ProblemFactory

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by ProblemFactory 4mo ago
How about a theme park? With velociraptors and other jurassic era animals?
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by ProblemFactory 8mo ago
> the path of least resistance is very different in the US, Europe and Asia My theory is that in US compared to Europe, you are going to need the path of least resistance more often. If you are working two part-time jobs with variable ho
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by ProblemFactory 1y ago
This seems more interesting, as it's not a code for a physical address but a lookup key for one. You can update your code to point to a new address when you move: > Their digital addresses will not change even if their physical addr
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by ProblemFactory 1y ago
> later investors effectively collude with founders > a small startup that never found product-market fit. The economy was bad, and they were running out of money, and they took - as I understood it - a dubious Series B led by a dubio
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by ProblemFactory 2y ago
Most streaming services take a similar cut of the revenue. Spotify pays out 70% of revenue they receive to owners of the music, BandCamp 75%, SoundCloud 80%. Could be slightly better, but it's not outrageous. The real problems for arti
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by ProblemFactory 2y ago
> Theoretically it should be possible to do that using two cameras connected to some kind of image processing unit That "some kind of image processing unit" in humans has an awful lot of compute power and software. If you remov
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by ProblemFactory 2y ago
This is probably a question about classic CRDTs as much as eg-walker: Do all possible topological sorts of the event graph result in the same final consensus document? If yes how do we know that, and if no, how do they resolve the order in
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by ProblemFactory 2y ago
> Overall I've taken eight weeks throughout the year and never been questioned with it. If you have taken eight weeks of vacation per year, and have not even seen push-back on it, you are definitely on "unlimited" compared
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by ProblemFactory 2y ago
> If I could give my employees a $50k cash bonus and it got taxed at 24% or I could gift them a $50k car "for testing" and it was tax free, everyone would be getting paid in cars. Belgium has exactly that (use of a car is tax-f
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by ProblemFactory 2y ago
> Was the backdoor used on obscure build servers or obscure pieces of build infrastructure somewhere? And developer machines. The backdoor was live for ~1 month on testing releases of Debian and Fedora, which are likely to be used by dev
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by ProblemFactory 3y ago
Variability in software runtime arises mostly from other software running on the same system. If you are looking for a real-world, whole-system benchmark (like a database or app server), then taking the average makes sense. If you are bench
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by ProblemFactory 3y ago
Burnout and depression can be connected to, but aren't the same thing as a mid-life crisis. I would distinguish a mid-life crisis (or in the positive case, mid-life inspiration) by the realisation that you don't have infinite time
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by ProblemFactory 3y ago
These sort of reports can be very misleading because they are often based surveying local companies competing for employees with other local companies. The salaries are very different when working for example for a local bank, vs. for an in
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by ProblemFactory 3y ago
> For example, Aldi can just decide to hire a contractor that they know does good work at a reasonable price. In contrast, the govt has to use a lengthy fair and open bid process and if they want to select a bid that isn't the lowes
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by ProblemFactory 4y ago
> that only speaks when spoken to Feedback loops are an important part. But let's say you take two current chatbots, make them converse with each other without human participants. Add full internet access. Add a directive to read HN
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by ProblemFactory 4y ago
Developers will care if they are spending their time waiting for a build. Both could be satisfied with a single-threaded make keeps the standard order to ensure backwards compatibility, but `make -j` that also turns on --shuffle. Which is
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by ProblemFactory 4y ago
Despite the electrical risks, it's crazy how much Christmas safety has improved. I remember https://i.imgur.com/vKbfzEs.jpg from my childhood. Small metal clips to attach real candles to the Christmas tree. 20-50 open
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by ProblemFactory 4y ago
It's legal to install an aftermarket turbo, swap the engine, lift the car by a few feet. Or repair your powertrain with zip-ties.
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by ProblemFactory 4y ago
Git provides all of those things, as long as everyone agrees on what the current HEAD commit id (hash) is. You could publish that hash in a printed newspaper or with a government regulator. After publishing it is impossible to rewrite commi
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by ProblemFactory 4y ago
It's not empty, it's just way, way! too politely phrased. It's not advice on how to find ideas or how to become that person, but advice on who is ready to give founding a startup a try. During my career I did freelance mobile
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by ProblemFactory 4y ago
> I would say that proper password manager is the best investment you can do from any app. My bed is the best investment in the sense that I spend 1/3 of my life there. That doesn't mean it would be a good idea to pay 1/3
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by ProblemFactory 4y ago
What did you see as the central claim of the article? To me it was that personal finance and budgeting is being marketed to low-income people as a way of getting out of poverty and becoming rich (doctor, lawyer or software engineer rich, no
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by ProblemFactory 4y ago
I think we could reduce the litres / km (volume / distance) units to just square meters (area). For example, 7 litres / 100km = 0.07 mm^2 It's the cross-section of a noodle of fuel laid out along the road that the car ne
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by ProblemFactory 5y ago
Combined Heat and Power in Finland is very common, much more so than in rest of Europe. 80% of the fossil fuel power plants output both electricity and heated water. Compared to (quick googling) 8% in the US and 11% in EU.
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by ProblemFactory 5y ago
And broken CSV files. In some European locales Excel switches from importing/exporting Comma Separated Values to Semicolon Separated Values with comma acting as the decimal point.
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by ProblemFactory 5y ago
According to https://nltimes.nl/2022/02/02/rotterdam-bridge-taken-apart-l... the shipbuilder will pay for it. It will take a week to take the bridge apart and another week to put it back together. Which is no
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by ProblemFactory 5y ago
> superchargers in some locations/routes being at insane capacity that this will only make things worse If that happens, Tesla should set a price for other EVs which makes it profitable for them, and then just build as many charging
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by ProblemFactory 5y ago
> Take FB as an example. FB have 60k employees, 12X the 2012 IPO number. It also costs 12X to run facebook today. They don't do that much more today than in 2012. They do. In 2012, their advertising revenue was $5B. In 2020, it was
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by ProblemFactory 5y ago
> they also don't have the tech that powers Uber/Lyft which allows anyone to hail a ride from their smartphone Sure they do, as long as they just get an app built by a contractor and don't employ 5000 engineers building co
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by ProblemFactory 5y ago
It's understandable. Science journalism exaggerates results, even if the original researchers and their paper did not. And even the most promising scientific results can take decades to be applied in the industry and become available t

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