Toenex

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by Toenex 1y ago
Honestly future generations will be aghast at how we accepted road deaths caused by human drivers.
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by Toenex 1y ago
I want AI to be able to do everything so the I can choose to do anything.
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by Toenex 1y ago
In the UK people from Liverpool and Manchester are rivals until they meet someone from London when it becomes a North Vs South thing. That all changes again when they meet someone from Glasgow when it becomes England Vs Scotland and yet aga
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by Toenex 1y ago
Maybe we already have Universal Basic Income, you just need to have a pointless job to collect it.
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by Toenex 2y ago
Personally always loved me a Bland-Altman plot ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bland-Altman_plot )
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by Toenex 2y ago
Manchester is slowly limping out the Bee Network (or whatever it's called now) which is modelled on Oyster. Tram and local train journeys can be mixed on a touch in/out system and the buses are to be included as the route contract
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by Toenex 3y ago
Never thought I would see the Sleaford Mods mentioned in a Hacker News thread. As a 50-something UK male I agree the world has gone a bit weird when the rallying cry for revolution is a well articulated by my peers as by the youth.
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by Toenex 3y ago
Absolutely. Another concern I have is the demonstrable incompetence of the UK government. If they have my data, which will only ever paint a partial picture of what I do, who knows what conclusions they may draw. I don't want to spend
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by Toenex 3y ago
Don't forget the Spectrum ZX Next ( https://www.specnext.com/ ) if you can get one. I managed to get a N-GO clone from ebay last year ( https://manuferhi.com/p/n-go-full-include-wifi-rpi-zero ) which
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by Toenex 4y ago
The United Kingdom has a constitution but not a specifically written one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_the_United_Kin...
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by Toenex 4y ago
Rik Mayalls acceptance speech at Exeter University when he was awarded a honorary Doctorate is a reminder of what genuinely beautiful human being he was. https://youtu.be/1jjFEFyI8FU
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by Toenex 5y ago
Yep. Many years ago I was a junior at an engineering consultancy that specialised in noise & vibration. I spent many a happy hour out in the sun replacing melted loudspeakers that were being used to feed 'anti noise' into the
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by Toenex 5y ago
It's a while since I ran fMRI studies but my favourite analogy was to tell people that it was like trying to measure your electricity usage by watching your water meter.
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by Toenex 5y ago
Does this comparison account for the vaccinations being administered to specific populations? In the UK it's been targeted at the most vulnerable & elderly.
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by Toenex 6y ago
I think the management point is a good one. A valuable generalist role is working at the interface between management and the specialists in the team. As an engineer I was much more of a generalist which lead me into product management.
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by Toenex 6y ago
This is the curse of the hacker mentality.
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by Toenex 6y ago
Rewriting in Ada means it will be easier for NASA to approve for use on a Mars colony. /joke
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by Toenex 6y ago
Similarly Nim ( https://nim-lang.org/ ).
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by Toenex 6y ago
Last I heard Duncan Jones was circling The Black Hole remake which I would be much more interested in.
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by Toenex 6y ago
Interesting read. I guess you can view what Amazon has done in this light. Provide the best solution to taking possession of things. The complement being the supply chain that marketplace aims to commoditize.
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by Toenex 6y ago
It's surprising how often you can replace 'but' with 'and' in a sentence.
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by Toenex 6y ago
The half dose was an 'experimental endpoint'. Always planned but not seen as critical. FDA rules now stipulate you can only register on primary endpoints declared before the trial starts. I suspect AZ have argued that the accele
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by Toenex 6y ago
Yes I think they only need to hit 50% for approval. Conservatively they were getting 62% as I recall and the 'experimental endpoint' dose got them to 90%. The Oxford vaccine is far cheaper (15x) and easier to store so long term i
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by Toenex 6y ago
I suspect the bulk of the population will receive the 'Oxford' vaccine. It's still going through the approval process but the UK has ordered more of it. I believe the Pfizer vaccine is targeted to front line workers and the
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by Toenex 6y ago
Surely you don't think he invented the name 'Pussy Galore'?
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by Toenex 6y ago
To communicate best, you should like the reader speaks.
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Ask HN: How to Concede a Point?
1 points by Toenex 6y ago|2 comments
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by Toenex 6y ago
It always felt to me that startups are best for the under 25s and the over 45s. In between you have so many other commitments it's a challenging balance. I say this as someone who spent most of his 30's & 40's in startup
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by Toenex 6y ago
Immediate mode is a stateless design pattern.
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by Toenex 6y ago
Yes this is one of those slightly annoying biases on HN. 90% of the time Product = SaaS. I'd like to hear some stories from folks who have adapted the techniques from this space to work in other markets. Iterating on hardware, embedd

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