ArnoVW

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by ArnoVW 6y ago
Excellent read, but not only for the bonus part. If anyone else enjoyed it for the EE / computer engineering part, I recomment The Soul of a New Machine, by Tracy Kidder. He followed, in a sort of embedded way, a team of Data General c
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by ArnoVW 6y ago
Speaking from 11 years of consulting experience (and 5 years of SaaS product dev BTW), when I was consultant we always used to say that the price was part of the medecine. People tend to clear their agenda and listen closely more easily if
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by ArnoVW 6y ago
Oblig. Monty Python reference: https://youtu.be/H5ofIBw3uMM
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by ArnoVW 6y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_incompletenes... TLDR: you can have a mathematics that always gives true answers (but that cannot answer everything). Or you can have a mathematics that can answer every p
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by ArnoVW 6y ago
In terms of wedding rings, that's not a fundamental human value, but simply because De Beers launched a campaign that still today is a school case for advertising, due to it's ROI. "In 1938, the diamond cartel De Beers began
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by ArnoVW 6y ago
Sounds like they're building an annotated dataset, whilst at the same time claiming the space and testing market fit / appetance. Sure, the risk is that they can't make it work in the medium term. But without knowing much abo
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by ArnoVW 6y ago
I believe the ft article says that they had 30 kts wind, and steered 'into the wind' to compensate. And since they were in a narrow canal, a sudden lull in the wind was enough. That doesn't contradict the 'going too fast
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by ArnoVW 6y ago
Could it be that working in close proximity of your kids is the main cause of that? We experienced 2 months of 'school at home' with kids 5 and 8, and there is no comparing with the current situation (schools open)
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by ArnoVW 6y ago
If they expire you have to manage the rolling over (creating debt to pay off other debt). If the interest rates have gone up since the original loan, you pay more. This is often forgotten when people say 'but the state can get 0.01% in
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by ArnoVW 6y ago
Showed this to my wife. Her reply? "makes sense. Women do the inverse if they want to be taken seriously in business". I remember reading an article in the French press, about two women founders that mailed the off-site dev team u
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by ArnoVW 6y ago
I do believe that ship has sailed. Even if you are "opsec-conscious", your relatives most probably are not. Example in case, today is my birthday, and my mother in-law has sent me a video collage of pictures with me in them, autom
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by ArnoVW 6y ago
Arguably, if the model can identify me from a picture, then the model IS "indentifying information" (in the most literal sense). In France, and I believe now in the whole of Europe (GRPD) anyone can ask to remove or correct "
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by ArnoVW 6y ago
I'm pretty much an utalitairian, and I agree that that should be the objective. But it does raise an interesting point. Do people in "civilised society" produce more than they consume? Some, maybe. But the average person? I h
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by ArnoVW 6y ago
If the issue requires physically accessing the payload (which has been prepared and packaged, and is sitting on top of a huge rocket) it's not always that easy. The minimum-energy launch window occurs every 2 years, and lasts a couple
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by ArnoVW 6y ago
According to Wikipedia : The word meme itself is a neologism coined by Richard Dawkins, originating from his 1976 book The Selfish Gene.[12]
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by ArnoVW 6y ago
I'm on mobile, so can't do 'show source', but it's not simply a clever use of getYear()?
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by ArnoVW 6y ago
In the posting he wrote last week he explains that he started writing under his own name because the NYC was about to break his anonymity.
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by ArnoVW 6y ago
'luckily' it is expensive to sue, so everything works out. Consider the alternative: the laptop you bought on Amazon catches fire and burns down the school of your daughter. The school contacts your insurance, who now has to conta
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by ArnoVW 6y ago
the way the legal system works: you are responsible for your contracts. If your supplier messes up, your customers sue you, you sue your supplier.
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by ArnoVW 6y ago
Or the Shirley McKie debacle in Scotland in 2005, where it turned out that finger print detection was more of an 'art' than a science. The ball got rolling once they started convicting police officers (so at least the analysis was
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by ArnoVW 6y ago
If you ask me : because I can "scan" in 10 seconds a page of different replies, something which would be impossible to do visually or aurally. This is why 10-minute videos of "how to" in programming always enrage me. Tho
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by ArnoVW 6y ago
Just in case you are European: you can frame this as a GDPR issue. Send a mail to their Data Protection Officer (often dpo@doman.com) asking to exercise your right to correct and delete any personally identifiable data they retain about you
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by ArnoVW 6y ago
I imagine because the monolith is found on the moon because it emits a powerful magnetic anomaly.
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by ArnoVW 6y ago
I don't think it's a problem that can be covered in a three-step plan. This type of article, I think, attemps to make you think, instead of giving a cookie-cutter solution. Think of it as the equivalent of a review article in scie
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by ArnoVW 6y ago
What about the people that suffer the consequences but that do not have prosperity? What about the people that come after you? I think this cartoon sums it up quite aptly: https://www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a16995
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by ArnoVW 6y ago
Generally when people say that about Covid, what they mean is that zoonotic diseases (diseases that spread between animals and humans) could be prevented by: a) separating dense human populations from wildlife b) having in place systems for
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by ArnoVW 6y ago
Exactly. Once you factor in "who owns that debt" the picture changes. See 'external debt by country' https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_externa...
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by ArnoVW 6y ago
If your point is that some people confuse frustration with burn-out, I can't really argue with that. But from someone who has experienced burn-out, it's definitely not something to take lightly. Real burn out kills your curiosity,
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by ArnoVW 6y ago
In fact this is not even unsaid. My mom suffered a transient ischemic attack last week. To quote the surgeon: statistically she had a 15% chance of issues in the coming weeks. An operation has a 5% risk of complications, so normally we don&
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by ArnoVW 6y ago
The state does not have different laws because of WW2. It has different laws because it has a different role and obligations than a private individual. We allow the state to levy taxes, expropriate, imprison, and even kill (war, death sent

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