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by jayceedenton 3y ago
Sadly, visiting many parts of Ethiopia (including Dallol) is now not recommended unless essential, with large areas of the country having blanket 'Do not visit' advice due to violence and kidnapping. So think twice before booking,
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by jayceedenton 3y ago
I thought the same thing. Of course it is downstream, but I think this is why the person mentioned it: because the journey is surprising. They're saying that powerful tidal currents caused someone that entered the water at Dartford to
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by jayceedenton 3y ago
These 'top 10 tips' have put us in a strange place re reporting on suicide. The news becomes very cryptic with a lot that's unsaid.
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by jayceedenton 3y ago
It's before! A couple I noticed (sorry, not at a computer right now): > Only with decomposition will they begin to float. > “There have been people that have jumped off Dartford Bridge and ended up in central London. Completely u
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by jayceedenton 3y ago
So if you own a minority stake in anything, you can be told at any time that it has been reduced to a value of zero? I guess this makes sense if they alternative was bankruptcy. If you can't inject money to help at a critical time, the
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by jayceedenton 3y ago
> There's a bit of a difference between a fire drill in an office building from the perspective of a regular office employee - and a firefighter And which one of those do you think a tech support interview is closer to?
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by jayceedenton 3y ago
A fire drill where we don't pretend it's real but do take the drill seriously, is fine. A fire drill where the Health & Safety guy insists that we pretend it's real - yes, most people find this cringe-inducing. For more o
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by jayceedenton 3y ago
This sounds like a good exercise, and kudos for thinking differently and at least trying to create a fairer and more useful process. Two comments I'd make, that I hope you are already thinking about: 1. Role playing is a cringe-inducin
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by jayceedenton 3y ago
Interesting that Google owns 'here', given the competing map business Here. Also that Amazon owns 'tunes'. Many of these look like efforts to grab TLDs that would compete. The domain business seems completely broken to m
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by jayceedenton 3y ago
How is that relevant? The point of this entire exercise is to allow developers and consumers to leave the Apple app store if they like. A free choice. If people must stick with it because the alternative will lead to total financial ruin, t
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Long-term nuclear waste warning messages(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by jayceedenton 3y ago|0 comments
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by jayceedenton 3y ago
That can't be it. Their are hundreds of books on Amazon with far worse words in the title.
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by jayceedenton 3y ago
This is motte-and-bailey argumentation in my opinion. The motte: SPAs are a good way to write highly complex applications in the browser, like Photoshop and Figma, to compete with desktop apps. The bailey: SPAs are a good way to write most
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by jayceedenton 3y ago
If you work with people across multiple timezones, it's really useful to be able to open a screen with a set of clocks and glance at the time in every relevant timezone. If I just have https://time.fyi/timezones bookma
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by jayceedenton 3y ago
I don't know anything about game engines, but always assumed that Godot was limited to simpler games. A lot of people seem to be pushing for Godot to replace Unity after the recent licensing shambles. Is it really possible to build gam
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by jayceedenton 3y ago
Compost heaps don't include cooked food, so they aren't so attractive to flies, vermin, etc that can spread bacteria and disease. Seems likely too that the collection of rags and bones (for their various uses) became more systemat
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by jayceedenton 3y ago
This article seems to be trying to get in way too much, but I appreciate the initial sentiment. The sad truth is, a smart team can do well with any architecture. A weak team will fail with any architecture. And maybe it's not really to
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by jayceedenton 3y ago
Honestly, Java has a lot going for it. Amazing library ecosystem. Simple to learn, like Go but with essential quality-of-life improvements. Community without PLT sadists. Fast as all hell when written with care. Vast variety of jobs. Super-
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by jayceedenton 3y ago
You never considered the possibility he was just being honest?
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by jayceedenton 3y ago
The Plasticine?
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Rich Hickey is retiring from Nubank(building.nubank.com.br)
137 points by jayceedenton 3y ago|16 comments
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by jayceedenton 4y ago
I haven't bought vinyl in at least 15 years, but I'm pleased to see any physical media still maintaining a place in our lives. For me, it's not the nostalgia factor, or the atmosphere created by physical media, it's pure
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by jayceedenton 4y ago
The way this technique combines knowledge of mechanical and human optics is really fascinating. Of course the calibration could also be done by recording an image to film and developing it, but it would be very slow and inconvenient. This t
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by jayceedenton 4y ago
We have no idea why Max Howell was rejected. Only the interviewing team knows that. Maybe there were a variety of other problems. Maybe he came off as a complete asshole during interviews. Often not knowing something is fine during an inter
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by jayceedenton 4y ago
Social media has taught us that some human group dynamics work at small scale but not at large scale. At large scale they have a much more sinister effect on society. One of these seems to be shame. Social media creates purity spirals, driv
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by jayceedenton 4y ago
> Hard Truth #6: Honesty can only hurt you I think the author has come away with the wrong lesson here. Many engineers, particularly those that don't pay too much heed to social mores, think they have some God-given right to share d
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by jayceedenton 4y ago
I will always remember this incident as the time when the UK general public were exposed, en masse, to Spring error messages. The confusion caused by ordering a member of the general public not to request a bean from a bean factory in a des
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by jayceedenton 4y ago
I'd love to see what images from the training set look most similar to a given generated face. It's hard to decide whether these are impressive without knowing whether each face is just a real face with some minor adjustments.
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by jayceedenton 4y ago
Yes, I think my personal Overton window is around 3 years behind. It hasn't caught up with what we're now happy to call 'Far right'. As far as I can tell, anything remotely right wing is now 'Far right' amongst
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by jayceedenton 4y ago
Far right? Come on now.

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