Delphiza

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by Delphiza 1y ago
Unsurprisingly, the title is sensationalist and not representative of the study. The study compares energy expenditure across different economic groups i.e. western people sitting in offices versus hunter-gatherers in Africa, and found that
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by Delphiza 1y ago
In Excel formulas everything is a function. IF, AND, OR, NOT are all functions. It is awkward and goes against what software devs are familiar with, but there are probably more people familiar with the Excel IF function than any other forms
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by Delphiza 1y ago
OpenAI is locked into _someone's_ compute resources... the one that is the cheapest. AFAIK OpenAI doesn't have much (any?) of their own hardware. With the mega-clouds buying up all the GPUs and building datacentres, you have to &#
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by Delphiza 1y ago
memmaker - a cheat, but it is still in my quick-access memory.
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by Delphiza 1y ago
Good points. It is egregious that HN 'technologists' will tell people that the tool that they use for 40+ hours a week to _get stuff done_ is completely wrong and that they must use python and a text editor instead.
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by Delphiza 1y ago
There are countless millions of people that are experts in certain domains that do not have the aptitude, confidence, or training to use high-code tools. It is insulting to imply that those people are not experts because they don't use
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by Delphiza 1y ago
Connecting EV charging stations to the grid is a significant problem. Balancing the peak grid maximum demand* against EV charging demand. While it may be okay to have a busy highway/motorway service station properly hooked up, it get&#
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by Delphiza 1y ago
Because there was no practical opportunity to put in the primary hyperbole - "Game Changing!"
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by Delphiza 1y ago
The inclusion of SAP, as a German company, was intentional. Lock-in is not just American, and these days it is extremely difficult to have independence from large tech companies. It is not impossible, but requires significant government inv
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by Delphiza 1y ago
While governments may be interested in moving stuff off Azure/AWS/GCP, in my experience, most businesses don't care enough. It is difficult enough to get them to spend money on the bare minimum needed for security. Yes, they
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by Delphiza 1y ago
Moving the low-cost jobs offshore was fine until automation filled a lot of those jobs. Now the high skilled automation skills and infrastructure (production lines and robots) are also offshore. I have done my fair share of western factory
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by Delphiza 2y ago
Thanks... I'll have another look. I always assumed that device/modem supply would catch up, but they always seemed held back by the established mobile network operators. Also, covid-related supply-chain issues stopped a lot of pro
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by Delphiza 2y ago
As part of our IoT offerings, we tried quite hard to build devices with mobile connectivity about 7 years ago. This was just as low power 5G, NB-IoT and similar technologies were going to become a thing. We gave up because it was too much e
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by Delphiza 2y ago
As a first order of business, a sufficiently advanced AGI would recommend that we stop restructuring and changing to a new ERP every time an acquisition is made or the CFO changes, and to stop allowing everyone to have their own version of
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by Delphiza 2y ago
That is a good point that US-based developers may not be aware of. The EU CRA (Cyber Resilience Act) mandates "an obligation to provide duty of care for the entire lifecycle of such products", mostly by requiring updates for secur
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by Delphiza 2y ago
What is often missed in Y2K mitigation is just how much software was discarded in favour of something more modern. I had a happy customer that was using software that I built in the early 90s. I was asked to 'Y2K certify' it, whic
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by Delphiza 2y ago
By what definition of 'hype'? It was absolutely a significant problem that needed to be 'hyped' in order to get people involved and businesses to spend money. I was involved in the periphery of Y2K, and saw significant b
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by Delphiza 2y ago
In other news "Popular online media outlet publishes story about stopping smoking to generate engagement in time for New Year resolutions. Written in a way that sharing it with family members seems caring instead of pushy". I did
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by Delphiza 2y ago
A bit of a click-baitey title from nature.com. The word 'shredded' doesn't appear in the research. 'Shredding' is what you do with paper and skateboards, not the ionosphere.
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by Delphiza 2y ago
Also in the UK we have pedestrian refuge islands. Not a crossing, as there is no pedestrian priority, but useful little bits of road furniture that reduces the likelihood of getting mown down by cars. As a side effect they also tend to slow
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by Delphiza 2y ago
A right-handed friend of mine was forced, as a result of spinal damage, to make use of his left hand. He always used to say "I was was right-handed, but now I am ambisinistral... equally useless with both hands"
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by Delphiza 2y ago
I don't know how they do it in the US, but in the UK it works like this: * Rent a house near the office that the contract is in. Transport costs are zero because staff can walk to the office. * Put 5-8 people in the house. So rent is 1
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by Delphiza 2y ago
Whenever Roblox comes up on HN I am compelled to take the opportunity to try and remind people that Roblox is not safe for children. Yes, you may have parental controls, watch every single moment of your kids' gameplay, and have kids t
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by Delphiza 2y ago
That class of software also allowed for very efficient data capture against normalised tables. A recall as early as Paradox for DOS (something I haven't thought of for a while) in about 1990 being really simple tools for creating one-t
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by Delphiza 2y ago
This has always been the case in all industries. The applications that you get, by volume or type, may change depending on people looking for work. It is not restricted to tech either. If you are in the "Laser" industry and post a
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by Delphiza 2y ago
Don't know why you are getting downvoted. OP also mentioned RDBMS as an option. I don't think that people understand how expensive Oracle gets. Larry Ellison is the 9th wealthiest person in the world (US$137B). You don't get
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by Delphiza 2y ago
I agree with some of the advice, but will offer a different take to give you something to think about. For this single large company enquiry, don't worry about monetising the app yet. Having a single license sold is not really monetisa
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by Delphiza 2y ago
I have a yubikey. It's okay but I don't take it with me. When I'm out I use my phone with a MFA app, and would never tie my MFA to a hardware dongle that is likely not to be on my person when I need it.
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by Delphiza 2y ago
Picking up trash from the floor does not require special tools, and does not void the warranty of the floor.
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by Delphiza 2y ago
Every time this comes up on HN I make a point of commenting, just so that at least one more person is aware. My daughter was caught up in one of the Roblox-oriented paedo rings when she was 12. Fortunately the outcome wasn't that bad

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