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by fivea 4y ago
> Spreadsheets are better because as you say the owner is their job to maintain it. If you replace with an IT process the new "owner" is likely a below-average developer that probably is uninterested in the business. I disagree
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by fivea 4y ago
> But what happened in Spain and Italy was a catastrophic disruption to normal life by any reasonable standard. I lived in Spain through the pandemic. I saw from my apartment the army trucks racing across Madrid, the police cars with lou
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by fivea 4y ago
> The candidates that are interesting to me have diverse and interesting lives, their resumes should reflect that. Doesn't your resume reflect that if it has that written down somewhere? Why would a CV be picked over any other if a
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by fivea 4y ago
> A boring looking resume thats like all the others might be good enough for SAP but would get filtered out my me immediately. I could see the point of that approach for a creativity-driven position such as designers, advertisement, mark
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by fivea 4y ago
> You can tell by not entering any PII into the site in the first place. That's not the definition of PII. At best, that covers a small subset of PII. PII means any information that can be used to identify you, either directly or in
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by fivea 4y ago
> The article provides no direct evidence of people starving, only that 'We cannot freely choose our recipes'. What? The article clearly describes how people in Shanghai are barred from accessing the supplies they ordered becau
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by fivea 4y ago
> How you can tell if the data you're collecting is PII? No. How can you tell, as a user of any random website, that the script your browser is running as part of that page you've opened isn't shipping PII collected from y
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by fivea 4y ago
> Keeping everything locked down has a huge human cost too. That really depends on what's your personal definition of "keeping everything locked down". European countries like Spain and Italy showed that lockdowns work qui
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by fivea 4y ago
> They already know english for the job (...) You're somehow presuming that there is no functional difference between being a native speaker and knowing a language as second or third language.
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by fivea 4y ago
> If it contains PII (...) How can you tell?
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by fivea 4y ago
> Lambda isn't single threaded. You get a core for every gig of ram that you allocate up to 16GB. That's not exactly true. As per AWS, with AWS Lambda you only get a second core if you provision more than 1769MB of RAM. The num
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by fivea 4y ago
> I have used swarm optimization methods that have consistently provided better solutions than alternatives for optimizations of solution spaces in alterst 3 different domains. Benchmark your PSO implementation against a) a naive Monte C
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by fivea 4y ago
> AWS lambda has a bunch of python specific optimisations that make python the best candidate for lambdas (...) I don't believe there is any truth to this statement. The general guidelines for AWS lambda is that a) if you seek perfo
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by fivea 4y ago
>>I fully anticipate they will come back in fashion. It's not possible to predict fashions, but I seriously doubt that the whole evolutionary algorithms field will see a resurgence based on anything other than buzzword-driven fad
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by fivea 4y ago
Oh I know a few. Evolution strategies, particle swarm optimization, ant colony optimization, etc, etc. They are a treasure trove of easily publishable papers, but frankly the whole field feels like a fraud. Each paper is formulaic and consi
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by fivea 4y ago
> There was never any valid justification for the police to harass a man going for a stroll. Have you been living under a rock for the past two years? There was a pandemic killing hundreds of people per day, and the only effective way to
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by fivea 4y ago
> You've sorted people who disagree with you into the category of "not adults". Should they be able to vote? No, I'm the kind of person who is well aware that reaching adulthood is not a magic elixir that automatical
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by fivea 4y ago
> Stop lying. I haven't posted any misinformation. You can literally listen to Dr. Gandhi's own words at the link I posted above. Again, google it up. You can't fake this one. You do not need to take my word for it. Jus
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by fivea 4y ago
> Actually Sweden's numbers are quite good, better than many other EU countries which took more restrictive approaches. Reality does not agree with you. Sweden fared rather poorly when compared with comparable countries such as Nor
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by fivea 4y ago
> Case in point: communicating nuance is hard when no one wants to hear it! There is no nuance. The message couldn't be clearer: if you take the vaccine then the odds you'll die from COVID are way lower than if you do not. And
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by fivea 4y ago
> Natural immunity works. It's settled science, and has been for some time. What exactly do you mean by "works"? I mean, it's well established that those who contract COVID and didn't died from it will have a goo
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by fivea 4y ago
> Have they? It's a horrible back and forth, not based on any evidence. (...) You're grossly misrepresenting the facts. If you take an objective look at recent history, you'll realize that politicians have been trying to j
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by fivea 4y ago
> Even if this is true, the very fact that it was even an option that came up in discussion in Cabinet says a lot. Not really. Two years ago, when COVID started to spread outside China, the initial concern was the potential impact it wou
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by fivea 4y ago
> Masks in general provide very little protection. I recommend you listen to the explanations by infectious disease experts Dr. Monica Gandhi and Dr. Michael Osterholm. (...) It literally takes less than 5min in Google to realize your cr
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by fivea 4y ago
> People are adults. No, not really. Not all, at least. I vividly recall from the start of the very first lockdown, when the only people expected to be outside were those attending pressing matters like restocking provisions on supermark
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by fivea 4y ago
> As GP states, they engaged in "noble lies" in order to drive vaccine adoption. Can you point out what was in your opinion the best example of what you described as "noble lie"? I've seen people throwing baseles
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by fivea 4y ago
> It's not? Writing unit test is all about minimizing side effects and interaction with other systems. Not really. Writing unit tests is all about verifying behavior from combinations of inputs, and side effects are inputs as well.
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by fivea 4y ago
> I stopped reading right here: Me too. The author shows a deep misunderstanding and even obliviousness to testing, particularly from a practical point of view, that takes any credibility from any argument listed in the article. It'
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by fivea 4y ago
> If you have the infrastructure to manage multiple versions and collect and analyse related information, adding/removing a blinking cursor or any other UI change and analysing the results should be trivial (...) What leads you to b
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by fivea 4y ago
> Then why has the site become more annoying and less usable over time? I can't and won't speak on behalf of AirBnB, but you should keep in mind that in general: a) all software grows by accretion until a breaking point, b) pa

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