carbonatedmilk

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by carbonatedmilk 7mo ago
Interested in the outcome of both of these cases, but also in what went in to building the site. It feels agent-led, but in a good way. @laurex are you the creator? Can you tell us some more about how it was built?
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by carbonatedmilk 8mo ago
Context from the CDC guidance from August 2025 ( https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/74/wr/mm7432a2.htm ) "Except for vaccination for adults aged ≥65 years, ACIP makes no preferential recommendation for
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by carbonatedmilk 2y ago
Many UN agencies are already working hard to inculcate an open source / open methods / open data approach to everything they do. There's a key standard for this: Digital Public Goods, which you can read lots more about here:
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by carbonatedmilk 3y ago
This happens frequently in courts in my home country. There's even polite lawyer codewords so that you don't have to trudge in to court and say 'I'm sorry your honor, I have to withdraw from this matter because my client
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by carbonatedmilk 3y ago
One of the best things I've learnt recently is how to apply the zero blame, process improvement approach that (many) air safety regulators take to my own teams. I'd sat through 'five whys' style postmortems before, but i
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by carbonatedmilk 3y ago
From the Sanctions Order: "The Levidow Firm primarily practices in New York state courts. It uses a legal research service called Fastcase and does not maintain Westlaw or LexisNexis accounts. When Mr. Schwartz began to research the Mo
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by carbonatedmilk 4y ago
This just keeps getting weirder. From the infamous irony quotes 'balance sheet': https://d1e00ek4ebabms.cloudfront.net/production/7ab64a3b-6c... Liablities: $8.8bn of customer deposits * $6.6bn-ish in USD or
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by carbonatedmilk 4y ago
My 7 year old son is vegetarian - Neither of his parents are (although we've always tried to be awake to the ethical implications of what we eat) When I asked him why he'd gone so all-in on vegetarianism, he said "Daddy, anim
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by carbonatedmilk 4y ago
> I'm pretty sure almost all of this team was laid off (certainly the people I knew who worked on it were). That's really sad news. The crew I interacted with (Alex, Omari, Tobias, others) were top-flight engineers who also rea
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by carbonatedmilk 4y ago
I'm not saying it's a fair metric, but when I compare Twitter's open output to similarly VC-funded-but-now-public companies, the engineering output doesn't seem particularly exciting. For comparison: Meta / Facebook
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by carbonatedmilk 4y ago
For comparison, the old, dying, 'legacy' social media platform Facebook added 24MILLION new users in the same period. https://www.statista.com/statistics/264810/number-of-monthly... To rub it in - If Fa
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by carbonatedmilk 4y ago
Even though the author is critical of the GPIAAF's report, it's amazing to see how thoroughly incidents like this one are investigated - With a real focus on process improvement. Frustrating that the obvious mechanical fix for th
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by carbonatedmilk 4y ago
Get them out, but let them vest. Don't delay the decision - You've had performance conversations with them already, so this won't come as a surprise. Tell them they're on leave immediately, and then pay them whatever the
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by carbonatedmilk 4y ago
Prior art: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/02/24/telegraph-cat/
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by carbonatedmilk 4y ago
I've recently switched from Firefox to Orion. Ideologically, I'm Firefox all the way - But even in beta, Orion is such a better browser. * Vertical tabs * Support for most of the extensions I need * Much better battery life (at
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by carbonatedmilk 4y ago
There have been some notable failures - Where they've got the tradeoffs between form and function badly wrong. * Butterfly keyboard * iPhone headphone jack * Single-USB Macbook Air * Non-removeable battery used to really bug me, but th
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Silicon-based qubits take a big leap forward(arstechnica.com)
2 points by carbonatedmilk 5y ago|0 comments
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by carbonatedmilk 5y ago
Hi Andrew, A bit different from usual HN fare, but here's a quick nerdy breakdown of how to build power / advocate / get laws changed. You have an audacious, but specific goal. That's great! You have at least one person
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by carbonatedmilk 5y ago
The fake voice is interesting - She read all the literature that people with deeper voices get more respect, more funding and are given the benefit of the doubt more often. And she said 'Well, that seems easy. I'll just talk lower
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by carbonatedmilk 5y ago
Love the idea of pre-fab, but this thing is just charmless. Fake-wood plastic floors Fake-wood MDF cabinetry, with superfluous detailing Plastic benchtops Horrible overhead lighting layout. The 'LCD television-as-wall-divider' is
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by carbonatedmilk 5y ago
"Where should we put it?" "Just anywhere over there" "What about in this server rack?" "Sure, that's a super position"
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by carbonatedmilk 5y ago
Presumably this is because the default rate amongst uninsured patients is much higher than insured patients. You might have to fight the insurer to get your $1m, but you know for sure they have it.
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by carbonatedmilk 5y ago
love Wormhole, but that animated background chews up an incredible amount of battery power on my M1 Macbook Air (even when the tab is in the background). Please wormhole crew, turn it off.
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by carbonatedmilk 6y ago
I don't understand why the author took the approach he did. He creates a classifier with 5 label,s and gets 50% accuracy on the cross-val (This may be ok, may be terrible, we don't know), but then only uses the labels for one of
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by carbonatedmilk 6y ago
This isn't an EA Spouse situation. EA Spouse's partner was working 70+ hr weeks, unpaid. It was just straight worker exploitation. Here (as I understand it), everyone's getting paid overtime and while it's a big ask of
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by carbonatedmilk 6y ago
That never made any sense to me either. It's not like there's a huge pool of people saying 'Oh I really like that new Taylor Swift song, should I buy the album, or just go to the hairdressing salon and listen to it there?&#x2
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by carbonatedmilk 6y ago
So confused. Do you not have tort law in the US? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passing_off
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by carbonatedmilk 6y ago
Yeah, except they did rewrite the entire Mattermost mobile clients in React Native (And contributed it back, too - https://eng.uber.com/uchat/ ) Look, I'm all for Uber firing some of their 27,000 employees (27,00
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by carbonatedmilk 8y ago
I used to fill in gaps between consulting work with delivering people's food on my bicycle. I loved it too - It had a gamified feeling to it, and was like getting paid to go to the gym. Uber gives you an estimate when you start the tr
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by carbonatedmilk 8y ago
I didn't know https://twitter.com/nihilist_arbys was doing phone reviews now too.

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