razeh

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by razeh 7mo ago
Professor Appel was my boss when I was a system administrator for the UIUC Math department, working my way through grad school. He was one of the best bosses I’ve had over the past thirty years and had a real knack for dealing with the imm
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by razeh 9mo ago
I’m in River Forest and the deer are a pain to deal with. They eat your plants, they’re not afraid of people (because they get hand feed) and they get hit by cars. They’re lacking their natural predators — and the logical solution of introd
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by razeh 10mo ago
Every human being should have the experience of unconditional, unadulterated love from someone else. But not 24 by 7.
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by razeh 11mo ago
I was writing software at a bank and found a bug. I was told to save it for when we had our audit —- because no matter what, the auditors were going to insist we fixed something and it might as well be something the development team wante
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by razeh 11mo ago
I meet Greg when I was an undergraduate at Syracuse University and he was earning his PhD. I helped out a bit with some of the graphics programming for his thesis. Greg was a class act, always patient and kind. It was super helpful to me wh
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by razeh 1y ago
I think people tend to underestimate the risks in allowing suicide —- here’s a blurb from the linked article: However, social acceptance may lead to more egregious abuses: the issue gained a higher profile in early 2010, when an 80-year-old
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by razeh 2y ago
This is true for more than dev productivity.
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by razeh 2y ago
In finance a bad engineer can bankrupt the firm.
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by razeh 2y ago
When the article got to the part where the trees were thought to be sterile, did anyone else hear Jeff Goldblum saying “Life finds a way”?
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by razeh 3y ago
I was on the jury for a resisting arrest case and ended up as an alternate. The judge pulled us into chambers and we talked for about an hour. One of the things that he said that stuck with me was “Everybody thinks it is CSI in here. It’s
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by razeh 3y ago
Something similar is brought up in the decision —- the licensing board could have had the licensed engineer's stamp their reports as a way of marking them as produced by licensed engineers. That the board just tried to shut Nutt up in
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by razeh 3y ago
Every profession is a conspiracy against the laity.
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by razeh 3y ago
What are the alternatives to batteries if you want to fly through the night?
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by razeh 3y ago
There’s no practical way for a defense lawyer to find out what the error rate is for, say, a state lab. Occasionally organizations can do this, for example the innocence project figured out that the FBI’s hair analysis was bogus for decades
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by razeh 3y ago
No. When it comes to evaluating forensic evidence lawyers are, by training, too process oriented to solve the problems. Ask a prosecutor what the error rate is for fingerprints or DNA evidence and you’ll get a blank stare. They don’t even
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by razeh 3y ago
I live in a walkable inner ring Chicago suburb, and commute to work by bike or the El. Snow cleanup is excellent in our suburb, and we can get to things we want to drive to in bad weather on roads where the speed limit is never over 25 mph.
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by razeh 7y ago
For C++ we've had better luck, on our local cluster, with distcc than with bazel's remote execution, and we've found the the cache slowed things down. Has your experience all been in the google cloud?