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by sevensor 2y ago
What's wrong with the Fourier Transform is that everybody and her pet rabbit can give you a half-baked explanation of Nyquist, but nobody understands windowing at all.
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by sevensor 2y ago
Interesting read. Granting the contention that there's no knowing the "real" Nietzche, I'd still like to have a better picture of where his writing does and doesn't support the figure built up by his sister.
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by sevensor 2y ago
Are there no workhouses? To an outsider, it's remarkable how durable this attitude has been.
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by sevensor 2y ago
> monarchy results in better management of the asset that is the country > than democracy. The leader is there for life, the country is his sole > property and thus incentivized to improve it and views the country as > his life
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by sevensor 2y ago
That's how we did it with typewriters, back in the day. You could backspace and overstrike with another character, to make a composite symbol.
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by sevensor 2y ago
Nah, the stock market is a good idea. Nothing about the idea of a stock market precludes holding owners responsible for the behavior of the company they own. Appropriate regulatory action against large, misbehaving corporations would make
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by sevensor 2y ago
We are, unfortunately, in violent agreement. What's to be done? Tell the world about it, hope people wake up? It's better than nothing. I'm starting with people I see face to face, and the tiny corner of the internet I occup
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by sevensor 2y ago
Now that AI has crapped all over the internet, I use books more.
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by sevensor 2y ago
>> They really don't, at least not in the case of index fund investors like Vanguard and BlackRock. Have you ever read about their operations? They run a very lean ship. > The only reason you're able to invest in index fu
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by sevensor 2y ago
Strongly agree about Debian. I'm a longtime Arch user, but it causes headaches when you let a machine get too far out of date, and I wanted something I could put on the stack of old laptops in my closet. One by one, I'm migratin
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by sevensor 2y ago
If you take the article's advice to move everything that's not IO into pure, testable code (which is good), what's left is code that does IO. What are you even testing when you call such a procedure? At that point, it'
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by sevensor 2y ago
We've always liked crappy stuff. Try reading 1930s pulp. (Sci-fi, Westerns, adventure stories, detective novels, what have you.) It's almost all garbage, even if you can set aside the chauvinism of the age. The difference I se
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by sevensor 2y ago
> As we advance, we can start to smell unhealthy working environments. As I was going through some old papers, I found my offer letter from a previous job. I'd underlined a whole bunch of things and written questions in the margin
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by sevensor 2y ago
Two levels of poor management probably means that it goes all the way up the chain and your company is poorly led in general. This is going to go sour eventually and you aren't in a position to fix it or protect the team. If you don&
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by sevensor 2y ago
There's some real confusion about what "functional" means, because it depends on who's speaking. Writing _exclusively_ pure functions is a Haskell thing. A much looser definition of the functional style would be to say
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by sevensor 2y ago
This is what I think people don't get about SaaS: they think it's about the first S. The technology. It's not. It's about the second S: the people who keep the technology from collapsing into a black hole of complexity.
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by sevensor 2y ago
Unfortunately I think they're mostly discovered when there's a fish kill in a nearby stream, or somebody's well water starts smelling funny. Industry in PA has a long history of closing up shop and leaving environmental prob
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by sevensor 2y ago
I really appreciate your thoughtful response! I'm going to have to take some time to meditate on it. I think I see where you're coming from, and where my opinions may differ. Cheers!
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by sevensor 2y ago
I've made it a bit of a project lately to understand Uncle Bob and his effect on our profession, so I took your recommendation seriously and watched the first video you linked. I'll start with the bit I agree with. Uncle Bob is ri
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by sevensor 2y ago
Ooof, Uncle Bob. It's important to understand that he's a consultant with a heavy emphasis on pedagogy, and he has been since around 1990. As far as I can tell from his blog and public internet presence, he's never maintain
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by sevensor 2y ago
Pre-covid open plan offices had their problems. I sat elbow-to-elbow with a guy who always had Youtube bowling videos running on his spare monitor on one side, and a junior engineer who had questions for me all the time on the other side.
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by sevensor 2y ago
There are modern iron gall inks with better properties. E.g. Rohrer and Klingner Salix. Older inks had insanely low pH.
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by sevensor 2y ago
People forget that Pennsylvania is the birthplace of industrial petroleum extraction. There are abandoned wellheads all over, many of which exist in no records anywhere, and which are often in the middle of dense forest that has grown up s
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by sevensor 2y ago
What I like about this is how neatly it reduces everything to a small set of concepts. Much like lisp and forth, but not the same as either. It's exciting to think that there may be more of these out there, waiting to be discovered!
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by sevensor 2y ago
I've noticed I have to drastically recalibrate when I'm looking at Python learning materials. I'm trying to find something good for onboarding people, but even the "advanced content" tends to be stuff like this. I
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by sevensor 2y ago
This process is also pretty much guaranteed never to yield mid-career geniuses at the height of their powers. Those candidates don't go looking for work at all. Work comes looking for them. Why would they go on _any_ jobs platform,
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by sevensor 2y ago
Fascinating, thank you!
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by sevensor 2y ago
Wow, that's awesome! Looks like a big win all-around. Save money, save fuel, save wear.
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by sevensor 2y ago
I'm not a fluid mechanics guy, but all that cavitation from the screws seems like preventably wasted energy, not to mention a huge source of potential surface wear.
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by sevensor 2y ago
I find learning goes a lot faster if I retype from tutorials instead of copy-pasting. Otherwise it doesn't lodge in the brain.

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