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by zwieback 5y ago
Ah yes, good memories of Schulausflug from Stuttgart to Tübingen, the whole class went and once a pretty big group tipped into the water. Probably not following orders of the captain
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by zwieback 5y ago
From the same site: Spreewald near Berlin, where they use similar boats to ride along the shallow canals: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/spreewald
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by zwieback 5y ago
Quibble: tech != SW. Outside of programming there's a ton of technical work where it's helpful but not necessary to know how to program. Beyond that this is a very good read.
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by zwieback 5y ago
Counter-argument: 1 point is maybe just enough to encourage people to comment at all.
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by zwieback 5y ago
We've had Masterclass for a bit over a year now. It's not deep, for sure, not going to replace any kind of study or exercise. However, the production value is not only visually high, it is generally well done so I find myself watc
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by zwieback 5y ago
That was my question and it's still not answered well here. I guess people post the colors that led up to their solution but no the actual letters. Might be good to add it to the original post for clarification. I play Wordle but didn&
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by zwieback 5y ago
They might and maybe that would be good. However, to get to a jury the prosecutor would have to prove that a law was broken and that there's enough evidence against the defendant. If there's no such law there will never be a case.
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by zwieback 5y ago
Probably not. Exaggerating but I could sell "Awesome Oil" without any actual awesome in it. Using Avocado in the name apparently is no different.
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by zwieback 5y ago
Me too, nuts are terrible in general (although technically peanuts are a legume). Mine go in the freezer right away until I need them. I did an interesting experiment the other day: our admin had stashed snacks in late 2019 and I recently d
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by zwieback 5y ago
Defining a standard isn't that simple, you'd have to decide: 1) what all qualifies, every avocado type, are there variants that should be excluded, etc. 2) how pure is pure enough, when you're dumping truckloads of stuff into
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by zwieback 5y ago
Was wondering about the same thing. I grew up in Germany where school libraries weren't a big thing. My kids went to school here but always went to the public library. Probably a much bigger issue in rural areas where the school is may
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by zwieback 5y ago
My experience exactly. We used to do this but gave up many years ago. Better to have individuals develop bare-bones ideas and then review with a group. Better yet, have a ranked voting system with a large but somewhat informed group to winn
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by zwieback 5y ago
I don't think the old internet ever went away, instead the commercial internet exploded, in some ways good in some ways bad. If you want to create and showcase your own stuff you have a ton more options than you used to, it could be no
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by zwieback 5y ago
Right, that's the calculation any consumer good producing company has to do. When we buy industrial equipment we pay a huge markup for vendor promises that they'll support for 10+ years. It's painful at the time but we have a
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by zwieback 5y ago
Very cool! My question: will this kind of thing become more mainstream? I've seen the web emerge, go from static pages to entire apps being delivered and executed in the browser. The last bastion of native apps and libraries seems to b
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by zwieback 5y ago
I bought HCTWJ first but Another Green World is the one I really wore out the grooves on. And I think the ambient stuff after that is so-so.
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by zwieback 5y ago
What's the track record on "super computers"? It seems risky to pour so much money into a platform that will be superseded in a few years time. Then again, it's not clear that there are really good alternatives.
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by zwieback 5y ago
Very good critique but from beginner perspective. Even back in the pre-Java days Uncle Bob and Scott Meyers taught us how to deal with these issues to some degree. The other thing most OO practitioners quickly realize: real world things oft
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by zwieback 5y ago
There's also a middle ground. I studied ME but do a lot of SW development for controls systems (motors, sensors, etc.) and machine vision systems. You can acquire some knowledge of EE and ME coming from the SW side without getting a fu
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by zwieback 5y ago
Inside R&D organizations there are plenty of groups building desktop apps for internal use. We have a ton of Forms, WPF and some Qt apps we use for R&D and manufacturing purposes. Also lots of services and other non-GUI stuff. For s
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by zwieback 5y ago
We have four of them at our house and one at our weekend place. And this is in Western Oregon where it doesn't really get cold.
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by zwieback 5y ago
Oh, I totally agree with all your use cases for committing, I'm just wondering why the reset. I would either go off on another branch to preserve my temporary work and then clean that up and commit or merge to one of the main branches
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by zwieback 5y ago
A long time ago when this was discussed someone suggested "software gardener" would be a good term. As a professional software developer and hobby gardener I kind of agree.
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by zwieback 5y ago
There's another explanation why old music's share of total music is growing: old farts like myself and older are letting go of their CD and vinyl habits and have totally converted to streaming. I won't argue that streaming is
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by zwieback 5y ago
Why commit at all if you're going to reset? Sounds like the intermediate commits are just used as a backup method. The real trickery is mentioned in the last part, if commits don't break up tidily along file boundaries you'll
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by zwieback 5y ago
I thought that was yesterdays thinking, last I heard "mindfulness" as-in forcing your brain to fully concentrate on just one thing is not good for our brains and they are not good at it. I was shoving a sandwich in my mouth while
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by zwieback 5y ago
General trend in technology during my 55 years on the planet: moving parts get replaced once the replacing tech is good enough, at that point looking back is just nostalgia.
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by zwieback 5y ago
I used to be a 100% C++ programmer in the olden days but over the years C# and Python have pushed my C++ percentage down to maybe 10% super time critical code and some embedded. RAII is the one thing I really really miss from my C++ days. F
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by zwieback 5y ago
I'd like to see insurers say "due to COVID our costs have gone up but you can get a discount if you're vaxxed." Increasing just for unvaxxed is probably hard but offering an incentive may work. Where I work we have a man

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