davidhowlett

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by davidhowlett 1y ago
I use and pay for the professional review site https://www.which.co.uk/ They are a charity funded by subscribing consumers. They don't get paid by the sellers so the incentive structure benefits the consumer. I trust w
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by davidhowlett 2y ago
The official pdf for the paper is at https://arxiv.org/pdf/2412.06769 I can find "Coconut" 54 times in the PDF. The movie does not look made up.
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by davidhowlett 3y ago
Your altitudes for satellites are too high. Low earth orbit is defined as being below 2000km and very low orbit as being below 450 km. Starlink is at about 550km. Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_Earth_orbit
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by davidhowlett 4y ago
I suspect you mean infallible rather than fallible.
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by davidhowlett 4y ago
This might be a wording issue but how can a currency lose more than 100% of its value?
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by davidhowlett 4y ago
As a UK customer, I use Monzo bank and have pretty consistently had good experiences. They are a new bank. Recieving international money transfers was the only bit that they didn't support.
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by davidhowlett 5y ago
I believe you mean West Africa.
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by davidhowlett 5y ago
I enjoyed the collection at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23005140
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by davidhowlett 5y ago
I am British and will be directly affected by this. What can I do to help stop this becoming law?
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by davidhowlett 5y ago
The atmosphere is about 78% nitrogen. Carbon dioxide forms about 0.04%
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by davidhowlett 5y ago
"car path ey" sounds like a thing connected to finding paths for cars.
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by davidhowlett 5y ago
I spent years worrying about misleading descriptions and fake reviews. I then bought a subscription to which.co.uk and have been a happy customer since. They review a wide variety of products and they are a non-profit registered as a charit
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by davidhowlett 5y ago
Flask was originally an April fools joke with what the author thought was a silly design. It is now widely used, including in production systems at my company. http://mitsuhiko.pocoo.org/flask-pycon-2011.pdf
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by davidhowlett 5y ago
Individual contributor. A programmer who does not manage others.
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Adversarial attack on image recognition (funny)(twitter.com)
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by davidhowlett 6y ago
My company has also hit capacity issues with the managed Azure Kubenetes that were not fixable as Azure users.
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by davidhowlett 6y ago
I personally bought all my team members a beer delivered to their houses. One guy didn't like beer and got whiskey instead. On Friday at 4pm we all had a casual chat about non work topics and drank together. That seemed to go down well
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by davidhowlett 6y ago
I think you mean above 80 degrees Celsius
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by davidhowlett 6y ago
I haven't seen that research but I find the idea fascinating. Where can I read more about this?
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by davidhowlett 6y ago
From the article: "Moderna's vaccine appears to be easier to store as it remains stable at minus 20C for up to six months and can be kept in a standard fridge for up to a month."
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by davidhowlett 6y ago
I believe the 1918 flu also had the unusual property of killing people in their 20s at a higher rate than the middle aged and old. https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/12/1/05-0979-f3
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by davidhowlett 6y ago
If you write an article and post it here I will read it.
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by davidhowlett 6y ago
I live in the UK and also recommend Monzo. They have a good app but the thing that stood out most to me was the correct use of emoji in their terms and conditions. It is definitely a modern bank.
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by davidhowlett 6y ago
Every time rust is mentioned on HN people talk about how wonderful rust is. They are jokingly called the rust evangelism strike force.
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by davidhowlett 6y ago
What does the power curve mean in this context?
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by davidhowlett 7y ago
Instead of an alpha-beta search, AlphaZero uses a general-purpose Monte Carlo tree search (MCTS) algorithm. Source: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/362/6419/1140.full I agree with your comment about Sy
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by davidhowlett 7y ago
Correcting people is good but please be polite when doing so.
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by davidhowlett 7y ago
Minor correction; The automated resume reviewer was biased against women according to your reference.
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by davidhowlett 9y ago
I personally want more lithium in the water supply. It has been shown to reduce crime, suicide and all cause mortality. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1699579 https://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/0
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by davidhowlett 9y ago
In IPFS the user's computer connects to whatever node has the content, popular or not. This means that even if the the 100 most popular nodes in the world have enough pressure put on them that they refuse to host a file, I can still ho

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