danmaz74

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by danmaz74 8y ago
An alternative to flat out saying no is to point out how expensive and risky what you've been asked would be, in terms of development time, maintenance, and other metrics that the business cares about. Even very rough estimates with a
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by danmaz74 8y ago
Do you think that, if everybody tried hard enough, the number of available jobs would increase to match the number of job seekers?
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by danmaz74 8y ago
They say that “We tested the welds at -50C to 90C and the welds remained intact, so we know they are robust enough to cope with extreme conditions.” So, it seems like they're aiming for applications where temperatures stay in the range
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by danmaz74 8y ago
What you described is the waterfall approach, which brings so many problems in most real world software development scenarios.
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That would make for a great follow-up article.
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by danmaz74 8y ago
Yes, the article mentions this problem.
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by danmaz74 8y ago
Dams produce renewable energy.
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by danmaz74 8y ago
Inheritance is an anti-pattern for some. Not for others (eg me).
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by danmaz74 8y ago
For grid scale batteries, capacity/density are much less important than cost, which went down 35% in less than a year.
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by danmaz74 8y ago
A comment on a different thread pointed out that 40/kwh is the price for combined cycle gas, not for peaker plants, which is what batteries are substitute for. And only a part of the renewable energy needs to be stored in batteries, no
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by danmaz74 8y ago
I couldn't afford a Voodoo at the time, but I was so fascinated that I bought a S3 Virge, which really underwhelmed me. Then Nnvidia came along, and I remember wishing I had money to invest on it early on. Wished I could go back and do
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by danmaz74 8y ago
Great, thanks. I wasn't focused enough while reading :)
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If I understood this correctly, all the results with mice came from genetic modifications that, I guess, produce more Klotho since birth. Would be interesting to know if the same results can be obtained by injecting the hormone later in lif
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by danmaz74 8y ago
"... nationalist" sounds to me like somebody who wants to impose the power of their nation on other nations. I suppose that's why you got downvoted (I didn't).
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by danmaz74 8y ago
I love Rails. I also like React. What I really miss is an easy way to connect the two - a Gem or a generator that connects models on Rails, through REST API endpoints, to a front-end state management library (Redux or MobX). But I suppose t
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by danmaz74 8y ago
First we had an xml craze - xml had to be used everywhere, including communicating with the browser - see AJAX. Then people realised that xml was very inconvenient for the browser and for human readability, while json fit the bill perfectly
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by danmaz74 8y ago
I think it would only help marginally, but it would be interesting to be able to experiment with something like that.
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by danmaz74 8y ago
The point is that, for many years, there was a well shared understanding of what was signal and what was noise on HN - even if there were hot disagreements on the content of that signal. This is changing.
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by danmaz74 8y ago
So, you would prioritise comments from those who on average made upvoted comments?
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by danmaz74 8y ago
Yes, I understand the rationale behind that decision, but I've been chastised a couple of times for comparing the tone of comments to those on Reddit. Which didn't look to me as offensive :)
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by danmaz74 8y ago
The internet has always had more noise than signal. HN used to have an incredibly good noise reduction mechanism, mostly thanks to self-policing in the community and the occasional intervention of the moderators. Thanks to this mechanism, m
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by danmaz74 8y ago
It says that when the sage points to the moon, the fool looks at the finger. Or, at least, this is how the author feels.
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by danmaz74 8y ago
Not everybody realises all that, so I suppose the OP cited that quote to reinforce the point that ANN are a very useful, but very imperfect model of the brain. I cite it often enough, but usually it's in person, where I can see the rea
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by danmaz74 8y ago
The point is that no model of a complex real world phenomenon is ever perfect, so, you shouldn't try to create a perfect model. But not being perfect doesn't mean that a model can't be useful; among all the possible "wro
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by danmaz74 8y ago
As it happens, I read quite a bit about Schacht and Nazi Germany. They spent around 15% of GDP in the army in the years before the war. And they created an enormous external debt for that, because they needed lots of raw materials they didn
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by danmaz74 8y ago
If you use a lot of borrowed money, you need that money to be invested in a way that will generate wealth that you can use to pay interests on the debt you created. The nazis used most of that money to build their army. If they hadn't
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by danmaz74 8y ago
I think it depends a lot on context. On a project with good automated tests, I find that I don't need to use the debugger very often. But, those times when I had to use it, it saved me probably thousands of hours of work - especially w
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by danmaz74 8y ago
Regulation are introduced for their intended positive consequences, but they usually also have unintended negative consequences. Here you posit that the global balance will be negative, but your supposition is mostly based on the assumption
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This looks like an area where machine learning could really help... Have you got any idea if there is progress here?
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Regenerative braking could help recover a big part of the energy spent to climb the hill up.

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