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by cbhl 7y ago
In my opinion, it's very difficult to use a Windows machine as your daily driver as a Software Engineer at Google. Windows VMs are banned by corporate policy. Getting an extra Windows laptop to test things requires a business reason an
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Not seeing the Windows 9x theme around the window puts this squarely in uncanny valley for me. (Granted, I'm running this in Chrome on Linux -- if one was on Windows, the "double frame" would probably look wrong, too.) Remind
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Part of me wonders whether dating is an education problem. If we could make men* not be lemons, then maybe society as a whole would have better outcomes. But how do you scale up "dating coaches"? (Would you even want to? People wi
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by cbhl 7y ago
I think the first thing someone should consider when looking at jobs is their risk tolerance. If you don't have two parents who are alive and healthy and own their home mortgage-free, you probably have a low risk tolerance. Go work at
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Here is a prior HN submission that talks about the economics of new drug development for rare diseases: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19787367 tl;dr: a hypothetical drug with an expected profit of $547 million, adjus
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by cbhl 7y ago
"The solution was ... a dynamic, real-time, photo-real background played back on a massive LED video wall and ceiling ... rendered with correct camera positional data." Gee, that sounds a lot like a holodeck. We've come a lon
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by cbhl 7y ago
I don't know if 'useless' is the right word. My understanding is that a block is simply a page of the distributed ledger (that is, a list of transactions), plus a hash preimage problem. (What value do I append to this data, s
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The last time I considered this: - Most grid/cluster-based video rendering systems assume trust. Shared filesystems, central nodes that allocate work, users submit jobs to the central node. This trust allows for lower overhead, as each
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by cbhl 7y ago
I still see MVC in $dayjob, but it looks like React/Redux have helped a lot. A central module manages state and takes operations on that state. The desired view hierarchy is computed as a pure function of state. A library uses diffing
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I was under the impression that most airlines require you to be at least 12 to do "unaccompanied minor"; anyone younger than that should be with both parents or they warrant special checks at the border anyway (such as letters of
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It looks like this post is still a draft? It looks like one needs to log in to view it.
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If you agree with this principle, I think the end result is that you choose the most popular language for some window. For banks and airlines, you conservatively pick a large window. At one point that ended up being COBOL. That is slowly mi
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by cbhl 7y ago
Audio also works well. I've been listening to the NPR News Now podcast, as well as NPR's Planet Money. When I'm feeling a little more capacity for the news cycle, I might also listen to NPR's Up First, NYT's The Dai
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by cbhl 7y ago
Makes me reminiscent of the days when Chrome and Safari were in lockstep (ish) because they were both based on Webkit. Imagine if Microsoft, Apple, and Google were all sharing the same browser engine.
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One thing I discovered: You can't assign a magic band to open multiple hotel rooms. (I was bringing a large family to the park, and wanted folks to be able to float between rooms.) We ended up falling back to card keys.
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I think some of the US POS systems still use dial-up to talk to banks, so O(minutes) is not uncommon. (For example, the Clipper card machine...)
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One tricky part of this is you'd need to reeducate users that contactless credit cards can also get charged -- so if you put a Clipper and a credit card in a wallet, you need to be careful to not accidentally pay twice. Vancouver just
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by cbhl 7y ago
The obvious workaround to that regulation would be to make tweaks but try to call it the same shoe for certification reasons. Like, say, the Boeing 737.
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The headline I'm seeing says "worst sales year", and I would expect that to be measured by the top-line revenue number, not in the y/y drop in revenue.
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Which is why they launched it behind an opt-in checkbox. New codecs are always chicken-and-egg -- you need to have content available before the hardware encoders/decoder silicon gets produced and then trickles down to the phones.
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Let's Encrypt literally is an implementation of the industry standard; the standard is called Automatic Certificate Management Environment. https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8555
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Agreed. You use a physical key to unlock your front door, your car, and your bank account. Why not use the same safety model for email and other online websites?
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The first page of the docs list a few reasons. https://miragejs.com/docs/getting-started/introduction "Use a client-side interceptor to handle your app's network requests. ... This is the most flexible a
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Dedicated consoles. The Nintendo Switch runs Rocket League just fine. Once it's on there, you don't really have to worry about constant breaking changes from the operating system changing its audio subsystem or weird graphics driv
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The Transit app crowd-sources this from users who are using the "Go" feature in select markets. There's also the Tripshot model -- an enterprise product where drivers install an app on a cell phone to track ridership, and it
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The obvious counterpoint to "operating from stored data" is an accident or construction causing a lane to be closed, or a child chasing a ball across the road.
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EU mulls five-year ban on facial recognition tech in public areas(reuters.com)
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In my experience, if you are stuck in a maze, you need your manager to show you the way through the maze. They'll only have enough time to show you the way if the number of reports is bounded.
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Facebook, at one point, did curate the news that was shown in the News Feed. It stopped doing so after one side complained.
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Google's annual diversity report shows that Asian+ representation in Tech has gone from 38.6% in 2014 to 51.8% in 2018. (Note: this includes both mainland Chinese and other Asians.) https://diversity.google/annual-repor

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