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by arpinum 5y ago
Modern heat pumps, for example by Mitsubishi and sold in the UK, maintain a COP > 2.5 at -7C.
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by arpinum 5y ago
I remember a department head telling me they got offers constantly from people willing to be an adjunct for free. Why? Because it would boost their credentials when doing other work and consulting. The math is easy to figure out: if you spe
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by arpinum 5y ago
Github Actions does not have good track record. https://www.githubstatus.com/history . You don't need a majority of GitHub users to understand it's owned by Microsoft for there to be an impact on brand value.
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by arpinum 5y ago
These incidents have to hurt Azure's brand value. It's a monster task to run something as big as GitHub, if they ever get it stable it will lend a lot of credibility to Microsoft's cloud skills.
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by arpinum 5y ago
Author lumped together suspension and headlight problems, we do not know the split between these two issues, but they carry vastly different consequences
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by arpinum 5y ago
Article fails to mention how many of these defects are due to low beam alignment issues, which is normally a quick adjustment done by dealers before the inspection. Article writer likely knows what they are doing and disguises the numbers.
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by arpinum 5y ago
State constitutions should be updated to force all revenue and assets derived from fines to be distributed equally to all residents. That would distribute the benefits widely enough to remove the current incentives where fines line the pock
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by arpinum 5y ago
Like early mainframes, not every task is a good fit for emerging tech.
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by arpinum 5y ago
The initial dialog tree and year of “improvements” were done by IBM themselves. The main issue was that it was a vanity project for a stakeholder, which they used to pivot into a new job / career as a “thought leader”
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by arpinum 5y ago
I saw the development of a chatbot based on the IBM Watson stuff. It was just like a phone tree map, except the system tries to guess the option selected based on the intents found in the speech/text. Of course it got no adoption, exce
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by arpinum 5y ago
FHIR will take over, but I wouldn't call that a good thing. the development of FHIR is extremely haphazard, most of it will turn into a generic KV store and miss a lot of the great systems thinking in EDI. It's as if they lowered
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by arpinum 5y ago
This is not true. Lambda updates us-east-1 last.
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by arpinum 5y ago
Amplify constantly under delivers. Features are built only enough to make a demo. Now they say they can go from design tool to working app, where dozens of companies have failed over the last 25 years. Call me skeptical.
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by arpinum 5y ago
I do, but the techniques are different. Adjacency list are the primary tool. But there is generally a lot less normalisation. Keep related data in the same item or next to each other in the list. Sometimes you over-fetch and filter for the
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by arpinum 5y ago
This is a great reminder of all the problems I don’t think about because I use Lambda, API Gateway and DynamoDB. I still think a lot about IAM policies and queuing systems, but scaling compute and databases are no longer a concern.
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by arpinum 5y ago
My experience of mental healthcare in the UK and China is not what what you imply. Your description of mental care for homeless in USA is close to what is available for the majority of the working class in the UK. I worked in mental health
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by arpinum 5y ago
Since this is from CloudFormation team, what can we expect about the performance vs calling the APIs directly? CloudFormation is not known for its speed.
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by arpinum 5y ago
Regulations require electric bikes to be 'pedal-assist' and is holding back sustainable transport. Let lightweight vehicles travel 25kmph without pedalling and these regulatory hacks won't be needed. It will likely lead to sa
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by arpinum 5y ago
The hard part with auto-importing is the resource id. This is usually generated server-side and is not included in the hcl. Often resources define a user-supplied identifier as well, such as a name property, and this could be used for auto-
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by arpinum 5y ago
good news, Robin wasn't always a social scientist, he has a background in physics and statistics
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by arpinum 5y ago
Robin has been at this for over 15 years. Some reasons why he failed in the early years were that he used government money for uncomfortable bets about assassinations of US politicians.
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by arpinum 5y ago
14k a year
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by arpinum 5y ago
I appreciate the study calls out that most cannabis is smoked, and it may be general smoke inhalation driving these results rather than an inherent property of cannabis
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by arpinum 5y ago
I don’t know about the STEM fields, this is from the business school, which is a cash cow funding other programmes.
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by arpinum 5y ago
Business school
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by arpinum 5y ago
At at top 10 school in the UK: masters and even doctorates are being essentially sold to foreign students. The standards are incredibly low (students getting degrees without functional use of English), but the revenue to the university is e
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by arpinum 5y ago
Good links, thanks
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by arpinum 5y ago
Great! invite someone into the building who has lied to the entire crypto community to undermine global security. They will surely know how to spot bad actors! Invite a bad actor into the building in order to keep bad actors out. Invite bad
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by arpinum 5y ago
AWS hired the architect behind the NSA's attempt at breaking commercial crypto, according the Matthew Green [0]. I can't trust AWS will be truthful about their crypto systems and lack of backdoors. [0] - https://twitter
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by arpinum 5y ago
When API keys are involved, I need a lot more confidence in the security of the software than what I am seeing so far. I'm willing to trust Datadog for configuring their own services, but the community providers scare me from a securit

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