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by rpeden 3y ago
Why does that matter? A lot of folks chose programming as a career because they enjoy the path at least as much as the outcome, and I think that's a perfectly fine reason to choose a career. It also gives them good reason to mourn the
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by rpeden 3y ago
YMMV with the build and package system depending on your experience. Sheet staying my career writing with JVM languages and then moving to C#, I far prefer MSBuild + NuGet over Maven or Gradle. But I know lots of folks who feel the opposite
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by rpeden 3y ago
Words matter, though. Why call it a sprint if it's not supposed to be anything sprinting? We can literally call it anything we want, so why not pick a better metaphor? I think that many developers who say they dislike Agile really mean
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by rpeden 3y ago
You're right, that's a pretty glaring error. In fairness to the journalists, I doubt any of them are writing the website copy.
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by rpeden 3y ago
That's fair! I mostly posted it because this was the first I'd heard if it and I mostly wanted to hear HN's thoughts about whether this is noteworthy enough for a Frontline documentary. But I grew up watching Frontline and No
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Elon Musk's Twitter Takeover(pbs.org)
3 points by rpeden 3y ago|7 comments
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by rpeden 3y ago
I respect that, and I hope my question didn't seem like criticism. I suppose we're fortunate that options like Xfce and MATE are around, but I can relate re: compatibility. Truthfully I'd be just as happy with MATE as with GN
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by rpeden 3y ago
Have you considered that many users do like the changes, and you just aren't one of them? I first used desktop Linux in 1996 and liked it well enough. I remember using GNOME 2 and Xfce around 2010ish and liking both of them well enough
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by rpeden 3y ago
It seems more like they want to concentrate their effort on the C# Dev Kit for VS Code. Whether that proves to be the correct choice remains to be seen, but it seems promising even though it's still early. Since it understands Visual S
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by rpeden 3y ago
This one might cover what you're looking for: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1504046900/ I haven't read it yet, but have heard it's an enjoyable read.
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by rpeden 3y ago
I think badsectoracula was comparing Doom with one of Bethesda's previous games - Terminator: Rampage.
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by rpeden 3y ago
This interview with one of the testers of early, unfiltered versions of GPT-4 might cover what you're looking for: https://youtu.be/oLiheMQayNE It's a video and not an article, but you may find it interesting none
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by rpeden 3y ago
Your link mentioned it as one of the causal factors: In this confusion, induced by the rushed approach, they did not catch that the copilot had brought up the throttle for the dead engine, and left the throttle for the good inboard engine
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by rpeden 3y ago
That's certainly what the dropbears want you to believe.
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by rpeden 3y ago
25 year amortization period, but even most "fixed rate" mortgages are only fixed for a 5 year term, at which point you have to renew at the prevailing rate. You can get a 10 year fixed rate but you'll pay a substantially hi
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by rpeden 3y ago
It's about a million if you include non-permanent residents: https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/230322/dq230... I think it's relevant to include them here because even if they're n
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by rpeden 3y ago
PyPy has a GIL, so it wouldn't solve this particular issue.
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by rpeden 3y ago
The was also the Dover C-5 crash where a good engine was left at idle and the throttle for the failed engine was advanced instead.
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by rpeden 3y ago
It was a window in the non-watertight entrance tunnel, not the window in the hull. This article describes it in more detail: https://spectrum.ieee.org/amp/don-walsh-describes-the-trip-t...
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by rpeden 3y ago
This might be what you're looking for: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/legal/cognitive-services/o...
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by rpeden 3y ago
There were local publications like this, too. I used to read Toronto Computes! and The Computer Paper mostly for the ads. I loved seeing all the PC parts prices in the ads from local computer shops. The ads helped me plan my PC builds and u
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by rpeden 3y ago
Isn't this part of content marketing 101, though? I've bounced back and forth between engineering and DevRel over the years and whenever I create this kind of content I'm careful to provide the interesting and valuable part u
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by rpeden 3y ago
To clear things up, then, it's about 1.64 Canadian football fields.
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by rpeden 3y ago
They're willing to pay that amount for the bounty + managing and paying out bounties. If they weren't paying Algora to do it, they'd be paying their own staff to do it. Either way, the extra percentage wouldn't be part o
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by rpeden 3y ago
I enjoy this kind of creative exploration. I get a lot of value from HN, but technocratic communities often fail to understand the value of reimagining everyday things. They sometimes get so caught up in the technical bits and pieces they d
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by rpeden 3y ago
It seems that it was Hudson Bay: https://www.newspapers.com/clip/105820900/tom-sukanen-1878-1... When I saw "the Hudson" I thought of the Hudson River. It seemed plausible he might be able to row to Lake
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by rpeden 4y ago
Sure, but loaning out deposits creates money, does it not? Most of that loaned out money is getting deposited into another bank account. And that deposited loan will (minus a percentage kept in reserve) get loaned out again. And so on, etc.
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by rpeden 4y ago
You sure can! It was used quite extensively Operation Ivy Bells: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ivy_Bells
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by rpeden 4y ago
Due to NORAD, Canada and the continental U.S. are a shared air defense zone. In this case, USAF had been tracking/following the balloon since before it crossed from Alaska into the Yukon, so they although F-18s from Cold Lake had been
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by rpeden 4y ago
I'm not sure a stalled 777 at that altitude with that rate of decent would be able to recover in time. Since they were flying in cloud, wouldn't spatial disorientation resulting in an accidental nose-down attitude be more likely t

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