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by hectormalot 4y ago
As someone working at a bank: you’re going to get a phone call and a bunch of letters (on actual paper). It’s exceedingly unlikely a bank would suspend your account on missing one KYC e-mail and no further follow ups.
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by hectormalot 4y ago
How I read it is that you specify which ways you will use a column and then VT will create the various encrypted columns to support this. Deterministic shared key for matches only. Ordered encryption for ranges and FHE for various calculati
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by hectormalot 4y ago
I’ve used https://open-meteo.com/ before and I think it’s the same type of open data being exposed. These types of projects are great for stuff like home automation. I’m using to to improve my predictions for power generati
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by hectormalot 4y ago
Enterprise software is all about sales. For features: I think https://www.enterpriseready.io/ has a nice checklist of the 12 things commonly required for enterprise apps (SSO, Audit logs, RBAC, GDPR, etc)
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by hectormalot 4y ago
Like OP, I keep being surprised by how easy it is to drive up bills with Cloudwatch. It’s small numbers here, but I’ve seen this happen at 4-5 digits as well.
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by hectormalot 4y ago
A great blogpost on the architecture Stripe chose for calendar based versioning: https://stripe.com/blog/api-versioning In essence, they transform requests from the latest API version back to the (older) versions by wr
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by hectormalot 4y ago
No I think it is the sales that counts. That 200k salesperson will of course make PowerPoint decks showing all the support options. But, the main barrier to take is convincing 10+ people with different incentives to all sign off on your pro
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by hectormalot 4y ago
This one, great reading too: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/12/15/camels-and-rubber-... It’s a long piece. The “credit card“ vs “3 months of hard core PowerPoint by sales” pricing is about 75% into the p
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by hectormalot 4y ago
I’ve used it for some designs and found it quite easy to work with. UI is very good (vs typical open source) Challenging is the Figma ecosystem taking most mindshare. Eg trying to find someone on Fiverr to create PenPot designs is hard.
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by hectormalot 4y ago
I'd pick PostgreSQL over CouchDB because it is so common, has great documentation, and many people say it is a great default choice. For quickly launching an API enabled backend, maybe look at encore.dev? It's not one of your list
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by hectormalot 4y ago
For some APIs you can get the access yourself. For example, here is the API for account and transaction information at ABN AMRO (3rd largest bank in the Netherlands): https://developer.abnamro.com/api-products/business-
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by hectormalot 4y ago
pros and cons, will depend on the type of thing a team/company is working on. I've been on the receiving end of this with some negative experiences as well. Team1: "Hey, we've launched a new initiative a few weeks back.
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by hectormalot 4y ago
here you go: * https://centreforaviation.com/news/pilot-union-accepts-emplo... * https://www.flightglobal.com/strategy/klm-clears-path-to-bai... VNV is the pilots union of KLM, the Dutch national
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by hectormalot 4y ago
Wanted to share Penpot as well. It worked surprisingly well for my use case. Ecosystem is limited unfortunately, eg hard to find someone on fiverr to deliver penpot files instead of figma
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by hectormalot 5y ago
Fun fact: He left to join another company some time later, and I now work with him again.
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by hectormalot 5y ago
I’ve had 2 exit interviews and both were good experiences. The first scheduled the exit interview 5 months after leaving my job. Clearly said that they wanted to make sure I was comfortable in my new job before asking for feedback. I think
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by hectormalot 5y ago
> Simply because the credit system is _in my opinion_ imperfect and punishes people harshly. It encourages borrowing. i.e. if a person is responsible and chooses not to open a credit line, then their credit is considered bad, and banks w
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by hectormalot 5y ago
I’ve once had an amazing view on the northern lights flying icelandair. Crew went around waking people up so they could see it.
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by hectormalot 5y ago
If it's a true concern, the answer is probably iodine tablets and a respirator. Increases your chances of survival (if you would survive the first wave). But, what more can we do? It's an interesting question to think about. Nucle
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by hectormalot 5y ago
Sink directly into it for the summer. Heat exchanger between the source (approx 10-15C) and the water from the floor heating/cooling system. Because the heat pump is not involved it's very efficient (only the power of the well pum
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by hectormalot 5y ago
Correct, it's big but I wouldn't say huge (maybe 4.5x2.5m). This is the machine they used: https://conrad-stanen.nl/nl/producten/boxer-200
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by hectormalot 5y ago
There is a great (German) database with heat pump performance. You can switch to English on the right top: https://www.waermepumpen-verbrauchsdatenbank.de/index.php?bu... There's quite some monthly data on Air/Wat
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by hectormalot 5y ago
your comment about average yearly temperatures is of course correct, but in this case it biases in favour of GP: * It's colder than average today, to reducing the setpoint has more effect vs an annual average. If sun takes part of the
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by hectormalot 5y ago
I have one of those. The well is 170m deep. Took 2 guys about half a day to drill it, so that actually doesn’t seem excessive in terms of time required (mostly sand, no rock below my house).
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by hectormalot 5y ago
We moved from IBM Connections and WebEx to Sharepoint and Teams. I still think Teams is terrible software[1] but I’ve learned there’s definitely worse software out there. [1]: the 100% CPU, the fan noise in the background of many peoples ca
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by hectormalot 5y ago
Indeed, most pyramids are less than 5k years old. A 100k years means making the step from the first Egyptian dynasty to today 20 times. That’s an incredible timespan. I don’t think we can design rules and agreements around this type of stor
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by hectormalot 5y ago
Maybe not that far apart. The challenge with subsidies is the administration and making sure you exhaustively subsidize different options. It’s also infeasible for smaller investments such as radiator foil. My underlying assumption is that
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by hectormalot 5y ago
No it doesn’t. Example, imagine you currently have a energy bill of $1000p.a. With the proposal above, we’ll move you to a $3000p.a. bill with CO2 taxes. And, we’ll give you $2000p.a. to compensate for the increased energy bill. Would you r
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by hectormalot 5y ago
Yes, but is it a problem worth solving beyond what we have today? What’s the last time we saw an database integrity failure at the DMV/… leading to cars being owned by people that shouldn’t?
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by hectormalot 5y ago
True. I’m hiring lots of data scientists and have become somewhat disappointed with the phd profiles. It happens too often that they lack the broader skills to be successful, vs people who did do “non-core” activities and are now more well

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