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 Discussion on question by L.Dutch: An…

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RemcoGerlich
May 19 08:26
I'm envisioning a banana-eating laser-shooting slimy electric eel.
 

 Discussion on question by Deschele Sc…

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RemcoGerlich
Aug 8, 2021 14:05
Can I use information from the outside world? I would first delay making my first move for a few billion years to see if the game is solved in the meantime.
 

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RemcoGerlich
Mar 21, 2021 16:25
@Cort Ammon: that oracle is checkmate, or draw through some means, or tablebases. I can't prove any position will be skipped (and it depends on the order in which you try them) but some will be. If we assume checks are tried first, then the position after 1.f3 e6 2.g4 e5 won't have to be checked, because 2...Qh4# is already winning for black.
RemcoGerlich
Mar 21, 2021 16:25
@JirkaHanika: It was just an example; it's clear that some positions will be pruned.
RemcoGerlich
Mar 21, 2021 16:25
@CortAmmon: what he means is simply that to prove the result of the starting position, there are a lot of positions you almost certainly get to skip. Like the starting position but with rooks and knights swapped. A 32 men tablebase would include that, but it's likely that an alpha-beta search over the whole game would never need to reach that particular position. That's all.
RemcoGerlich
Mar 21, 2021 16:25
@BradyGilg: yes, theoretically that would be easier. But still completely unfeasible. And the question is what projects were actually undertaken, I'm not aware of any try to solve the starting position.
 

 Discussion on question by Nigel J: Wh…

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RemcoGerlich
Dec 5, 2019 01:56
@WalterMitty: there is also racism as the belief that different human races exist in a meaningful sense.
 

 Discussion on question by EmLi: Why T…

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RemcoGerlich
Mar 2, 2019 01:50
@MarkBeadles: in German 'reich' also means 'rich', Dutch 'rijk' also has both meanings. So both those meanings seem to be cognates of riche.
 

 Discussion on answer by Giter: How wo…

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RemcoGerlich
Feb 26, 2019 21:39
@forest: machine learning algorithms can't open boxes.
 

 Discussion on question by kukis: Shou…

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RemcoGerlich
Feb 4, 2019 06:28
Everybody here is talking about how to make the job more attractive to developers. But in my experience developers work with recruiters, if the recruiter thinks they have someone whose interests and the experience/skills/tech we're looking match they show us the CV, and only when we say we're interested do they tell the developer and maybe we get to an interview. A couple of CVs per month get shown to us is our experience. That's all way before attractiveness to the developer matters.
 

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RemcoGerlich
Jan 29, 2019 14:16
I find it ironic that this ended up on the Hot Network Questions. It's now wasted more time worldwide than you ever could.
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 Discussion on question by SilentOffic…

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RemcoGerlich
Jan 19, 2019 07:23
Or stay on the same team, but sit with the chattier people. Seems your team mates won't mind.
 

 Discussion on answer by Steve Smith: …

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RemcoGerlich
Jan 17, 2019 22:49
@gerrit: although the original press release of the EUCJ about the Advocate's opinion talked about good faith, the actual judgment does not and in fact explains why revoking it is even possible in bad faith; see article 68 of curia.europa.eu/juris/document/… ; when article 50 was drafted the sovereignty of the state that triggered a50 was deemed more important than preventing the risk of abuse.
 

 Discussion on question by Snah: Poten…

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RemcoGerlich
Jan 17, 2019 05:01
Did you have an email or something in writing beforehand, saying that they'd cover the flight? If so, I'd talk to a lawyer to try to sue them.
 

 Discussion on question by cearl: Why …

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RemcoGerlich
Aug 31, 2018 16:59
If they are able to save 15-20%, apparently they don't need the money now, either.
 

 Discussion on question by Galastel: W…

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RemcoGerlich
Aug 28, 2018 15:20
@user76377: but a rabbi is a religious leader. If they get to say who is Jewish, apparently religion matters.
 

 Discussion on answer by Karl Kjer: Wh…

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RemcoGerlich
Aug 9, 2018 21:30
The Dutch name for this insect is "Eekhoorn", Squirrel. Not even squirrel moth, just squirrel.
 

