I find this quite surprising! What benefit does your org accrue by mandating that the db instance used for testing is centralised? Where I am, the tests simply assume that there’s a database available on a certain port.…
I don’t think you are naive - it’s counter-intuitive. The political context is important: Ukraine is incentivised to portraying itself as a country that respects international law and norms. The fact of life is that…
I read it as simple humbleness, which is not too surprising given the careful management of the project and the tone of the piece.
That sounds like an awful workplace culture. I doubt the name of the git command is responsible, though.
One option for those so inclined is to cryptographically sign commits with a key that lists both work and personal email address (assuming your enterprise’s policy allows it). The employer retains control but you have a…
My personal experience is yes. Hardware provides a substrate of reality, and software developers are asked to implement aspirations.
> FTA: "While many games are playable, newer AAA titles don’t hit 60fps yet." You’re lucky to get 60fps playing a fairly undemanding game on MacOS, even on hardware that is otherwise a dream. For example, Baldur’s Gate…
Without universal suffrage I think the comparison between modern democracies and these examples is apples and oranges. The voters in Rome and Sparta were a small elite, so their “democracy” is more like a novel form of…
When GP said “most”, I interpreted it more broadly. Most applications simply do not require the guarantees of a non-GC language. When you expand that horizon, list of contenders becomes considerably larger - even when…
Competitive games are unlikely to reach the market share necessary for a competitive gaming tournament if their casual scene is inundated with cheaters. Only a tiny handful of games even have a viable competitive scene.
I’ll take some police briefly on my property over that gamble any day.
For me personally, if I hated my boss, I’d be even less likely to follow their bizarre and probably unlawful instructions.
You’re not wrong, but in Australia where I work only 12.5% of all workers are in unions. We have some moderately union-hostile legislation (strikes are hard to pull off lawfully) but nothing preventing union…
A developer who knows the code and will own the consequences can review and merge it - easy. Just not sure why the LLM needed to get involved in the first place.
I remember seeing you at GolandSyd meetups before you took over running them. Nice job!
The Embodied Mind is a very influential work for me. Its premise that our experience can be understood by a synthesis between cognitive science and insights rooted in Buddhist practice really stuck with me. It is…
The simply binary of government or individual choice eliminates the middle ground where almost all change happens: the collective aggregate result of cultural change within the community. We don’t have to pick one…
As someone who doesn’t live in LA: I can’t imagine what your freeways are like given your characterisation of an ordinary road. Our “freeways” max out at 4-5 lanes each way. From what I can tell, getting from A to B is…
Anyone with 2% denisovan DNA has an ancestor who was 50% denisovan! I remain astounded.
Many humans carry Neanderthal and Denisovans DNA. We are hybrids. I find that inspiring, not sad. There’s enough discord and conflict within one hominid species to go around for me!
Cognitive science. “The Embodied Mind”[1] defines embodiment quite clearly and argues for its centrality to consciousness. https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262220422/
Your comment was an excellent synthesis of the discussion that preceded it - thank you.
Distress also has a short passage explaining the collapse of the collapse of CBDs and inflation of the suburban property market and cost of living due to remote work, set in an area of suburban Sydney that’s now not far…
It’s not an easy read, but Blindsight by Peter Watts has some equally unique and compelling synthesis of scientific concepts into a big concept plot.
Egan is the only great Australian science fiction writer I’m aware of. I principally recommend Diaspora for far future post-human history with a strong focus on physics and maths, and Quarantine which is a sort of heist…
I find this quite surprising! What benefit does your org accrue by mandating that the db instance used for testing is centralised? Where I am, the tests simply assume that there’s a database available on a certain port.…
I don’t think you are naive - it’s counter-intuitive. The political context is important: Ukraine is incentivised to portraying itself as a country that respects international law and norms. The fact of life is that…
I read it as simple humbleness, which is not too surprising given the careful management of the project and the tone of the piece.
That sounds like an awful workplace culture. I doubt the name of the git command is responsible, though.
One option for those so inclined is to cryptographically sign commits with a key that lists both work and personal email address (assuming your enterprise’s policy allows it). The employer retains control but you have a…
My personal experience is yes. Hardware provides a substrate of reality, and software developers are asked to implement aspirations.
> FTA: "While many games are playable, newer AAA titles don’t hit 60fps yet." You’re lucky to get 60fps playing a fairly undemanding game on MacOS, even on hardware that is otherwise a dream. For example, Baldur’s Gate…
Without universal suffrage I think the comparison between modern democracies and these examples is apples and oranges. The voters in Rome and Sparta were a small elite, so their “democracy” is more like a novel form of…
When GP said “most”, I interpreted it more broadly. Most applications simply do not require the guarantees of a non-GC language. When you expand that horizon, list of contenders becomes considerably larger - even when…
Competitive games are unlikely to reach the market share necessary for a competitive gaming tournament if their casual scene is inundated with cheaters. Only a tiny handful of games even have a viable competitive scene.
I’ll take some police briefly on my property over that gamble any day.
For me personally, if I hated my boss, I’d be even less likely to follow their bizarre and probably unlawful instructions.
You’re not wrong, but in Australia where I work only 12.5% of all workers are in unions. We have some moderately union-hostile legislation (strikes are hard to pull off lawfully) but nothing preventing union…
A developer who knows the code and will own the consequences can review and merge it - easy. Just not sure why the LLM needed to get involved in the first place.
I remember seeing you at GolandSyd meetups before you took over running them. Nice job!
The Embodied Mind is a very influential work for me. Its premise that our experience can be understood by a synthesis between cognitive science and insights rooted in Buddhist practice really stuck with me. It is…
The simply binary of government or individual choice eliminates the middle ground where almost all change happens: the collective aggregate result of cultural change within the community. We don’t have to pick one…
As someone who doesn’t live in LA: I can’t imagine what your freeways are like given your characterisation of an ordinary road. Our “freeways” max out at 4-5 lanes each way. From what I can tell, getting from A to B is…
Anyone with 2% denisovan DNA has an ancestor who was 50% denisovan! I remain astounded.
Many humans carry Neanderthal and Denisovans DNA. We are hybrids. I find that inspiring, not sad. There’s enough discord and conflict within one hominid species to go around for me!
Cognitive science. “The Embodied Mind”[1] defines embodiment quite clearly and argues for its centrality to consciousness. https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262220422/
Your comment was an excellent synthesis of the discussion that preceded it - thank you.
Distress also has a short passage explaining the collapse of the collapse of CBDs and inflation of the suburban property market and cost of living due to remote work, set in an area of suburban Sydney that’s now not far…
It’s not an easy read, but Blindsight by Peter Watts has some equally unique and compelling synthesis of scientific concepts into a big concept plot.
Egan is the only great Australian science fiction writer I’m aware of. I principally recommend Diaspora for far future post-human history with a strong focus on physics and maths, and Quarantine which is a sort of heist…