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by roel_v 7y ago
Until now I just deal with that by always explicitly specifying the whole path to the python executable. Granted my needs are very run-of-the-mill, but wouldn't that suffice for many people? I've tried several times over the last
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by roel_v 7y ago
Brazilian Jiu Jitsu is also very niche, very little money in competing, yet there are hundreds of professionals who build their schools (with paying students) based on their competition record. There is no way to compete at the top (and eve
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by roel_v 7y ago
"The author went at length to explain how this is a useful exercize for programming, as it introduces edge cases, alternative implementations, testing, etc. " Well, as long as he disallowed the obvious solution (last paragraph of
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by roel_v 7y ago
So have I. And if anyone would write a plugin for it so that I could play Youtube Music through it (not sure if the API even allows that), I'd pay for that.
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by roel_v 7y ago
"Water is wet." "Do you have a source on that?" I'm a real estate developer. This is elaborated on, ad nauseum, in 1000's of studies, for the last, oh, 40 years. Don't be That Guy(TM).
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by roel_v 7y ago
Because you need all sorts of technology, and lots of materials that need high energy inputs to be manufactured.
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by roel_v 7y ago
The next time someone tells me 'python is a great language for beginning programmers', I'm going to point them to this comment...
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by roel_v 7y ago
"Zero-hour contracts are explicitly illegal, even for the self-employed." Not sure what "Europe" you're talking about, but in my part of Europe, they aren't...
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by roel_v 7y ago
This is awesome, I've been wanting something like this for a decade. But if there's no html inside, does that mean I can't style the content with css (or otherwise)?
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by roel_v 7y ago
Yes.
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by roel_v 7y ago
Or just curtains?
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by roel_v 7y ago
Not sure I understand you - my car doesn't break down on me. That was my point, the first cars were so unreliable you had to be able to fix it yourself, and there was no AA Roadside Assistance to help you out for that once in a decade
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by roel_v 7y ago
It's not just alone the paths, but also near distribution stations, which are closer to urban areas where you can't do burns. Some lines are close to urban areas. Some areas can't be burned at all because the smoke always hit
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by roel_v 7y ago
I don't think you can compare a vaccine with, say, cars. A vaccine works or it doesn't, there isn't much to be improved on from a usability point of view. Whereas the very first car compared to models, say, 20 years later - t
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by roel_v 7y ago
I'll readily admit that attacking my stream of consciousness postings is like shooting fish in a barrel :)
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by roel_v 7y ago
Fair enough, although I guess my point should be read more as a philosophical disagreement with the methodology rather than an 'attack'.
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by roel_v 7y ago
What I meant was that agent behaviour is linear and predictable, assumptions that don't hold when modeling actual people in the wild (it's fine for modeling e.g. factory queues and stuff, not knocking on queue theory as a field).
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by roel_v 7y ago
But people don't obey the rules of abstract queues at buffets. People circle around, bump into each other so that both change directions, squeeze themselves between others, and so on. To model this, you need to (IMO) model them as a sy
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by roel_v 7y ago
Yes there is lots of research on this, years ago I was in a project with a group (CASA) at UCL (Leeds) where this is one of their main topics of study - https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/casa/ . If you google e.g. &#
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by roel_v 7y ago
Alas, this post suffers from mathematician syndrome ("first, assume cows are spherical..."). Actual buffet queues can't be modeled like this; because of the physical constraints, they should be modeled as particle flows and h
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by roel_v 7y ago
It's from this book: https://www.amazon.com/Atlas-Prejudice-Chasing-Horizons-Vol/... .
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by roel_v 7y ago
That's only for finishing the park on top, and the new parks in the vicinity that are being build in one big project but that don't really have anything to do with the tunnel per se. The tunnels and all the connector roads are don
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by roel_v 7y ago
Yeah that's my experience too, which is why I asked. As you say, sending a secretary to an 'advanced Excel' course is common enough, but for real tech topics, there isn't anything you can really teach in a few days that
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by roel_v 7y ago
I'm in the Netherlands now, 'tjap tjoi' is pretty much the most cliche 'Chinese' (in quotes because it's all heavily Westernized) dish there is. When I was living in the UK (Staines, south-west of London - but
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by roel_v 7y ago
No that's a pork dish. IIRC (although I can hardly claim to be an expert on UK Chinese restaurant dish naming) it's also called 'chop suey', or 'chop choy', in the UK. In the Netherlands it's 'tjap tj
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by roel_v 7y ago
Honest question: are there companies that do "employee training" in tech? What does that look like?
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by roel_v 7y ago
You can grow (maize and grass for) cattle in places where you can't grow crops.
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by roel_v 7y ago
When you send an email there, everyone on the list gets it. It's like a group chat via email. Lots of things are discussed, from technical to commit access to use questions. God I feel old now.
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by roel_v 7y ago
Dog ownership (I should say, pet ownership) is disproportionately something for poor(er) people. 25% of all household here (.nl) have pets, but out of poor households, 60% do.
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by roel_v 7y ago
Sorry for OT, but I'm Belgian, a software developer, and have a law degree too - can I pick your mind on legal tech in Europe a bit? I can only find your twitter handle, do you have an email address I can reach you on?

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