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by imdsm 7y ago
Not entirely ICT but I wish my school taught me: - Engineering - Flight dynamics - Systems theory - Useful mathematics - How to lift heavy items properly - How to make a cup of tea properly - Sword fighting But to be more on topic, I think
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by imdsm 7y ago
I am the 5%
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by imdsm 7y ago
I get 403 when connecting from the UK. Connecting via a US access point, I can view it. Video ------------------------------------------------ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wWkAHOph6A Text -------------------------------
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by imdsm 7y ago
That's a good idea but how would it work in practice? Would there be a two pass matching system? For example, let's say the friendly folks of this app match me with someone, what do I see? Do I now see a match, and my match sees m
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by imdsm 7y ago
I think we need to be very careful when we talk about tone in text-based communication. One of the worst things about this new world of text-borne communication is that we lose most of what makes a conversation. There is no tone, there is n
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by imdsm 7y ago
I had an issue recently with Virtualbox which caused my iMac Pro to crash and power cycle. That, as well as certain Xcode updates (required by other software), meant I lost my 200+ days of workstation uptime.
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by imdsm 7y ago
Pays it to whom?
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by imdsm 7y ago
Ah, you've linked to the HN thread for https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2014/why_xkcd_style_graph... — I just went looking for this. I always think of this post when the subject of charts is brought up. It
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by imdsm 7y ago
I love this, for the reasons laid out in this article (which I always back to): https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2014/why_xkcd_style_graph...
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by imdsm 7y ago
I played with people on WoW who are still good friends who are now in high places. It was truly a generation thing. Like I watch Stranger Things and I think, I wish I was on the internet before the WWW with BBS, and with walkie talkies, may
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by imdsm 7y ago
Wait, is this for actual Pandas? I'm confused. Is it like a giant iPad and they paw a square that is designed for Pandas and they get a bamboo treat?
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by imdsm 7y ago
I posted about this a while ago, where queries took even longer with certain calculations. -2 * 2 takes ~10 secs. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17470163
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by imdsm 7y ago
For anyone looking for a link to a live site to play it: > Becausee the detector is too slow and weak, we can not endure too many clients. Therefore, we do not deploy it to a public server now. We plan to train a robust and fast model in
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by imdsm 7y ago
Not to mention heat management.
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by imdsm 7y ago
Yeah, I've been remote first for three years now and don't have any of these problems. Perhaps OP had a bad experience. And not knock IRL first — there are definitely things I miss about being in an office but they are all social
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by imdsm 7y ago
Regardless of the moral questions surrounding the resettlement of the people who lived on the islands, I do wonder what the legal implications are of Mauritius accepting the money to begin with. Surely if you sell an Island, you can't
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by imdsm 7y ago
I've been to this website a number of times over the last decade or so, and I love it. It reminds me of the old internet. > Be patient, this story is several dozen photos long, plus the text, so if you have a slow connection it will
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by imdsm 7y ago
In order to truly have a shot at replacing gifs, it has to be as frictionless to use as gifs are. That means being able to refer to it with a single, simply tag. <video src="example.av1"> and, in addition, for as many people
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by imdsm 7y ago
Weirdest thing. I was watching Outlander last night where the main character talks about Lily of the Valley. Never before have I heard of this plant and yet today, here we are on HN of all places, with a post about LotV.
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by imdsm 7y ago
Some people (and organisations/governments) attribute credibility to people in positions of power and/or professional prestige.
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by imdsm 7y ago
I always think to myself that the technology we see and know about now, the spy planes and such, are ~50 years old, so what is operating now that we won't know about until some of us are 70 or 80 years old?
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by imdsm 8y ago
To be fair, I recently watched a video with Dr Hannah Fry in which she played real vs AI music samples, and while the real human music was more complex, the AI composed music, though simpler, was still good and at first, hard to pick out.
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by imdsm 8y ago
> "The Checklist Manifesto" chose to overlook the studies about how transient the benefit of checklists is. It's been almost a year now since I read this but I'm fairly certain Atul touched on this, either in this boo
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by imdsm 8y ago
I bought an iMac Pro (base model) last year. I see it as investing up front in an already upgraded machine, that I can now use for the next 10 years.
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by imdsm 8y ago
I recently bought a new MacBook Air, and it had an absolutely terrible keyboard, and had a horrible high pitched whine. I sent it back within a few hours and got a refund. So now I still have my Late 2013 MBP (top spec) but I really want a
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by imdsm 8y ago
Exactly. It's the emergent events that makes it. This book by Tynan (RimWorld) is a great read, you /really/ delve into the psychology of games. Even if you're not a game designer, I recommend reading it. https:/&#
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by imdsm 8y ago
I'd agree with this. As an engineer you'll find yourself spending more time building tools than playing the game, sat in a station most of the time, and easily spend longer on that then on your actual job. To play is to lose.
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by imdsm 8y ago
Aye, I spent some time in TEST and ended up working on a whole bunch of projects before canning the lot. There was a market system that was managed by Goons, IIRC, but they pulled it from TEST so I built a similar system which was actually
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by imdsm 8y ago
I have this and K&R. Recommend both /very/ highly.
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by imdsm 8y ago
I actually enjoyed the internet more back then, or well, slightly after. I think I first went online about 1998. There was something magical about being a 9 year old fledgling programmer communicating via UDP, port scanning and connecting t

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