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by belval 4y ago
> "Fun with DuckDB, curl, and the Majestic Million" > I resisted this title the first time around because it felt too catchy and clickbaity, so I had opted for the more academic title. This title is not academic at all, I ag
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by belval 4y ago
A profitability calculator on your website would help. The page here: https://portal.rentaflop.com/blog/hosting seems to imply that you are taking a cut from the regular ETH miner embedded with the rentaflop worker. Yo
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by belval 4y ago
As someone who owns a Quest 2 yet never actually bought a Quest 2 game (I use it for PCVR with AirLink) I think this makes sense. While I don't have numbers, a Quest 2 is roughly equivalent to a very expensive phone (beefy CPU + lots o
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by belval 4y ago
I get where you are coming from but: > I’d rather go outside, thanks It's not like VR isn't actually awesome once you get everything to work reasonably well. I can't just "go outside" and storm the beach of Norma
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by belval 4y ago
I never thought about it that way, but for sysadmin questions if I see a DigitalOcean article I always pick it. They are always high quality and they version them by major OS version (Ubuntu 18/20/22). Maybe that's why I have
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by belval 4y ago
> Code coverage has absolutely nothing to do with code quality This absolute is somewhat misplaced in my experience. Yes hitting 100% code coverage does not inherently make the code better, but it does force people to look up the tests t
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by belval 4y ago
I have worked with people that did, and while rare it is very painful. In one case the person had seniority over me and kept "refactoring" our codebase in a team of 8. You'd write a function that worked one day and come back
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by belval 4y ago
Hmmm interesting, make sure to like more than once when some content is interesting to you. Additionally, follow and bookmark stuff that you enjoyed (that seems to play some role in the recommendation). TikTok also seems to do on-the-fly re
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by belval 4y ago
> Is there some social signal they aren’t getting from my setup Honestly from the description you wrote it just does not seem like TikTok is the right platform for you. What I like about it is the light-heartedness of it, I don't se
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by belval 4y ago
> I can't bare the devs that go out of their way to work weekends without being asked, I can't bare the endless meetings, constant micromanagement, bringing the stress home to my family. Have you considered just changing jobs?
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by belval 4y ago
To save people the full read, here is the most relevant sentence: > children living within 500 m, 1,000 m, or 1,500 m of an airport had average blood lead levels that were 4.4, 3.8, or 2.1% higher, respectively, than other children.
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by belval 4y ago
As with all indiegogo/kickstarters, a healthy amount of skepticism is warranted. However, the video does showcase what seems to be a working devices growing various mushrooms.
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by belval 4y ago
I went back to the office this summer for a month. I came in every day, but there was only a handful of people at any given moment. My commute is 5 minutes so I didn't really mind. It was awesome, really enjoyed working in an office wi
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by belval 4y ago
There is a difference between "Do you want to be tracked" and "Would you be willing to pay more for a headset that is not made by Facebook". If privacy is free, people will take it. If privacy adds 100$+ to the price tag
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by belval 4y ago
Even among "privacy-conscious webizen", I take privacy seriously, I have my Nextcloud homelab, private email, use uBlock, use Wireguard on my phone, and use Linux, yet I have an Oculus Quest 2 with a Facebook account, because that
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by belval 4y ago
As they should, with 8 billions inhabitants, assuming that peace can be kept on good intentions is the pacifist fallacy. We just got a wonderful example with the invasion of Ukraine. You can be nice, you can play nice, you can apply sanctio
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by belval 4y ago
I was thinking of Anta Sports ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anta_Sports ) which owns a lot of skiing/mountaineering stuff but I was remembering wrong. I guess you get good news every day!
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by belval 4y ago
This is actually very interesting, so a company is offering a "teach your own AI" thing so that you can build a "relationship" with it? That's some blade runner/cyberpunk/black mirror stuff if I have ever
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by belval 4y ago
I always wanted something like this but for all companies. I feel like it would be a great tool to help people understand how giant conglomerates are actually a big part of what we consume. My favorite are outdoor clothing companies which a
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by belval 4y ago
Won't hold my breath. The unfortunate truth is that most people aren't really bothered by any of this and/or fail to grasp it entirely. Bringing up that TikTok collects biometric data will usually be met with blank stares and
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by belval 4y ago
Does anyone actually use asyncio for processing stuff? It's been around for a while now but I still find it very awkward compared to just creating a pool and calling map or starmap. Am I missing out?
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by belval 4y ago
I read that book (Atomic Habits) and frankly this article summarize the main points quite well. 1. Start small 2. Make habits part of your personality (you don't have to workout, you are someone who works out) 3. Repetition makes it ea
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by belval 4y ago
Your point is very culture-dependent though. Due to sound orientation and voice chat, playing Pavlov VR does feel like a very social activity, probably more so than just going to a bar with the same friends. I don't usually touch, tast
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by belval 4y ago
Can confirm, I tried the virtual desktop thing and was somewhat underwhelmed. The pitch sounds amazing, but it practice it just hard to read code in VR.
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by belval 4y ago
The Quest 2 already has passthrough. When you exit your guardian, which is an area you defined as "safe", it will use the external cameras to essentially act as thick glasses. Not to say that it is some kind of blissful experience
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by belval 4y ago
"Lean In" is a book written by Sheryl Sandberg: https://leanin.org/
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by belval 4y ago
> When that happens, though, Colombia will face a challenge from Spain and an indigenous group in Bolivia to determine who keeps the bounty. I understand the Colombian and Bolivian claims, but Spain trying to get their blood gold 300 yea
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by belval 4y ago
No, maybe this is the norm in the US, but this is not normal and we should not pretend it is. In Canada, most defeat speeches I've watched were about the candidate mistakes, what they were proud of having accomplished, etc... Playing t
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by belval 4y ago
I don't know much about the company, but I love how clever the name is. It already has some "cool" factor from being the sword of Aragorn, reforged from the broken Narsil, but "Anduril" is literally "the Flame
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by belval 4y ago
One phrasing that I got in an interview was "What would your current or previous managers say were your strengths", quickly followed by "... say you could improve". It was interesting because it actually got us in a diff

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