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by cnewey 3mo ago
I'd be quite interested to see a study of some kind about this - for example, tracking diversity of word choice, phrasing patterns, rhetorical devices etc among human-authored text - compared over time among groups of heavy users &#x2F
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by cnewey 4mo ago
I think ClickUp gets the dubious honour of being my least favourite piece of software of all time. Super slow to load, clunky, unbelievably overcomplicated, packed with trackers and unnecessary JS, etc. It almost makes JIRA look like a sing
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by cnewey 4mo ago
But unfortunately, a VPN won't protect you from captive portals. So not entirely sure what your comment adds to the discussion other than being unnecessarily rude. For other readers who may be too young to remember, improper privacy co
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by cnewey 5mo ago
I'm not sure that resorting to personal attacks against the parent commenter for making a legitimate critique is the right, fair, sensible, or mature approach here. Discarding legitimate criticism based on some self-determined criteria
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by cnewey 9mo ago
Hah, no my house was built in the 1750s or something like that - single glazing on the front and with fairly minimal insulation, plus it has no cavity wall (a mixture of wattle and daub and brick). It is a mid-terrace though so I benefit fr
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by cnewey 9mo ago
I was recently in a situation where I had to replace my oil-fired heating system’s oil tank (it wasn’t double skinned and no longer safe). It was £2500 to replace the oil tank, or I could opt for £2250 to install a heat pump with the govern
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by cnewey 1y ago
Well now, I never expected to see my village on Hacker News. I can actually see this church from my bedroom window - and as if by magic the bells just started ringing 9am!
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by cnewey 1y ago
Ah no, I meant “is the snark necessary?” to the parent comment. I enjoyed the read!
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by cnewey 1y ago
Is that really necessary?
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by cnewey 1y ago
Really enjoyed this story, thanks for sharing!
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by cnewey 2y ago
I think you're glossing over a few details here which - although understandable - deserve a little clarification. The poster is referring to cost at the point of care - which under the UK's NHS model is £0. The "£3000" p
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by cnewey 3y ago
It costs nothing in the UK as it's covered under the National Health Service. Well - I say "nothing". All British citizens pay "national insurance", but it's effectively a regressive tax that's not based o
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by cnewey 3y ago
It's interesting that the article states that Infliximab is more expensive than Adalimumab. > anti-TNF drugs, such as adalimumab, work similarly to infliximab and are significantly cheaper, more research is needed to establish wheth
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by cnewey 3y ago
Well said.
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by cnewey 3y ago
What about being from a union advocacy group detracts from the findings of the study? What about the study makes you think it’s poorly run?
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by cnewey 3y ago
> In January 2023, DPC was forced to increase the fine issued to Meta Platforms after a review by European Data Protection Board found that the initial fine was insufficient.[12] European Data Protection Board determined that DPC has fai
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by cnewey 3y ago
The sad fact is that the law in most countries is so toothless (and the law enforcement agencies so far behind) that the legal penalties are mostly just academic. Bug bounties (and proper education + screening processes for developers) are
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by cnewey 3y ago
Do you have a… less visceral metaphor? Or some information I can read about? I’m curious.
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by cnewey 3y ago
While I think there are a couple of valid points, in general my feeling is that the author is setting up a straw man to attack. Most of the “programmer sins” are of the type that more seasoned engineers will easily avoid, especially those w
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by cnewey 3y ago
Packt’s business model is so transparent and so cynical. I hate it.
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by cnewey 3y ago
This book seems to be suffering from an identity crisis. It’s ostensibly aimed at “programmers” but the content is predominantly machine learning topics. What sort of general software engineer needs to know about GRUs and LLMs?! Add that to
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by cnewey 3y ago
If the parent had discovered a viable and profitable trading strategy, do you think they would share it here?
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by cnewey 3y ago
Privacy issues aside for a moment, this looks really good and is something I’d be interested in. I can imagine this being helpful for folks with ADHD or memory issues. I have found meeting transcription tools to be absolutely invaluable at
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by cnewey 4y ago
> I've always been confused why salaried workers think they only need to work 40 hours a week. Employment contracts in most developed countries will specify a) hours of business/office hours and b) an expected number of hours t
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by cnewey 5y ago
There have actually been studies that show a positive link between profanity and honest behaviour/integrity[1] The study I've linked below is slightly flawed, but it does provide a small nugget of evidence to your anecdote. [1]:
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by cnewey 6y ago
This is great. Such a powerful visualisation for such a simple technique! My only critique is that I wish the creator hadn't used JPG images - there are clear compression artifacts that appear towards the edge of the screen as one imag
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An introduction to gradient boosting(blog.newey.me)
4 points by cnewey 8y ago|0 comments
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Diving into Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD)(blog.newey.me)
5 points by cnewey 8y ago|0 comments
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by cnewey 8y ago
> We believe, the SNN is the correct representation of the how the mind works. In fact, we have mathematical proof that our representation is the most efficient representation. No details on the website, though. This is either very poo
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by cnewey 8y ago
I don't really know where to start after reading this - it reads like a collection of poorly-informed reasons that the author dislikes relational databases - almost all of which are entirely orthogonal to the concepts of relational alg

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