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by grumple 5y ago
But the values are generally generated pseudo randomly by machine. This seems similar to the birthday problem, where the odds of encountering a value in a given range is higher than you'd expect.
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by grumple 5y ago
It's also about about techies jumping jobs for more money, not just leaving the industry entirely. It is US-centric and not limited to tech. https://www.recruiter.com/i/no-post-pandemic-the-great-job-e... But I&#x
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by grumple 5y ago
It took a long time for fungi to evolve to consume wood (bacteria too). It took 60 million years for this evolution to take place. Sounds like plastic might be on a faster track according to this article. Basically wood cells are hard to pe
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by grumple 5y ago
It would not surprise me if there's javascript running on nuclear subs. It's already made it to space: https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/06/javascript-spacex-dragon/
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by grumple 5y ago
Evidence of early hominids and other less advanced proto-human or human groups shows a pretty significant amount of calories came from meat. Some suggest 60-80% of calories came from proteins, largely meat, at various times in history. Exam
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by grumple 5y ago
But you could probably devise a scheme by which you feed all of your students an assortment of berries and figure out which ones are safe based on which students get sick or die.
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by grumple 5y ago
Last year's Thanksgiving outage and this one are the two biggest. They've been pretty reliable. That's still 99.7% uptime.
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by grumple 5y ago
We're too busy in endless sprints to focus on things outside of our core business that don't make salespeople and executives excited.
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by grumple 5y ago
Kinesis was the cause last Thanksgiving too iirc. It's the backbone of many services.
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by grumple 5y ago
I can tell you that some processes are not running, possibly due to SQS or SWF problems. Previous outages of this scale were caused by Kinesis outages. Can't connect via aws login at the cli either since we use SSO and that seems to be
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by grumple 5y ago
Pretty strange that there's one researcher listed and a dozen "social media / fund raisers". Suggests this isn't serious research and is instead a hype factory for acquiring money.
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by grumple 5y ago
I can only imagine that the scale of all US SMS messages is absolutely staggering. It probably eclipses all other text formats combined in terms of daily production. Here's a blog post from a few years ago estimating it at 26 billion t
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by grumple 5y ago
Source is a few years old, but I suppose we can make another FOIA request to find out how long carriers store text messages these days - it was basically 0-5 days a decade ago: https://www.nbcnews.com/technolog/how-long
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by grumple 5y ago
That is a ridiculous cop-out. Dev work is very regimented for many of us; we have a half dozen regular agile meetings, deployment schedules, etc. The process for code getting accepted and deployed is well-established. It's very easy to
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by grumple 5y ago
I think you make some good points about the human part of the hiring process. Things happen - and hiring managers are often in a lot of meetings that run over. But as someone who's been on both sides of the loop, I have very little fai
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by grumple 5y ago
We ran into intermittent failure with Github download urls around a month or two ago that caused our builds to fail (there was no github status, but we replicated the failure easily manually). In response to the failure, we started self-hos
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by grumple 5y ago
Really just highlights how GPA is a poor way to judge students. In business Bob will win though.
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by grumple 5y ago
Contrary to other responses, you can certainly use OOP programming to solve these problems, and I think that is a better way to do it. You wouldn't write 100 line blocks of dense algorithms in prod code, why do it here? Thinking about
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by grumple 5y ago
I worked at a gym like this once upon a time. What an awful place. The workplace encouraged scummy behavior like this. And boy am I glad I invested in a home gym so I never have to deal with that industry again.
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by grumple 5y ago
Seriously doubt that AWS, Facebook are using Google for infra. There's probably some other effect at play, like people using a Google service to connect to these things. Also don't see any effects on those services personally.
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by grumple 5y ago
The background color on that site makes it very painful to read. Author, if you're on HN, please make this something more normal.
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by grumple 5y ago
I don't know if you've ever worked in a warehouse before, but they aren't exactly places where there's a lot of intellectual thought happening (or any thought sometimes). It's moving stuff and repetitive tasks and r
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by grumple 5y ago
Very cool. The opportunity for people with physical impairments to continue communicating - and convey their ability to still experience the world - gives us the ability to help these people lead happier lives.
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by grumple 5y ago
Early on as a dev, I made the mistake of doing exactly what I was asked. Basically I learned that user control was better than automation in some cases. I had to write a script to select batches of files from a larger number for translation
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by grumple 5y ago
Yes, thank you. As someone with anxiety / panic disorder, spooky things like "we need to talk" at the wrong time can be a trigger. That doesn't really happen often for me anymore professionally (being a principal enginee
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by grumple 5y ago
Interesting. Self order kiosks are amazing. I never have a clerk take my order incorrectly, never have to repeat myself.
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by grumple 5y ago
Americans absolutely call people brown. It's all over social media, sociology papers, and common conversation. Just search twitter for "black and brown".
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by grumple 5y ago
Just a few examples of things that I suspect have improved the cost of running a McDonald's (or network of them) or other similar businesses: 1) Self-order kiosks. Definitely reduce costs and required number of workers needed at any ti
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by grumple 5y ago
Totally agree. Maybe they see numbers we don't, and maybe the limited availability of the physical platform indicates higher demand. I'm a big fan of the Oculus hardware and software. Just not the link to Facebook accounts that is
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by grumple 5y ago
If I mail you a letter and you send a letter back, have I hacked your house? Let's say you don't respond, and I send my letter with a different return address and then you respond. That's basically what is happening here. If

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