Ntrails

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by Ntrails 7y ago
Few work things have bemused me more in the last couple of years than watching someone re-implement a slow SQL process in an HDFS big data platform forgetting all of the things that went wrong the first time, fixing them again, and then run
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by Ntrails 7y ago
It's always fun to answer multiple choice quizzes like this. Work out what point they're trying to make and go from 0/2 to 10/13. I'm not informed, as the quiz result suggests, I just spotted the pattern.
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by Ntrails 7y ago
I don't have automatic lights. So lights on/dip around corners etc. Indicators every drive. Regularly switch airflow. Turn on reflow when allergy season. Turn knob for hotter/colder air. Emergency blinkers if traffic look
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by Ntrails 7y ago
> I think the best situation for an accused person is refusing to talk [to the police] Simple advice, and easy to follow. Even if you are innocent, understand the police have a job to do and that is to make a case against you. Do Not H
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by Ntrails 7y ago
A forum I post on has zero restrictions on sign up. No recaptchas, nothing. Couple of times a month we see some (usually Cyrillic) bot post some thread with a link that (probably) no one clicks and we all have a laugh and tell it to post
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by Ntrails 7y ago
> FWIW I would doubt he would sell to either of these companies He might not, but 6 months later the company he sells to *might. Or if public could be taken over with little choice in the matter. As you say, control is gone once he sell
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by Ntrails 7y ago
> As long as users will balk at paying even 4.99 for an app Out of interest, what is the refund policy in the app store? I know, for example, I'm way more chilled about paying for "unknown" steam games when I can refund t
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by Ntrails 7y ago
I kept a bank account open with £1 for a decade or so as a similar passive aggressive protest
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by Ntrails 7y ago
I mean, pick your poison. Either the humans are more reliable or the computers are. Either way is subject to some level of fallibility.
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by Ntrails 7y ago
If i used that model i am pretty sure there would be some kind of proper noun or fantasy novel reference, meaning the Dictionary would need to be pretty extensive.
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by Ntrails 7y ago
If, as a company, you actually care about tailgating, there is no "challenge" aspect. There's a barrier that lets one person through at a time at most, and you remove any and all social aspects to it.
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by Ntrails 7y ago
I am wary when people wax lyrical about all of the ways they love using machine learning on data. It makes me nervous because i worry that they have a hammer and can't wait to use it on anything vaguely nail shaped.
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by Ntrails 7y ago
I want climate control, not aircon. ie - keep a single consistent sodding temperature. As it is we spend the day toggling the aircon on/off depending whether it's currently freezing or too warm in the office. The consistency wit
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by Ntrails 7y ago
Yup, the roof curves but in the middle it's perfectly fine to stand straight at 6'4" and with some leeway. The time you get stuck by the door, well it's going to be a sad 20 minutes
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by Ntrails 7y ago
To say someone "does not risk their life" is meaningless really. What OP probably means is "not risking their lives to an exceptional degree". Born out by a comparison to jobs that might otherwise be classed as lower r
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by Ntrails 7y ago
> Double pay and triple pay are not uncommon (although taxes will eat most of that) People have the weirdest views on how tax actually works. Taxes will eat the same proportion, or potentially marginally more - but unless a persons marg
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by Ntrails 7y ago
I have a vague sense that I would like to semi retire into teaching maths, but have a horrible suspicion that it would be infuriating and tiresome rather than fulfilling :-/
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by Ntrails 7y ago
To be fair the current state of the Lords is somewhat different to the historically tested one.
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by Ntrails 7y ago
Worth noting that there is a very significant tax on larger inheritances here, but in the end it is a drop in the ocean. Passing wealth down obviously drives inequality but i cannot see a sane proposal to mitigate the impact. The more diff
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by Ntrails 7y ago
When i was young I used to record Jools Holland on VCR and make mix tapes of individual tracks that I enjoyed, it was great fun and made for relatively unique audio. I'd love to be able to just buy the digital audio (heck, the videos
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by Ntrails 7y ago
> Companies need to aggressively enforce, both hands on steering until self-driving is really really really good. Hands on the wheel is such a stupid metric. Two hands on the wheel whilst watching a film on an ipad doesn't do a da
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by Ntrails 7y ago
Also a Brit. I think about my various trips to hospital throughout my life and cannot imagine the difference if I was coping with money at the same time. As a child, breaking my arm was upsetting, but imagine if it put additional financial
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by Ntrails 7y ago
> I also can't see how we can have a war amongst nuclear powers. Could we have a peaceful war? Is it possible? Is that what the cold war was? I'd say the answer is "Look at Syria", proxy wars etc are the current best
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by Ntrails 7y ago
I moved offices within a company, due to a restructure, to sit with my new formal "team". My actual job was unchanged though so I didn't work with any of the people I now sat next to. For personal reasons I was super anti-s
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by Ntrails 7y ago
I don't tend to read the name of the author of an article, because there is essentially zero chance that I'll remember the name and frankly I don't care who they are. I suspect that most people tend to read in their own gende
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by Ntrails 8y ago
That is actually an analogy i am pretty happy with. We can argue about the actual severity, but in principle it feels consistent. (Conveniently working in kitchens has given me a lot of experience of regular small burns xD)
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by Ntrails 8y ago
> Except, sleep isn't a debt because the loss can't be repaid. sort of ? The impact of missed sleep has a half life. A single night of 4 hours sleep, followed by a year of normal nights sleep will lead to a me that is indisti
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by Ntrails 8y ago
I still use Lard for roast potatoes, it is excellent at the job. But it is definitely unusual to use it at all at this point
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by Ntrails 8y ago
> Earth-centered model is free speech, but it isn't worth much, because it is wrong . And yet in schools around the world people are taught that electricity flows from positive to negative, and everyone is happy. xD (slightly disin
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by Ntrails 8y ago
There is a phrase "tyranny of the majority" designed for this specific purpose. Taking the argument to its logical conclusion, sure. I want representation in government for minorities who don't have the population to justif

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