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by galdosdi 4y ago
What? There are still a lot of tactics a driver (or AI) can follow to improve the outcome if the brakes fail, such as swerving to avoid dangerous things while the vehicle naturally coasts to a stop, intentionally driving into a soft thing o
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by galdosdi 4y ago
WTF? Walking is not exercising? Source please, that's a ludicrous statement with regards to most definitions of exercise, especially the medical context we were discussing. Walking is the primary activity humans evolved to be able to d
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by galdosdi 4y ago
Yeah, you couldn't possibly roll out automatic triggering without also creating laws to uniformize how speed limits are set and data shared about them across the US (I don't refer to taking away agency from the many local jurisdic
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by galdosdi 4y ago
Where I'm from, DBA is just a euphemism for "employee with write access to the prod DB"
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by galdosdi 4y ago
Minus the word "incredibly" which is quite an exaggeration, I agree. But, it can be made pretty safe. Entirely safe in fact, for good drivers (less so for shoddy ones) The fine details of implementation are not noted so we can onl
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by galdosdi 4y ago
Really? Even if you don't notice you're exercising? Because if just walking to the store is too much exercise that it makes you feel pain or really any kind of discomfort, this is not an individual quirk, this is a serious medical
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by galdosdi 4y ago
> If its anything like the dishwashers landlords have provided me in the past you will probably have to wash the plates by hand anyhow Tangentially, I used to be a "whatever, I just wash dishes by hand" person and got converte
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by galdosdi 4y ago
> - The desert is probably the best place to build sprawling metropolises with the lowest ecological impact (overall) The only problem is then these metropolises are in the desert, and you have to ship all agricultural products to them.
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by galdosdi 4y ago
I imagine the trained surgeon knows what to do when anything goes wrong following those 6 simple instructions, and from thence flows confidence.
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by galdosdi 4y ago
I wish you the best, but having looked into these topics when I was interested in RVs a few years ago, I think there's no market for your proposal because the market is already well served by (at the higher end) composting and incinera
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by galdosdi 4y ago
I do not agree that the popular message about increasing labor power in the labor market is beneficial for the capital/employer class. A laborer will more easily dabble with unions or with negotiating harder, etc, when they feel the ma
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by galdosdi 4y ago
Out of that list, OS and browser itself are the only one that couldn't be done in the browser in theory. Yes, even robot assisted surgery systems, although that kind of disturbs me a little too. You could just do the GUI in the browser
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by galdosdi 4y ago
This kind of exercise is underrated. A similar one from a former job: the takehome assignment was something like "Here are some CSV files with sanitized real data from our business. It needs to be converted to XML. Use Java (the langua
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by galdosdi 4y ago
Usually a link to a humorous YT video would be inappropriately uninteresting on HN, but this classic and brief satire of microservices is actually quite on point about precisely what is so dangerous about a microservices architecture run am
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by galdosdi 4y ago
Great point. That said, I read the OP as complaining about the boom-bustiness of the world and modern life in general for everyone, not limiting the perspective to just one's employment, nor limited just to the perspective of if one is
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by galdosdi 5y ago
> (3) Research tends to show fewer, and more culturally variable, categories, with the heirarchies in which they fall also culturally variable. That's fascinating! Do you have any source or useful search terms? I'd love to read
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by galdosdi 5y ago
I haven't used python's type hints much yet but I used TypeScript a bunch about a year ago and I have the exact same complaints. Most of the benefit of types goes away unless _everything_ is typed... my libraries, the libraries my
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by galdosdi 5y ago
I cannot describe how much I love jq. Best new (to me) tool I discovered in all of 2020. Once you get the hang of it the syntax feels extremely powerful. The only other thing it reminded me of is the first time I learned enough SQL to be da
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by galdosdi 5y ago
In the early 2000s there was a great Ali G sketch where he asked a national security official whether they were worried about "terrorists hijacking driving a train into the white house." The official responded "There are no t
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by galdosdi 5y ago
> in which case yes I think the cops might agree to arrest you and in which case it will have to go all the way to court to get to where you can pay with cash. Wow. I think a lot of the people commenting in this thread don't have an
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by galdosdi 5y ago
Wow, do you honestly believe that? What planet do you live on where clerks and waiters FLIP OUT AND CALL THE POLICE over the mild inconvenience of being offered cash to pay the bill? From experience here on planet earth they will be mildly
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by galdosdi 5y ago
In the entire US there is also the (sometimes misunderstood) "legal tender" doctrine. By law US currency is "legal tender" for settling any debt. This means cash cannot be refused for a service/product that has alre
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by galdosdi 5y ago
How are the latest new ND miatas with regards to this sort of thing, anyway, if you know? The old NB and NA generation miatas (no idea on NC) were just wonderful perfect "dumb cars." Is it still good in the 2022 model year or has
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by galdosdi 5y ago
> Being a dick on IRC was how I learned to program. What a blast. AWESOME memory you describe there. OMG, fond memories of the day me and my IRC friends in high school somehow figured out that there was a bug in our network's ircd t
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by galdosdi 5y ago
Anecdote, but this was the approximate case on the team I worked on at Google (Manager in his mid 30s, team mostly in their 20s with one in his 50s). It happens. Actually, it was nice to see, as some evidence of non-ageism. I hope to no lon
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by galdosdi 5y ago
OMG, "writing a Foobar2000 plugin to emulate the Winamp API so my mIRC song spam scripts still functioned" is such a nostalgia packed sentence for those of us of a certain age. Some of the most fun I ever had was trying to make th
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by galdosdi 5y ago
You might consider checking Jython out as an option. It's JSR-223 compliant and trivial to drop into a Java app and just expose Java objects to the Python scripts to be used as is. I've had a pretty great experience with it. The o
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by galdosdi 5y ago
> A standard question might be "Build a chess game in 4 hours". Now that's clearly impossible. That doesn't sound impossible at all. I am sure I could do it in a weekend, and pretty sure I could do it in a day, if str
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by galdosdi 5y ago
> There's no good reason anyone would intentionally want to keep the poor poor, This seems naive to the point of being bizarre. Employers of lower skill and lower margin labor can get it cheaper if their prospective employees are mo
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by galdosdi 5y ago
Nitpick: Small and medium, not just large public gatherings, and a larger variety of them, are also a big city draw. But one of the biggest big city draws is the large variety of employment -- not just for you, but your kids. You don't

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