alicorn

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by alicorn 6y ago
Common cold is caused by a variety of viruses, only a small subset of which is coronaviruses. Look it up.
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by alicorn 6y ago
I have worked for several years with WordPress. Everything you say is true if the devs are incompetent. Then yes, the variety of ways one can shoot themselves in the foot and completely dead with the system is astounding. I have seen horrib
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by alicorn 6y ago
As someone who has interviewed maybe 30-40 sw and devops engineers over the last year, I wish more interviewees would ask things like this. It shows engagement and ability to speak up, as well as a healthy level of self care. Keep it up.
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by alicorn 6y ago
This baffles me as well. The technology to solve so many problems hard to approach with other tools is right there, why not use it.
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by alicorn 6y ago
Can you quickly explain how this meshes with existing data formats such as gpx or fit? Will there be converters? Can traindown express time series or is it more of a high level log (I did x of y at parameters w and z) thing?
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by alicorn 6y ago
It is already all but illegal to use Starlink in Russia, and given modern surveillance technologies, setting up an access point against the will of authorities might be practically impossible.
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by alicorn 6y ago
Just Sweden does not eat an unreasonable amount of fish (see https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/fish-and-seafood-consumpt... ). According to press release by Arla (the largest Swedish milk products company by far) some
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by alicorn 6y ago
I am lazy and did not read the study, sorry. But nowhere in the comments I see discussion related to whether it somehow accounts for dietary variance in vitamin D intake via fortified products. In Sweden, for example, because we are so far
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by alicorn 6y ago
> No parent no matter how poor wants their child to work unless they cannot afford to feed them. As anyone who has grown up in a country where child labor was normal will tell you, this is patently false. If it is the norm in the country
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by alicorn 6y ago
I find it curious and vaguely racist that the word 'clan' is almost exclusively used in reference to immigrant and poc families and with an allusion to inherent criminality. This despite the fact that many Western countries have a
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Ask HN: Good course on designing high-availability applications
1 points by alicorn 6y ago|0 comments
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by alicorn 7y ago
We have unofficial office rules that work just like that. We do not have a sea of 50 people in the same space however, instead we have sort of isolated spaces that contain about 15-20 people each. All phone calls, chats longer than a minute
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by alicorn 7y ago
"Software Systems Architecture: Working With Stakeholders Using Viewpoints and Perspectives" by Nick Rozanski, Eóin Woods. Found this book really useful due to its methodical approach on views and perspectives. It really helped me
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by alicorn 7y ago
How cute. I tried your suggestion once. What I got was an overengineered, poorly documented delivery that matched the spec about 50%. Oh, it was also a year late. Sorry, but processes are there for a reason, and the reason is, broadly, that
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by alicorn 7y ago
Veoneer, but on other carmakers' products.
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by alicorn 7y ago
I did a summer working at a printing house where we assembled printed calendars by hand (post-soviet country, people were cheap, machines were horrendously expensive). The job consisted of walking around a long table in a circle and assembl
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by alicorn 7y ago
Tested a KIA e-Niro during the weekend and it had gas stations in the points of interest list on the infotainment system. Cute. :) To their defense, many / most gas stations sell lots of useful stuff and have services apart from gas so
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by alicorn 7y ago
Brasil has benefitted a lot from technology exchange with Saab. For those of you who are not familiar with the concept, the idea ,(very simplified) is that Brasil buys a lot of Saab planes, and in return gets knowledge about latest Swedish
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by alicorn 7y ago
There is a competition between RPA and automation by Python ongoing in my workplace. We are low on devs and high on buzzword-susceptible non-technical managers. The argument that it is a lot smarter to hire a few more devs that would add a
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by alicorn 7y ago
After 6 months of back to back meetings all day long all week I started doing this and it has been a lifesaver.
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by alicorn 7y ago
During the first 30 or so years of my life I actively strained to have a happy family, wide social circle and all the associated social trappings. The amount of money, energy and time I plowed into this was incredible, and, in retrospect, I
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by alicorn 7y ago
Regarding light reflection on facial features and so on, it is worth noting that even _color film_ was already strongly biased towards light-skinned humans [1] Also the argument that the group of people gathering, tagging etc the datasets,
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by alicorn 7y ago
I suspect that a significant amount of developers do not care. A job is a job, if the problem to solve is interesting enough or it pays well enough, rest is irrelevant. This is supported by my experiences interviewing developers who apply f
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by alicorn 7y ago
Does anyone else work on a relatively large internal web project in a global corp where GA for obvious reasons is forbidden to use internally? How do you do statistics? Which statistics do you capture and why?
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by alicorn 7y ago
I suspect Facebook bans accounts of people they dislike fairly regularly. A friend of mine was banned recently due to FB having a spat with a company he once cofounded. At the time of the conflict said friend had had nothing to do with the
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Ask HN: How to teach kids about privacy on the internet
13 points by alicorn 7y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: How to be a good technical team leader
5 points by alicorn 7y ago|3 comments
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by alicorn 8y ago
I see your point. From my perspective however it is akin to insisting that foot == human.
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by alicorn 8y ago
"Fernandes explains that self-driving cars use multiple sensors and algorithms and don't make decisions on any single machine-learning model." For now, maybe, but, from what I have heard, there is push from the car manufactur
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Ask HN: Experiences with BMC Software?
3 points by alicorn 8y ago|0 comments

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