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by t43562 2y ago
I think the people who paid Von Braun take 99.99% of the responsibility for what happened - they decided to kill people and chose one of many possible ways to do it. They could just as easily have poured their money into something else. As
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by t43562 2y ago
I call myself a programmer. It's not engineering or maths or anything else. It's managing complexity and I contend that it's very low cost complexity or we wouldn't be able to afford all the software we use.
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by t43562 2y ago
Good practises still result in bugs. How is the bug handled after it is found? That is a management responsibility.
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by t43562 2y ago
Because we cannot have that! Absolutely not. PMs need to be able to apply excruciating pressure. Also we couldn't possibly put the burden on the company that makes improbably low bids - no! No we must put the blame on the peons where i
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by t43562 2y ago
Go feels like a giant hack and it's opinionated approach to modules and libraries and where source files can live and embedding git urls in imports..... :-( Little bits of it are joyous - like goroutines and channels..and binaries th
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by t43562 2y ago
So some brown-nosers thought to pull Musk in because they thought it would get them some news and mentions and so on, possibly be financially advantageous in some way despite him not really being a scientist. That seems to have been easy, b
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by t43562 2y ago
It's like Britain or any part of Europe being colonised by the Romans. They left and things fell apart. Who in Europe developed by being left alone? Nevertheless wherever the Romans stayed longer, so did bits of their way of doing thin
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by t43562 2y ago
Norway and Switzerland - one has huge amounts of oil, the other stores crooked money...and both are far more connected into the EU than the UK is. Australia....a great country but not a world power. 40 million people on a continent where th
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by t43562 2y ago
Nobody has to accept anything. We get to debate about it and try to convince each other. We don't vote for things but for governments and there's always more than one issue to consider so government decisions are always going to
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by t43562 2y ago
If we're a country at all we have to make joint efforts. That requires tax. We'll never agree about how much. Lucky we don't currently have to fight a world war or endure any other serious kind of suffering.
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by t43562 2y ago
I think this article recycles a lot of the arguments that have happened over this and as usual doesn't make the correct case for why it's being done. [NB to get passenger services off other lines because they dramatically reduce f
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by t43562 2y ago
Capacity is about taking passenger services off other lines which greatly increases their freight capacity. The HS2 line itself is a kind of side benefit in a sense.
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by t43562 2y ago
"What is art anyhow?" some answers I could think up: - whatever I like is art - whatever some people who are "better than me" call art is art - whatever an artist can sell to a rich person for a high price is art... I ca
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by t43562 2y ago
...because when they are 0 one can infer that the event came from a keypress rather than a mouse. They want to know this.
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by t43562 2y ago
I don't claim to "really know" but being born in a "formerly pink" bit of Africa has always seemed a lot better to me than the alternatives. I wouldn't want to have been born in Mozambique or Angola (Portugese)
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by t43562 2y ago
The UK spawned a bunch of successful countries. Since it lost control, some have been wildly successful and all have developed. So there's something about them and their way of operating that worked. Part of that has to be location -
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by t43562 2y ago
> Storing multiple projects in a single repository does not magically make them a single unit of deployment, even when you deploy them all with a single pipeline. When you have multiple projects, you always have multiple units of deploym
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by t43562 2y ago
I'm afraid I haven't really understood the argument. To put the opposite view: Versioning could be done with individual functions in the code for example but we don't do that - we just update all the places that call it. We
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by t43562 2y ago
That would take forever - far too long in our case. We have to be able to make changes on the clients of our code because the teams responsible for them are busy achieving their goals. IMO versioning is something you do when you cannot do t
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by t43562 2y ago
Versioning sometimes becomes a problem itself. You can't always allow support for V1 of some API to continue because it's just "wrong" in the light of your work. It can turn out that your "micro" architecture j
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by t43562 2y ago
All countries do what suits them. Fortunately that's sometimes the same thing.
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by t43562 2y ago
I think the South Koreans are extremely grateful not to be part of the North. That's a terrible example for you to pick. Iraq...well they might not be too happy but I bet their neighbors insisted on Hussein being sorted out. etc etc. I
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by t43562 2y ago
More like the solution - Iraq threatened all of the Middle East. So does Iran. America is a security guarantee to countries who don't make a noise about it all. As can be seen in Africa now, if America doesn't intervene then Russi
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by t43562 2y ago
Laws at least would be needed - otherwise such independent private entities could be bought off by the largest companies. Already such companies attempt to buy off governments anyhow with a degree of success.
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by t43562 2y ago
This sort of thing has always seemed to me to be the ultimate example of why we don't rely entirely on competition and the free market to provide us with "the best deal". How can you know if your yellow sweets are coloured wi
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by t43562 2y ago
PR reviewing isn't really about finding bugs because the tests should be doing that - but are the tests good enough? Is the approach sound and aligned with the architecture? And does anyone else understand it apart from the author?
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by t43562 2y ago
I have been so overwhelmed that all my side efforts have been tiny things for a year - actually since last Christmas when I had a few days off in a row and my wife wasn't demanding other work. JSON Serialisation of GNU Makefiles: I got
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by t43562 2y ago
Sorry for the dumb question: What are the inputs? Photos? Videos? Any other data? And then, what's the output? Otherwise I find the whole website far too "involved" to understand what it's doing at all. Someone who alre
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by t43562 2y ago
You might be right, but they do perhaps also have to establish that their contracts are going to be defended/enforced. Otherwise they have nothing.
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by t43562 2y ago
I suspect that it's an argument about nothing. e.g. I can think about my "mother's sister" but I don't care about it enough to invent a shortcut word for it like "teyze". To Turks I think it means someth

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