 Discussion on question by iFlo: How t…

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RemcoGerlich
Mar 16, 2018 10:08
So you just need to inform her.
RemcoGerlich
Mar 16, 2018 10:07
It sounds to me like this is simply an information problem - she doesn't know what she's getting into. If she knew, she would conclude herself that this is something she doesn't want to do (because if this were the kind of thing she wants to do, she'd already be doing more things like it).
 

 Discussion on answer by Erik Eidt: Is…

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RemcoGerlich
Dec 1, 2017 13:31
@Utku: code generation is part of the compilation step, a function that returns the required parameters and acts on them works at runtime (and could make your program slower).
 

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RemcoGerlich
Nov 9, 2017 09:14
Well, he does assume that asking on chess.SE will give him the easier way :-)
RemcoGerlich
Nov 9, 2017 08:46
And the move Stockfish chooses isn't the best possible move, the engines we'll have a few years from now will choose even better moves. But it's plenty good enough to beat all humans.
RemcoGerlich
Nov 9, 2017 08:45
You cannot do what Stockfish does, as you are not a computer. It's like trying to do what Excel does on an extremely complicated spreadsheet, in your head.
 

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RemcoGerlich
Mar 16, 2017 14:56
I mean apart from inflation correction. Where I live it is customary for employees to increase in wage scale every year unless performance was bad (up to some limit); that makes managers more likely to press for career improvement to go with that extra pay.
RemcoGerlich
Mar 16, 2017 14:56
Does she also expect her salary to stay constant?
 

 Discussion on question by Crow: How t…

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RemcoGerlich
Mar 15, 2017 20:45
I've been in this position and our manager was too non-technical to decide for us, so in the end my less experienced but more argumentative colleague won, as I found a better job...
RemcoGerlich
Mar 15, 2017 20:45
@closetnoc: if they do code reviews on each other's code, then he does have to justify everything to his colleague. And vice versa.
 

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RemcoGerlich
Mar 9, 2017 00:15
@RichardU: let's say we suggest something ("give the workers one extra paid day off per six months, as a punishment for 5 points they lose that perk"), how would that help OP?
 

 Discussion on question by dougal 3.0.…

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RemcoGerlich
Feb 17, 2017 17:06
All of this will be part of the upcoming negotations I think, so it's going to be hard to answer until then. And then it's probably more expatriates.stackexchange than travel.
 

 Discussion on question by Džuris: Non…

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RemcoGerlich
Feb 9, 2017 21:09
Announce that to be allowed into the room, you have to have at least one question? That's the purpose of the whole thing, after all.
 

 Discussion on question by rafael bona…

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RemcoGerlich
Feb 3, 2017 21:52
Where are you located? Attitudes towards staying late will vary a lot by culture.
 

 Discussion on answer by gerrit: How d…

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RemcoGerlich
Jan 30, 2017 22:32
@user102008: well, they are being prevented from entering currently (e.g. latimes.com/politics/washington/… , many more).
 

 Discussion on question by dllhell: Ho…

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RemcoGerlich
Jan 6, 2017 19:40
You're asking them to pay you money for something that they so far haven't needed. Or they're already doing it some other way, and everybody resists change. You have to show them that your tool makes these things extremely easy for them.
 

 Discussion on question by Chris: How …

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RemcoGerlich
Dec 16, 2016 07:11
"Marriage to me is creating a legal foundation for this goal" -- and the way marriage does that is by letting the two of you legally become "one big, inseparable financial blob". If you don't want that, what is the legal part of marriage that you need?
 

