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dmh2000

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    Comment #45492905

    Do you want mainstream (rust) or relatively obscure (ada). Yes I know it's been around since 1980 when it was a cash grab for defense contractors.

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    Comment #45235506

    I'm 72, a dev for 40 years. I've lost a step or two. It's harder to buckle down and focus, but using AI tools have enabled me to keep building stuff. I can spec a project, have an …

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    Comment #44711944

    I'm a 72 year old dev. Ai and Claude specifically are great because I can't focus on code like I used to. Ai has extended my viability for a few years.

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    Comment #26617993

    isn't it typical for data engineers to be paid less (way less?) than the modelers?

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    Comment #26365687

    "The trick was to use a Cholesky factor of the covariance matrix as the dependent variable in an equivalent Riccati equation. " I'm going to use that as my next pickup line

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    Comment #26322810

    I took my first university course in Ada in 1981. I also worked for a company that provided an Ada runtime in the mid 80's. Ada was sabotaged early on because it was 'mandated' by …

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    Comment #26221138

    since I can't get past the paywall, I'm guessing its the government and military. They have lots of legacy systems running on ancient hardware and the cost to upgrade is too high.

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    Comment #26182694

    I use and like Google Voice, but I do find that some sites won't accept a google voice number for text messages. usually for 2factor. I would like to know what the difference is?

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    Comment #25321825

    I can't believe #18, developers should be able to write code and the summary saying that he got some/many? candidates who couldn't. Its not that developers can't code, its that rec…

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    Comment #24751286

    'The most common way to force an SQLite database to exist purely in memory is to open the database using the special filename ":memory:".'

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    Comment #24572354

    I smell the irony

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    Comment #23967526

    I saw a headline about this on google news "Google to allow work from home until July". I thought, wow July is almost over. ...oh

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    Comment #23967503

    apparently the difference is between temporary and permanent blindness.

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    Comment #22809607

    So anyone who wants the federal government to take over direct action on the coronavirus situation should think twice about having a federal police force running things.

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    Comment #22798828

    that wouldn't explain why Gov Cuomo is also a fan

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    Comment #22798806

    isn't it the azithromycin that causes the arrhythmia and i heard it is recommended to use doxycycline instead for anyone vulnerable to that side effect.

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    Comment #22721661

    Sweden's mortality rate (2.97) is significantly higher than Germany (0.78), South Korea (1.59) and the US (1.75) among others. As of 3/29/2020 https://www.statista.com/statistics/1…

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    Comment #22166817

    After a glance I thought, 'why a storage unit?, where do they get power, how do they cool it, its not physically secure, etc'. Then, oh, that kind of storage unit. Yes, I'm dumb.

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    Comment #21790227

    If that's in the Google employment agreement, I salute them for using plain understandable wording, so one can agree or not. instead of EULA-ish doublespeak.

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    Comment #21502194

    And helium is getting expensive. I worked on an airship project in the early 2000's and it cost $100,000 to fill it. And there is always leakage from diffusion.

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    Comment #21439098

    it would be interesting to know the frequency of bugs that are due to mistakes about operator precedence. even by experienced programmers. a lot? do use of parens reduce the freque…

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    Comment #21390688

    Social Security + about $100 a year from an oil royalty i inherited

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    Comment #21129991

    its a good question : could the dictator get the support of the military? Would the people in the military from the top down be willing to, say, decimate a resisting US city with a…

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    Comment #21129397

    here's an article about how the idea of AWS came about. the main takeaway is that it evolved and the article has a lot of 'we' in it, not only 'jeff' https://techcrunch.com/2016/07…

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    Comment #20980687

    https://www.fema.gov/news-release/2019/04/18/fact-sheet-fema... 'FEMA is not a first responder'.