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by ak217 6y ago
Earlier feature about the culture at the security camera company in question: https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkdyqm/surveillance-startup-...
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by ak217 6y ago
Yes, and the point of a standard is also that it should have an authoritative, immutable copy for a given version of the standard. The Wikipedia article is neither.
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by ak217 6y ago
Aside from Tim making very good points, ISO-8601 is not a good standard - it tries to specify too many formats and ends up being so flexible that full compliance is rare. RFC 3339 is an open standard and is much simpler and more practical.
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by ak217 6y ago
Your advice in this thread falls into that category. You take some sort of puritanical ideal of hard work and sacrifice, then apply it to build a... distorted idea of what parenting is and to abstractly shame people who don't fit it, t
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by ak217 6y ago
Please don't post disinformation here. https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-9906367046
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by ak217 6y ago
Thanks, that's a great video and I'm going to look through the references. Lots of great points made in the video. As he acknowledges in the end, a lot of cyclists prefer clip-in pedals just due to stability. In my experience, it&
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by ak217 6y ago
I think the problem is that cyclists get more efficient over time on their bike and on the kind of course they are familiar with. In this study, they didn't even have clip-in pedals: "Because not all of the runners were familiar
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by ak217 6y ago
But the engine did contain the failure. No pieces of the engine caused any functional damage to the rest of the aircraft. The housing is designed to prevent shrapnel damage, not to prevent stuff from falling out altogether. What's insa
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by ak217 6y ago
...Decrease them to zero, aka ordered an immediate inspection. The fan blade had a stress fracture. So they'll need to do an immediate ultrasonic scan of the blades, which should clear the engines for flight, and then figure out why th
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by ak217 6y ago
Even if we take that study at face value (they basically overfitted a model with so many free parameters, they could tune it to give any result they want), car seat regulations have at least two orders of magnitude less effect than any of i
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by ak217 6y ago
I agree, it does look nicer from the recruit's side :)
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by ak217 6y ago
But it's not their bonus to give. The recruiters' incentives are structured the same way as the realtors: they're facilitating a transaction while taking a commission. Sell-side realtor:employer-side recruiter::buy-side realt
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by ak217 6y ago
JSON/XML quickly stop being alternatives as soon as you need any sort of index, a memory-mapped/on-disk data structure that doesn't have to be loaded into memory, transactional or even just incremental writes. ZIP is not even
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by ak217 6y ago
Thanks for the context, those are great points.
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by ak217 6y ago
> a lot of large libraries depend on some of that behavior. Armin makes great points about path dependence of API design and how the CPython API leaks into the Python language spec. But the features being discussed are actually obscure (
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by ak217 6y ago
> because CPython aims to be relatively simple and straightforward by choice Sacrificing performance for core interpreter developer convenience may have been the right choice when Python was getting started; it's no longer the right
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by ak217 6y ago
It's noteworthy to the extent that the CPython development team continues to refuse to implement a JIT runtime, to the detriment of the Python community. PyPy is not the default Python interpreter, and most Python libraries don't
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by ak217 6y ago
I don’t. PyPI no longer allows reuploading the same release.
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by ak217 6y ago
OK, but it does manage the versions of transitive dependencies, and there's nothing in that process stopping deterministic builds. Adding/removing top level dependencies over time does require the use of two files (the top level r
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by ak217 6y ago
Not so. I use pip freeze to manage my dependencies, including all transitive dependencies, and my builds are deterministic.
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by ak217 6y ago
Isn’t this what pip freeze is for?
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by ak217 6y ago
I don't think that's true. Slack seems to have their core online services split across a number of VPCs, and for some reason decided to use Transit Gateway to connect them. Transit Gateway is a special-purpose solution that is gea
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by ak217 6y ago
I think most directly, when people get evicted, they are at greater risk of losing their job.
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by ak217 6y ago
Can you please speak more plainly? "[T]hat half of the political sphere"? "[D]eplatforming and dehumanizing half the population"? You seem to be using coded language to refer to a hodge-podge of unrelated things and blow
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by ak217 6y ago
This is the most beautiful thread I've read on Hacker News. Thank you.
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by ak217 6y ago
The touchbar doesn't have physical buttons. Physical buttons are critical. That's the key difference between an MFD and a touchscreen. The touchbar is a one-dimensional touchscreen, with most of its downsides. This isn't to s
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by ak217 6y ago
I'm flabbergasted that MFDs haven't made more inroads in automotive and computer input device applications. We even have decent HUDs in cars now, but no MFDs. I'm convinced a good MFD would be far superior to the typical touc
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by ak217 6y ago
"Keeping it simple" is how we got here. People are unhappy because ports were removed. I want my microSD port back, and I don't think it will hurt you if you don't use it. Even if you pour coffee in it, it will just fuse
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by ak217 6y ago
> I’m not a moderator, but I ask you to please try to better further the discussion with future comments. Please don't go there. You're both adding to the discussion, maybe some strong words here and there, but this turn of phr
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by ak217 6y ago
I agree, they really need to replace that product. It's not built to the standard that users expect from AWS. They have burned a lot of goodwill on that one. That said, it's only truly necessary for Lambda and while it's frus

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