rabidrat

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by rabidrat 8y ago
> Which is odd, because it feels like it is totally against the spirit of the free software movement. And yet, it is completely within the original intended spirit. It is not about "giving source code away for free", it is abo
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by rabidrat 8y ago
Even having a designated x- and y- axis is some amount of structure, and you're right, a person has to be there to determine how they want to view/interact/interpret the structure. But it would be foolish to say that a csv w
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by rabidrat 8y ago
Can you explain what the alive stage does? I have a similar concept and I wonder if it should be formalized.
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by rabidrat 8y ago
Yes! I have an older iPhone which can't be upgraded, so it can't install new apps...so I can't use Signal.
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by rabidrat 8y ago
I was not going for exact years but some semblance of "around then" which conveniently rounded up to the nearest decade. The Apple II was 1978 and the PC was 1981. I agree that the GUI should be listed as 1984 in some official c
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by rabidrat 8y ago
> Shifts in computing paradigms are incredibly rare. They've only happened every decade so far: 1960 (IC), 1970 (DARPA), 1980 (PC), 1990 (GUI), 2000 (Internet), 2010 (smartphone).
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by rabidrat 8y ago
Yes, I know that, and that's why I know and use SQL instead of MongoDB. But that's a very similar reason to why I've resisted learning Rust, and Ruby, and React, and Docker, and Scala, and many more. I know I could learn th
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by rabidrat 8y ago
I think what happens (and I have this attitude too) is that "learning" SQL takes a weekend...but then you know you'll wind up having to spend a lot longer learning the patterns of the language, and the nuances of the specific
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by rabidrat 8y ago
what do you use for search, then?
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by rabidrat 8y ago
It's the serialization/deserialization that gets you. And not just the actual transformation, but also the fact that you have to turn every operation into some message. What could be a fast loop to read/modify/write th
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by rabidrat 8y ago
Too bad we can't eat gold.
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by rabidrat 8y ago
To be honest, I've been a landlord of an underwater property I couldn't rent, and decided to be nice to a low-income person in need. Within short order her alcoholic boyfriend moved in and triggered her latent alcoholism and the
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by rabidrat 8y ago
That's quite a bit more work than adding a reacmoji to 100 chars which were typed into Slack anyway. We all want better tools with fantastically helpful interfaces, but we also want functioning MVPs yesterday. I like the Etsy approach
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by rabidrat 8y ago
They can sit empty for a long time, becoming unkempt eyesores and possibly methlabs. Vacant property is not a positive.
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by rabidrat 8y ago
You have good points but ML needs thousands of generations; at most we'll have done dozens of multi-person projects under our belts. 2% doesn't even beat inflation.
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by rabidrat 8y ago
Those gods are not so mysterious, are they.
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by rabidrat 8y ago
Really insightful, thank you. I'm struck by this: > Worship your intellect, being seen as smart-you will end up feeling stupid, a fraud, always on the verge of being found out. which suggests that Imposter Syndrome is a result of &
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by rabidrat 8y ago
If I don't break them out "too early" then that often means I'm not breaking them out until I'm almost finished :)
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by rabidrat 8y ago
What if that turns out to be an inefficient (poorly-architected) way to break it down? But it's half-implemented by the time someone calls attention to it, and it doesn't get re-architected because it's too late now. Breakin
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by rabidrat 8y ago
For a company with infinite headcount (any of FAANG), it does mean you were rejected though.
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by rabidrat 8y ago
"white" people aren't actually white-colored, and "black" people aren't actually black-colored. The real problem is that we don't say "fair" and "dark" skinned.
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by rabidrat 8y ago
one or two milligrams ?? that's about 10 hits. but you can't mean micrograms, since one or two mcg is below even micro-dosing levels. So I'm curious if it really was 10 hits (which seems like an expensive way to sleep!),
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by rabidrat 8y ago
CIONIC | Full-time Remote (US-only) | Sensor Design Engineer CIONIC is a newly founded (and funded!) startup, that builds wearable solutions to improve quality of life for people with mobility issues. We're looking for someone with ele
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by rabidrat 8y ago
Apparently he was not supposed to have the files on his person at all.
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by rabidrat 8y ago
Software is different from books. The EULA that you implicitly sign may prevent you from transferring ownership to someone else.
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by rabidrat 8y ago
They have to build a new mag fab to handle the increase in demand, and those take time to build.
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by rabidrat 8y ago
Perhaps more than a simple majority? Perhaps a majority of the eligible voting population? What is called a "razor-thin majority" is actually a plurality. And I don't think democratic decisions should be made by plurality.
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by rabidrat 8y ago
There are many jobs for which the doer is personally liable. They are required to be bonded and insured so that if anything happens, they don't go bankrupt or otherwise avoid compensating for damages. And there are still people to do
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The Stasi didn't try to arrest every dissident. It preferred to paralyze them(en.wikipedia.org)
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by rabidrat 8y ago
not all software is solving a "business problem". sometimes it's academic, or hobby, or government. but always the code is shit.

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