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by fridek 5y ago
I can't stop thinking that content moderation is a lost battle at this point. Roblox seems to be at the deep end with "F moderation, squeeze the profits" approach, but it feels like the only safe way would be to simply avoid
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The Future of Crowdfunding Creative Projects(kickstarter.com)
1 points by fridek 5y ago|0 comments
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Air-Gap Attack Turns Memory Modules into Wi-Fi Radios(threatpost.com)
174 points by fridek 5y ago|44 comments
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by fridek 5y ago
FWIW Wikimedia salaries linked by bomdo in reply are all topped by entry level from https://www.levels.fyi/?compare=Facebook,Amazon,Google&track... At entry level you typically manage a two-pizzas sized team in one fair
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by fridek 6y ago
Trust me I'm an engineer? But always happy to have HN debug my fridge, so here we go: turns out the light bulb, when replaced, keeps overheating and even metled the surrounding casing. Some electrical issue I'd have to take the fr
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by fridek 6y ago
Disagree. I'm willing to throw heaps of hard earned money to recover my time spent being bothered by such problems. I researched and tried many "premium" brands, with minor exceptions they proved to be planned for obsolence t
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by fridek 6y ago
I can't describe how much I hope something comes out of it. Not because I have some illusion of this tackling corporate greed, or helping the environment - devices will likely become more expensive and bulkier as a result, supply chain
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by fridek 6y ago
Maybe, but I'd theorise a big part of the outsourcing trend has reached its economic conclusion by now. I started my career in Poland, just before the foreign startups decided it's an interesting market to outsource to. A number o
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Mathematicians tried to prove how hard The Witness is(eurogamer.net)
2 points by fridek 6y ago|0 comments
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by fridek 6y ago
It's incredibly hard to deliver bad news with the right tone. The objective is to deliver precise, true information, and have people go and think (not guess) what's the impact on them. Conversly, it's really easy to sound as
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by fridek 6y ago
I now have most of my adult years learning how to construct a phrase that gets the right results for Google, and later Assistant. It got to the point where I'm certain it must be a headache for whatever team is trying to support natura
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by fridek 7y ago
Holocaust involved death of 1-11 million people (depending on sources and who you want to count). Not a fan of government's current approach, but Boris shouldn't grow a pencil moustache just yet.
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by fridek 7y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if you could chase someone for gross negligence, if it was a result of, for example, consciously prioritising features over security, or "I know the rules but they are BS" thinking. You can do that wit
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by fridek 8y ago
I live in London and commute 10 miles each way daily. It takes me ~45 minutes in rush hour. Driving the same distance is, in the middle of the night, 30-40 min (in rush hour you can be stuck simply until it's over). Total cost is also
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How to deal with difficult people on software projects(people.neilon.software)
69 points by fridek 8y ago|26 comments
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Building a more reliable infrastructure with new Stackdriver tools and partners(cloud.google.com)
1 points by fridek 8y ago|0 comments
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by fridek 8y ago
Colobot, released in 2001, was a game like this. You used a C++-like language to program robots as an astronaut on a planet somewhere.
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by fridek 9y ago
I'm a man and it's totally not OK. For me this is a proof of having no basic respect for >50% of people for very shallow reasons. Having jerks at work is a net overhead (regardless how brilliant).
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by fridek 9y ago
This is more or less how spam was almost solved in 2006 by Blue Frog [1]. Instead of trying to fight the spam distribution, they fought people who buy spam by contacting them directly for every email sent to them by users. The resulting DDo
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by fridek 9y ago
Refraction index of light in fiber is ~1.44. Rule of thumb for packets in transit is 200km/ms.
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by fridek 9y ago
This news doesn't mean it's reversible. If the parliament rejects the deal PM negotiates, UK will still leave the EU - just without said deal.
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KS addict reflects on backing $16k worth of board games, regrets everything(mashable.com)
4 points by fridek 9y ago|2 comments
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by fridek 9y ago
I hope this list stays brief. Every list so far I observed was eventually bloated to hundreds of items (useful or not) by helpful pull requests.
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by fridek 9y ago
Wow, the height chart there is excellent. I was looking at a 2013 post where someone mentioned the next burn is scheduled for 2015. Clearly it was inaccurate.
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by fridek 9y ago
In case anyone wonders how long ISS could survive completely unattended - it averaged 1 debris avoidance manouver per year before 2011 and 4 in 2012. Its orbit is around 400km which is low enough do decay slowly, but boost burns happen only
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by fridek 9y ago
Does moving through smaller companies in 1-2 year steps do better? They don't seem to have that many high paying positions (maybe anymore, or in my region).
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by fridek 9y ago
In my experience this approach doesn't really scale any higher than junior to senior steps. I was repeatedly told "we just don't hire on levels higher than X". I guess once you reach the famous rockstar level this again
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by fridek 9y ago
Exactly my thoughts after Elon Musk's tweet: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/896163163581825025 Unless AI is constrained to pro player max pointer move delta, click rate, and vision latency, I don't
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by fridek 9y ago
Google has tens of thousands of employees. It's also an incredibly diverse place where all kinds of mindsets manifest in different products and publications.
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Introducing Lego Ideas 21309 NASA Apollo Saturn V(ideas.lego.com)
4 points by fridek 9y ago|0 comments

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