barelyauser

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by barelyauser 3y ago
Salaries is one thing. Your lifestyle choices are another thing entirely.
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by barelyauser 3y ago
What if my principle is to survive?
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by barelyauser 3y ago
Dying like that seems like a computer who can't avoid but to crash when it hits a single wrong bit on an ocean of memory. Why? Why choose rigid principles that might lead you straight to doom? Why people think this is honorable? His en
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by barelyauser 3y ago
Does reliability increases or decreases when more components are added?
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by barelyauser 3y ago
There are things called 'proxies'. The same way you can assess the crime rate of a certain area by the amount of littering by the side of the road.
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by barelyauser 3y ago
It is useful to keep in mind the difference of 'music' and 'musical industry'. Musical industry relies on 'celebrity' and social interactions. It relies very little on its efficiency or performance at 'mak
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by barelyauser 3y ago
If you're testing said buttons with a custom machine, don't you already know where the buttons are beforehand? Why would one need to analyze single frames and look for buttons using machine vision?
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by barelyauser 3y ago
How do they segregate these sophisticated hackers from regular society? I suppose they must live in some kind of designed space, where they can keep with technological developments and global information.
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by barelyauser 3y ago
They usually don't take months. Would be optimal if I could catch them at the get go. Not what happens most of the time. When that happen most of the times you will se a manager who is not technical leading a group selected by "pr
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by barelyauser 3y ago
When building models it is useful to spend some time finding out what you already know about the problem. Things you yet don't know you know. This kind of knowledge will greatly simplify the model. I see newcomers making this mistake v
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by barelyauser 3y ago
A man with nothing to lose is the most dangerous.
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by barelyauser 3y ago
The statement that "women invented programming" is as meaningless as "men invented mathematics". It is blind to all the contributions of everyone that preceded and entire field .
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by barelyauser 3y ago
It is OK because caring is loving. From those who can, for those who need. If a profession demands masculine traits (consider underground mining) then it should be performed by those who can make the most of it. If we insist on having under
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by barelyauser 3y ago
This problem can easily be solved without any device at all. Of course, it demands education and "intelligent behavior". If people only had the curiosity to read the specs on a heater and see "2000W" of power, and compar
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by barelyauser 3y ago
Is this satire?
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by barelyauser 3y ago
If the cow you've been milking doesn't seem to run out of milk, what you do? Squeeze harder!
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by barelyauser 3y ago
Value blindness is the bane of my existence. Thin walled plastic everywhere. Things are difficult to clean because they are filled with grooves, because you need grooves and bends to make thin walled plastic stiffer. A very good criteria fo
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by barelyauser 3y ago
At this point my main motivation to survive the next decades is to be able to watch the whole thing spiral out of control. Society is composed of three types of people on this subject: the ignorant, the deluded and the realist. The ignorant
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by barelyauser 3y ago
Depends. Can you provide your date of exposure and a equivalent exposure of yourself against a neutral background so we can average you out?
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by barelyauser 3y ago
How many connections per minute can result from being on HN frontpage?
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by barelyauser 3y ago
Also highly capable of completely destroying significant things like Twitter.
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by barelyauser 3y ago
Because when you under deliver on a government contract they can throw your ass into jail faster than you can say "Quidditch".
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by barelyauser 3y ago
I suppose this is a better arrangement than the current system, where they key figures know exactly where the money printer is at all times.
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by barelyauser 3y ago
The average HN user defends the "common guy" or "the masses", perhaps because he fears being perceived as condescending. I've come to the conclusion that the masses don't deserve any of this. Many drink and dri
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by barelyauser 3y ago
Gotta disagree with number 4. I've found out that respect is far more important than "love". After multiple relationships I've concluded the only woman to truly love me was my mother. Number 12 is spot on, people wasting
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by barelyauser 3y ago
Since this is HN, he probably is. And not only that, he is probably going to select this as his hill to die on. Good luck.
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by barelyauser 3y ago
> in some millions of years Sounds like a meaningless "problem" to me. Global warming is right here right now. Renewables should be put to use.
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by barelyauser 3y ago
I'm not Jacob Stark...
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by barelyauser 3y ago
False dichotomy. You and your children are not the only humans to exist on earth.
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by barelyauser 3y ago
A friend of mine used to live in Brazil and he payed close to half a percent.

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