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by twawaaay 4y ago
Also with so little actual code. This cemented my interest for Common Lisp at the time I was reading it.
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by twawaaay 4y ago
There is a number of reasons that make Lisp macros so much more powerful than functions in any other language. Consider you want to implement printf that is compatible with C printf. As the function implementor, you want something like prin
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by twawaaay 4y ago
My favourite is "Practical Common Lisp" by Peter Seibel ( https://gigamonkeys.com/book/ ) Not only is the book free to read (although I would suggest to pay for it if you like it!) The code to parse binary file
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by twawaaay 4y ago
When cold air gets heated up the relative humidity gets lower. If you already have very cold winter which tends to be relatively dry -- you should add humidity and this will necessarily cool the air. While this is not strictly necessary, ve
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by twawaaay 4y ago
I live in a large apartment (3 adults, 2 children to 1700 square feet). Recently I bought a good CO2 meter (Aranet4) and I really discovered how much you have to ventilate to keep CO2 levels under 1000ppm. I sort of knew this for a long tim
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by twawaaay 4y ago
Imagine you have two very long tubes joined thermally throughout their entire lengths. For the sake of simplicity, no energy is exchanged with the environment, only between the two fluids. The cold fluid will meet (thermally, in adjacent pi
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by twawaaay 4y ago
I am in constant bewilderment about all of the talk of saving electricity but still so few homes having a very basic device like heat exchanger. At its very simplest it is just a box where incoming air is being heated by outgoing air withou
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by twawaaay 4y ago
Not sure what your beef is. A month ago I signed up for a marathon that is in the fall. I then told my family, friends and coworkers. This puts a bit of pressure on me to get results. I did not strictly have to do this but, in my experience
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by twawaaay 4y ago
Resting heart rate and HRV are super useful. In my case, I knew I was going to be sick before I felt symptoms just from the sleep data. On Garmin you can indicate you are sick and it will stop your poor training from disrupting your VO2 inf
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by twawaaay 4y ago
I feel for you. This is such a strange virus. My whole family got covid so I expected to be next. But I only needed to take 2 days off at work and I paused my training for just 3 days and was almost back to my normal HR/pace in less th
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by twawaaay 4y ago
Not a conversation. There is an information exchange that may also lead to a conversation. If this is the case, the conversation happens after standup proper. The usefulness of people telling what they will be doing or what problems they
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by twawaaay 4y ago
Depends on how long your standups are and how disciplined the team is. I try to keep standups under 5 minutes after which most people can get back to whatever they are doing. The goal is to increase return on investment by reducing the inve
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by twawaaay 4y ago
> Asynchronous first Umm... as an engineer I know the ins and outs of async. The fact is that synchronous is so much more efficient when it is practical. You can exchange mails with the other person for 3 weeks to get details of somethin
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by twawaaay 4y ago
Or wait until shrooms wear off.
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by twawaaay 4y ago
You not only need a system that has exoplanet transiting its star, you also need to have it happen at right time (it happens at most once per exopelanet's orbit) and also at right time for Webb to look at (remember, it is severely rest
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by twawaaay 4y ago
The edge of visible universe is Big Bang. Or more concretely, the time couple hundred thousand years after Big Bang when the universe became translucent to light. Things cannot "reflect off of the edge of visible universe" becau
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by twawaaay 4y ago
Oh, I have a lot of fun stories from the trenches. Too bad nothing near me. Would love to do this remotely.
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by twawaaay 4y ago
I specialise in helping teams with trouble (delivering, quality, etc.) I have many times met engineers that were super smart but caused more damage than they brought value because their manager had no plan how to use them effectively. Smart
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by twawaaay 4y ago
A person that spends considerable portion of their time really learning new things will initially be slower at their work than people who only do work. But over time this person will be getting better and better and better and at some p
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by twawaaay 4y ago
Except the whole discussion is still here exactly because there is evidence to suggest it isn't a rock. Supposedly it accelerated a bit, inconsistent with what we know about how rocks move through space.
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by twawaaay 4y ago
So... any statistics on rocks that can accelerate on their own?
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by twawaaay 4y ago
Connecting to FTP server with telnet left as exercise for the reader... :)
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by twawaaay 4y ago
So here is one thing I differ with you on. If I feel underpaid, I will do my normal work as best as I can and start looking for another job. I always try to leave on best terms. You really don't risk anything, you actually improve your
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by twawaaay 4y ago
IMO there are two simple reasons: 1) Companies really, really don't want to be doing layoffs. It signals they are in a weak position. But when bunch of other companies do this it becomes a much more available option as there is somethi
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by twawaaay 4y ago
There are some interesting things here. I may agree that most people intrinsically lazy but I don't think this is what is going on here. I think at least to some degree people sort themselves into projects. Typically, the better ones t
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by twawaaay 4y ago
I noticed that when people do not understand the system, things start to deteriorate until they can't do the simplest thing correctly or doing it takes way more time than stakeholders can accept. There is then pressure to get done fast
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by twawaaay 4y ago
I guess whatever helps you better understand work you are doing? My reading list at any point is tied to whatever I am doing in my private or professional life. If my boss asks me to help grow the company my reading list will contain a bunc
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by twawaaay 4y ago
I am sorry I have quickly deleted that part with advices while you must have been responding to it. But this in my experience is truly important -- from the very start plan how a new member of the team is going to get really proficient at
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by twawaaay 4y ago
I specialise in joining teams with problems (inability to ship, reliability issues, performance issues, etc.) At least thrice I joined teams where all original developers and the manager was long gone. The situation for some reason looked v
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by twawaaay 4y ago
That's why when I started with design I decided to go for niche products for businesses. Kind of thing that when they have to buy it they will not be looking at the price too much. Low volume (I was doing all soldering myself!), high s

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