 Discussion on question by anon55: I'm…

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RemcoGerlich
Dec 12, 2016 13:53
This is just as horrible as suggesting that a woman act as male as possible, because once she has a label as being a typical woman, they'll frame everything like that. He probably does match that stereotype to some extent. He should play up the things he's likely also good at due to his age -- wisdom, patience, not needing to use this month's JS framework just because it's there, and doing really solid work like developing a new Selenium/Python testing framework that is less flaky and easier to maintain that what was already there.
RemcoGerlich
Dec 12, 2016 13:53
@Lilienthal: but matching a stereotype doesn't mean that "this is something OP needs to correct to avoid being hit with that label" anymore than women should stop having periods to avoid being hit with the "female" label. He is 50+ and that won't change. The whole reason why discriminating on age, sex, race etc is illegal is that you can't change that sort of thing.
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RemcoGerlich
Dec 12, 2016 13:53
@Lilienthal: if that is mysoginy, then what is "you seem to be suffering the typical problems that 50+ employees are accused of: low performance, lack of flexibility, inability to adjust, resistance to change, deaf to feedback" and insinuating that it's his fault? That's the equivalent of "no wonder, you have the typical woman problems -- you always have several unproductive days that time of the month and you're obviously going to be raising kids soon" but with more examples. Yes older workers are not exactly the same as younger ones, it's a company's job to deal with that.
 

 Discussion on question by Mad Jack: A…

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RemcoGerlich
Nov 21, 2016 19:56
Maybe you know a student who diligently makes homework but has trouble understanding and bring them into contact? I was once exactly like your student (except I just couldn't be bothered to work as I thought I didn't need it), and once I started doing homework together with a friend like that it worked great for both of us: he had the discipline (and didn't allow me to not show up), and I could explain things to him.
 

 Discussion on question by AlexB: I wa…

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RemcoGerlich
Nov 17, 2016 14:06
@RoddyoftheFrozenPeas: 1) What law did he break? 2) Even if he did break any, just saying that you did is hardly sufficient evidence for anything.
RemcoGerlich
Nov 17, 2016 14:06
Note that the QR code machine would also be fooled by a perfectly valid booking pass that doesn't belong to you (booked under another name), so it's not as if it adds any real security in the first place.
 

 Discussion on question by Shodan: I a…

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RemcoGerlich
Nov 15, 2016 22:04
Tell your boss you were able to automate some of your work, and are looking for interesting responsibilities with the freed up time, as well as permission to spend time to improve the program (so there may be more of that in the future).
 

 Discussion on answer by David Arno: M…

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RemcoGerlich
Nov 14, 2016 03:52
I disagree with the entire notion that a function "isApplicationInProduction" should rely on a parameter called "headers". Surely it's more fundamental than which headers you happen to have around right now.
 

 Discussion on question by Mik378: At …

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RemcoGerlich
Nov 10, 2016 23:44
OK, that settles that then, it's on them.
RemcoGerlich
Nov 10, 2016 23:44
Did they see anything during those two months, or was this the first time? It's quite a long time (there's a reason Scrum typically uses two week sprints, XP has a customer on site, and so on). Customer validation as early as possible, even on nonworking examples page or so is important.
 

 Discussion on question by techmom: Am…

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RemcoGerlich
Nov 3, 2016 10:44
It's important to realize that your son isn't crying because something actually bad happened, but because he temporarily doesn't get everything exactly how he wants it. Maybe that helps with the heartbreak.
 

 Discussion on question by Wayne Werne…

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RemcoGerlich
Nov 2, 2016 12:34
How much of that mortgage payment is interest? Only the interest part is real cost, the part that pays off principal costs you money but it also lowers your debt, so it's not a real cost.
 

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RemcoGerlich
Oct 23, 2016 18:31
It is important to note that if you drive faster than the Richtgeschwindigkeit and end up in an accident, it is automatically at least partly your fault.
 

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RemcoGerlich
Oct 13, 2016 09:08
@WorkerWithoutACause: maybe you and the senior colleague should together make a case to management that look, this accident just happened, it cost the company money but there's nobody really to blame, something not the same but similar will happen again, and there exist simple tools that prevent this entire problem.
 

 Discussion on answer by knzhou: Theor…

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RemcoGerlich
Oct 4, 2016 15:44
But do we know for sure that there is no currently unknown property of protons that could differ between protons? That's what the question asks, I think, whether there "there could theoretically be different types of protons". Is it ruled out that there are some protons with square fuzziness vs some with round fuzziness, that give them some property we haven't noticed yet?
 

 Discussion on question by Dennis: Why…

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RemcoGerlich
Sep 14, 2016 16:13
There are cons to parameterized queries?