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by steve_gh 1y ago
And this is why the Wayback Machine is potentially the most valuable data on the internet
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by steve_gh 1y ago
I'm presuming that if my case gets dismissed because my lawyer submits fabricated AI generated materials to the court, then I would have a very good case against my lawyer for professional misconduct. And that the damages could be very
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by steve_gh 1y ago
Here in the UK all Gov tenders are on a combination of price and quality - typically 40-60% quality. If you want a long term relationship as a Gov supplier, you need to demonstrate quality and bid the pricing fairly, without chronic underpi
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by steve_gh 1y ago
Lots of nice little essays here. Would be nicer if there were links between them, so you didn't have to go up to the table of contents. "Read the humanities" - yes!!!
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by steve_gh 1y ago
I think that the issue around (rather than with) TDD is the discovery process of understanding enough about the problem domain. Testing is good, and well designed and crafted tests make it easy to maintain and extend software. Personally, I
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by steve_gh 1y ago
This is the most interesting thing I have seen on HN in a while. If I could up vote it harder, I would. TL;DR. Medieval North African merchants had a formal language for encoding and communicating trade instructions and decisions
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by steve_gh 1y ago
There are many embedded devices for which TLS is simply not feasible. For remote sensing, when you are relying on battery power and need to maximise device battery life, then the power budget is critical. Telemetry is the biggest drain on t
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by steve_gh 1y ago
Coming from the "Scandanavian Architect" rather than the "Racoon on Meth" side of the argument, I try to load the dishwasher to make it easy to unload (eg knives, forks spoons all sorted in the cutlery tray as I load it)
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by steve_gh 2y ago
Sadly, despite a stem PhD, I have no way of assessing whether this is an April Fools submission or not. I recognise some of the words in the abstract, like 'non-Abelian', but that's it. Maybe it's time to retire.
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by steve_gh 2y ago
I'm very much in agreement - in principle. But we are where we are, and that gazillion lines is out there. We don't necessarily know which bits of it are running critical infrastructure - I'm not sure that we are even sure wh
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by steve_gh 2y ago
But you are never going to rewrite the gazillion or so lines of C++ out there, and currently being used in all sorts of production systems. But if you have a beter compiler that points out more of the problem UB areas in your codebase, then
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by steve_gh 2y ago
I'm not sure why this has been flagged. To me, a discussion on control of your technology stack, and the risks associated with a potential adversary being able to disrupt your technology stack, is well within the remit of HN.
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by steve_gh 2y ago
I think you are confusing the beauty and elegance of the language with the crap thatpeople write. My experience is that the sort of folks who misuse Ruby's powerful features are the sort of idiotes who dont realise that because a thing
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by steve_gh 2y ago
Do any of these languages have anything similar to Ruby's retry within error handling?
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by steve_gh 2y ago
It's the price you pay for being rich, free and alive at the same time - Lord John Marbury
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by steve_gh 2y ago
I think that the blowback from the new US administration's policy on Ukraine, Nato etc will be vastly increased defence spending. However I think it is highly unlikely that the money will be spent outside of Europe. It is now very clea
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by steve_gh 2y ago
This is really interesting and useful. What would be really helpful would be tools that would help monitor and understand power consumption for embedded devices such as Arduino. If you are running on batteries, then the power budget is ever
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by steve_gh 2y ago
Every country gets an army. The only choice is whose.
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by steve_gh 2y ago
Absolutely. The idea that increased European defence spending will be with US defence companies is for the birds. Europeans now know that the military spending (and the factories) need to be on the correct side of the Atlantic, and not vuln
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by steve_gh 2y ago
Not so much that they won't fix them - they don't have the money to fix them
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by steve_gh 2y ago
There are also some good libs for SQLite. This is the standard set that I use. https://github.com/nalgeon/sqlean
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by steve_gh 2y ago
Butits not just crypto. Regulatory bodies are struggling to cope with the challenge of AI. What's next?
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by steve_gh 2y ago
Very interesting. I don't understand the US Constitution well enough to have an opinion (I'm a Brit) but the regulatory challenge is interesting. More generally, as the speed of technological change accelerates, how can the regula
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by steve_gh 2y ago
This is very exciting - important foundational work to underpin Ruby performance improvements. Thank you for all the effort!
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by steve_gh 2y ago
The size of the pudding in the recipe is quite something. I make it about 35lb of ingredients- so maybe a 14kg pudding. That is going to feed a lot of people!
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by steve_gh 2y ago
Maybe just two. One could be knowledge, the other personality. Might be tricky if they ever combined. Who knows, there might be a book in this idea...
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by steve_gh 2y ago
I submitted a bug report on SQLite a year or so back (a simple test case only, not a solution). The folks were super nice, and their patch went into the next release.
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by steve_gh 2y ago
I think it depends on the contribution. I sent a bug report with a minimal test case. It was welcomed and quickly fixed. It is not a source code contribution, but I think it is a contribution.
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by steve_gh 2y ago
SQLis based on set theory, which is asdociative. So (a JOIN b) JOIN c = a JOIN (b JOIN c) Your DB's query planner should optimise given the available indices.
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by steve_gh 2y ago
You should read Simon Peyton-Jones' paper "How to write a financial contract". His starting point is the idea of a compositional language of cooking primitives.

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