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by steve_gh 10mo ago
This is a really lovely long read.
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by steve_gh 10mo ago
The spider is a particularly subtle joke: The White Spider is the name given to a snowfield high on the N Face of the Eiger, crossed by the original (1938) Heckmair Harrer route up the face. Heinrich Harrer's book about the first ascen
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by steve_gh 11mo ago
Don't know about heavy trucks, but I can say this. I'm currently looking after a house being renovated in rural and hilly Northern England. There are a lots of trade folk coming by doing various things, all in the UK ubiquitous wh
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by steve_gh 11mo ago
Ruby behaves sensibly through the principle of least surprise. But it does have extremely powerful metaprogramming capabilities which are regularly abused by those not wise enough to know that just because you could do something doesn'
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by steve_gh 11mo ago
Absolutely. The legal speed limit is 60 in the country - on any road not marked with a lower speed limit. This means that legally, you can drive at 60mph down a twisty single track road with 1.5m earth and rock banks topped with hedges. You
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by steve_gh 11mo ago
I'm thinking about this. I'm sitting on my veranda in my pyjamas having just enjoyed a pukka curry!!
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by steve_gh 11mo ago
Run off road. Run back to backs as distance training. Day 1 is at tempo pace - get exhausted! On day 2, run slow, but concentrate on your running form and technique. The aim is to train yourself so you can run with good technique when tired
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by steve_gh 1y ago
Happy to admit to my ignorance on what annas-archive is. Clearly I had grasped the wrong end of the stick!
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by steve_gh 1y ago
So if I am right in thinking, annas-archive.org is a pro-anorexia site. If that is the case, then the UK Gov restricting access to a site that is promoting a recognised mental disorder with significant (and potentially fatal) health implica
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by steve_gh 1y ago
Very interesting. I looked at stability in learning agents in artificial markets back in the late 90s for my PhD and concluded that at least the systems I worked with weren't stable - they were prone to bubbles and crashes. Very intere
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by steve_gh 1y ago
The analogy that Jamie Dimon was drawing was between seeing one cockroach and there likely being many more, and problems in the banking industry - if you see a problem in one bank, others are likely to have the same problems. I didn't
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by steve_gh 1y ago
Great article. A really clear discussion.
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by steve_gh 1y ago
Of course the Mercantor projection gets country sizes wrong. All map projections get something wrong, because they are projections of a 3d sphere onto a 2d plane. The trick is to pick the right projection for your purpose. Mercator is good
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by steve_gh 1y ago
I learned python as a long-term Rubyists, as Ruby didn't have the data science support of Python. I found the uncanny valley between Ruby and Python quite difficult at first. I could easily and fluently read Python, but writing it was
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by steve_gh 1y ago
Not quite 'obviously', but mathematical folklore has it that 'clearly' is used to mark the difficult conceptual step in a proof.
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by steve_gh 1y ago
I have definitely found this. A few months ago I tested Claude coding a web task in Rails vs Flask. Claude did much better with Rails - I think the opinionated Rails conventions helped the AI. However, Claude didn't complete the ask in
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by steve_gh 1y ago
> but silence is a form of opinion, of vote, of approval. I disagree. We don't have to have an opinion on everything. And what worries me is those (both on the left and on the right) who think that silence is a form of opinion or ap
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by steve_gh 1y ago
I'm really pleased to see this happening, but sad that it has come to this. What I'd really like to see is a whole bunch of people acting more professionally. Who you pray to, who you vote for, and who you sleep with are irrelevan
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by steve_gh 1y ago
I disagree. If your local jurisdiction does not deal with software licences regularly, then how they chose to interpret them is unknown. So you may end up in an expensive court fight. With a known jurisdiction building a solid corpus of pre
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by steve_gh 1y ago
>> And it is good that it explicitly calls out the legal jurisdiction it sits under (EU). >Offputting if you are not in the EU. Knowing the jurisdiction that the licence sits under is a huge advantage, because it tells you the lega
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by steve_gh 1y ago
Looks very interesting. It clarifies a lot of things that for example the GPL leaves unsaid, due to the different legal framework. And it is good that it explicitly calls out the legal jurisdiction it sits under (EU). It's good that it
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by steve_gh 1y ago
What additional freedoms do you want this licence to provide?
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by steve_gh 1y ago
There are estimated to be ~100k people employed in the JLR supply chain, mainly in the West Midlands with another ~60k jobs directly dependent on supply chain worker spending (source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles
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by steve_gh 1y ago
Love ViewComponents. They really are a step forward from templated views
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by steve_gh 1y ago
Could someone with more legal knowledge than me perhaps explain what the legal situation around open source software, and ownership of OSS is. Every open source licence basically says that the software is provided "as-is" - so I d
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by steve_gh 1y ago
Finally, a grown-up in the room!
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by steve_gh 1y ago
There is a really interesting interview with Simon Peyton-Jones referenced on HN yesterday.He talks a lot about why Haskell came about, and some of the thinking behind the design choices that were made. https://news.ycombinator.c
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by steve_gh 1y ago
...or you could drive sensibly within the speed limit.
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by steve_gh 1y ago
Alsup has a reputation as being a very tech-savvy judge. His judgement is well reasoned. There is one part of it that I potentially take issue with:In Section 4A (p27) of the judgement doc, he analyses the effect on the market for the Autho
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by steve_gh 1y ago
Didn't see any resemblance to the celebrity I asked for (Jarvis Cocker) - so doesn't actually seem to work.

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