfarr
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by pfarrell 4y ago
The actual quote from Benjamin Franklin is Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
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by pfarrell 4y ago
For those that haven't see it yet. https://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html
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by pfarrell 4y ago
Your question is too vague as the answer depends on your/your company's setup. If you are using git with Gitlab or Github, then your development process should be using something like pull requests which naturally offer a protect
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by pfarrell 4y ago
Good question. I used to test an auction app I maintained on SqlServer but I never pushed it more than a few hours into the future. To be clear: my experience with MongoDb was a one off local issue. No idea if there are server protections e
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by pfarrell 4y ago
Mongodb, for one, will freak out if you set the system date into the future, interact with it, then set time back. It will think the indices are corrupt and refuse to start. At least that happened to me last year. IIRC, the time stamp is p
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by pfarrell 4y ago
Agreed. Having to the ability to make those decisions is a feature of Java development, not a bug. YMMV.
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by pfarrell 4y ago
A few years ago, I used dropwizard for both a service that ran locally and for the cloud backend at a startup. Kotlin meshed very well and we never encountered any issues with either. Also just worked on a project that used micronaut which
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by pfarrell 4y ago
“There aren’t any new problems. Just new engineers” - A sig I read a long time ago
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by pfarrell 4y ago
Totally agree. The best succinct summary of Conway’s Law I've heard is “you ship your org chart.”
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by pfarrell 4y ago
Nyt article on 15 best ambient works from Eno [0]. See also artists released under the Obscure Records music label that Eno created [1]. Not like Airports, but my favorite album is Another Green World. Every track is a little intricate gem.
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by pfarrell 4y ago
Thinking about this for an ATM. How about entering your password and then pushing every other key. That would leave approximately the same heat signature in every key. Maybe.
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by pfarrell 4y ago
I would add Tabula [0] to this list. I’ve used it to extract tabular data from pdfs, especially in acquiring Covid data at the height of the pandemic. It’s got an MIT license and does extraction of table data from pdfs really well. 0: http
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by pfarrell 4y ago
Not exactly what you're saying, but made me think of a time when once, in a guitar shop, the clerk was playing really cool sounds on the guitar. She was playing in Hawaiian Slack-Key tuning [0]. She said Europeans had left behind gui
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by pfarrell 4y ago
He may not be clear of Twitter enough to do something like this. I’m wondering if a public action like that coukd open him up to some legal jeopardy. Just a guess.
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by pfarrell 4y ago
Had a manager who emphasized the mantra for our team. “Strong opinions, loosely held”. Over time I’ve come to appreciate this more and more. The “loosely held” portion is important for allowing respectful differences of opinion and building
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by pfarrell 4y ago
Perlisism #74: “Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to see it as a soap bubble?” http://cs.yale.edu/homes/perlis-alan/quotes.html
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by pfarrell 4y ago
I was wondering if there was a licensing thing that prevented them from publishing it. I thought it was kind of weird too.
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by pfarrell 4y ago
I notice no on has mentioned "The Net". With good reason, if I remember correctly.
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by pfarrell 4y ago
Outing myself as an RLM fan; I’ll bet Jay did the blur while Mike hand waved the whole thing.
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by pfarrell 4y ago
Haha. See! I didn’t want to know that.
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by pfarrell 4y ago
I think of it like the Wu Tang album that Martin Shkreli ended up with. I like the idea that these things exist and won’t be available for mass consumption. YMMV
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by pfarrell 4y ago
In the forward of which, Hofstadter says he could have called the book, "I" is a Strange Loop referring to the concept of "I-ness", but he found it too clunky.
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by pfarrell 4y ago
I think the Michelin three star rating for the restaurant is why it was picked. A line I remember and found hilarious was that Jiro’s place was the only three star restaurant without its own bathroom.
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Exactly. I don’t know much about it, but when thinking back to that time, I remembered it was just part of the crazy moment.
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by pfarrell 4y ago
That’s exactly what it was like. I was at work and had a big project due for client delivery that day that I was finishing up. When the first plane hit, it was definitely “oh man, what a weird thing to happen; what a tragedy.” When the s
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by pfarrell 4y ago
I interpreted the commenter as referring to the gaudy display of symbols of patriotism as fashion, not to the idea of patriotism itself. For another take on the danger of loving one’s country, see the Irish tune “The Patriot Game” by Brende
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by pfarrell 4y ago
I knew the policy about meta discussion, but on a thread that itself was meta, talking about the thing using the thing, I figured I'd lay out one comment about commenting. I discovered, on closer inspection, that the guidelines also

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