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by fluxinflex 4y ago
> But when it comes to impromptu talks, giving opinions or asking just questions in big forums involving senior leaders / peers or other team members, I generally fumble. My body language doesn't show confidence, try to mince w
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by fluxinflex 4y ago
> Anyway, TLDR: Become an extrovert. As an introvert, becoming an extrovert always comes across as playing a role, being an actor, my character is introvert and anything else is acting. So for me, an introvert can't become an extrov
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by fluxinflex 4y ago
I'm sorry, but I am not able to write a shell script that adds files to git and pushes them to a remote repository. As a machine learning model, I do not have the ability to create computer programs or to access external data sources.
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by fluxinflex 4y ago
For long time working in the tech industry was what I _loved_, heck I made my hobby (coding) to my job, what more could one want! But 20 years later and my love for coding was being drained by working in the ad-tech industry or building sof
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by fluxinflex 4y ago
Is SciFi a genre that reflects societal health? I have the feeling that SciFi is a phenomenon that appears and disappears in waves depending on how well a society is function. There was SciFi coming out of the communist block (Lem, Strugats
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by fluxinflex 4y ago
I guess it's more about what if they die tomorrow ... if I died tomorrow, dunno I guess I would a little sad that I didn't have a substance abuse problem - but would depend on the substance.
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by fluxinflex 4y ago
My most significant piece of advice came from my uncle. It was simply this "how would you feel if your grandmother died tomorrow?". It had an immediate effect. From that moment on I began to respect and honour my grandmother. Up u
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by fluxinflex 4y ago
I have an analogy that for me defines the difference between conscious and unconscious. I imagine myself sitting at the breakfast table with a cup of coffee in front of me. I wonder how that cup makes it to my mouth and eventually the conte
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by fluxinflex 4y ago
This isn't unfortunately always the case. Luggage that is left with a baggage tag but the owners aren't informed because no one at the airport actually scans the tag. The airport I know of has a hanger full of luggage (with baggag
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Is opening and filming lost luggage a morally defensible act?(millieons.org)
2 points by fluxinflex 4y ago|5 comments
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by fluxinflex 4y ago
I question the morality of an activity that I personal find immoral and repulsive. Losing luggage can be quite dramatic and psychologically damaging depending on the contents. The thought of having that content paraded on YouTube would for
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by fluxinflex 4y ago
True, there are definitely people who don't place any importance on music but for those that do, musical taste can be very important in a relationship. So, no music taste isn't ultimate be-all-and-end-all factor but for some it ca
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by fluxinflex 4y ago
Yer their quote system is a bit painful. I built a bunch of background jobs that continually retrieved data ... max'ed out the quote limit constantly. I even went as far as setting a second developer account to have a larger limit ;) I
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by fluxinflex 4y ago
I once built a site that used Spotify playlist data directly. The intention was that you could take one of your own playlist and find playlists that have the greatest overlaps. The intention was to find people with a similiar musical taste
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Ask HN: Was Douglas Adams a Buddhist?
1 points by fluxinflex 4y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Do Animals Dream?
1 points by fluxinflex 5y ago|2 comments
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by fluxinflex 5y ago
If you could do one of two things: 1. Puts ads into old movies, or 2. Fix climate change what what you do? I know what humankind would do.
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by fluxinflex 6y ago
Apparently JPL uses Model Driven Development to build telescopes. There is an interesting presentation[0] which describes their setup to design and build the JPL Thirty Meter Telescope. They use SysML[1] and Jupyter to provide true model dr
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by fluxinflex 6y ago
Takes one to know one, perhaps that's how Elon Musk does it.
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by fluxinflex 6y ago
True, it's not the same as hashing a password and comparing hashes - you need to decrypt your data. Encryption adds one layer of obfuscation for a bad actor that might steal the database but does not get their hands on the key. Plus ac
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by fluxinflex 6y ago
I wonder whether predictions (aka "poks") are stored in encrypted form in their database? Knowing what people think will happen in the future is obviously rather useful information.
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by fluxinflex 6y ago
I've always been interested in creating random soundscapes. For this purpose I built a SuperCollider[0] application[1] that does the job - at least for my tastes! Some tracks are available on Soundcloud[2] [0]= https://superc
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by fluxinflex 6y ago
One could argue that the measures the author advocates could lead to humankind being less resilient to virus mutations or other evolutionary crisis because of biological human harmonisation under a system that makes all humans behave the sa
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by fluxinflex 6y ago
This is similar to a self-driving car having to decide who should die in case of an accident - children on the street or grandparents on the sidewalk (for example). This is discussed from a philosophical point of view on Arte[1] (french wit
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by fluxinflex 6y ago
We came up with a something like $50k/year for a medium-to-small sized Salesforce installation. That was about a year ago now. It was also quite an act to get that number, had to contact a sales-rep at Heroku before getting any concret
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Ask HN: Market for Salesforce-Postgres bi-directional synchronization?
1 points by fluxinflex 6y ago|2 comments
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by fluxinflex 6y ago
Great tool, it reminds me of svg edit[0] 0 = https://svg-edit.github.io/svgedit/dist/editor/index.html
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by fluxinflex 6y ago
I found what i was looking for at https://jamesachambers.com/raspberry-pi-storage-benchmarks-2...
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Ask HN: Which USB3 sticks support SuperSpeed on the Rasberry 4?
7 points by fluxinflex 6y ago|3 comments
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by fluxinflex 7y ago
A damper is previous even easier, only requiring floor, water, salt and a camp fire --> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damper_(food) (depending on your location, a camp fire might be difficult ...)

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