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by hobbescotch 5y ago
The province of New Brunswick has set up a website tracking this here: https://www2.gnb.ca/content/gnb/en/departments/ocmoh/cdc/neu...
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by hobbescotch 6y ago
Does anyone know where they get the data for these shipping map sites?
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by hobbescotch 6y ago
I'm curious if anyone understands how this might affect exchange rates of CAD with other currencies? I'm aware that other countries are also basically printing money with various COVID stimulus packages. But in Canada, where a lar
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The Void(greaterfool.ca)
1 points by hobbescotch 6y ago|1 comments
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by hobbescotch 6y ago
There are companies out there today (like https://www.mykeeper.com ) doing something similar in this space with Digital/online memorials where you can create pages for documenting & sharing people's lives. Would be
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by hobbescotch 6y ago
Didn't realize so much of Canada was mapped. There's some really good imagery of northern Canada and the rockies there. I also noticed that the images don't distort as much around the edges of the screen when rotating the vie
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by hobbescotch 6y ago
I’m curious to read more about this currency safety metric. Where do you find this?
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by hobbescotch 6y ago
Was thinking maybe an Apple Watch with cell connectivity would bridge the gap. Anyone done this?
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by hobbescotch 6y ago
It’s a real pain how slow it is. I’ve resorted to adding quick links to my bookmark bar for GCP products that I use often to get around the slowness.
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by hobbescotch 6y ago
I can really relate to this. I have had to have a cornea transplant and many other eye surgeries over the past year where I had to be awake during them. I know in a few years I will likely be going through the same thing and I’m having trou
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by hobbescotch 6y ago
Was this not the premise of the Life Aquatic by Wes Anderson? Essentially we are shown a satirical representation of Jacques Cousteau where Zissou (the Cousteau-type) wants to blow up a shark and fakes discoveries of obviously made up sea c
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by hobbescotch 6y ago
They get backed up
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by hobbescotch 6y ago
Not sure if it's still like this, but I got in on KMS early on and I think you could only store Google generated keys. However, I needed to be able to store API keys, passwords, etc... So I used the KMS generated keys to encrypt GCS fi
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by hobbescotch 6y ago
The way I got around this was to store secrets in Google KMS encrypted files in Google Cloud Storage. The KMS key and encrypted files share the same name and can be accessed by that name programmatically. This secret storage method works re
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by hobbescotch 6y ago
Having never dealt with issues relating to garbage collection before, how do you go about diagnosing GC issues in a language where that’s all handled for you?
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by hobbescotch 6y ago
Is there really any way to securely host static assets in a cloud bucket? If you host profile images, etc... locally you can easily give or deny access to static assets without having to obfuscate the file path. From what I read here, the d
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by hobbescotch 6y ago
Just to properly attribute my work and explain a little how it works, the data comes from the gdelt-hathitrust Google BigQuery dataset of which I created a locally stored Postgres database containing a decently large subset of the results (
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Show HN: Libmap – a toy app I wrote which maps locations mentioned in books(libmap.dev)
2 points by hobbescotch 6y ago|1 comments
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by hobbescotch 6y ago
AFAIK stocks are up due to the announcements that the lock downs will be ending. However, the surge seems rather short sighted: you can coax stores into reopening, but you can’t force people to go out and shop in them like they used to.
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Ask HN: What does your data science tech stack look like?
2 points by hobbescotch 7y ago|0 comments
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by hobbescotch 7y ago
It seems that you consider the sharpe ratio to be not worthwhile. Would you be able to elaborate on that point? As someone who is getting into algotrading, I’m currently using the sharpe ratio to quantify risk, but would like to hear anothe
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by hobbescotch 7y ago
Is there an equivalent job title for Data Engineer without the word “engineer”? As a data engineer without an engineering degree I don’t like having that word in my job title.
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by hobbescotch 7y ago
Apple Music seems to be having issues too
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by hobbescotch 8y ago
Yeah whenever I’m putting together the CSS for a side project I’ll spend literally forever going back and forth between greys only to find the look isn’t consistent between my dev machine and my phone.
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by hobbescotch 8y ago
I’m not a designer but one thing I’ve noticed is that greys look seem to look better if their tint matches the overal tone the site. For instance a site with many blue colours should use a blue tinted grey. Adding a grey with a green tint f
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by hobbescotch 8y ago
Has anyone noticed in CarPlay that Spotify sounds much quieter (and worse) than Apple Music? I have always had a suspicion that this was Apple’s doing, but now it seems much more likely. But if I’m wrong someone please let me know! I’d real
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by hobbescotch 8y ago
How do you get into digital forensics dev? Seems like an interesting field.
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by hobbescotch 8y ago
Isn’t the main draw of medium the discussion? Static sites by their nature aren’t built for discussion considering the lack of a real database. Of course you could add a third party commenting system like discus, but then you relying on a t
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by hobbescotch 8y ago
This would certainly make it easier https://github.com/zulip/docker-zulip/blob/master/docker-com...
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by hobbescotch 8y ago
I think it’s possible that apple and others are still working on a small phone. Demand for small phones has increased in the past year or two and the lead time for development of new phones afaik is 2+ years. It’ll take time for other phone

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