eckesicle

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by eckesicle 7d ago
Your question reminds me of this hilarious image after the ipad was released: https://cdn.osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/iboard-i...
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by eckesicle 8d ago
I asked the Swedish Prime Minister this question almost verbatim on Reddit two days ago and he responded. The answer was ... understated. https://www.reddit.com/r/sweden/comments/1w8p0z4/comment/p84.
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by eckesicle 26d ago
This is an excellent book and its lessons saved my bacon many times! As it happens I have a hardcopy of this book (along with "Seeking SRE" and the "SRE Workbook") that I am giving away (because of a move). If you want a
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by eckesicle 2mo ago
The linked website carcompare.com was quite interesting in how clustered the data is. Pretty much _any_ EV car is better both cost wise and emissions wise than _any_ PHEV. The same holds comparing PHEV with ICE. Not to mention that EVs are
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by eckesicle 3mo ago
I saw this a couple of days ago, here's the original article that broke the news, in Swedish: https://www.flamman.se/techprofil-ger-miljoner-till-orebropa... It includes a short statement from the CEO.
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by eckesicle 3mo ago
The journal articles the chart is based on are referenced in light grey on the side, if you prefer to view the same data in a peer reviewed article format with a more serious font.
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by eckesicle 3mo ago
> Until someone can reconcile these facts, and they can say distinctively that the rise in temperature we see right now isn't the same reason as before, I'm going to believe that temperature will moderate and cool, just like it
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by eckesicle 4mo ago
My father was a printer his entire life. I went with him to work one day when I was around 12 years old. He loaded up a box of, what seemed to me a random selection of flyers, booklets and other printed goods in his car, and together we dro
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by eckesicle 4mo ago
I run a company that have done over 200 similar studies for various NGOs and international organisations. In the general case, with some exceptions, we have found that two types of interventions stand above all others in terms of long term
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by eckesicle 5mo ago
The exact wording in our contracts and the government guidance is “8% plus the Bank of England base rate”. They mean “percentage points”. https://www.gov.uk/late-commercial-payments-interest-debt-re... As I understand it, f
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by eckesicle 5mo ago
Oh and another lesson! Ensuring that each deliverable invoice is small enough that it falls under the simplified claims procedure (in the UK it’s 10,000 pounds) greatly simplifies collection. It costs something like 80 quid to file for reco
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by eckesicle 5mo ago
We’ve also learned this lesson the hard way. These are now the clauses we require in every project we do: - Payment is due X days after receipt of invoice, or immediately after the consultant has addressed any quality issues, whichever is s
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by eckesicle 6mo ago
Funny you say that. I spent the last two days building this exact thing for our internal use. Managed to get a full RAG pipeline integrated and running with all of our company documents in less than two days work. Chunking, embedding and qu
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by eckesicle 7mo ago
My experience has been a mixed bag. AI has led us into a deep spaghetti hole in one product where it was allowed free rein. But when applied to localised contexts. Sort of a class at a time it’s really excellent and productivity explodes. I
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by eckesicle 8mo ago
What model of cordless vacuum do you have?
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by eckesicle 9mo ago
We had this debate at my company and the end result was a ban on “random” service names. So we ended up with “auth service” instead of something like “Galactus”. The problem of course is that “auth service” isn’t searchable in our monorepo
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by eckesicle 10mo ago
> It just doesn't add up... Things I understand, it looks good at first, but isn't shippable. Things I don't understand must be great? It’s like the Gell-Mann amnesia effect applied to AI. :) https://en.wikipedi
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by eckesicle 10mo ago
I very much doubt the veracity of this claim. I worked at Coinbase for many years and this runs completely afoul of the culture there. Even leaving your laptop unlocked for seconds in the office would have someone /pwn it in slack and
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by eckesicle 10mo ago
Is there any real drawback to just never giving your real name or address to service providers to minimise the chance of identity theft? Most likely it’s against terms of service, but other than account suspension are you likely to suffer a
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by eckesicle 1y ago
Me too!
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by eckesicle 1y ago
EV popularity varies a lot from country to country. Stockholm is jokingly referred to as Teslatown these days. In the UK it’s pretty mixed between Tesla, VW, Kia, BYD, and BMW. France like their Peugeots … In Italy last year I saw one EV in
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by eckesicle 1y ago
> This is the part I disagree with. It hasn't been true for years. Anyone with the free version of ChatGPT can pass a hacker rank today. It certainly still is true today. Anybody who is sufficiently motivated to cheat can pass it. I
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by eckesicle 1y ago
It only appears that HackerRank/Leetcode isn’t good at filtering because you’re viewing it from your perspective, and not the perspective of the entire population that is tested. To you, the predictive power at the top tail end of the
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by eckesicle 1y ago
It’s the latter, but my point is that’s a tired and weak argument to make. The blog poster could’ve asked, why does the manager want me to deliver the story points? It’s because Jake is also delivering zero story points and he’s a terrible
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by eckesicle 1y ago
Thanks for responding. I see your point, but I think it is responding to something slightly different than the point I was making. If I may latch on to your first paragraph, my point is that we are saying this first bit “this system is brok
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by eckesicle 1y ago
My wider point is not that the way companies are run is perfect and that we should stop the “innovators” (to quote the sibling comment). Each of these examples speak of corporate dysfunction, but we never give any weight to the constraints
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by eckesicle 1y ago
These sort of stories seem to be dime a dozen and weirdly celebrated around HN and the software engineering community. We’re told of the hero, who goes against their managers and executives and doesn’t deliver any stories as agreed in sprin
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by eckesicle 2y ago
I also had the Baywatch bug. Neo QLED right? Every time you’d start the tv it’d switch to the Samsung Baywatch 24/7 stream. So inappropriate for the children.
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by eckesicle 2y ago
I’ve also got an EV and I love it. I installed solar panels at home and the car is now pretty much completely free to drive during those summer months where I get enough sun to supply my house and the car. I think these panels had an ROI of
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by eckesicle 2y ago
Yes, but not for the reason that I want a mother figure in the house. Only recently, have I been able to date without comparing any new prospective partners to my late wife. I have yet to meet the right person. It’s also a very big ask of a

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