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tuyiown
3y ago
> I recommend keeping your software responsive to change. This requires a note: this is not achieved with technical practice (e.g. something like dependency injection) but with the code and models being enough self contained, and well de
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3y ago
The more experience you are, the less the value is in the output objective productivity. The ability to write self descriptive, maintainable and bitrot resistant code in one pass goes way above feature delivery.
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3y ago
Don’t hesitate to be more specific on your boiler plate problem, because after 19 years career I’m yet to have or see, or even being counted a case where it has any significance on productivity loss. It is at worse questionable yet somewhat
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3y ago
Since many have been told repeatedly that rails is slow, maybe some just stopped caring if the code actually got slow.
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3y ago
Yes, actually, after thoughts I suspect that wgntv.com is just using third party provider that operates in europe and asks wgntv.com to implement GDPR compliance or refuse traffic by contract.
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3y ago
> This is a behavioral habit, a disastrous one and potentially career-ending or at least progression-ending. Or it's just that reality lurks somewhere and that hidden complexity will arise making the effort unsatisfying with roadblo
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3y ago
> When you’re obese you need to lose 50, 70, 100+ lbs, not 10. You have to lose 10 at some point. The way you're putting it, it looks like losing weight would be some kind of drastic sprint with a finish line. I don't think it
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3y ago
Two imaginary thought from people at wgntv.com: 1. a quick legal risk assessment showed that an international lawsuit against us on US ground, since we don't operate in their country, lawsuit to apply their local laws on US juridiction
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3y ago
It's pretty simple. Developing and sharing open source work is paid hobby at best. There is almost no other rewards, even to try improving one's employability is hazardous at best. Always have, always is. This a cause a lot of fru
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3y ago
Typically, boiler plate implemented by a standalone function is not easily discoverable, eg. no clear convention where to put it, does not look idiomatic on some usages syntax habits, and not suggested by auto completion in top results. Ext
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3y ago
> But above all, I learned that geeks think they are rational beings, while they are completely influenced by buzz, marketing, and their emotions. Even more so than the average person, because they believe they are less susceptible to it
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3y ago
People might feel misguided with the submission title not mentioning that. I liked the pictures though !
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3y ago
Tell people immediately that you'll check for the answer ASAP, and delay your response. This will lead to several desirable outcomes: - people might try to figure things out, or find an answer that might not strictly how things works,
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3y ago
The lack of general knowledge in this rant is incredible. Require semantics are bad, and it's even worse for a browser. The problem is that the ecosystem is of low quality, and that people bandwagon behind node require compatibility wh
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3y ago
It's by design, I remember hearing that it would visually match the semi translucent plastic stripes of the original iMac frame, but those, while a bit similar, are vertical.
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3y ago
I know nothing of the VR space, but it's pretty clear that apple aims to have it being able to replaces every screen you can which for, adapted for every use, gaming, watching, producing. As good as your adequate TV, desktop or laptop
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3y ago
I would advise others methods to convince the loved one the reality of your love. As for yourself, well, this is some aspect where the brain decides on your behalf, consciousness can be damned.
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3y ago
Foreword: I don't wan't to be contrarian or combative, but I see unjustified universal truths laid out in your comment, 2 specifically: > The state of consciousness is much more than just the processing of external signals. Com
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3y ago
I don't think it's self referential, the whole idea holds on that if you manage to do predictions that are confirmed, you still have to assume that your perceptions are consistent across time. As an individual you can check you pe
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3y ago
The perception as two sides: the signal, and how it's processed. The signal is real and true just by it's existence. Note that this also applies with self-generated signal such as phantom limbs. For the processing, the subjective
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> There's no telling what time perception is "correct" or "real". Perception is always, always false, the same way that our internal reality is imperfect. The only way to trust perception is to go through repeata
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3y ago
8GB was a little lot fifteen years ago. I don't think 1TB ram will be common in five years, except maybe for IA model training.
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3y ago
the equivalent on macOS was to use Dictionary, but I suspect that it not really viable anymore due to format/rendering contraints: CHM probably needed IE6 like compatibility, after looking for docs, Dictionary needs XHTML, which might
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3y ago
Note, I've been using trackpads exclusively instead of mouse since 12 years now, before that, I had a mouse with extra buttons that I used a lot, including the open in new tab middle click. Not before reading your comment I had realize
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3y ago
Well, it does not take a lots a seconds to figure out that an interactive 3D modeling app might need a little bit more of what is exposed in the DOM api to be built. The author here only meant pure CSS 3D rendering , which, while being aro
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3y ago
Privacy is like insurance. A little downside for everyday so you don't lose everything if luck turns on you.
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I suspect 45kmph is enough for driving in dense part of many cities in the world. Very likely not true in the US, but my main concern would be the risk of being very easily crushed by heavier vehicles.
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3y ago
Efficiency improvements are good for everyone, even if you don't see it on your bill.
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Yes, turns out the things that greatly improves graphics rendering within non-exponential algorithmic where discovered quite fast. Either someone comes with a unconventional breakthrough, or we're stuck with heuristics optimizations an
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4y ago
It's not only simpler, it's just way more reliable for high volumes of messages with a large number of workers and short processing. I really was focusing on low volume, long jobs, where RabbitMQ is overkill, and workers respawn d
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