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by Avalaxy 2y ago
> There is evidence that it helps reduce the risk of progression to a cancerous state I have not been able to find this. Do you happen to have a link to a paper?
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by Avalaxy 2y ago
I really wish we had therapeutic vaccines against HPV. As a man, I always got told "it's not for men", followed by "it is also for men, but only if you never had sex", followed by "it's also for men who ha
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Ask HN: Why are social media spam bots still a thing?
6 points by Avalaxy 2y ago|5 comments
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by Avalaxy 2y ago
I feel like this only works in small groups. Have you (repeatedly) done this in bigger groups? I feel like that's a great way to make everyone hate you. Although I must say that sometimes I have asked this question, and people seemed t
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How to deal with people who are bad at explaining?
3 points by Avalaxy 2y ago|4 comments
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by Avalaxy 2y ago
This is how I feel about a lot of books, such as The Lean Startup. Technically, there's a new topic with every chapter, but after the first 100 pages or so I feel like I get the gist, and I'm not really learning much new.
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by Avalaxy 2y ago
My current data engineering job is already less than 10% coding anyway. It's mostly talking and drawing diagrams. I suppose if an AI will do all the work, I will probably be the one who uses the AI. Sure as hell the business people are
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by Avalaxy 2y ago
Interesting indeed. Historically, a PE ratio of 65 is even quite low for NVDA: https://ycharts.com/companies/NVDA/pe_ratio
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by Avalaxy 2y ago
With the milky way it's the same thing as the auroras. I went camping in the middle of nowhere USA, and on a clear night you can absolutely not see the milkyway the way it's portrayed in photos. It looks waaaaaaaaay less clear. Yo
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by Avalaxy 3y ago
This is all great, but even if you follow all these tips, most people I meet seem to be only interested in talking about themselves. They will answer your questions (sometimes to such an exhausting length that you dread any more follow-up q
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by Avalaxy 3y ago
> I've also seen some close calls like when my fiancee was served 'rare' pork... Which isn't a culinary thing. Don't let the Germans know https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mett
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by Avalaxy 3y ago
From experience I can tell you that 99 of those are Indians without any sort of relevant resume for the job they're applying for.
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by Avalaxy 3y ago
> Young people in the West who are unhappy are mostly mentally ill Dude. Young people in the west have PLENTY to be very unhappy about, without being mentally ill. The completely fucked housing market for example (here in Western Europe
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by Avalaxy 3y ago
It seems to be mostly united statians pointing at China. But in this graph we clearly see that the US reaches their overshoot day twice as fast as China.
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by Avalaxy 3y ago
Tools-wise there are many ways to do it. From simple custom scripts to more advanced solutions like a data lakehouse. It depends on the budget and the needs I suppose. > but I was warned the files may randomly break spec (new/rename
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by Avalaxy 3y ago
Things still happen fast. The twitter blue checkmark has been developed in a weekend ;)
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by Avalaxy 3y ago
I don't see the need for all these constant redesigns. Is it really just to keep the designers busy? Or is there an actual need for this?
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by Avalaxy 3y ago
Weird that all the consumer prices went up because shipping was so expensive, but that they now aren't going down...
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by Avalaxy 3y ago
I have no recent experience with Java, but in C# it is literally a few seconds. Can't imagine Java taking much longer unless you either have a gigantic codebase, or a very slow laptop.
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by Avalaxy 3y ago
I'm a freelancer in data engineering / machine learning engineer. I've so far never held a role that I had the technical skills for (well... I do have the underlying knowledge, but not the particular frameworks/tools), b
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by Avalaxy 3y ago
This terrifies me. I read an article a few weeks ago how with the heat waves we had in the last years, the forests here stopped sequestering carbon in summer, turning them into net CO2 emitters. Meanwhile our politicians still don't da
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by Avalaxy 3y ago
It answers that in the post: > It was more like handholding a fresh grad who had absorbed all of human knowledge but needed someone to tie various parts of that knowledge to create something useful. Also ChatGPT is bad at dealing with ab
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by Avalaxy 3y ago
Nah, I'm good. I have been much more productive at home than I've ever been in the office. Happier too; I'm saving 2 hours of travel time per day, that I now get to spend on my hobbies. Not going back.
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by Avalaxy 3y ago
In Dutch, lekker also means tasty. But like you said, it also applies to many other things. Even to people (that woman is lekker, as in hot).
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by Avalaxy 4y ago
> You will need to reserve 10 hours per week for the homework - at least. Is that for part 2? Or also for part 1? How long did it take you, doing it 10 hours per week?
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by Avalaxy 4y ago
90% of the food produced here is exported. This tiny country is the second biggest food exporter on the planet... The result is that our nature is destroyed, and that we can't build any more houses to solve our massive housing crisis.
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by Avalaxy 4y ago
Pretty sure they banned both?
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by Avalaxy 4y ago
No.
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by Avalaxy 4y ago
> GPT _is_ AI though Well, it does not at all have the "intelligence" part of "artificial intelligence", so not really.
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by Avalaxy 4y ago
I'm not at all tired of AI, but I am tired of all the sales/marketing/business people taking our AI, misunderstanding it, pretending it does all sorts of things that it absolutely does not do and then also not being willing t

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