idlephysicist

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by idlephysicist 1y ago
I wish that people would just stop looking at their phones while driving.
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by idlephysicist 1y ago
I think they mean that because people have been driving automobiles for over 100 years and that proves (somehow) that visual detection works for identifying hazards on the road. But they seem to be conflating human vision with computer visi
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by idlephysicist 2y ago
> What are you protecting cloudflare? A cheeky response is "their profit margins", but I don't think that quite right considering that their earnings per share is $-0.28. I've not looked into Cloudflare much, I'v
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by idlephysicist 2y ago
It's kind of amazing that this periodic check has not been implemented already.
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by idlephysicist 2y ago
Firstly, I love that website. It's simple and informative. I don't the average mileage or a hydrogen vehicle nor tank size, so I'll take your word on that. Using your numbers and the map I plotted a route that does get you
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by idlephysicist 2y ago
Anyone that get’s a telephone call from “Google” should be immediately suspicious. I used to work for a company that paid GCP about as much as my annual salary _every_ month, and we still struggled to get GCP on the phone when we needed as
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by idlephysicist 2y ago
I used Alacritty until about 3 weeks ago, switched to Ghostty. I'm very happy with the change.
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by idlephysicist 2y ago
Fair play to them, it's a detailed paper. But I'm not sure that this would have much practicality in other caves. The terrain just changes too quickly (most of the time).
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by idlephysicist 2y ago
The woeful inconsistency between airport security checks within the same country and sometimes within the same airport, really lends itself to the theory that it’s all a farce. Travel time makes a big difference too, e.g. at peak times plea
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by idlephysicist 2y ago
I've never come across that myself, but the audacity of some firms is outrageous.
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by idlephysicist 2y ago
Part of me thinks that you're right, but I've applied to _so many_ jobs over the years (prior to AI) that use workday and required that I fill in all the info again. I've also never ever heard back from a company that used w
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by idlephysicist 2y ago
Can you explain what you mean when you say "to be sound"?
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by idlephysicist 2y ago
I wonder how many U.S. service persons stationed in South Korea could have been affected by this? Do we know if it was exploited in the wild?
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by idlephysicist 2y ago
Who else noticed the pointers websocket for displaying the mouse pointers of other readers?
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by idlephysicist 2y ago
Something feels weird about the timezone arithmetic here, though maybe I am nuts. Take this for example: > Notably, on Tuesday, Jun 27, 2023, we see two commits: 23:38:32 +0800 and 17:27:09 +0300. If we do the math, there is about a 9-h
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by idlephysicist 3y ago
I've physically disconnected the modem in my Audi, though when it goes to the dealer for a service (still under extended warranty) I cannot help but imagine that they download the data.
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by idlephysicist 3y ago
I agree with what you said but I'd further refine it by saying not just having testing and CI but actually having "high" test coverage and tests that actually test the code.
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by idlephysicist 3y ago
I was also confused by this, I had always (perhaps naively) assumed that the canal used salt water throughout. I did some searching and found this article. > Gatun Lake, which forms a key stretch of the canal system and provides fresh wa
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by idlephysicist 3y ago
> Got it resolved by reaching out to some high level executive contact we got via our investor. Oh man that is my nightmare. Nothing says "broken system" like having to circumvent the system to get something done.
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by idlephysicist 3y ago
Maybe we should be writing for the AIs. Leaving GitHub aside, I generally feel that anything a candidate does that adds friction to the general flow of the process will affect the candidacy of the candidate. I have no evidence for this what
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by idlephysicist 3y ago
Every now and then I dust off Xcode to try and build myself some (pretty simple) native macOS app – just for funsies. For reference I am a backend dev at a SaaS company dealing primarily in Python & Go, doing HTTP/gRPC services and
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by idlephysicist 3y ago
That was a good article & video, Julia’s linked post was also a great read. Though it goes without saying that getting a professional’s advice on these matters can pay dividends – pardon the pun. I would love to see a startup offer a bu
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by idlephysicist 3y ago
I know that the air accident rate is pretty much at its lowest since records began. I have heard a lot about grounding aircraft in recent years, though being a relatively young person, I am wondering is this new or was this always the proce
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by idlephysicist 3y ago
I know that the air accident rate is pretty much at its lowest since records began. I have heard a lot about grounding aircraft in recent years, though being a relatively young person, I am wondering is this new or was this always the proce
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by idlephysicist 3y ago
I love these well written, slyly comical in a dry way, articles.
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by idlephysicist 3y ago
> The team DOES NOT use pull requests. Contributors are expected to be socially capable and fully engaged in the inter-personal, realtime communication that supports high-performance, low-handoff work. I am interested to know more about
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by idlephysicist 3y ago
I totally agree, I have seen people get so fixated on this in addition to: - review feedback format - variable naming - keeping line lengths to 80 lines - log message formats (sweet jesus the amount of time wasted debating that alone) Whene
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by idlephysicist 3y ago
I frequently find myself spending as much or more time reading the HN comment section than reading the submitted article/link itself.
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by idlephysicist 3y ago
I love that the forum where that discussion is taking place doesn't even use HTTPS.
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by idlephysicist 3y ago
I'm always amazed by the information that can be had in the comments section on this site.

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