atomic77

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Show HN: An eBPF-based router to discourage compulsive social media use(github.com)
2 points by atomic77 2y ago|0 comments
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by atomic77 6y ago
If the short-term rental market suddenly evaporates, and you have a chunk of the housing stock full-time serving that much more lucrative market (and not catering to locals), this is the first thing that is going to put downward pressure on
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by atomic77 6y ago
I admit that both my observations, and the ones in the Wired article I cited, are anecdotal. And it's certainly not the only factor driving those rent decreases. But it's oddly coincidental that the biggest and most immediate pric
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by atomic77 6y ago
While I don't want to seem like I'm wishing unemployment or hardship on anyone, the implosion of Airbnb is already causing a rent price correction that was sorely needed in many cities that have become severely unaffordable. Wired
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by atomic77 6y ago
We're about to get quite the stress test. It feels like we're living through an accelerated version of the disintegration of the western Roman empire. In a matter of a few weeks, decades worth of globalisation has screeched to a h
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Ask HN: Career shift to a biomedical interdisciplinary field?
2 points by atomic77 6y ago|2 comments
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by atomic77 7y ago
There are plenty of Italians, Chinese and Iranians in Switzerland - not at all clear why you'd choose to pick on eastern Europeans given how few cases there are in those countries.
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by atomic77 8y ago
I initially started with 1000 IU of Vitamin D3, Costco brand, and eventually settled on 5000 as I noticed improvements in energy level as I took more. I am at 43 latitude so I only start taking it in mid-November and start weening myself of
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by atomic77 8y ago
After reading the "Big Vitamin D Mistake" article on HN in 2017 I also started experimenting with larger doses of Vitamin D and can attest to life-changing effects. It has been like a permanent +5 to constitution; I am now almost
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by atomic77 8y ago
As you indirectly allude to, peak oil is an economic issue, not a geological one. Due to a combination of technological ingenuity and externalities in the form of current and future environmental degradation, we've been able to so far
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by atomic77 8y ago
What I was thinking of is something along the lines of the agreements that some European countries have with each other, where residents that live within a certain distance of the border are treated somewhat differently. Or the special econ
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by atomic77 8y ago
This is a semi-serious suggestion as I am just a techie without enough background in the legal and political side of things, but it has always struck me that cities like Detroit and Buffalo struggle while they border the area that is the ec
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by atomic77 8y ago
I find this odd because I am the opposite - one of my primary use cases for Jupyter/ipython in general is the ease with which I can get 'live' code introspection and intellisense. It's often my prototyping sandbox for py
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by atomic77 8y ago
On that note, I stumbled on an LWN article a couple of years ago that made me reflect on this miraculous balance of new features and stability: https://lwn.net/Articles/645020/ Anyone more involved in the pgsql co
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by atomic77 8y ago
This would have been my explanation too, but to my surprise, wood is only about 1/3 of the energy density of diesel fuel. I'm not sure why i expected it to be an order of magnitude difference. https://en.wikipedia.org&#
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by atomic77 8y ago
For now vscode is certainly far behind in terms of java ecosystem support, but it feels like not long ago that pycharm was way ahead.
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by atomic77 8y ago
I love using VSCode and find that I have less need for any other IDE with each new release. This one might finally eliminate one of my remaining needs for pycharm. I can't help but feel sorry for Jetbrains though, who seem to be in a s
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by atomic77 8y ago
FDWs can be incredibly useful in the case of needing database-level, low-latency access to a reasonably small amount of data managed on another server, and you don't want or cannot spend the time to write "proper" ETL code.
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by atomic77 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines This is why we have governments with the power to enact regulations. I'd like to think no one still believes in any sort of market fundamentalism th
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by atomic77 8y ago
> The researchers used different strengths of alcohol concentrations to combat the bacteria, starting with 23 percent. Eventually, at a 70-percent alcohol mixture, the bacteria were conquered. Typically, hand sanitizers are 60 percent al
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by atomic77 8y ago
The UK has always had the advantage of being an island protected from the wars that periodically sweep through mainland areas. There are plenty of cities that I have seen Europe that, due to post-WWII reconstruction, make New York and Chica
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by atomic77 8y ago
The only hope the Toronto tech scene has to escape from its mediocrity is, ironically, a renegotiation of Nafta, or a major change in government policy on immigration. As long as the cost for privileged access to the US market is open seaso
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by atomic77 8y ago
I also will never understand why people have so much trouble decoupling SQL, the query language, from classic RDBMS systems. Being able to use a SQL-like dialect in systems like Hive, Spark SQL, and now even Elasticsearch makes those system
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by atomic77 8y ago
Metrics like Github stars can be gamed, but it doesn't mean that the number has no value. I would conjecture that the # of stars correlates strongly with other desirable things. I think of it as similar to the # of citations that an ac
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by atomic77 8y ago
I'm surprised at how much dislike there is for the stars metric, and I wonder if it's an allergy that devs tend to have for software development metrics (which is understandable when they are abused). I try my best, at minimum, to
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by atomic77 8y ago
It seems like we're seeing how scalable the mantra of "ask for forgiveness, not permission" really is. Not Facebook scale, apparently.
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by atomic77 8y ago
Is there a reason why this could this not be brought under control naturally by providing habitat for predator species, like hawks or eagles? Apparently Peregrine falcons have done quite well in urban environments [1] [1] https:/&#x2F
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by atomic77 8y ago
Interesting you should use the hazardous materials analogy - Bruce Schneier made a pretty convincing case two years ago that data should be considered a toxic asset. https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016&#x2F
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by atomic77 8y ago
This is an excellent idea, and makes me realize just how much I'd love to be able to have an Android phone with an e-Ink only display.
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by atomic77 8y ago
The comparison to a keeper in football is close, but in hockey it's a far more important and specialized role. In the NHL, a typical # of shots on goal is 30-35 [1]. Seems like 3-7 is a typical number of saves a football keeper would h

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