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by Schwolop 5y ago
If I buy a car with airbags, I am buying the confidence that they are there to protect me. Indirectly I'm also buying the confidence to not need to check them before setting off. In this instance, if I need to check the safety of my sa
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by Schwolop 6y ago
And it's quite obvious that there are at least some situations in which vision will not work whatsoever - e.g. dense fog. I personally would quite like my autonomous vehicle to operate happily through dense fog. If you're happy to
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by Schwolop 6y ago
I second this. Ok, I'm on the Manager schedule now. How do I still make things? Having kids puts you on the Manager schedule (interruptions are to be expected and blocks of time without pre-scheduled interruptions are rare) whether you
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by Schwolop 6y ago
I like this. Hadn't heard it before, but it's succinct and as it happens, I agree!
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by Schwolop 6y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18358795 might well be what you're referring to. It was a great comment!
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by Schwolop 6y ago
Those numbers are fascinating in their own right, but even more so when compared against the staggering 35,000+ deaths per month the US is suffering right now. (467k over ~13 months of pandemic, obviously it's not evenly spread but the
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by Schwolop 6y ago
I’ve no idea who was first, but someone needs to change a name here. I assumed this was about clubhouse.io; the project management tool competing with the likes of Jira.
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by Schwolop 6y ago
I asked my family to not disturb me when working. It did not work great.
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by Schwolop 6y ago
Work bought me a new M1 Mac Pro with 16GB RAM and I’m not feeling the speed whatsoever. My dock causes repeatable crashes waking from sleep. Browsing feels slow and laggy, with things like the 1password add-on visibly loading in parts when
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by Schwolop 6y ago
[off-topic] Hey randomdude - a few months back you replied to one of my comments with some well wishes that I could get back into motorbike riding soon. Just wanted to pass on that Melbourne is now free from lockdown again, and so I am able
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by Schwolop 6y ago
Yeah, I'm sure some providers do support some of my feature requests here. But definitely not a single one supports all of them (or I'd have moved to it!) Amazon Music, for example, supports this blocking only for songs in their p
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Abilene Paradox(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by Schwolop 6y ago|0 comments
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by Schwolop 6y ago
Dear Google/Alexa/Cortana/Siri product managers in the streaming audio space, here is what we actually want: * "never play that song ever again" * "add <artist> to my blocked list" * "se
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by Schwolop 6y ago
I'm thinking it's this: https://docs.google.com/document/d/17tEc9ETL4tjfTmNbpwJJ5OSx...
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The Uncanny Valley of Culture(medium.com)
4 points by Schwolop 6y ago|0 comments
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by Schwolop 6y ago
I live in Melbourne, Australia. Whilst I understand the reasons and generally approve of our COVID-19 response, a side-effect is that any activities outside of 5km from one's home have been banned for the last three months (and with ab
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by Schwolop 6y ago
Quick issue to fix on https://storycreatorapp.com/features - both the Trim Video and Resize GIF paragraphs have the same text content.
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by Schwolop 6y ago
Well said. :-)
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by Schwolop 6y ago
Cooltrax | Senior & Principal IoT Engineers | Melbourne, AUSTRALIA | ONSITE with WFH | Full-Time | https://cooltrax.com We’re an industrial IoT company that builds our own hardware and writes software to monitor temperatures
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by Schwolop 6y ago
> if(!sync() || !sync() || !sync()) return SWBB_FAIL; I don't know why, but I find this really elegant. It's a lovely use of short-circuit returns combined with the electrical protocol to find the frame initialiser (3 syncs) th
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by Schwolop 6y ago
It seems a fair few tech entrepreneurs and folks in the software industry are also into designing games. I have several in the works, and one that’s very slowly building a following: https://www.drtomallen.com/half-the-battl
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by Schwolop 6y ago
Cooltrax | Principal IoT Engineer | Melbourne, AUSTRALIA | AU$120-140k, negotiable | ONSITE & WFH | Full-Time | https://cooltrax.com We’re an industrial IoT company that builds our own hardware and writes software to monitor
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by Schwolop 6y ago
I'm in this situation too; in VIC, Australia with 3/5/8 year olds. It's the 3yo who's hardest to deal with by an enormous amount. Given that the situation in Australia is about as under control as it's possible
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by Schwolop 7y ago
There's a potential systemic bias involved in this that the report does not consider (unsurprisingly). What if the particular firmware caused hearing damage that now causes these users to think the noise-cancelling performance has dete
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by Schwolop 7y ago
I design board games for fun and unrealistic dreams of making entire hundreds of dollars. But the part I suck at is making art and iconography. So I'm spending some time learning how to drive GIMP and Inkscape. Just this week I have co
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by Schwolop 7y ago
Even though it's not tangible, I just wanted to offer you a ray of hope - if you'd pitched that set of priorities to me at the right time, I would want to give you an interview barely glancing at a resume. The attitude of wanting
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by Schwolop 7y ago
When I was in my younger university days, I ran the juggling club for a few years. One of our favourite gags was to “flashmob” a grocery store and juggle various fruits between each other. We’d gradually bring more and more of the supposed
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by Schwolop 7y ago
There are many games and many meta-games in this field. Here are two. For SWEs, one base game is to earn the most money. The play-space appears to be one's current company, so working hard on company-beneficial projects and doing well
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by Schwolop 7y ago
I think a good example that aids definition is "meta-optimisation" (aka "meta-computation). Optimisation is a process that aims to find the best possible solution to a problem. E.g. let's use Dijkstra's algorithm to
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by Schwolop 7y ago
> I don't have much else to say, other than you're not alone and I hope you find peace with this. Thank you for saying it. The frequency with which I see positive expressions of humanity on HN is a big part of what makes this p

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