GreaterFool

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by GreaterFool 7y ago
> that governments need to put some "guardrails" around engineers and the tech titans they serve The evil engineers! Not the managers, CEOs and so on, but engineers. The true root of evil. Finally someone recognizes who's
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by GreaterFool 7y ago
Maybe they just really didn't want to support it anymore? Sunset the service...
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by GreaterFool 7y ago
Even simple help/reminder can make a big difference. I recall a bunch of research on how simple checklists in operating rooms improve prognosis by a huge margin (and yet they aren't as widely used as they should be).
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by GreaterFool 7y ago
Had a quick look. None of this looks like features for power users. How are "spaces" different than having multiple open windows?
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by GreaterFool 7y ago
> no customers are really allowed to use a VPS as if it were bare-metal I don't agree. What I'm paying for are vCPUs not actual CPUs. So I know I'm not getting bare metal and that the compute power is already managed by VP
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by GreaterFool 7y ago
> fraudulent high-cpu-loads That's enough for me to never use DO again. One pays for a server but then using it is fraudulent?!
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by GreaterFool 7y ago
I've been spending some time in California and I noticed a worrying trend that it gets harder and harder to purchase marijuana. ID requirements are getting more onerous, MasterCard no longer accepted, etc. Things are going backwards!
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by GreaterFool 7y ago
A/C only has two settings: off and too cold. Some people like too cold though. And a nice vest fixes the problem. I don't actually mind the ambient temperature being low as long as I can keep warm.
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by GreaterFool 7y ago
This reminds me of all those articles I've read about Silicon Valley hoodie as some sort of way for techies to declare their tribe. Then I went to Bay Area. And guess what? One really needs a hoodie there! It is the most versatile thin
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by GreaterFool 7y ago
Add Shibuya (mainly around the station) and Shinjuku and you basically covered all foreigner hotspots! Those are the most non-representative areas! But go to Shimokitezawa or Gakuendaigaku or anywhere off the beaten path and foreigners will
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by GreaterFool 7y ago
Actually, Japan doesn't begin anything. Japan has been doing this for years. The major shift in the last couple of years was introduction of new unskilled visas. I don't follow that too closely but IIRC what Japan introduced fir
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by GreaterFool 7y ago
The absolute fastest way to PR is through Highly Skilled Foreign Professional Type 1 visa. PR after a year. That's incredibly fast. Type 2 visa after 3 years IIRC. The difference between 1 and 2 is the number of points one scores.
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by GreaterFool 7y ago
> but it’s no longer quite right to call it homogeneous Are you sure? Japan is maybe 99% homogeneous? I live in central Tokyo and I can go on for days and days without seeing a foreigner! > it will inevitably introduce social strains
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by GreaterFool 7y ago
Downvoting on HN confuses me. I don't ever downvote anything, I think it's a bad idea. Upvoting is ok, downvoting should be removed. Also, looking at comments, often I see only upvote and no downvote button. Why is that?
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by GreaterFool 7y ago
It is fascinating to see that I have negative points by simply recounting a bland personal experience. Who did I offend this time? :)
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by GreaterFool 7y ago
I found intermittent fasting hard on carb diet. It is super easy on keto diet. In fast I fast 2-3 days every now and then because it's just a seamless transition. I'm not saying my personal experience should be considered univers
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by GreaterFool 7y ago
I can only speak to my personal experience. I’m not an athlete but I lift, bike and so on. On empty stomach. I don’t eat before training. I could never do that on carb diet.
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by GreaterFool 7y ago
Sounds reasonable to me. I've been eating keto for a long time and I always feel like I have fat energy reserves to draw on. I wonder if keto-adapted men and women would outperform carb-adapted counterparts in ultra-endurance. From per
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by GreaterFool 7y ago
If men evolved to be bigger and stronger, as measured in some peak power output, surely there's a price on that? The candle that burns twice as bright burns twice as fast as the saying goes. Also, the article is mainly about one woma
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by GreaterFool 7y ago
How close 18 is to 10 in absolute sense has zero meaning. So does saying "10 most dangerous jobs" without quoting actual numbers. What if job 11 is 100x more safe than job 10? What if job 18 is 100000x more safe than job 10?
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by GreaterFool 7y ago
Wow. That is seriously unfair
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by GreaterFool 7y ago
It's mysterious enough if there's no one willing to explain how the system works. Just that the results are adjusted.
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by GreaterFool 7y ago
Why not actually? Instead of politicized solutions one could require schools at every level to create some sort of random admission pool for some percentage of yearly admissions. For instance, take the mean SAT of admitted students, lower i
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by GreaterFool 7y ago
My university (one of the top-ranked in the world) did have some sort of adjusted scaling for the final exams. The raw results were never released. One would get a number somehow adjusted for how to the whole cohort did. So that if some exa
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by GreaterFool 7y ago
Just introduce a random pool. RANDOM . I don't trust any of these people to do it correctly. I wouldn't even trust them to make random truly random.
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by GreaterFool 7y ago
Given that the population of Japan is <130M and is only going to go down from now on, what's the point? :) 14-digits?!?! Yikes. Not looking forward to using that!
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by GreaterFool 7y ago
So one starts with 1 point. Someone clicks downvote, it goes to 0 and the comment disappears, right? That's too fast IMHO. Perhaps a better system would be to upvote only? Then constructive comments would raise to the top and who reall
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by GreaterFool 7y ago
I assume you're talking about CI? Not much more than that. But that only works in the most trivial cases. One repository, simple tests. I spent tons of time over the years always tweaking this and that to make whatever CI system we wer
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by GreaterFool 7y ago
I feel bad for GitLab. It's better than GitHub in almost every way. And yet GitHub is more popular both in open-source and enterprise. And in enterprise we are usually left with unholy combination of GitHub and JIRA because GitHub proj
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by GreaterFool 7y ago
Because Wasm could be used mobile as a native first class citizen, not limited to running within a browser or some browser view. And then Wasm code can be shared between multiple environments including mobile, browser, edge (CloudFlare work

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