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by jka 4y ago
Upvoted, because I strongly believe you're wrong, and that your point of view should be near the top and debated.
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by jka 4y ago
A company's data is like a raw set of food ingredients - they harvest that data, and collect it in one or more places. An API is like the restaurant menu - it presents you with the ways that the data can be prepared for you, based on t
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by jka 4y ago
Although I've used a few electric razors over the years (and much prefer using them to buying and keeping track of disposables), it's probably worth referring to a more detailed analysis of the options out there, so here's Wi
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Guix: Multi-dimensional transactions and rollbacks, oh my! (2018)(guix.gnu.org)
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by jka 4y ago
Hmm, yep, I'd question and potentially be frustrated by some of those behaviours too. Ultimately all you can do is choose how you wish to live your own life, and make your own consumption decisions (roughly speaking: I don't like
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by jka 4y ago
That book was a while ago, I think? I remember watching the film. Here's one paragraph that I found particularly unpleasant from the article: "After he was stripped naked, interrogators 'lined up' one-by-one to slam Bal
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by jka 4y ago
Well, personal opinion: I don't think it's clear that the UK Civil Service has been more of a blocker to Brexit than they would've been for any other earth-shattering policy change. Part of the social contract of joining that
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Weinberger vs. Wiesenfeld (1975)(en.wikipedia.org)
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by jka 4y ago
Within the U.S. today, do you feel that the most economically-advantaged social groups are increasing or decreasing their meat and beef consumption? And any reasons why if so? (diet, health, politics, ...)
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by jka 4y ago
You can see the EU a little bit like a microservice mesh standard; once your microservice is integrated, data flows, resource sharing, statistics/observability, and so on become easier in various ways, although you may have to adapt to
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by jka 4y ago
I don't like the content of articles like this one: https://web.archive.org/web/20220427155557/https://www.mintp... ...and I agree that the site may have (apparent or otherwise) biases. But the con
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by jka 4y ago
I don't know if this is exactly the kind of thing you're looking for, but there are a few sites that aggregate open source project tasks tagged as "good first issue" / "help wanted" - for example these two
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by jka 4y ago
Having discovered some of the talks from this conference today: it features some great content and ideas. A link for the curious: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=hytradboi.com Maybe I'm behind the times, but it
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Eyros – a peer-to-peer spatial database written in Rust(hytradboi.com)
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by jka 4y ago
I'd bet it's because the filtering vendor (Allot) sells a simple interface to the customer (Vodafone) that mostly consists of allowlist/blocklist entries manually added by support agents when someone complains. There's p
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Project Alice – an open source virtual assistant that can run offline(github.com)
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by jka 4y ago
I mostly agree, but for the sake of argument, I do wonder how much time and emotional energy is spent developing and articulating those kind & plain responses in situations where the {requests/demands} that prompted them were unrea
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by jka 5y ago
Although the core topic relates to serverless technologies and scalabilities, I find the notes about personalisation a notable (and in some senses, risky) trend, too.
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Gap-free human genome sequence completed for first time(bbc.co.uk)
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by jka 5y ago
Update: based on this Twitter thread, it seems like much of the concern raised here could have been due to mistranslations: https://twitter.com/jrmygrdn/status/1509516246852767747 That's not a reason to dismi
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by jka 5y ago
Re-posting this item because the original[1] is flagged/dead on HN. Respeecher appears to be a company that offers realistic fake speech production for industries like Hollywood. They are in the process of development watermarking tec
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by jka 5y ago
This seems to tell a different story from reporting published one day earlier (2022-03-30) by Deutsche Welle: https://www.dw.com/en/germany-says-putin-agreed-to-keep-paym...
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by jka 5y ago
Perhaps, although the outdoor ground-level radiation should not be at a sufficient level to cause acute radiation poisoning, as I understand it. According to Wikipedia, 237 people suffered from acute radiation sickness as a result of the 19
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by jka 5y ago
Possibly because that would be illegal (according to the quote you mention) and so they would likely lose further negotiating ground by doing so.
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by jka 5y ago
According to the tweet, the soldiers affected were allegedly digging trenches in the Red Forest, a highly radioactive region. It seems strange to believe that they could've been unaware of radiation risk in the area when doing that; ra
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by jka 5y ago
This {mirrors/supports} another item posted to HN ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30860766 ). BNSF reported strong financial results[1] in 2021, with revenues up by 14% and profits up by 12% (both figures year-o
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'Completely demoralized': US railroad workers pushed to the brink(theguardian.com)
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The game mechanics of Quadrilateral Cowboy (first published in 2016) are really innovative - I can't remember how many hours I lost during my first playthrough, but it was extremely engaging. It's available on a few different pla
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Quadrilateral Cowboy – a first-person hacking adventure in a cyberpunk world(github.com)
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Plant-based steak made from pea protein(ethz.ch)
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