TomVDB

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by TomVDB 7y ago
You receive an email with a request for a privacy statement? Great, one way or the other, that's work with potential legal repercussion, which means you probably should talk to a lawyer. Additional expenses and hassle for no good reaso
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by TomVDB 7y ago
Similarly, many simple mistakes shouldn’t be treated as a crime.
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I used to have a website that did stuff with GPS data that was uploaded by users. It was purely a hobby affair that was a net loss, but Google ads ($10 per month) reduced the cost somewhat. Those ads probably made it a for profit business.
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by TomVDB 7y ago
That amount of wasted produce is probably very dependent on what kind it is. A mountain of wasted bananas might be a blip on the radar in the grand scheme of things. Bananas are some of the most fickle to deal with in the supply chain, beca
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by TomVDB 7y ago
Everybody makes mistakes. Which makes GDPR a recipe to hand over whatever remains of the Internet to only corporations that afford paying for them.
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by TomVDB 7y ago
> We have no idea how many attempts and warnings to get them to comply were sent first. True. But I doubt that even the most ruthlessly efficient GDPR enforcement authority could multiple enforcement requests between mid July and end Jul
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by TomVDB 7y ago
Post-mortems are a great way to repair some of your standing at HN. It'd be really interesting to see a post-mortem that explained how your kick-ass vetting system was able to get "Kobe B" and "Hokey Pokey Artichoke&quot
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by TomVDB 7y ago
Last year, when GDPR was heavily discussed, people were criticizing those who decided to just stop their small hobby websites because of the potential GDPR exposure. The argument back then was that they were overreacting, that we didn'
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by TomVDB 7y ago
Do you take into account billions of years of training due to evolution?
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You wouldn't be surprised if KitSplit was a criminal enterprise from the bottom up???
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What does it mean to be ahead in 7nm when you are years behind in getting your 10nm process into acceptable yielding mass production?
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by TomVDB 7y ago
Your comment reminds me of this xkcd cartoon: https://xkcd.com/1425/ It's 5 years old now (coincidentally the time span quoted to develop a solution), but recognizing a bird was already considered a solved problem
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by TomVDB 7y ago
Malice assumes that somebody is doing something wrong/illegal. That's not the case for this proposal: they simply have different tax rates for different situations. There are many other ways today in which tax treatment depends on
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by TomVDB 7y ago
I'm not a high frequency trader. When I want to sell (all highly liquid shares), I've made that decision on other factors than a 0.1% variation of the listed stock price. What I care about is that it sells. It's hold-over fro
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by TomVDB 7y ago
Here are a bunch of comments related to changing the battery: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19973236 In short: it didn't take too long, but it was still a pain. Most people seem to take the shortcut where they d
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by TomVDB 7y ago
Empty badges are around ~$0.50. At 325 badges, that reduces the difference by $165.
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by TomVDB 7y ago
I had never heard about the theory that climate change might have played a role of the Roman Civilization collapse. Here's an interesting article about it: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-climate-
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by TomVDB 7y ago
It's a thing when many car manufacturers want you to pay a monthly subscription just get simple map updates for their already very crappy maps application. It's a thing when when all your music is already on your phone.
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He didn't use the words reading and writing...
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> This to me is insane reasoning. That is no way user centric. This decision is 100% business driven and has nothing to do with the end user. I absolutely hate user interface of my Audio (with rotary knob and without touch screen), so I
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by TomVDB 7y ago
At some point, I needed a logo for my hobby website. Nothing fancy, just better than what I could cook up with my non-existent creative skills. I asked 5 different people on Fiver to create one for $5 each and chose the best one. This is ob
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by TomVDB 7y ago
Aren't the prices usually low enough that you can have the work done multiple times and choose the best one?
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by TomVDB 7y ago
Not sure who you're talking about when you write "their chips". Is that AMD or Intel?
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Is that so much different than the common practice of “sorry, but you only paid for 150 HP” ?
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Thanks for that! > it was excellent at running Compute Shaders On one hand, that statement supports my belief that there is more to graphics than just a lot of raw compute flops. > It would have been a very strong chip in the high-en
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by TomVDB 7y ago
Is there any strong evidence of the claim that Larrabee HW had the potential of being a capable GPU, and that it was just a SW issue? Despite being increasingly programmable, GPUs still have very fine-tuned hardware for graphics, and this g
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by TomVDB 7y ago
Having to remove the rear wheel is definitely better from a slippage point of view, but now you still have the friction of removing your wheel and putting it back and getting your hands dirty in the process. Maybe I'm just lazy after a
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At the very least, this story matters just the way general human interest stories matter, as entertainment.
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Twice, I had something like a Wahoo Kickr. Twice, after repeated use, the mounting mechanism to fasten my road bike to the trainer started to fail or became very cumbersome to use. When it did work, the tires on the road bike slipped when p
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by TomVDB 7y ago
> How many people are willing to spend thousands on an exercise bike? Tons of them. I've had a bunch of setups where you could plug in your road bike into a stationary setup, with virtual screen and everything, but the hassle of set

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