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by gwnywg 3y ago
People who publish papers labeled as science studies need to take more care and responsibility as this can lead to life-changing decisions by public...
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by gwnywg 3y ago
Some time ago I was offered to start using hearing aid, and I must say when I tried it I felt like something opened in my brain. So now I read this article where it says wearing hearing aid might rise the risk of ending up with dementia...
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by gwnywg 3y ago
This comment touches real problems, I was thinking about purchasing EV but was worried about things touched in that comment. It makes me thinking I should wait a bit longer.
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by gwnywg 3y ago
My friend switched to UX from not-a-programmer job (and after longish CV gap) and it took her 9 months to land job. She had her ups and downs but she was persistent, also she met a few good souls who gave her a bit of coaching along the way
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by gwnywg 3y ago
Other people said it already that CTO may mean different things depending on context. From my exp CTO in small startup is marketing tool and it does not mean real "the CTO". In small org CTO is simply "do it all in no time&qu
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by gwnywg 3y ago
If you are not studying in Oxford or similar your degree probably won't matter that much (I lived in foreign countries for many years and was not asked about my degree even once), especially since you already have 6 years of commercial
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by gwnywg 3y ago
Maybe whoever will break current state of encryption landscape will also gain privilege to build new and benefit from it? In my opinion if breaking AES is to serve military (and hunt for secrets) then it would be done in secret.
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by gwnywg 3y ago
Yep, this sentence from the article is good summary of the problem they had: > The rest of the team observed them in admiration. They should have been included in building base, they also should spend time learning what state of the art
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by gwnywg 3y ago
In my uni (and I guess in every other uni) they have a system which detects plagiarised parts of mastery thesis (and other too). My first thought is, would text produced by AI pass that test. And also I guess the same could be done with cod
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by gwnywg 3y ago
I feel there is more general mechanism that drives behaviors like this, In my opinion people tend to promote those things cultivated by their tribe, so they feel their sense of being part of that tribe is reinforced. I think most tribes are
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by gwnywg 3y ago
tbh I always wondered why do they call themselves 'openai' since models are not open. But does that mean people should do things like what OP says..
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by gwnywg 3y ago
Is this not acting in bad faith? What is driving you to do this, is it not better to simply let it be and focus on something else?
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by gwnywg 3y ago
I sometimes use it when I'm lacking inspiration to craft polite LinkedIn or email response.
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by gwnywg 3y ago
I'm having some fun writing bot for codingame fall community challenge https://www.codingame.com/contests/fall-challenge-2023
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by gwnywg 3y ago
> like using postgres instead of MySQL or Ruby or Python instead of PHP I guess it's great advice for newcommers who have enough time at hand, but would it not be better to pick one stack and stick to it?
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by gwnywg 3y ago
> this is too ambiguous of a question anyway, since it depends on the workload yep, how much data is queried and how are queries written, I'd guess it's good to strech your muscles on tiny instances so you get a feel how differ
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by gwnywg 3y ago
I think the commenter you replied to meant there is high probability there are not that many plumbers visiting HN (I don't count some SW devs who call themselves plumbers :) )
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by gwnywg 3y ago
Also rkhunter Many years ago I was thinking about logs monitoring to detect anomalies and wrote personal utility to achieve this.
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by gwnywg 3y ago
Doors, kind of furniture I'm missing lately... With kids at home doors need to be equipped with a lock. And it helps to have ensuite too...
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by gwnywg 3y ago
chess.com puts some effort in detecting cheaters. When I was active user I was receiving messages stating that such and such game was lost to cheater and my rating is updated to reflect that. Cheater detection sounds like very interesting p
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by gwnywg 3y ago
When I was a kid I heard proffessional player opinion that people who play more games get better results, he stated chess is game of numbers. I'm probably not on that level as no matter how many games I played there is rating level I c
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by gwnywg 3y ago
I stopped watching movies and series altogether a few years ago feeling I'm wasting time. Now I still waste time, but on other things :)
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by gwnywg 3y ago
Ah it was such wonderful time, I remember this feeling of fresh air when switching to Firefox from IE :)
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by gwnywg 3y ago
I use FF for daily browsing and Chrome when have to jump on google meet (can't get it working on FF, otherwise I would not use Chrome at all)
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by gwnywg 3y ago
I came to the same conclusion. Year ago I was cleaning my flat after renovation, there was lots of dust settled everywhere and my first thought was - how do I protect my lungs? There were many one-time-use face masks in hardware store, but
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by gwnywg 3y ago
8 days to go :)
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by gwnywg 3y ago
I'm backing up to my Synology NAS (4 HDD's configured into RAID1 array). Got Openvpn on it so can backup and access my backups while not at home. It's not as convenient as Dropbox but meets my needs.
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by gwnywg 3y ago
I didn't know about networkxx - until today..
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by gwnywg 3y ago
FF on Android, account-less YT- front page appears empty for me, but I like it that way- less temptation to waste time watching content I was not intending to watch :)
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by gwnywg 3y ago
On day 5 they draw an ornament with motif. Funny how it's rendered in Firefox on Android on my phone- none of the images contains motif clipped to the ornament :)

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