Osmium

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by Osmium 5y ago
I appreciate the need for them to do what's right for their business, and that the HN crowd is probably not representative of their broader customer base. With that said, they've lost a customer here. I would prefer not to pay a s
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by Osmium 5y ago
The person you're responding to is asking themselves questions about the decisions they're making, the impact of those decisions, and if they can make better decisions to reduce the harm they might be causing. Is this so bad?
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by Osmium 5y ago
I agree, for what it's worth. You're not alone with this. Of course, there are many individual life circumstances that mean a car is an absolute necessity, but for many people it's a choice, whether they acknowledge they&#x27
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by Osmium 5y ago
Seems like there's a lot of potential in code-based games, not just for learning but for a creative outlet. Wish the contrast was a bit higher on this one though!
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by Osmium 5y ago
I think you slightly misread the article. His sadness was for those people who wanted to hear the cuckoos (for example, birdwatchers) but could not because they were in a hurry, or did not have the patience or the time to listen.
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by Osmium 5y ago
This is in the UK where there exists something of a social safety net. For example, I very much doubt he pays for his sister's carers (speaking from experience), and he will have healthcare available for himself if he needs it. So he m
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by Osmium 6y ago
> Books aren't fruit. Books may not be, but: “I have a theory that plays go off, like fruit,” Tom Stoppard https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/03/tom-sto... There's something t
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by Osmium 6y ago
Hypothetically, you could imagine that a long voyage might need a decent Netflix library, and that new media production might not be feasible en route -- perhaps this would help maintain a common language?
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by Osmium 6y ago
Sincere question: why do we assume people in the past were so filthy? I'm sure there are notable examples of unhygienic cities or buildings (I've read about a few) but in general one suspects there may be a tendency to exaggerate
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by Osmium 6y ago
It's likely expensive because of the synthesis and quality control not because of the raw ingredients (not that they're necessarily cheap either).
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by Osmium 6y ago
> I don't know if that's because matter moves as a wave at the atomic level or if that's just an artifact from the camera. Artifact of the imaging, note the time scale of the movie, it's much longer than any quantum o
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by Osmium 6y ago
This is a fair question. Any test has a certain percentage of false positives and false negatives -- in fact, you can likely tune your ratio of false positives to false negatives depending on what your priority is. On a community level, the
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by Osmium 6y ago
That's a fair point, there's some more good discussion on this here: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03519-3 For the broader point, regardless whether or not someone is more likely to have a common
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by Osmium 6y ago
Thanks for sharing your story, it's useful to hear anecdotes. I also want to emphasize I was making a general comment and not intending a personal criticism. The points raised by bigiain and mxcrossb are well-made, "cold-like&quot
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by Osmium 6y ago
I'm glad the OP made the correct decision in this case and hope they get well soon. > the assumption I had a minor cold > the loss of smell was total Since there does seem to be a messaging problem about the reliability of testin
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by Osmium 6y ago
Does anyone know the latest on the Swift-Python bridge from the TensorFlow team[0]? Is this still in development or usable for iOS apps? [0] https://www.tensorflow.org/swift/tutorials/python_interopera...
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by Osmium 7y ago
Thanks!
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by Osmium 7y ago
> On Monday, the CMO cited the chief minister’s advice against large gatherings to say they didn’t have “infrastructure to screen and hand out masks to 5 lakh people”. For anyone interested, I did some quick math and it seems like it&#x2
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by Osmium 7y ago
They're an effective diagnostic, faster than testing for the virus directly. At least they seem to be effective at these fever clinics. NYTimes Daily podcast had a good explanation of how these fever clinics work.
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by Osmium 7y ago
I wouldn't say it's terrible. There's a distinction between Dash itself (very general/customizable framework) and Plotly charts (agreed, some chart types are poorly documented). Dash >= 1.0 has been pretty stable and
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by Osmium 7y ago
That's a very narrow lens with which to look at it. It matters a great deal when your friends, co-workers and communities would be affected by policies like this. Historically, the UK has benefitted immensely from its immigrant populat
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by Osmium 7y ago
Sure. I don't think points-based systems are in-and-of-themselves unreasonable, in that there are good-faith arguments to be made in their favour. It's the undercurrent of meanness and xenophobia behind the policies that's mo
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by Osmium 7y ago
UK citizen here. "High-skilled" worker, left the UK. Policies like this do not make me want to return.
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by Osmium 7y ago
It is only correct and right that all these bronzes are returned. The moral argument aside, I don't think the 'safety' argument holds either. For example, an artifact might be 'safest' if it's enclosed in a con
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by Osmium 7y ago
> Andy Warhol's Campbell Soup sold for $11.7 Million. Does money define art?
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by Osmium 7y ago
Brown's standard patter starts with him saying he performs a mix of "magic, suggestion, psychology, misdirection and showmanship." He is very good at what he does. I suspect most of his tricks are of the more traditional magi
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by Osmium 8y ago
'Inferno' would be nice for this, also perceptually uniform, and has the benefit that space is still black.
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by Osmium 8y ago
> I've also seen a few PhDs at my last company end up as systems engineers which is incredibly depressing because they could have been employed in that same role if they stopped at a bachelors. It’s only depressing if they feel like
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by Osmium 8y ago
Discussion here [0], also recommend this lecture[1]. I'm personally not a fan, but I like that people talk about it :) Dogma isn't good for anyone! [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13198025 [1] http:&#x2F
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by Osmium 8y ago
Are Ubiquiti decent? It looks like they have a consumer line (AmpliFi). Cost is not a primary concern, within reason. Wanting a consumer focused router is more about wanting to minimize set-up time and maintainence. Frankly, I’m not sure I

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