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by Delphiza 2y ago
I would add (4) (Related to your 2) OSS projects are probably getting bigger on average. Corporate-sponsored projects that tackle complex problems, as with a lot of current data science and AI, means that one-man projects are almost impossi
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by Delphiza 2y ago
I also have the tobacco industry on my list. (they also own the nicotine addiction vaping industry).
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by Delphiza 2y ago
Leetcode is significantly overrepresented on HN. Leetcode is barely a thing across most of the world. Mid-career dev jobs in non-FAANG (and their orbiting startups) organisations don't expect people to spend their time studying for lee
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by Delphiza 2y ago
(source: I have current experience with understanding and navigating special educational needs in the UK) Our current model of teaching, loosely based on compulsory education defined in the Victorian era, does not scale. It may work for the
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by Delphiza 2y ago
At least you have a choice. Other parents have little choice but to send their kids to the same school as everyone else in the neighbourhood. London-based academies are not going to be as exclusive as independent (private) schools.
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by Delphiza 2y ago
Source: I am a parent of child who has just finished GCSEs. We live in the London commuter belt. The hope that stopping phones in school will help the mental health issues that children are facing today is a ridiculous hallucination. The se
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by Delphiza 2y ago
If you think that Vestas looks bonkers, take a look at the current challengers. https://sp80.ch/ https://syro.co/en/speed-record/ The syroco design seems wildly unstable and just a simulation real
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by Delphiza 2y ago
The last time that I went to a planetarium it was far too digital. As a child I would love going to the planetarium that was part of a university and it inspired my interest in astronomy at a (too) early age. Those original analogue project
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by Delphiza 2y ago
That is why strength and conditioning is so important. A lot of knee pain is not from the impact on the joint but because of the repetitive twisting and rolling because glutes and other muscles are not able to hold knees and other joints st
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by Delphiza 2y ago
An interesting trigger for memories from my early career. People who started work in the late nineties will not remember a time when it was extremely difficult to share files and data between PCs. We had things like laplink, where you could
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by Delphiza 2y ago
It is a bit expensive for what it is, and maybe predates the waning of IoT hype, but by far the best that I have come across in a single volume is "Handbook of Industry 4.0 and SMART Systems" (978-1032103433). It is readable by so
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by Delphiza 2y ago
The Echo Wall Clock is great! (if a bit ugly) Setting kitchen timers a lot of what we use Alexa for, and the wall clock in the kitchen works well. Dissapointing that it is discontinued!
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by Delphiza 3y ago
That's a good point. I would think that a circular saw or track saw is more dangerous. You tend to be hunched over the blade in an awkward position. I use a table saw over a circular saw because, for me, it seems safer.
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by Delphiza 3y ago
You're probably getting downvoted just because of Azure, but you are right. ADX/Kusto and KQL is an extremely powerful query language that answers exactly what OP questions about SQL. Here's an example of a KQL query that I h
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by Delphiza 3y ago
In my neighborhood (just outside the M25, so desirable for younger families), at least half of the houses are occupied by old people that are rattling around in houses that are far to big for them. They are waiting as long as possible to do
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by Delphiza 3y ago
Your cats are adopting the universally understood pose of their human not being on time to feed them.
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by Delphiza 3y ago
Machine-generated or people-generated hallucinations? You would be surprised at how bad most existing reports in business are - and people don't get fired for those.
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by Delphiza 3y ago
Yes, the world did not respond neatly to a shortage of toilet paper. In the event of a shortage of animal-based protein, I would expect the response would be worse than the toilet paper wars.
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by Delphiza 3y ago
We are a small business with big customers. We alleviate their source code concerns by making source available in a git repository that is always accessible to them. The contract basically says that if our business stops operating that they
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by Delphiza 3y ago
Exactly. Making it about the kids makes it difficult for people to protest or object. I had an awkward time on our very technical team call yesterday when I ranted a bit about the bill passed. Senior engineers wanted me to 'move along&
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by Delphiza 3y ago
You need to read the article. It suggests that you should paint the blades of your car black.
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by Delphiza 3y ago
What a brilliant manual! Good photos, clear illustrations, screenshots, dimensions, tables - everything. You can read this 50 years later and feel like you understand. IBM had very good technical documentation guidelines and processes.
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by Delphiza 3y ago
I met with the health and safety team at a large multinational manufacturer, with factories all around the world, US, UK, Asia (including India and China). Their health and safety chart showed that, by a large margin, the highest number of
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by Delphiza 3y ago
So it's just a grudge against Microsoft then? That's not something I'll sign up for, thanks. You either believe in the concepts of not using personal data - for everyone - or you're selling something.
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by Delphiza 3y ago
There is a difference between personal data and personally identifiable data. In many ways it is unavoidable to use personal data. Predictive text uses personal data (they 'learn' from everyone) - is the sentence and paragraph per
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by Delphiza 3y ago
Microsoft is in the top 3 of big tech market cap (US). They officially spend about $10M per year lobbying in the US, which is in the same ballpark as other big tech. Maybe the HN crowd doesn't count Microsoft as big tech, but financial
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by Delphiza 3y ago
The problem is that when it works it is so convenient. But a small failure crashes everything. How likely is failure? It probably depends (age, income, mobile coverage, language), but it seems to mostly succeed for most people, which drives
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by Delphiza 3y ago
Agreed. "Q: What is the difference between a million and a billion. A: About a billion" (don't remember the source). Space travel carbon costs are as close to 0% as makes no difference. There are about 8,000 commercial planes
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by Delphiza 3y ago
I started my career using Delphi and was part of the local community. Two of us worked on support for Borland products at the local distributor - I went to do more development and he joined the local Borland sales team. I was often attendin
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by Delphiza 3y ago
I remember my Delphi manuals being quite grimy. They were always on hand and I could find something very quickly. It enabled me to get stuff done without any outside help. Windows help files were also good.

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