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by austinjp 5y ago
"Call me old-fashioned but..." is a dog-whistle harking back to "better days" that never existed. Emapthy and responsiblity are not mutually exclusive.
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by austinjp 5y ago
I just had a look at amazon.co.uk and most assets fail to load, the browser debug console is full of 503 errors. Picking one at random, it's fastly: $ nslookup images-eu.ssl-images-amazon.com Server: 127.0.0.53 Address:
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by austinjp 5y ago
Yeah so it's been mentioned in the comments already, but to everyone in Fastly right now: I feel for you. Something like this must be insanely stressful, and not just during the outage. There will be (should be) a massive post-mortem.
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by austinjp 5y ago
> radiologist do not operate health systems, MBAs do. This is highly dependent on your geographical location.
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by austinjp 5y ago
Oh, nice. Based on the diagrams and the sibbling comment about Google's pasta, perhaps name it spaghetti? :)
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by austinjp 5y ago
Fully agree that impact x likelihood = risk, although I'd extend it beyond dollars. Impact can include reputation, health, etc. Certainly these could be measured using cash-value as a proxy, but this risks chasing the wrong metric. I
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by austinjp 5y ago
I find it unfortunate that the academic discussions I witness tend towards "Wikipedia bad" rather than a more nuanced understanding. Some aspects of Wikipedia are great, and academia still has a lot to learn from web technologie
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by austinjp 5y ago
Academia has responded to (a) with the "living review" [0]. It's a step in the right direction, I guess, but I can't help feeling that it's gatekeeping, and fails to be as dynamic as it might. Efforts such as TRIP d
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by austinjp 5y ago
First, kudos on thinking beyond advertising. Depending on the Terms, analytics of your data might be valuable. What data do you have, what could be learned from it, and who would pay for that knowledge? Depending on user stickiness, you cou
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by austinjp 5y ago
I'm going to pour a smidge of cold water on this, but you're welcome to ignore it of course. I've briefly seen researchers present their efforts at deploying safety and/or entertainment devices in the residences of older
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Ask HN: How are you using unikernels?
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by austinjp 5y ago
Presumably this depends on country and institution - probably on discipline too - but every tenured academic I know works horrendously hard. Nothing lasts longer than the cash from the last funding cycle. The job becomes more and more burea
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by austinjp 5y ago
Presumably this depends on the country and the institution, but you certainly could be "overlooked" and end up with work that is tedious and unlikely to garner plaudits. I'm sure that after a while this could lead to somethin
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by austinjp 5y ago
Ouch. Agreed, that's the first thing that came to my mind, and it's an unfortunate to see it happen here. Definitely consider a name change!
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by austinjp 5y ago
Reminded me of the (possibly untrue/exaggerated) story of the sewing machine needle: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dreams#The_sewing_ma... Plenty of other great dreams * on that page. * I know you weren&
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by austinjp 5y ago
I love this site. It's a deep mine of sustainable computing approaches. The part about using compressed air instead of batteries is fascinating.
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by austinjp 5y ago
Yeah I'm confused here. I think the "clicking" in previous posts refers to using the mouse to position the cursor within a group of spaces/tabs. I don't use a mouse in my text editor so it took me a while to grasp
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by austinjp 5y ago
Another thank you note to Dr Silver: Thanks for helping my dad remember his passwords. I remember the forest of yellow sticky notes in his study, while his memory was slowly slipping away.
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by austinjp 5y ago
Nice. Can you explain the recursive aspect? A quick Google reveals only teaser articles and ads for books. I'm interested because years ago I started developing a "nested" system, although I never got it adequately fleshed ou
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by austinjp 5y ago
No need to stop the rant :) I'm curious about the reasons models +/- weights are published less frequently. For starters, is that actually the case? I don't know, genuine question. Second, and I recognise the humorous intent
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by austinjp 5y ago
> This leaves me with 3950 before taxes, or 2765 after taxes... That doesn't sound so amazing anymore, does it? Am I missing something? That's €33,000 disposable cash per annum, right? That would actually be pretty damn amazing
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by austinjp 5y ago
The definition of being "somebody" is missing here. Anyways, it's not exclusively true that work-life balance has to be sacrificed. I met a very successful business owner (millionaire, to quantify) a while ago who didn't
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by austinjp 5y ago
> Staying at work till midnight would be seen as not managing time correctly, neglecting family, being overworked, not in good shape, making mistakes and so on. How is it seen if someone is at work by 7am? Or even 6am? Genuine question.
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by austinjp 5y ago
Anecdotally, I've heard talk that some librarians are critical of the word "library" in these projects. They point out that librarians are trained specialists with expertise in several areas. I've no idea how widespread
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by austinjp 5y ago
As mentioned by other commenters, this stuff gets political real quick, and you should look at the framing effect [0]. I applaud any effort to fight misinformation, but I'm concerned that your agenda of optimism comes across as an atte
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by austinjp 5y ago
The website and title here state the goal is to fight misinformation. In this post you state the goal is to show we have reasons to be optimistic about the world. Which is it? I'm not super convinced that the framing of the questions d
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by austinjp 5y ago
Emoji are pictures, alphabetical letters are not. Racism how?
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by austinjp 5y ago
Indeed... it seems that the consensus is tending towards this being so bad a pun that it isn't even a pun :)
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by austinjp 5y ago
(Not arguing, just adding some perspective.) Penne is pronounced "pennay" in the UK in my experience, making this pun kinda dysfunctional. Also as pointed out, UK cryptic crossword answers are phrases in actual use, not new word c
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by austinjp 6y ago
Interesting, I've always referred to UML sequence diagrams as swimlanes, and it seems I'm not alone in making this mistake. In UML parlance, you're looking for partitioned activity diagrams. These are, in fact, "true&quo

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