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by jonas21 2y ago
The people who are ambitious and driven enough to move for better opportunities are probably the ones they want to hire.
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> Ironically, we already have plenty of renewable energy in the US, it’s just there, sitting, waiting to be hooked up to the grid and not being used productively. The 947 GW is the total proposed capacity for solar projects that are in
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Honest question: why are we not trying to get this number closer to 100%? Like many people on this site, I personally benefitted from having access to computing technology and the internet as a child, starting at age 5 or 6. This gave me op
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by jonas21 2y ago
And if they say "yes, it is legit", what does that tell you?
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Huh? Almost everyone stores corporate data in the cloud and has for years.
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The only monotonically increasing clock available on iOS is based on uptime. If you need to measure accurate timings or guarantee that events are in the right order, you have to use it. As Apple points out in their guidelines, there are man
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by jonas21 2y ago
I feel like this statement is both obvious after spending a few minutes working with neural networks and completely useless in helping you build better neural networks. It's kind of like saying, "Stripped of anything else, works o
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Isn't the simple solution to this to encourage everyone to use the USPS app (and apps for banking, etc.)? Most young people probably do this already.
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The author's articles seem to be relentlessly negative about all technology. Being negative on everything is a low-effort way to get attention, but it doesn't really contribute much to anything.
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by jonas21 3y ago
Don't nickle and dime yourself on tools that save you time. If there's a SaaS offering that can reduce your workload, just pay for it (unless it's a truly ridiculous amount). Every so often there's a post on HN where a s
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by jonas21 3y ago
How is it too slow? You can easily render scenes at 60fps in a browser or on a mobile phone. Heck, you can even train one from scratch in a minute on an iPhone [1]. This technique has been around for less than a year. It's only going
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On the other hand, it's quite likely that the cars actually were stopped when the photo was taken. The convertible is following the truck way too closely for them to be moving at a normal driving speed. I feel like most people have an
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On top of that, there's almost no useful information in the article. I don't understand how this made it to the top of the front page. People must be upvoting based on the title.
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Many landlords are happy to offer longer-term leases. I signed a two-year lease once, and I think they would have offered a longer one if I'd asked. I'd guess there's not a lot of demand for these as renters also want the fle
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by jonas21 3y ago
> Also, having the compiler throw an error doesn't mean that an older, already compiled executable won't work. And when the older, already compiled executable calls the API, how do you make things "work"? That'
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by jonas21 3y ago
As a human, I think the correct answer is 7. This isn't so much a logic puzzle as an ambiguous sentence that can be parsed multiple ways.
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"Embarrassing" is a strange way of saying "potentially deadly" (for example, https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/san-francisco-cycl... ).
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From my reading of the statement, the truck and Waymo vehicle were both going straight, in opposite directions. The cyclist was traveling on the cross-street and entered the intersection directly behind the truck and into the path of the Wa
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Additionally, this might make pilots more reluctant to declare an emergency, which would have a negative impact on safety.
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Note that IP addresses are personal information, so if you're logging them like this, you'll need to get consent (or have some other legal basis) and also handle deletion requests for EU users. One of the many joys of GDPR complia
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by jonas21 3y ago
The retracted statistics weren't about the total amount stolen. They were about the percentage stolen by organized retail theft rings . It still makes sense to lock up your inventory if you're seeing a high rate of theft, regardl
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by jonas21 3y ago
Reaching into your pocket or bag right when you see the police coming after you may not be a great idea either.
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Here's the thing: working hard doesn't just benefit your employer. It also benefits you because you'll learn new skills rapidly. If your employer doesn't recognize the value you're adding, don't just sit around
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The ATC frequency isn't for complaints. The controller needs the frequency free to communicate with other planes. When he says "I can’t have this conversation with you," he literally means that he cannot have the conversation
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In that example, they're using OpenCV to display images and read from the webcam for a demo. At one point, they make it clear that OpenCV isn't used for any of the CV parts: > We didn't compile Darknet with OpenCV so it c
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by jonas21 3y ago
Firing Sam was within the board's rights. And 90% of the employees threatening to leave was within their rights. All this proved is that you can't take a major action that is deeply unpopular with employees, without consulting the
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Creators on YouTube get to decide how many ads appear and when they appear on each video they create (as long as they're in the partner program, which is open to basically anyone with >1000 subscribers). If the videos you're wa
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Is the author really holding up mIRC as an example of good usability? Aside from the standard window controls, I can't make sense of what a single thing on that screen does.
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At my local supermarket, there is a store-brand option in basically every popular product category. And I can't even recall visiting a major chain grocery store where this was not the case (at least not in the last 5 years).
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The New York Times buys information from similar databases and uses it to determine the articles that are recommended to you on their site (among other things) [1]. Ironically, that may be the reason the submitter saw this article in the f

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