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by 3pt14159 5y ago
Well there is New Horizons[0], which launched in 2006 and is now beyond Pluto. But in terms of coolness, I really like The Parker Solar Probe[1] which is going closer and closer to the sun with a massive heat shield and at eye watering spee
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by 3pt14159 5y ago
I've been worrying about tech for a while now, but mostly on the cybersecurity side since I figured AI was still too far away. That more or less changed when I read a post by Gwern on GPT-3, where he makes a compelling case that "
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by 3pt14159 5y ago
I'm actually surprised at how low those numbers are. Only 1322 millionaires in Canada? Really? I know most people get a mortgage, but there are a ton of houses in Toronto and Vancouver that are over $1m.
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by 3pt14159 5y ago
They're really quite close, both pairs of them. But the emphasis isn't quite the same as most people speak it.
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by 3pt14159 5y ago
Peace and piece are really quite close. Even week and weak are too. At least to my Canadian, native English ears; and I've done enough French, Russian, and Greek to hear the difference between what other Canadian English speakers would
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by 3pt14159 5y ago
As a bit of an aside Michael, I've been pretty impressed with the quality of your team's response on HackerNews. If my skillset was a better fit for your company I'd consider applying. I hope you all get some great talent wit
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by 3pt14159 5y ago
I mean, yes? We should seek to contrast fatalities across every major energy source if we can? But given that we don't have perfect numbers we have to go off of the ones we have, and solar installations are over 4x the death rate than
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by 3pt14159 5y ago
For background, I haven't used TimescaleDB before, but I've done some pretty advanced ORM work to vertically shard PG tables in Rails and I know PG pretty well, so I'm quite curious about TimescaleDB. > * Even though most
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by 3pt14159 5y ago
The issue with solar is that there are a lot more deaths for a given amount of energy than for nuclear. Yes, they're spread out so it's less dramatic, but overall nuclear is safer and also produces very useful medical isotopes. Wh
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
I agree, they're both right. I've been doing data science since around 2008 and it's a balance between local needs and repeated analysis and an often more efficient one off query. Sure the SQL optimizer is going to read off t
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
Does anyone know what the financial requirements are to be a platinum or silver level member of the Rust Foundation? I clicked around on their website but couldn't find the answer.
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
I love how Linus gave so much credit to Junio and downplayed his own personal role in the project.
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
> According to benchmarks, writes to SSDB are slightly slower but reads are actually faster than Redis! How is this possible? Surely reads from RAM are faster than disk?
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
Thanks for the kind words :) I'm not really sure what to work on next. I was focussed on arms control for cyberweapons for a while, and I made some real progress, but I want to work on something new now. Maybe finding a way to scale up
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
Please don't call me that. I really believe any 11 year old could learn what I did with parents like mine. When I compare the skill involved with something like violin versus the skill that's needed to validate HTML forms with Jav
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
All I can say is that I've had to make these calls myself and I was indeed quite happy when my family members picked up. It's hard to imagine it until it happens to you, but when you only have two phone numbers you have memorized
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
Wow, that's an even longer time. I started tinkering with code in the late 80s when I got my first computer at 4, then went to college when I was 11. First job at 14. I feel like 30 years of coding is long enough to feel like a long, l
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
Well there are more productive programmers and less productive ones. It's pretty obvious to me. I don't like trying to quantify it as 10x or 20x, because it's kinda pointless to try and I don't view it as a scalar. I can
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
> many of the issues brought up in this post can be reduced or eliminated by using a managed database service like Heroku PostgreSQL, ... They come with their own issues though. I was unable to change a ludicrously small variable (which
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
I've been programming for a long, long time. Went to college for it when I was a pre-teen. The more and more I code the more I see it closer to something like music than something like engineering. Getting a little garage band together
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
It's a hard problem to crack. Some legitimate places need to be able to call you without you knowing them ahead of time. Say your sibling was mugged in Mexico and the local little police station let them borrow the landline to call the
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
I did the same thing when I was roughly 15 or so. What was funny about The Economist subscription at the time was that it asked you your honorific (Mr., Mrs., etc.) and I checked off "Sir." thinking of it as harmless high school m
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
> if you want to save for a deposit to buy a house, spend time on education and getting a better job, you'll get hit by much higher tax and it will take ages to save anything. I actually disagree. The issue isn't the tax rate,
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
This is akin to how humans learn too, so I'm not surprised that it is the case. Little kids learn how to listen to verbal commands even when, say, a flight is going by overhead. Most of what we learn is in a bit of a mush of data, and
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
Find a safe place to get high quality code reviews. I recommend high quality software projects like Rails or Postgres. The biggest aid to my creating better software is code reviews. Also, put this[0] in your calendar and read through it on
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
I have a nuanced opinion on unions after dealing with a bunch of them in a former life as a construction inspector / structural engineer (EIT). Some unions are great. IBEW Local 353 comes to mind. The best unions have slogans like &quo
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
I've said this multiple times over multiple years and I'll say it again just because so many green developers get misled. Object oriented programming is good. Not in absolutely every situation, but for most business applications i
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
Disclaimer: My mum works for AT&T on internet related stuff. This post has large elements of truth to it, especially for dumb hops over tier 1 which should be much cheaper than they're currently billed, but there's a lot mor
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
What I think most people miss with FSD is that it's going to have a higher crash rate than average while the kinks are still being ironed out. That is ok because we're seeking to reduce the crash rate overall as fast as poss
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
Welcome to being me three or four years ago. I've literally met with MPs and ministers trying to get regulations and other things. They're coming. But they don't happen without civic engagement. Write to your elected represen

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