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by dagw 2y ago
If all you bring to the table is the ability to reimplement simple web apps to spec, then sooner or later you probably will be fired.
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by dagw 2y ago
Claude is actually surprisingly good at fixing bugs as well. Feed it a code snippet and either the error message or a brief description of the problem and it will in many cases generate new code that works.
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by dagw 2y ago
I can think of many more that were completely worthless. But the question is why? I spent a decade of my career in civil engineering, and on the whole every project manager I dealt with there was both at least OK at their job and importan
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by dagw 2y ago
FTA: "Unlike telescopes such as the Hubble and the James Webb, which are made from mirrors and lenses, FarView would comprise a hundred thousand metal antennas made on-site by autonomous robots. It would cover a Baltimore-size swath of
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by dagw 2y ago
with all that money they'd have some decent content. What Netflix seems to have discovered is that for the price of one high quality prestige drama, you can instead buy in 20 low budget shows and documentaries from around the world a
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by dagw 2y ago
It sounds like a lot of these habits TFA didn’t even want to do — these will fail Isn't that the whole selling point of these sort of systems/books etc? To make you a 'better' person by getting you to do all those thin
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by dagw 2y ago
Google Flights seems to do this. Just leave the destination field empty and select direct flights only.
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by dagw 2y ago
It marked a real change between work and personal time. That gets very blurred with working from home. I actually try to dress 'properly' even when working from home. I know most people find it silly, but I feel I work better wh
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by dagw 2y ago
Google flights lists legroom for most flights. Although it doesn't seem like you can filter on legroom.
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by dagw 2y ago
If you want to role play in Medieval Europe, but with a smattering of magic and fantastical elements, then Ars Magica is the game you're looking for.
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by dagw 2y ago
I too live in country with free university, and yet I'm also paying off student loans. Tuition may have been free, but rent and food wasn't.
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by dagw 2y ago
I fully expect remote solutions to smoke local options Once you include the all the network overhead of sending images/video files to a server and back over a not very fast connection, I suspect it will be closer than you think for m
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by dagw 2y ago
The whole selling point of Apples AI stuff is that the processing for most things can be done on the phone and thus your private data won't have to leave you device
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by dagw 2y ago
Do they really want to restrict their consumer buyers to (questionably) fashion-forward rich hipsters? I mean if you have to pick a group to target, you could do a lot worse. That being said 80-90% of the ID Buzz's I actually see on
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by dagw 2y ago
On the other hand, the ID series... I don't even have words for how bad it looks Really? While I'm not a huge fan of the ID 3 or 4, I think both the 5 and especially 7 look OK. Plus the Buzz is pretty cool. I agree that all thei
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by dagw 2y ago
this thing is unfathomably ugly While I'm certainly not a fan of this 'genre' of car design, I don't find this one any more offensive than all the other cars it is similar to.
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by dagw 2y ago
Probably varies from bank to bank, but in my experience you have to specifically buy separate insurance if you want the content of your deposit box insured. The big problem from the bank's point of view is that, unlike your bank accoun
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by dagw 2y ago
I worked at a company that bought a smaller company. That smaller company had free snacks and we didn't. Somewhere in the negotiation someone from our company had promised the employees at the smaller company that they would be able to
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by dagw 2y ago
Two mistakes I made, and often see people do, when first using a moka pots is a) use an espresso grind on their coffee and b) to tamp down the coffee in the basket like you would when making espresso. Once I started to use a slightly coarse
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by dagw 2y ago
if there's no objective measure There are lots of objective ways to compare grinders and espresso machines. With grinders you have obvious ones like speed, but also consistency (does every run give you the same size particles) and pa
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by dagw 2y ago
mostly drink espresso-derived variants. I'd say in general there is a very clear north/south divide in Europe when it comes to coffee. Northern Europe drinks more filter coffee and souther Europe drinks mostly espresso. Of cours
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by dagw 2y ago
If I 'know' that my opponent is adversarial, then I might assume that he's not picking from the set of 100 possible numbers, but actually from a smaller set of 'adversarial' numbers, like the set that will always ta
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by dagw 2y ago
What does it matter if someone finds you in a day or a month? People don't always go from fine to dead in an instant. There can be a period of days when you are still alive, but incapable of calling for help. If you were found in tha
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by dagw 2y ago
Lots of people with engineering degrees and backgrounds hold very senior positions at large companies and happily make short term, profit driven, decisions every day. Unless you want to play a game of "no TRUE engineer" I don&#x27
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by dagw 2y ago
Norway does not have H2 refuelling infrastructure. They had a tiny handful of station around Oslo a few years ago, but I think they're all closed down.
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by dagw 2y ago
Depends what you mean with "dealing with finance". If you're talking about core back office 'plumbing' the yes. Other parts are far more adventurous. Poke around any huge financial institution and you'll probab
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by dagw 2y ago
My take away is that being rich is really good for you health, enough to offset any negative effects alcohol might have.
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by dagw 2y ago
HN community, who are generally known to by hyper-critical to a pedantic degree and/or overly pessimistic (cough the initial Docker project Show HN thread cough) So you made me dig up the announcement, and contrary to how you recall,
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by dagw 2y ago
Depends on what your goal is. If your primary purpose for learning python is to be able to use numpy and pandas, then you should probably start learning them from day 1. Learning how to inefficiently implement parts of pandas in pure python
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by dagw 2y ago
Python 2 -> 3 transition is probably considerable part of why it's becoming less ubiquitous. What do you mean? I've been using python since 1.5 and it is more ubiquitous today than it has ever been at any other time in the pa

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