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drostie
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About drostie
I am @crdrost on Twitter and Facebook. I almost never check my Facebook.
I have an M.Sc. in Applied Physics from the TU Delft in the Netherlands. I am from Ithaca, NY originally.
You should listen to more Troubled Hubble.
Don't you forget the, the image in your retina
To foresee the future, and find a use for
Them telling me, everything,
that would happen to me anyway.
If it isn't science, it doesn't exist;
We make our own problems and blame them on
Birds and bees, but we ain't seen nothin' yet:
and don't you ever forget it.
Every night I wake up,
Thinking there's something missing in my heart:
a canvas for the art.
Every day I hear the sound of whirring fans,
But nothing more:
another scene yet to be scored.
You're the empress, I'm the king:
together we will rule this world
You'll paint the scene, I'll write the melody:
we will rule this world.
And of course you can't become,
If you only say what you would have done:
So I missed a million miles of fun.
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I like the idea but find that an overstatement that trivializes the nature of technical debt: at some level one is talking about things that "pay off now" but require "interest pay…
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Comment #18974710
A static property is generally a global variable namespaced to the class, so Foo.bar.
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Comment #18826931
Rabbi Hillel famously is quoted as saying "Don't say anything that ought not be heard -- not even in the strictest confidence -- for ultimately it will be heard." This is one of th…
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Comment #18762043
This is actually really interesting and mirrors a more general effort that I am pursuing[1] to build runtime representations of type in TypeScript, though my context is not so much…
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Comment #18684667
I saw yours and went for Buddhabrot: https://turtletoy.net/turtle/e196b49813
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Comment #18519692
Hm. I will have to retry. You're right that this is my work laptop and sometimes Sophos does weird crap. Sorry for alarming you without checking downforeveryoneorjustme first. I ha…
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Comment #18519618
I mean it is quite possible that as "originally" originally understood in the late 1970s, the model did not have subscribers, but it was a part of the system as early as Smalltalk-…
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Comment #18519542
Hi! I would love to read your articles and discuss this further but right now your blog is not viewable by Chrome, Firefox, or Edge. Firefox gives the most descriptive error string…
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Comment #18518797
The absolute most important thing to understand about models as they were originally intended, is that they are not descriptions of a data model per se. This is not to say that dat…
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Comment #18495229
Maybe somewhat. I think you can offer a simple explanation, but it depends a little on how you have already set up the problem. Here's the problem setup: So we want to share a secr…
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Comment #18489458
Thanks, I appreciate the correction!
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Comment #18484781
It's possible but unlikely. MPL, for folks who aren't aware, is a successor to the CDDL seen in Solaris etc. and is a per-file copyleft, thus having a nicer legal structure while g…
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Comment #18406319
You could tack on several more if the fragment being corrected is "...conjunctions like butandandandor..." so that they are missing spaces between but and and, and and and and, and…
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Comment #18391473
Right. The important thing about the Clay Mathematics Millenium Prize is that it is a set of well-chosen SMART-ish goals. They want to incentivize work on really hard fields of mat…
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Comment #18383927
I mean the biggest thing was Kuhn coming along and saying "experimentally, it doesn't work that way." What I mean is, people don't find an experiment about nanostructures that does…
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Comment #18356647
No, when they talk about watts per kilogram I am pretty sure that they mean these were absorbed. Like they literally built 21 big microwaves, 7 for mice and 14 for rats, and then t…
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Comment #18168305
I don't think TypeScript has a native GUID type, but if I am wrong about that please tell me as it will make my code more type-safe. The `string` type here comes from a mapping tha…
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Comment #18168200
I've been well. Landed a software job with a company called IntegriShield doing a sort of internet rent-a-cop work, now am writing apps for a mechanical contractor called US Engine…
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Comment #18167282
Hey Koen, congrats on you and Corno making front-page on HN! I can definitely confirm for others reading this that it indeed has been something like 10 years in the making; I was w…
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Comment #18156618
Right, I wouldn't dispute that. If I wanted to rewrite the 15k lines of code in this application (which is what, 500 pages printed? two books?) I would probably use react+redux and…
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Comment #18155858
I am not sure if I am in the 1% or if you are wrong in a foundational sense of “you have the latitude if you'll use it.” Like, in the past week I had to add a feature to a front en…
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Comment #17809385
It's only a little bit off. To get the true hydrodynamic analog to a capacitor, connect the bars of two big pistons together so that volume accumulated in one comes at the expense …
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Comment #17809097
It's ok, if I didn't have a Master's in the field I would probably have similarly down voted you. The problem is mainly that the criticism you are making is not great for pedagogy.…
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Comment #17808906
They are not wrong. In the Maxwell equations both come in as fundamentally different terms. The claim is that current density J is different from the time rate of change of charge …
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Comment #17794333
I mean it's not just one system, but the idea is what I just said. The classical example is if you have a bunch of magnetic moments in a magnetic field and they do not interact wit…