w_t_payne

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by w_t_payne 6y ago
How precise is a sundial? How high is the resolution of the camera? I'd imagine that on a bright sunny day with a high resolution camera showing clean sharp shadows, it'd be possible to get a precision much better than +/-1h.
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by w_t_payne 6y ago
The problem is that land is not subject to the same laws of supply and demand as other goods and services. It's very hard to make new land (unless you're Dutch), and very hard to move residential capacity around in response to flu
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by w_t_payne 6y ago
https://github.com/wtpayne/xact - Model Based Systems/Software Engineering tool with support for machine learning and synthetic data.
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by w_t_payne 6y ago
The true nature of all of this can be seen quite clearly in the fundamentally xenophobic, dishonest and hateful manner with which the Leave campaign comported itself, as well as the tidal wave of racist and intolerant behaviour which accomp
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by w_t_payne 6y ago
And it's examples like this which help us to understand Brexit (and the broader resurgence in neofascism globally).
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by w_t_payne 6y ago
No. No it was not.
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by w_t_payne 6y ago
Nonetheless, Brexit was undeniably evil, and evil must be fought.
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by w_t_payne 6y ago
I can understand that perspective. On the other hand, most of the people who I know who voted 'Leave' had poorly disguised (and sometimes completely insane) xenophobic rationale for doing so. Also - and significantly - racially mo
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by w_t_payne 6y ago
It's complicated. I know some minority ethnic British people who voted for Brexit for entirely xenophobic reasons ... and others who would swear up and down that they were not racist one minute, and then spend the next spouting the mos
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by w_t_payne 6y ago
Brexit was a triumph of evil men. We were foolish and naive, and did not expect these craven lies to have such dire effect. This tidal wave of pent up hatred unleashed from these deep and forgotten pools of animus and fear. Nonetheless -- t
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by w_t_payne 6y ago
Don't ask me how ... but this might weirdly be partially my fault .... >///<
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by w_t_payne 6y ago
Good luck!!!!
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by w_t_payne 6y ago
MBSE is a vastly underappreciated technique, and one that deserves much more exposure in the mainstream tech community. Sadly, I have found myself exceedingly disappointed at the tooling available to support MBSE, having mainly used Simul
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by w_t_payne 6y ago
I'm always stunned by how many people fall for these false equivalences and lies. My world view is not even remotely 'left wing', and yet I have no difficulty whatsoever in detecting neofascist propaganda. It's really no
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by w_t_payne 6y ago
I've been using HTMX to send "server push" updates over SSE ... I think it wouldn't be too hard to use websockets as well..
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by w_t_payne 6y ago
Reminds me of HTMX
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by w_t_payne 6y ago
My take on this is that documents are different from applications, and so different approaches to composition and organisation are arguably OK. Personally though, I'd introduce another intermediate set of names - like 'color-brand
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by w_t_payne 6y ago
I'm personally a big fan of Tailwind + either HTMX or Alpine.js, as it lets me easily generate modular UI components in the back-end using the 'dominate' Python library, without having to fuss around too much. (Other framewor
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by w_t_payne 6y ago
I'm jealous. :-)
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by w_t_payne 6y ago
HTMX is awesome, by the way. Thank you for making it! I use it in combination with Python dominate and tailwind.css to write UI components that I can just plug together in a dataflow model at the back-end, and so far it's working amazi
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by w_t_payne 6y ago
Just for the record, Italy is not a "backward-ass doofus country".
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by w_t_payne 6y ago
We all have a sphere of influence, and we all have a duty to use that sphere of influence for good. Free speech isn't free. It's a responsibility, and we should take care to fulfil that responsibility with caution and diligence.
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by w_t_payne 6y ago
With this architecture, it feels like the very outermost level - the framework and drivers - would ideally have little or no application-specific logic in it whatsoever, and would exist simply to glue together the various functional compone
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by w_t_payne 6y ago
Brighton in the UK is nice. :-)
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by w_t_payne 6y ago
Maybe it's because this whole situation has been ridiculously politicized, to the point where it's difficult to have a rational fact-based discussion.
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by w_t_payne 6y ago
My personal experience backs up this thesis. I've observed that (for better and for worse), the culture of an organization is profoundly shaped by the dominant personality in the leadership team. I have also in the past found myself be
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by w_t_payne 6y ago
Well, all nations act in their own interests, but it is generally possible to identify win-win outcomes and work together for mutual benefit. However, as the (former) spouse of a diplomat, I got the distinct impression that it was only real
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by w_t_payne 6y ago
All you need to do is buy a seat on a RTB exchange and you can already collect pretty much all the information you need without having to hack anything. Our digital infrastructure is ludicrously insecure and open to abuse. The stable door
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by w_t_payne 6y ago
I'm not sure that they are, but I think there is a cost/benefit problem that needs to be solved.
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by w_t_payne 6y ago
Sadly, he has not shown himself to be a trustworthy actor.

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