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by steve_gh 2y ago
Maybe only a teaser of a shape, but it looks elegant. Elon take note. EVs don't have to be butt-ugly.
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by steve_gh 2y ago
I might be wrong here, but I remember reading somewhere that the trigger for the Boston Tea Party was not the imposition of taxes on tea, but their reduction. This threatened the business model of local tea-smugglers, who promptly rioted an
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by steve_gh 2y ago
There is No Silver Bullet. You just get to choose what kind of hell you want to live in. The best advice I have heard is that as your code structure will eventually mirror your organisation structure, start by building your code architectur
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by steve_gh 2y ago
That sounds really interesting - I have used GAs to optimise scheduling partition problems: Given a set of postcodes, a volume of work in each postcode, and preferences in that postcode for appointment times, find a schema to divide a geogr
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by steve_gh 2y ago
Camme for the evolutionary stuff (wrote mh PhD on it). Left having leaned that you can switch Tail Call Optimisation on or off in Ruby code.
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by steve_gh 2y ago
This: "Have many issues at runtime? Test more. Does it turn into unmaintainable spaghetti code after a while? Only if you let it. It's typically caused by developers, not programming languages or frameworks."
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by steve_gh 2y ago
No. The intended targets were very badly poisoned but survived. The novichok (concealed in a perfume bottle) was discarded in a litter bin. It was then found by a couple of passers by. One of them died, and one survived. The potential conse
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by steve_gh 2y ago
"According to federal data, the average new American car now weighs around 30 percent more than it did 40 years ago." How has the size of the average American changed over the past 40 years?
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by steve_gh 2y ago
Gödel, Escher, Bach. Opened my eyes to the beauty of pattern and mathematics. (Edited for typo)
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by steve_gh 2y ago
I go to the office to hang out, interact with people, ask junior colleagues what they are working on, and mentor them. Home working is great for concentration, but the serendipitous conversations only happen in the office
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by steve_gh 2y ago
Rails + SQLite
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by steve_gh 2y ago
Thank you for all your work. Its good to see all the ongoing work in Ruby to continually improve its performance and applicability across a wide range of applications. I've used fiber_scheduler in my Rails apps, and it can make a huge
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by steve_gh 2y ago
GDPR compliance is easy if you are not selling your users' data.
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by steve_gh 2y ago
Worth mentioning it works with any DB backend, not just Postgres.
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by steve_gh 2y ago
The classic one is the number of cyclists riding along with their helmet dangling from the handlebars.
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by steve_gh 2y ago
A good headline could make you buy the paper(back in the day when people bought physical newspapers). And some were works of art. My absolute favourite- the back page (sports headline of the Scottish Daily Record). For context, the night be
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by steve_gh 2y ago
Long essay. TL;DR the UK planning system is too restrictive and is stopping investment. However, some of the comparisons made don't really stack up. Yes. France has a better housing supply, and roughly the same area. But France has ove
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by steve_gh 2y ago
Yeah this is the way it works. The "pre-sales" of working out what you need is don e in whatever country you are in. Then at the last moment, when everything is prepared and the invoicing is ready, they transfer you to an Irish sa
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by steve_gh 2y ago
As someone who made this transition years ago, I would say is that the easiest way is to transition into Product management (PdM) within your existing employer. Failing that, look to switch employers to find an organisation that you can st
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by steve_gh 2y ago
This is a huge infrastructure problem worldwide. Understanding which bridges have problems, how often they need monitoring, and how to monitor them is a huge challenge. Let alone how to pay for it.
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by steve_gh 2y ago
My boss (serial builder of consultancies and all round good guy) has a simple policy. Any time 3 or more employees go out for coffee together it is a business meeting and should be expensed. His reasoning: the value of the knowledge transfe
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by steve_gh 2y ago
What bugs me is the inappropriateness of most password requirements. At my work, the most onerous password requirements are on the timesheet app. Really? If you want to fill in my timesheet for me every week, then be my guest. On the other
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by steve_gh 2y ago
I have worked in a senior role in asset management (think bridges not derivatives!) for 10+ years, and this sounds like a familiar problem. A few thoughts: 1. You don't necessarily need to bring your development in-house. But you are l
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by steve_gh 2y ago
Many years ago I saw a programme on an air incident investigation. They were examining the cockpit wiring, with a video camera set up. At one point, they had a question about whether the wiring had been installed correctly. They went back a
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by steve_gh 2y ago
On the argument about the testability of private methods. What's wrong with private unless $TEST
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by steve_gh 2y ago
And this is one of the big issues with RAAC (Reinforced Aerated Autoclaved Concrete, extensively used in the UK in the 60s and 70s. The concrete is aerated (think expanded polystyrene) so it is compressible. That means that you don't s
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by steve_gh 2y ago
I think this is quid pro quo for the Harry Dunn case, which interestingly reached a final conclusion a week or so ago in the Coroner's court.
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by steve_gh 2y ago
This has nothing to do with the merits (perceived or otherwise) of Assange's case. Assange was never going to be extradited to the USA, because of the US Govt's behaviour in the Harry Dunn case (finally closed this month): Harry D
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by steve_gh 2y ago
If it becomes that lucrative to ship containers new entrants will join the market at better rates
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by steve_gh 2y ago
There are various reasons why you might want synthetic data. Anonymisation is one of them - but the issue is around which statistical relationships are preserved in the anonymizing process, while ensuring that fusion with other data sources

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