rprospero

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by rprospero 3y ago
I fully agree with you. I was mostly posting as an example that "left is the patient's left" is not sufficient without other standards (like image orientation).
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by rprospero 3y ago
You're right that "the left lung" should obviously be the lung on the patient's left. However, can you look at the image below and immediately identify which is the "left" lung? https://scratch.rpro
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by rprospero 3y ago
I remember my university photography club trying to get digital cameras banned from campus because "art only happens in the darkroom".
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by rprospero 4y ago
1. I'm working with an amazing team. Experience has taught me that there's no amount of money worth working with a bad one. 2. I have a disabled spouse and the public sector has offered quite a bit of flexibility around this (e.
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by rprospero 4y ago
C++ Dev in the UK public sector here. I make 40k a year and so does my boss. I think my boss’s boss might make 50k, or that might only be his boss.
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by rprospero 4y ago
I'm a physicist and would be beyond thrilled to talk with Richard Feynman in my living room, it feels like VR only solves the "in my living room" part of the equation. I would fully appreciate just having a video call with P
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by rprospero 4y ago
I also remember my dismissive high school analysis of VB and wouldn't mind an opportunity to slap my younger self for blind dogmatism. However, I also remember that the fight was a two way street. My high school had classes in both V
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by rprospero 4y ago
I believe that they’re referring to Ben Bernanke and the policy of giving money directly to the populous, bypassing other intermediary institutions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helicopter_money
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by rprospero 4y ago
To provide a bit of context for some of the younger readers, certain advocates of OO in the early 90's argued that it would be an end of ALL procedural code. At the time, I listened to a talk by a computing consultant who asserted tha
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by rprospero 4y ago
I frequently hear this comment about spaced repetition, but I’m not sure how it would be different than modern education. In physics, we started with unit analysis, but it continued being a factor throughout the course. Then we learned ki
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by rprospero 4y ago
I also remember being excited about XML in the 90s and I can recall why. At the time, every application I used had its own bespoke file format and needed a custom parser to read its output. This especially applied to several application
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by rprospero 4y ago
I remember this as an old joke: It's sinful to smoke while you're praying, but it's virtuous to pray while you're smoking.
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by rprospero 4y ago
I can tell you that I do all three. My daily driver is a laptop running NixOS with a highly customised desktop environment. I also have a small VPS that running NixOS that I communicate with via SSH. Finally, as work, we use a nix flake
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by rprospero 4y ago
I once worked with one of those heroic security guys before. He setup the firewall so that the public website was only accessible from a white list of known up addresses. New users would need to submit their IP address to him in person be
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by rprospero 4y ago
In my experience, this arises as an unintended consequence of the quest to lower costs and reduce bureaucracy. About ten years ago, a new manager was brought in to make us act less like a moribund government department and behave more effic
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by rprospero 4y ago
I had a classmate who got hit with this issue from the opposite direction. In our first semester CS course, 70% of our grade was based on our documentation. My classmate wrote beautiful, comprehensive documentation of the solution program
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by rprospero 4y ago
Those job ads are both better than my current position. £40k for cross-platform C++ desktop app with both multi-core and distributed parallelism. PhD required. GPGPU experience preferred (notice that it's not CUDA experience because
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by rprospero 4y ago
> > anti-semantic > Why? I can't speak to the other poster, but I found the PowerShell example to misleading because it required the presence of a variable that the Nushell did not. I had to read through the code three times
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by rprospero 4y ago
It was a neutron detector that stored the the position, energy, and time stamp into the database. The design spec was 10,000 neutrons per second, so that was the origin of the time limit. Of course, half those neutrons arrived within a 20m
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by rprospero 4y ago
As I said in another part of the thread, I was in a scenario where we were performed millions of inserts into a table of four integers, one row at a time. Generating the string and parsing it again wound up being enough to blow our 10µs ti
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by rprospero 4y ago
Not the OP, but I can give two gains. First off, by passing an AST, instead of just an SQL string, we cut out a huge number of possibly SQL injection attacks. Second, in most of the projects where I've used of SQL, there's been
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by rprospero 4y ago
Just curious: what company did that work for HTTP?
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by rprospero 4y ago
Interactive Fiction
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by rprospero 4y ago
Thank you. I’m going to need some time to think about that.
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by rprospero 4y ago
Perhaps I’m just too much of a physicist, but I’m not sure what there is not to get. Granted, I’m an experimentalist, so that doesn’t help with my rigour. Still, I will encounter students who will have the same concerns, so I’d love to hav
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by rprospero 4y ago
I rarely touch SQL, so I don't really have much of an opinion on these matters. However, the last time I did have to touch it, the senior developer on the project used this as his personal shibboleth for differentiating junior and sen
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by rprospero 4y ago
I’m also in the UK and received two SMS spam messages last month, which wasn’t particularly out of the ordinary. Both were low effort fishing attempts along the lines of “You have been sent a package that requires the payment of customs fee
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by rprospero 4y ago
I grew up in Indianapolis, where the violent crime rate is 8.7 per 1000. Growing up, we had plenty of trips to Columbus, OH (16.6), Detroit, MI (21.8), Cincinnati, OH (8.9), and, yes, Chicago, IL (9.9). Granted, sometimes we'd visit s
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by rprospero 4y ago
It confuses me sometimes that we split the entire community between GPL versions 2 and 3 to thwart the terrible TiVo, but making AGPL just GPL 4 never seems to be discussed. Especially since GPL 3 is self upgrading, so there’s no risk of a
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by rprospero 4y ago
I appreciate your point, but I also remember hearing that exact argument being used against Python in 2001. A Perl developer was explaining how Python was a nice language, but would never be able to make in-roads into business. It was too

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