DoingIsLearning

6 ms·

91.
by DoingIsLearning 2y ago
> I follow a bunch of developers (surprise surprise) and read mostly technical blogs As a follow-up, how do you go about discovering the people you keep up with if they are not personal acquaintances?
92.
by DoingIsLearning 2y ago
The vendor list is really telling of the issues with Ada's adoption: - Of my quick scan, only AdaCore supports Ada 2012 (where a lot of the really good stuff is implemented) the rest are stuck on Ada 95. - None of the vendors seem to l
93.
by DoingIsLearning 2y ago
Excessive NO2 emissions spewed by diesel engines not meeting regulations very literally removed years from our collective life spans in city centres across the world. Despite their own health hazards no amount of tire particulate from EV&#x
94.
by DoingIsLearning 2y ago
There are also different styles of teaching and learning. Karpathy always like to start from first principles and increment the building blocks. Whereas for example Jeremy Howard's style resonates a lot more with how I enjoy learning,
95.
by DoingIsLearning 2y ago
I am not expert but there seems to be an overlap in the article between 'AI' and well ... just software, or signal processing: - AI that collects “real time” biometric data in public places for the purposes of law enforcement. - A
96.
by DoingIsLearning 2y ago
Hi Andrew, amazing work and done for the best of reasons! I see you are replying in the thread, in your closing notes you wrote: > I would not have been able to get past the initial stages without ChatGPT. One of the coolest uses of LLMs
97.
by DoingIsLearning 2y ago
> $40K is a small investment, not a gamble. If it would fail, worst case you would only lose $3000-$6500 or so. As someone not familiar with investment sourcing or SME financing. Could you break down the maths/accounting? How do you
98.
by DoingIsLearning 2y ago
I think the moment that clicked for me was when I heard young people in my family circle (25 and below), _in_Europe_ claiming that Trump "will likely be good for the economy". When I dug deeper they were effectively repeating talk
99.
by DoingIsLearning 2y ago
If we are selling Bristol I need to add one more to the list. - Bristolians are a big part of what makes Bristol an amazing and 'gert lush' city. It was the most laid back and enjoyable place I have lived in my time in the UK larg
100.
by DoingIsLearning 2y ago
A lot of it is learned behaviour. You get used to working and being productive at night because it's often when you have free time and quiet time. Your brain then starts associating that light setting/environment with 'in the
101.
by DoingIsLearning 2y ago
On the topic of WFH eye strain but less on lighting. There was a post a while back where the author proposed using a laser projector as a means of reducing eye strain. She referred to lighting as a factor but I assume the major benefit is t
102.
by DoingIsLearning 2y ago
> salute Salutes. He did it more than once in that speech. In full, hand to chest and all.
103.
by DoingIsLearning 2y ago
It really starts at a young age. I remember playing (my) football (your soccer) in school and my neighbourhood as a kid. If you were going to strike you needed to be pretty sure that you can score or that you can take the heat from your tea
104.
by DoingIsLearning 2y ago
> on an unjustified 125k. Irrespective of your self perception of value, I am not sure you are fully grasping the disconnect between the growth in cost of living and the (lack of) growth in wages of the past 50 years for the average huma
105.
by DoingIsLearning 2y ago
I used IRC in my teens as an early social network but has since never used. If I wanted to get involved in say more technical/niche channels outside my expertise, is there any advice or unwritten rules I should know? Perhaps a better q
106.
by DoingIsLearning 2y ago
I am assuming IEEE is not travelling the world doing investigative journalism, they will have used whatever media was provided by the university.
107.
by DoingIsLearning 2y ago
It's a concept for R&D to try stuff out and for Marketing to get people to talk about the brand. I would be surprised an active system like this would survive the lifetime of a car without an unpalatable amount of maintenance and p
108.
by DoingIsLearning 2y ago
Worth pointing out that EPFL's PR release includes a picture of Won Dong Shin (the PhD that actually built it) as opposed to a picture of the lab's director as it sometimes happens in academia.
109.
by DoingIsLearning 2y ago
I have never had a voice coach but many moons ago I stumbled on this video from an irish MBA lecturer, Conor Neill: > 5 Aspects of a Powerful Speaking Voice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wE7QJSO449o It's a short v
110.
by DoingIsLearning 2y ago
> Germany admitted close to one million Not Germany, Merkel. Merkel Incentivized and allowed admitting refugees at an unprecedented rate.
111.
by DoingIsLearning 2y ago
> how much and what we want available as a society We as a democratic society should want that everything legal is available. It is up to parents to take care of what is available to their offspring. Much like any other potential risk be
112.
by DoingIsLearning 2y ago
> you are not under obligation to disclose each and every experience in your CV, This is great advice, which I followed as a 40+ coming from another domain who went back to university to retrain. However YMMV, most North America, UK, som
113.
by DoingIsLearning 2y ago
> For everyone else, the reason they don't use Linux on their desktop is because it didn't come installed on it. My experience lines up with this. Both my elderly parents run Zorin OS on their separate laptops for the past 6 ye
114.
by DoingIsLearning 2y ago
As far as I understand, if you return glass into a recycling centre or to waste management anywhere here it will always be for cullet glass. Bottle washing here only happens if you return the bottles at a supermarket or other retailers, who
115.
by DoingIsLearning 2y ago
> but I haven't seen a recycler want it Perhaps that is a US problem, in Europe glass recycling is fairly Universal at all recycling centres and most neighbourhood streets have below ground waste containers for glass. At least in my
116.
by DoingIsLearning 2y ago
> more fuel usage and greenhouse emissions Again coca-cola can make the full logistical operation EV based (bar maritime) and offset with deploying renewables. If they care. Glass can be either washed (even more energy saving) or fully r
117.
by DoingIsLearning 2y ago
How is this not moving more responsability and work onto consumers rather than tackling the problem at the root. Coca-cola had a 2.7B EBTDA last quarter. Marketing needs to stop blowing smoke up people's rears. If they care about the e
118.
by DoingIsLearning 2y ago
> - scrape linkedin and apply to jobs based on the result That was my first thought when looking for jobs, but maybe I am naive, wouldn't this break their ToS?
119.
by DoingIsLearning 2y ago
You point to the membrane as a leakage source, but most RO systems also use flexible hosing in the assembly and from past work in medical devices it seems that flexible hosing is also a huge source of phthalate leakage. Is that something th
120.
by DoingIsLearning 2y ago
https://gitdiagram.com/anntzer/mplcursors gave me this err: Error code: 529 - {'type': 'error', 'error': {'type': 'overloaded_error', 'message': 'Overloa

More ›