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by anitil 6y ago
Congratulations! Refreshing to hear some good news from 2020.
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by anitil 6y ago
What are you referring to?
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by anitil 6y ago
It's surprising to me how slow reddit is on mobile. If only there was a way of serving content so that the browser can start to render before the full payload has been served.
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by anitil 6y ago
> they took the float, converted it to a string, stripped out the period, then converted the string to an integer. This simultaneously made my day much better, and much worse.
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by anitil 6y ago
I would also add the following - another good reason is that it's probably going to be the most reliable, best tested part of any stack you decide to use.
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by anitil 6y ago
It's possible I'm misreading the tone of "has ways to go" and "niche volunteer-based SCM".
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by anitil 6y ago
I can't remember where I read the quote (maybe Ben Goldacre?), but it was along the lines of "If it's in Nature, it's probably false". I suppose because the likelihood of publication in Nature goes up if it's a
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by anitil 6y ago
I loved everything about that thread. Slightly off-topic, but I want to point out how well Richard deals with a slightly rude commenter [1]. Keeps it classy and productive while still calling out the bad behavior. [1] https://fos
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by anitil 6y ago
(offtopic) You might be missing an '== 0' in the second line there? I've never done fizzbuzz so I honestly don't know, but the ruby version has it.
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by anitil 6y ago
You may enjoy Mike Pesca's podcast 'The Gist' - among other things he talks a lot about sports which I don't care for, but he has such passion and talks in such a compelling way that I can't help but be engaged. (It
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by anitil 6y ago
The claims by and around Wim Hof are often pretty absurd. I wouldn't go so far as to call him a charlatan, but there's a sliding scale and he's more to one side than the other. I'm sure there's _some_ benefit to bre
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by anitil 6y ago
I was thinking European separation, but I can't seen any indication on the page that would confirm it.
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by anitil 6y ago
I am one of those people on the margin, and we specifically had a discussion about whether we wanted #3 enough to get a new car or not for exactly this reason. And the cost of these larger cars is relatively significant compared to the old
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by anitil 6y ago
I worked on some echosounders a few years ago that were bare metal, and before that some power management equipment. Though if I was doing it again I'd probably have a bare-metal chip running the timing critical, and throw a cheap arm
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by anitil 6y ago
These are incredible! It's like a wooden version of ClickSpring Interesting that he keeps a bunch of old iBooks around so he can keep using Working Model
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by anitil 6y ago
A great educator with a voice of butter.
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by anitil 6y ago
The presentation they're referring to is at [1]. I wasn't able to find a transcript or a video, perhaps it's necessary to become a member. What I'd be interested in is how they deal possible confounding. Eg, that sick pe
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by anitil 6y ago
They were hiring on a "Who's Hiring" thread recently as well
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by anitil 6y ago
Not OP, but I periodically swap my mouse hand, and that seems to be enough change to ward off my long-standing wrist issues. That and a proper mechanical keyboard with decent travel in the key stroke are necessary for me to do this long ter
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by anitil 6y ago
Gah i got bit by this with 'jq'! > $ echo "{}" | jq > {} > $ echo "{}" | jq > out.json > jq - commandline JSON processor [version 1.5-1-a5b5cbe] ... etc ... Turns out when stdout isn't a tt
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by anitil 6y ago
Do you integrate with SCATS?
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by anitil 6y ago
For context Service NSW is the entry point to most state government services in NSW. It is in general, fabulous in terms of your ability to quickly get issues sorted, get documentation/ licenses etc. And their online offering is substa
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by anitil 6y ago
There's a lot of smart people on HN, so it's worth asking. Would it be possible to detect water theft from satellite imagery? I don't know enough about any of this, but besides the obvious difficulty (trying to measure a 3D o
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by anitil 6y ago
I wouldn't be so fast to judge. ... I'll let myself out, sorry
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by anitil 6y ago
For anyone interested in this sort of thing, I would recommend a Youtube channel called 'Journey To The Microcosmos' hosted by Hank Green. This world is so bizarre it defies belief
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by anitil 6y ago
Oh think of the natural experiment if you randomly assigned Universities to students. Awful, unethical, but fascinating
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by anitil 6y ago
This article is what led me to read The Checklist Manifesto. What I loved about that book is that it works through all the traps around how these checklists can be implemented. An example - Administrators typically want _everything_ on a li
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by anitil 6y ago
Some of the more entertaining defenses I've seen are netting and actual hawks trained to snatch them out of the sky! Nets tend to be a sort of one-hit thing, so if you miss you're out of luck. They're obviously not ideal arou
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by anitil 6y ago
Yes there's plenty of difficulties with home-grown devices. Fortunately most people aren't capable of designing an over-the-air protocol like lightbridge, and there's a limited selection of chips to choose from. Vision/I
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by anitil 6y ago
That comment of yours is great. It's amazing how much damage can be caused by these leaks. A bit frustrating given that the tank's only job is to not leak.

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