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by veilrap 4y ago
Our code tends to be shipped running on top of a relatively up-to-date version of linux. So we tend to go through the pain of testing/refactoring needed to get to the next version of C++ when we upgrade to the next stable version of l
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by veilrap 4y ago
My company does a decent job at keeping up with the standard. Getting from C++11 to C++14 was challenging, and C++14 to C++17 took quite a bit of time, but we're on track to be on C++20 later this year.
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by veilrap 4y ago
I've read that Tesla's summon feature requires the user to continually hold down a button on their phone in order to have the car continue its slow progress in driving towards the user. Assuming that's the case, I would argue
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by veilrap 4y ago
I agree 100%. Learning how to learn is a top goal of college, and most at least, tend to do a pretty good job at it. Colleges are far more than just a text book with a certification at the end.
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by veilrap 5y ago
Any fudge factor with a continuous effect on the output that covers the range of interest can be used to adjust a given output to an output of choice. For dark matter, one of the problems is that any given instance is allowed to have whatev
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by veilrap 5y ago
You're describing a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tautology_(logic) Dark matter works well because it's designed to fill in the gaps in our current understanding of astrophysics data. Given it's origin i
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by veilrap 5y ago
I'm not OP, but we have a similar setup at my company. We actually use C++ as our primary language, with a significant amount of python for testing and glue. In general, dependencies are included in our repository directly, changing&#
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by veilrap 5y ago
Cloth masks are estimated to be in the 50-60% effectiveness range. To me, that's quite effective, not ineffective. Especially when applied across an entire population.
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by veilrap 5y ago
If you're actually interested in this topic, you should read "What is this thing called science?" by Alan Chalmers. One big take away from the book is that there are many things that are "factual" and "scientif
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by veilrap 5y ago
This is somewhat misleading information. VAERS is an open database, it can be easily submitted to by anyone, it's not a good source of truth and may contain statistical bias. Parent's ARE vaccinating their children, millions of ki
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by veilrap 5y ago
They are just as general purpose as my phone. It's quite easy to sideload applications onto an Xbox console for example.
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by veilrap 5y ago
Spotify has better cross-platform support. Apple Music's music upload is great for combining a personal/niche library with the cloud subscription library. Spotify's music "experience" might still be marginally bette
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by veilrap 5y ago
I'm not a VIM expert, but I do use it as my primary editor. Visual Studio Code is my secondary editor and I flip between them, but tend to be in vim most often. I don't think that the utility of VIM comes from squeezing out wpm,
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by veilrap 5y ago
Cost is an important constraint in engineering. Nearly every engineering project has cost as a component of the engineering process as omitting it yields projects that cannot be completed.
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by veilrap 5y ago
Humans don't just generate language out of the void. The use of language is grounded by various other inputs (senses, previous knowledge/understanding). So when a human is constructing sentences those sentences aren't just
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by veilrap 5y ago
I'm confused by this statement. I agree Matrix Resurrections is worth watching, it's quite good. But I'm also a fan of the other 4 films (Matrix, Reloaded, Revelations, Animatrix). Many people I've talked about the film
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by veilrap 5y ago
You can already sign up through Safari on iOS to those services. And besides signing up to that sort of subscription is a one time thing.
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by veilrap 5y ago
Maybe those users would be better off with the more popular products offered by Apple's competitors.
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by veilrap 5y ago
I use Windows as my prior OS for work, even though much of work ends up happening through a Linux command line (WSL/ssh) For both work and casual use, there's a lot of small things that add up to it being very productive, and desp
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by veilrap 5y ago
I find this very interesting, because I'm in a similar boat, pretty senior, but not the top of the ladder. But for me some of my favorite pair programming sessions are with people who are operating on another level. It really gets the
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by veilrap 5y ago
I came here to write up a similar story. Grew up in the mid west, went to through a pretty average public school system. Participated in sports, AP classes, and generally had an excellent time. I suspect that like most of the internet there
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by veilrap 5y ago
I read through the getting started guide and I have a hard time seeing how this differs from an existing workflow I use with just pure git. Basically, having a stack of patches as commits in my local branch. Edits to older commits saved vi
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by veilrap 5y ago
But that doesn't prevent said conversations from happening on a large social network. Email, Facebook, SMS, Twitter, and Discord are all massive networks that all can also facilitate small group conversations.
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by veilrap 5y ago
Reducing a complicated situation to a mathematical fact is basically strawman argument. If a an expert is talking about a complicated area with a lot of nuance and no concrete right answer, then that expert's credibility matters.
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by veilrap 5y ago
I agree, this one was a recent joy to read.
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by veilrap 5y ago
The cost of living in California IS high. But $150k is much better than just scraping by. Assuming 40% tax rate, and a montly rent of $3000, that's $54,000 remaining with the two biggest expenses already accounted for.
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by veilrap 5y ago
I generally feel similarly, but I'd rather go the taxation route than the control route. If people want to use hazardous substances, tax the substances to help fund the government subsidized health care.
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by veilrap 5y ago
This just feels like a continuation of the failed war on drugs... I don't smoke, but I have no problem with allowing people to do so in private spaces. Why do we insist on micromanaging peoples lives?
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by veilrap 5y ago
For me, checkout is easy to remember because I'm literally checking out an older version of the file.
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by veilrap 6y ago
Ad hoc, accidental communication simply doesn't happen in remote work environments. Coffee breaks are a shockingly productive element that simply work better in person, at least in my experience (and this seems to be a common sentiment

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