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by Aromasin 4y ago
The same way people handle Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote. They fulfill different functions to different people. I could do notes, make spreadsheets, or produce presentations in any one of those apps, but each task is more or
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by Aromasin 4y ago
I shared this article a few years back; never expected it to reappear again. Here's the link to the old thread, if anyone want to read the previous HN comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20582844
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It's the rule of cool. Everything must be as ergonomic as possible, unless of it adds to the cool-factor, which a functioning stick shift for your computer certainly does.
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Unfortunately, not if any information has change at all. In my case, a change of address. In that case, postage is the only option.
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Tangentially related, but I'm ordering a vehicle logbook from the DVLA at the moment. I'm a millennial/Gen-Z straddler, so it's been a real blast from the past-I-never-had. I need to pay for my tax online. In order to do
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by Aromasin 4y ago
Too late in the game to edit it now but you're probably right. Apologies all!
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You can tell he studied Zoology at university - the premise of the Shadows of the Apt book is that races are based on insects and sea creatures!
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From what I'm aware, a lot of these larger companies basically treat other parts of the business the same they would customers; very important customers, but customers all the same. If YouTube wants more cloud budget, it comes out of t
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The first book in the series, Children of Time, is also fantastic. It's regarding a species of artificially intelligent spiders (intelligence accelerated by an "ancestral memory" based down genetically). He provides some real
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by Aromasin 4y ago
Despite the criticism from other people in this thread, pretty much every role I've received is through LinkedIn. I probably get 4 or 5 recruiters reach out a week regarding one role or another, of which 1 of those is worth my time. Th
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I did try to find data but couldn't. Pure anecdata from friends in the industry and observations from vlogs/blogs, it's very similar, maybe a bit higher - reaching 10% perhaps but not much more. The engineers that were axed w
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Based on data from other "tech layoffs", very few if any core engineers will go. It'll be sales, recruitment, and an assortment of engineering-adjacent positions like solutions, industrial design, data analytics, and product.
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I think more than housing prices need to come down for that to happen. We'd need young people to not be living pay-check to pay-check. To echo the other comment, this isn't the pre-1900's where children were mostly self-susta
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If you're not arguing over the semantics, rather than OP's clear-enough intent, are you really on HN?
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Depends on your definition of "supply". The argument is mainly just semantics. They're not wrong per-se. A better phrase might have been "production" rather than supply. I agree, supply sounds like I'm buying a
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by Aromasin 4y ago
I know someone else has said there's not too much whitespace, but I disagree. Comparing HN to this, I'm seeing 9 links per page compared to 26 for HN. Even Reddit fits 10 per page, and that's with thumbnails. It goes up to 18
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It probably has so many upvotes because it's quite a novel topic for HN. You might not appreciate it as much, being in the industry, but algorithmic trading is a field most of us haven't explored. Most of the content on HN is focu
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by Aromasin 4y ago
Maybe that's today's true counter culture; anti-consumerism and switching offline. Thousands of people do it daily - delete their Social Media accounts, stop sharing everything online, stop watching endless video streams, stop pla
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I can't help but agree. Technology is hard to grasp without study. Study takes time, which founders don't have. People with technical expertise are expensive. If you don't have the expertise yourself, you have to hire it. He&
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by Aromasin 4y ago
My mother is a sucker for online shopping, and over the last few months has bought a number of clothes on Amazon. I've checked, and every single one of them has been a counterfeit. One set was literally a pair of hospital scrubs with a
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I almost certain this was confirmed as misinformation last time I heard of it. Just someone lying to feed the War Thunder forums spreading military secrets meme. There's a comment from Raytheon's (unconfirmed) Reddit account quell
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So pick a sport that isn't injury prone to better suit the person? I do it because it's fun and challenging, and brings me back to my own military days. Switch CrossFit for swimming/cycling and rugby for soccer, tennis. or ba
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Khan Academy. Not a book per-se, but have worked through the courses over the past few years, I'm confident that my college and university results would be about 2 or 3 grades higher we I to retake them. https://www.khanacad
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Things I've done to successfully restart my social life after Covid in the last year: * Restarted Crossfit. Social events have included BBQ's, meals out, trips away (normally CF related, but still great fun). Every box I've b
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I recently migrated a lot of my CUDA code to SYCL using Intel's compatibility tool [1]. I'm trying to get my applications to work irregardless of hardware, so it simply needed to be done despite the pain. It actually wasn't a
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A mastery in short story writing. I had to call my mum immediately after finishing it.
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I thought they were talking about Lattice Semiconductor for a good 5 minutes. I figured a hardware company with just over 700 employees was pretty damn lean, and didn't understand why they were downsizing. Turns out no, this a a cloud
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To piggy back this comment, Federated Learning actually has a lot of other uses beyond just crowdsourcing. It has benefits to data privacy also. The medical industry has struggled sharing their data with other institutions without compromis
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I will forever hold it against Boeing for using imperial in their engineering drawings, when almost every other aerospace company in the world uses metric. I cannot tell you how many hundreds of man hours I've seen spent by engineers a
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To quote the article directly: >Morning carbs are better than late-day carbs. That's in direct conflict with an article I read just two weeks ago, when carbs in the evening where best. Diet articles are always contradictions, regard

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