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by AdamN 2y ago
I'd prefer they just block articles that use sensationalist headlines (when possible without blocking the entire topic).
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by AdamN 2y ago
When I was a kid a lifeguard helped me out in rough waves in the Atlantic. I was doing ok but not great and probably should have gone in earlier. I asked if he had rescued me because I wasn't really sure what was going on ... he said
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by AdamN 2y ago
They already know that some of these upcoming model builds are going to require $100MM and possibly even a billion dollars. That is just the compute costs for building a single model. Product-market fit is basically established and the co
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by AdamN 2y ago
He wasn't prosecuted for logging in and looking around. He overtly did copyleft type things like finding ways to take copyrighted journal articles and release them into the public domain. Overzealous prosecution for sure regardless.
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by AdamN 2y ago
Coins used to have holes in them more often so that they could be put onto a string for counting/storage.
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by AdamN 2y ago
They're probably referring to poor (working class really) people living in outer London who have cars and are now basically frozen out of central London unless they use mass transit or pay for entry. There are also legacy car owners w
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by AdamN 2y ago
In Germany there are a few key milestone years that are heavily documented (forget which years) and every kid has to do that with their pediatrician. In the US it's typical to have an annual exam with their pediatrician - this is free
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by AdamN 2y ago
First off - plenty of people are against coal plants for health reasons in addition to the environmental reasons. There is nobody cheering coal and blocking nuclear (and please don't bring up the Germany decommissioning of nuclear pl
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by AdamN 2y ago
> you will want to learn Danish for social purposes Are non-Danish speakers really going up to B2+ Danish, even if they live in Copenhagen for a decade? It seems like Danish people would still speak better English and non-Danish people
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by AdamN 2y ago
It's that 'spooky action at a distance' thing. It's still never been clear to me but what's the speed of Electromagnetism (i.e. if you drop a highly magnetic object into an area - how quickly is the force impacting
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by AdamN 2y ago
[OT] how long have you been in Copenhagen? Are you learning Danish or do you get by with basic Danish and just use English?
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by AdamN 2y ago
Yeah there's this focus on cities where things are getting cleaned up but in rural areas the fertilizer and intensive agriculture makes the rivers (and fjords?) toxic. Check out the Des Moines river in Iowa. Seems absolutely insane t
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by AdamN 2y ago
I did a home inspection on my house and really appreciated the insights there - many hazards were identified and it makes doing a rational de-risking exercise possible.
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by AdamN 2y ago
Yes. Please put together 100 people to finish the 100 dev-month project next month.
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by AdamN 2y ago
Sure - but paying for that on an astronaut's pension??
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by AdamN 2y ago
First off, just presume GDPR applies globally. Then, know your legal 'zones' and by default keep all data in those containers. Thirdly, if you need to send data from one zone to another, ask "Do I really need to?? really???
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by AdamN 2y ago
Based solely on age this is probably their last hurrah in space
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by AdamN 2y ago
We need another team to determine when the Mythical Man Month applies or not /s
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by AdamN 2y ago
You're missing the part that they may have taken zero classical mechanics classes. Even if it's something you learn in week 3 in that class, if you've never taken it you have no idea where those ideas fit in.
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by AdamN 2y ago
The EC/girocard thing is real though - those POS devices usually don't work with my American Visa - just my Deutsche Bank "EC" karte.
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by AdamN 2y ago
These days most merchants are large or small and just use Square or some POS where they don't even know what's happening so not sure this is really an issue anymore.
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by AdamN 2y ago
Sort of a weird question but who's using Intel anymore? Most tech people are using Macs on the laptop side, AWS is going Graviton first, RaspberryPi/small form factor is ARM, and then of course there's all the higher level a
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by AdamN 2y ago
SCSI drivers on Dell servers not working with FreeBSD is why I moved to Linux in the early 2000s
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by AdamN 2y ago
You didn't notice Brexit - a distinctly Tory-enabled change that wouldn't have happened if the Lib Dems or Labour had been in charge?
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Silicon Valley's tech titans line up to donate to Donald Trump(ft.com)
35 points by AdamN 2y ago|55 comments
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by AdamN 2y ago
Based on a book by Dan Drezner, sanctions aren't impactful. However, the threat of sanctions is. In order for the threat to be credible you need to follow through with actual sanctions whenever they are threatened and the other part
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Ask HN: Low-Security/High-Performance OS
1 points by AdamN 2y ago|1 comments
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by AdamN 2y ago
I'm a big fan of my b&w Brother laser printer even though I don't do big jobs. It always works, is fast, and cheap.
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by AdamN 2y ago
And that's better how??
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by AdamN 2y ago
> you cannot simultaneously have lower congestion and higher demand for taxi How so? If a taxi used to take 20 minutes and $20 and now it takes 15 minutes and $18 the demand for that form of transport will go up.

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