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I've heard it's lognormal, which doesn't follow the central limit theorem either.

Could you publish a set of known-good versions (pip freeze, OS version, etc)?

So this is why Europeans were able to colonize the entire world roughly in the 1700s.

I'd love property-based testing in big data cluster computing applications done in Databricks/Spark. However, (Py)Spark is very high-latency, even in local mode, so Hypothesis woul…

I wish there were something that opens the windows automatically at the right time to keep the heat* and humidity out. I'm sure other people will have had that idea, too. But I hav…

Unfortunately not. There is a huge safety difference between a negative pressure test ("fit check" below) and a test with an actual aerosol ("qualitative fit test"). All of the FFP…

For me, the Narwall's main value proposition beyond a standard FFP2 respirator is a super tight seal. Smoke is probably the best proxy I can test that with. Would you be open to a …

Thanks for your reply. I've elaborated some in the grandparent. I am willing to pay for quality once it is rigorously demonstrated. The safety issue comes down to this paragraph in…

I found you while researching how to verify a mask is good as an end-user, because I cannot get a good seal out of any of the six types of FFP2-masks I have tried. On the one hand,…

The ability to hire good junior engineers is one of the things that set a good senior engineer apart. So you might want to practise being an interviewer, even if you don't go into …

Could you please say more about how you find maths-intense software engineering niches and projects? What niches are there? I too am a pure maths PhD with a background in software,…

How about you put the recovery code onto the invoice / credit card line?

Mix in special-needs children who need constant one-on-one support, young siblings, and dual career parents. Covid stress falls completely off the radar.

Stitchdata.com, the maker of the ETL tools Stitch and Singer.io, is a different company (and is not being acquired).

Does pointing-and-calling focus the mind onto the task by the same mechanism as pair programming should focus it onto the bigger picture? So far, I've always regarded pair programm…

Good relationships also take skills, such as: romance, understanding your spouse's point of view and what matters to them, maintaining the right equlibrum of intimacy and independe…

Support redirected me their landing page - where the problem started. Still no prices.

Snowflake needs to debug their signup process. I requested their pricing plan yesterday. Instead, I got two marketing emails "now that you have downloaded it" - but no pricing plan…

What is your solution in practise?

Your techniques remind me of the book Maister/Green/Galford: the trusted advisor.

In Cologne, I have never seen light rail arrive on time, and I've used it daily for two years.

I'd love to pay $20 for a firefox extension that makes this problem go away. I use lots of privacy extensions on Firefox, and those Captchas are annoying as hell. Tor is even worse…

Most projects don't actually want help. Go and try it: report a few bugs or point out usabilty issues. See what happens.

So that is why so many OSS projects are full of bugs and horrible usability. In the past, I have tried to help with clear, reproducible bug reports. Quite often I spent an hour tra…

Lyx can produce both latex and ebooks from the same source document. You don't have to worry about latex technicalities while writing, and you can version it with git. (I'm not aff…