ThePadawan

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by ThePadawan 4y ago
In the mid-2010s I worked at a company that switched from using raw ints to refer to database rows to using (in C# terms) "Id<FooTable>". Across the entire codebase, we discovered an entire class of bugs that only never caus
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by ThePadawan 4y ago
I'm sorry, I'll only be answering that question once you signed the contract for my consultancy services, billed at $400 an hour.
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by ThePadawan 4y ago
> "NYC doesn't have the political will to do anything" > "NYC recently hired McKinsey to conduct a 20 week study" I mean, do I have to say anything else? The joke writes itself.
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by ThePadawan 4y ago
It might not seem like that to the author. This cabin is at ~1500 meters of altitude, in a village with a road and several other buildings. For rural Switzerland, that's not living far away from civilization - that's just living i
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by ThePadawan 4y ago
As a European who often reads material targeted at Americans, I would just assume that is what the author is doing here. The standards for "ancient" are simply relative to your own cultural history. A 200 year old building in the
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by ThePadawan 4y ago
Not from an ethical perspective, but from a personal one - I do regret putting so much effort into a past project that to me looked like it had a lot of potential to move things. There were lots of open questions, not only tech-wise, but al
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by ThePadawan 4y ago
No. In case it was unclear, I was being sarcastic in my reply and pointing out the hypocrisy of being offended that "regular people" would have to foot the bill for ICUs - as if they weren't the ones relying on their existenc
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by ThePadawan 4y ago
The alarm to go off in the nurses' station so they could investigate.
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by ThePadawan 4y ago
More than 10 years ago now, I was in the ICU for myocarditis, leading to bradycardia, a very slow heart rate. During the night, it would drop to 40 (which is still fine), but sometimes below 30, at which point my heart monitor would blare a
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by ThePadawan 4y ago
Well good thing regular people don't ever need to use ICUs.
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by ThePadawan 4y ago
This is why I enjoy No More Jockeys [0] (in small doses), a game show between three UK comedians. The rules are: * Going around the circle, each player names a person and a category into which that person belongs (e.g. "William Shatner
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by ThePadawan 4y ago
In case the first sentence is sarcastic: According to the BBC, he used the 250k to move out of the airport [0]. He moved back to the terminal a few weeks ago before dying there. [0] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe
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by ThePadawan 4y ago
The project I was working on at the time replaced an Excel sheet in the order of hundreds of MB. The users were used to performance being miserable, so no one cared if an API request took two seconds. I am an old school kind of engineer, an
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by ThePadawan 4y ago
> It seems odd to complain that computers are using human's artwork to inspire their own creations. Every human artist has done the exact same thing in their lifetime; it's unavoidable. I don't find it odd to complain that
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by ThePadawan 4y ago
> The consensus on the internet seems to be "serverless has its use cases" but it's not clear to me what those use cases are. My $0.02, having used serverless before. Those use cases are: * Very very low traffic apps. POST
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by ThePadawan 4y ago
When I was in high school AV, one of the favorite projects we were involved in was a short doc/trailer for an abstract exhibit in a local museum. We interviewed several people. The artistic director. Some people from our school who wer
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by ThePadawan 4y ago
Whoops, that was supposed to read *fixed.
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by ThePadawan 4y ago
Thanks, that mixed my thoughts of inferiority for the day.
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by ThePadawan 4y ago
TBH I was struggling to come up with a class that was relevant enough that I recalled it, but not relevant enough that I never used it ;). It's been a while since I graduated, so I probably suppressed a lot of memories about courses
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by ThePadawan 4y ago
This is why I pay a little extra to my (comparatively) small ISP (Init7). They pick up the phone and answer your questions. They don't have you wait in a queue for 45min and affirm that your call is important to them. They don't g
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by ThePadawan 4y ago
YMMV but in college I learned lots about - having to work together with assholes towards a common goal - how sometimes you can cram for a deadline, but sometimes you can't - how, often, how well you do is just politics and networking O
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by ThePadawan 4y ago
I agree with you, but imagine being a discriminatory, but rational asshole. Of course you're not going to hire a woman if you could hire a man - they might get pregnant and be away from work for a long time. Of course you're not g
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by ThePadawan 4y ago
FYI I was mostly trying to be funny throwing around TLAs to show OP that not everyone on HN is based in the USA.
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by ThePadawan 4y ago
I think the point of "humanity will always have a desire and/or find reasons to want to go to war with itself, and the only way we can at least slightly stop that is because it gets too expensive " is quite poignant.
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by ThePadawan 4y ago
(Please allow this light-hearted deviation which might be considered in poor taste) Or we could build giant dueling death robots who decide wars 1-on-1 instead of pointlessly wasting human lives like in classic Sci-Fi schlock Robot Jox [0]:
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by ThePadawan 4y ago
ESL speaker here, could you please expand that acronym?
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by ThePadawan 4y ago
I have heard your comment before, in this joke: If you walk into a room and it smells like dog shit, a dog probably shit in that room. If you walk into a second room and it still smells like dog shit, there might have been a dog that shit i
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by ThePadawan 4y ago
> Absolutely not. In 20 years I've heard the name twice: Once six weeks ago when they emailed me to try to get my team to use their tools (which they failed to describe to me, so I declined), and a second time just now on HN. I want
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by ThePadawan 4y ago
On the other hand - if it's always the people, that means that the people are the biggest (only?) thing OP is struggling with. And that even the smallest remaining problem still fills the remaining mental space, suddenly becoming the b
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by ThePadawan 4y ago
> I can't get over the fact that it's a painful way to get from A to A. Some optimizing party of me is always screaming WE COULD JUST HAVE STAYED AT A! I feel absolutely the same... about taking a walk. That seems incredibly po

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