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by rleigh 9y ago
No, it is horrific. The reason we have safety protocols is to avoid hazardous situations which cause harm. Nothing happened in this case, but that's only because of luck . Safety protocols are about reducing risk (the probability o
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by rleigh 9y ago
It's just the ore. Not purified, and not enriched for a specific isotope. So its radioactivity is vastly less, and it's really just a novelty and for playing with your geiger counter.
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by rleigh 9y ago
Beryllium, amongst others.
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by rleigh 9y ago
The picture of this is pretty indicative of the culture there. The room is a mess, they are handling the material with bare hands, and there's an empty glass coke bottle next to the apparatus. Given how toxic beryllium dust is, handl
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by rleigh 9y ago
The same could also be said of the world of work. I have to write code in an open plan office which I find uncomfortable, noisy, distracting and without any sense of personal space. I'm vastly more productive at home. But I can'
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by rleigh 9y ago
I see a lot of myself in these traits; I don't have the best interpersonal skills. While I don't enjoy confrontation for its own sake, I do enjoy robust debate with my peers so long as it serves a purpose. However, that in no way
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by rleigh 9y ago
Absolutely agreed. In a previous job, I was hired as a developer for a small company and also took most of the service/support calls. It gives a huge amount of insight into how people use the software/hardware, where they get st
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by rleigh 9y ago
Yes.
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by rleigh 9y ago
Working in scientific software development, I've seen quite a few people developing on Macs who would really appreciate OpenMP support. They end up having to use GCC or a vanilla Clang, but it's extra work and it comes with its o
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by rleigh 9y ago
Supported since CMake 3.8!
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by rleigh 9y ago
I wouldn't want to reuse a variable for multiple purposes though; that can lead to unintentional use of the wrong value. At least this way you ensure that can't happen. And agreed that people mess for loops up, and range based lo
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by rleigh 9y ago
It's no different than the init and conditional parts of a for loop. Do people abuse for loops to do unrelated tasks? Not really. It does improve readability. If you've ever had to have a series of conditionals in their own bra
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by rleigh 9y ago
> Nearly every modern build system is also a dependency management system, something that really isn't possible using Make The BSD Ports tree provides exactly this functionality. All package dependencies provided via standard make
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by rleigh 9y ago
The object-relational stuff works (table inheritance). Or at least, it did the last time I tried it out a few years back; I've never used it in production.
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by rleigh 9y ago
Of course it can. We can apply selective pressure to a population and hypothesise the likely outcome. You can do this on a small scale in a Petri dish by selecting for antibiotic resistance, for example. And then you can validate the hyp
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by rleigh 9y ago
There's a difference between learning a topic yourself and learning it at a university: the university gives you a certificate at the end to say you did it, which other people recognise as having value. There are also things that you g
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by rleigh 9y ago
I've seen researchers trying different statistical tests until they get a "significant" result. I was a bit shocked; it's essentially unobjective and dishonest. The other one was removal of "obvious outliers"
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by rleigh 9y ago
I've seen examples of all these in nature, even studied and discussed them as part of my undergraduate degree. Humanity is not special in any of these respects.
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by rleigh 9y ago
Why not? Because while a small number of individuals can make the choice, humanity as a whole can not. We can certainly reduce needless waste, but without industrial food production most of the planet would quickly starve, and that's
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by rleigh 9y ago
Ice is doing a lot more stuff than dbus, it's mainly features rather than bloat.
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by rleigh 9y ago
There's an awful lot of sea and a very small number of propellers. Plus if the body is floating, it would not be anywhere near anything but the smallest outboard prop. Also, if you look at the shape of a rotating prop, it could clip
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by rleigh 9y ago
My old border collie would invent games and play them by herself if she was left to her own devices. Other breeds (and even others of the same breed) not so much. It makes me wonder if the ability experience boredom, and to undertake activ
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by rleigh 9y ago
Yes, we did something similar to disable the triggers. Unfortunately, while this resolved some issues such as being unable to delete LVs which were erroneously in use, it didn't resolve the oopses and kernel freezes which were presuma
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by rleigh 9y ago
My schroot tool used for building Debian packages could panic a kernel in under five minutes reliably, when it was rapidly creating and destroying LVM snapshots in parallel (24 parallel jobs, with lifetimes ranging from seconds to hours, me
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by rleigh 9y ago
Absolutely. My current position was carefully chosen (academic open source software development) for this reason. I did interview with some other companies, including ARM and Google. I could have definitely taken their offer and worked f
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by rleigh 9y ago
OO was a fad for how many years? All these languages were strongly influenced by this, and this greatly colours the worldview programmers have who work with these languages. If you work in Java, everything is contained within a class. You
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by rleigh 9y ago
I'm British, and while some people have credit cards, most people I know don't. I have a bank debit card and I use the single card to pay for pretty much everything I don't pay for directly with cash. I have zero debt, beca
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by rleigh 9y ago
> Are you trying to say that BTRFS is supposed to compete feature-to-feature with ZFS? Not entirely. Btrfs was designed with benefit of hindsight, so one would expect for the features they did choose to implement, that they would be s
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by rleigh 9y ago
Or multiple copies of the data (copies=n property).
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by rleigh 9y ago
It's certainly interesting, but if you look at the ZFS design they were inspired by, they got a lot wrong. Some points to consider: With ZFS, you have a hierarchy of datasets. These inherit properties from their parents, and while th

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