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by sevensor 2y ago
Absolutely! Suppose I'm editing a text file, and I'm working through a tradeoff between data volume and accuracy, where more accuracy requires more data. I have an array of 14 sensors, and I can configure them to take either 100-
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by sevensor 2y ago
> Would s/foo/bar/g change every foo into bar without also changing every food into bard? Sure, and if that’s the case you write a better pattern. The replacement s/foo/bar/g applies only to the current line
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by sevensor 2y ago
Why is everything nullable?
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by sevensor 2y ago
Vim is a great editor, and when I see people laboriously clicking to create multiple cursors to do something that a simple s/foo/bar/g would accomplish, I feel sorry for them. However, multiple cursors can be pretty great; I
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by sevensor 2y ago
Oh certainly. It’s not about university versus no university; I’ve worked with electrical and mechanical engineers who didn’t have degrees, and programmers as well of course. Generally non credentialed engineers make up in ambition and raw
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by sevensor 2y ago
> On one hand, I look at what gets accepted into the top-tier conferences and journals and I feel like I can't possibly compete; I do hope you follow retraction watch. Even that tier of publication is not immune to fraud, no matter
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by sevensor 2y ago
> What the degree signals to the employer is that the prospective employee will comply with their corporate process. While this is true, I’ll take the engineer who studied diligently with an aim to learn the material over the one who was
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by sevensor 2y ago
But what about chess boxing? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_boxing
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by sevensor 2y ago
I appreciate your work on pep 420; I’ve benefited from it personally as a Python user. Thank you for a job well done.
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by sevensor 2y ago
I’m thinking about the long term here. I don’t care about grades, I think they’re a poor signal. What I care about is whether the engineer I’m working with fifteen years and four employers later actually learned the fundamentals. Some did,
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by sevensor 2y ago
In a weird paradox, students who believe the lie and actually study to learn the material get more value from their education.
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by sevensor 2y ago
You’re worried about the radiation dose from the scanners and not from the flight itself?
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by sevensor 2y ago
When you treat every negative outcome as a system failure, the answer is more systems. This is the cost of a blameless culture. There are places where that’s the right answer, especially where a skilled operator is required to operate in an
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by sevensor 2y ago
This is a surprising take, considering the consultants I’ve worked with never took the trouble to learn anything about the business despite sitting shoulder to shoulder with us for weeks, and then proceeded to give us spectacularly terrible
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by sevensor 2y ago
I do not have aphantasia. Too much phantasia if anything. But I don’t visualize shapes and colors when programming. In fact I find block and arrow diagrams confusing. I visualize the code itself, but zoomed out. It takes on the feel of a ho
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by sevensor 2y ago
My dentist wants an extra $30. Not sure what that entails.
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by sevensor 2y ago
Any thoughts on the cancer screen they’re always trying to upsell?
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by sevensor 2y ago
More to the point, emacs already has been rewritten substantially. There’s the initial rewrite from TECO to lisp, there’s the 80s implementations like uemacs (famously used by Linus), we had a major fork with xemacs in the 90s, there’s guil
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by sevensor 2y ago
I want to be clear that I’m not complaining about the downvote, honestly I was expecting more of them. It’s rather that between when I started this comment and when I finished it, the thread vanished from the front page and became essential
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by sevensor 2y ago
It’s remarkable what people will do in the name of principle. Walk into police batons. Accept a death in prison. Raid Harper’s Ferry and see your sons perish. Stand in front of an advancing tank. Most of us haven’t, most of us won’t. What m
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by sevensor 2y ago
Strange that you’d say that. What I’ve seen is that promoting homegrown ICs to line management is a favored strategy of nontechnical MBAs in upper management. Any large organization is bureaucratic. Given the intensely bureaucratic record o
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by sevensor 2y ago
I see an absolutely shocking number of managers promoted from the IC ranks, who not only have no preparation for management, but no experience at any other company.
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by sevensor 2y ago
I’ve been in the same boat. The amount of pain you can reduce by pushing type annotations through a codebase like that is spectacular. And although I love dataclasses, the non-totality that you get from typeddicts is key for modeling the ki
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by sevensor 2y ago
From the causality and relativity discussion, it seems like you could do some really neat stuff. Like for instance, you could generate a random encounter with an NPC, and a history of events for that NPC that includes causal chains initiate
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by sevensor 2y ago
I wish that were the case. I’ve spent a good chunk of my career in the “Real Engineer” widget making world, and it’s that experience I’m speaking of here. Even in the semiconductor industry, most people just kept their heads down and never
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by sevensor 2y ago
As far as I can tell, almost nobody, whether engineers, product owners, sales people, or sometimes even executives, has a firm grasp on how a company creates value for its customers. Sometimes this is because the company destroys value ins
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by sevensor 2y ago
Not the subject of the article, but in the vein (so to speak) of 19th century industrial refinement processes, gin and other cheap spirits were also a really big deal, and a really big problem at the time. The temperance movement didn’t com
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by sevensor 2y ago
I used to sit next to the guy who made cold calls all day long. There was no part of that job he couldn’t have done absolutely anywhere else. Also, massive, massive respect for anybody with the constitution to do that work. It was hour afte
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by sevensor 2y ago
I like to think about this as securing the perimeter. Inside, everything is typed, static analysis constrains what can happen, and I am never surprised as long as the code type checks. Outside, data is probably garbage. All the effort goes
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by sevensor 2y ago
That’s really neat, thanks for explaining!

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