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by eddtries 3y ago
To be honest I think this IS pro-consumer. The amount of cheating from peripheral devices is ridiculous. For example triggers that make semi-automatic weapons fully automatic, or using a M&K for Halo where headshots are instant kills on
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by eddtries 3y ago
I want to try write the underlying code myself, but thanks!
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Ask HN: How do you calculate Pi to N digits?
6 points by eddtries 3y ago|10 comments
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Estimating impact of food choices on life expectancy: A modeling study [pdf](ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
2 points by eddtries 3y ago|2 comments
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by eddtries 3y ago
Interesting paper that suggests moving from a standard American diet to an Optimal Diet at the age of 60 could still increase your life expectancy by as much as 10 years (95% will see an increase of between 6.8 years - 10 years life expecta
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by eddtries 3y ago
I don't think the Estonian digital citizenship is anywhere near as bad as this, I thought it was a genuine way to get digital documentation within an EU state?
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by eddtries 3y ago
That treaty ran out in 1910, so even if somehow this successor state was a thing the treaty itself is void I think https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseon–United_States_Treaty_of...
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by eddtries 3y ago
> As one of the most powerful and oldest nations in the world Who wrote this? How is this not satire? > Copyright (c) 1392-2023 Joseon. All Rights Reserved. Lol > 5900 Wilshire Blvd, Unit 2110, Los Angeles, CA 90036, United States
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by eddtries 3y ago
Agreed, but it does prevent me accessing information it does have because of a fear of hallucinating
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by eddtries 3y ago
My ChatGPT is still trained on September 2021, and I just noticed won't give me some information because it's aware it only has limited knowledge even when I specify data from past event to September 2021. Prompt: ""&quo
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by eddtries 3y ago
I've always found those sort of firms with C#, in my experience, have the best architected code. Proper domain-driven design, onion architectures, clean testable code... Some have legacy issues where they might not have the most cuttin
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by eddtries 3y ago
What if I pay with my phone? That’s pretty common in the Nordic countries (Swish)
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by eddtries 3y ago
Send it in the post, with tracking, then fax the proof of sending it to their head office. If the fax machine is broken request an Avian alternative.
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by eddtries 3y ago
How am I giving my identity to a street vendor when I pay without cash?
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by eddtries 3y ago
That’s true, same with England, but the Scandinavian countries (and others around them) are essentially cashless now. I’ve lived in Sweden for three months and yet to see a single note (literally!).
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by eddtries 3y ago
Was just trying to break the number down to something more easy to understand, I don’t know enough if this is impressive or not! Depends on the complexity of the request, and I guess the complexity of routing that many requests over such a
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by eddtries 3y ago
1 Trillion function calls over 100,000 servers. Technically they say trillions over hundreds of thousands, but I went for the lower case. 1,000,000,000,000 / 100,000 = 10,000,000 10,000,000 / 24 / 3600 = 115.7
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by eddtries 3y ago
Works out to around 115 function calls a second per server
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by eddtries 3y ago
Q2 - techniques like contract testing help here, beyond simple stubs. Also, mocked services maintained by the services original devs you can work against help
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by eddtries 3y ago
Cool! Good luck, it would help me with my work so I’m rooting for you :)
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by eddtries 3y ago
Selenium IS the more popular library, but it’s mostly used in more old-school places like banks and large corporations. This is fairly anecdotal but companies up for AI-guided paths in prod will more likely be on Cypress or Playwright, and
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by eddtries 3y ago
Playwright is definitely the industry standard testing tool for those who are likely to be interested in Autotab too - I'm a test engineer and the last time I used Selenium was probably 2017. Playwright is everywhere that's comfor
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by eddtries 3y ago
Can you have a feedback loop, for example trying the test in the background (headless) and if it doesn't work altering paths and retrying?
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by eddtries 3y ago
I’ve written production Haskell that dealt with billions of USD transactions per day, fwiw
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by eddtries 3y ago
Your non-typed code still uses types, you just have to remember what they are and test functions in more ways to check that your memory and assumptions are correct.
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by eddtries 3y ago
Must be somewhat depressing to be living in a state of fear such that you build an OS specifically for when you assume all supply chains fail globally, probably this decade. Seems both stressful AND unlikely your project will truly be usefu
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by eddtries 3y ago
That’s ridiculous, you’re conflating productivity (due to slack and meetings, I assume) with fast internet access. You need to install potentially large packages and images, commit code, and be clear in meetings - that’s a minimal standard
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by eddtries 3y ago
Also, those sexy companies want you to use the hot new thing because they’re selling the pickaxes. AWS sponsor a lot of educational platforms and conferences on cloud for a reason, for example.
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by eddtries 3y ago
There isn't a legal minimum wage in Sweden, it's collectively argued for by the unions. It's pretty rare to find a company paying poorly against the market in Sweden.
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by eddtries 3y ago
I had to face that grind when I was younger too, but I swore I'd never ask a question someone shouldn't be able to work out on the spot under the stress of an interview. My strategy is to take that question and expand on it in a f

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