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by jrumbut 5y ago
Gotta really appreciate everyone that put in the effort to make this particular project not a horrific, graphic failure. Of course the science returns haven't come in yet and there's still plenty to go wrong but at least it got of
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by jrumbut 5y ago
I don't know anything about astronomy but my intuition is that since we aren't going to the kind of places you see with a 9m space telescope any time soon the goal should be pushing the boundary rather than filling in a complete p
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by jrumbut 5y ago
I agree with you. There are enough people in the world who play games to make others suffer that I'm not going to spend much energy resenting people who play games to make others feel good. I do think the author's final point abou
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by jrumbut 5y ago
What I find interesting is that so many schools don't meet the KPIs and metrics anyway despite stripping away most of the educational experience that isn't test prep. If that was yielding great test scores it would be one thing, b
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The key is to realize electricity in a circuit is kind of like data traveling through a network ;)
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This is advice for how to give text editor configuration advice. The pizza comparison is apt because it's a matter of taste. If the author tried to look objective it would be a false front.
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by jrumbut 5y ago
I wonder frequently if we've reached the point where we need a license exam to be able to work on web apps that handle money or store personal data.
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This is what I think when I hear about a company being attacked by someone inside their development/ops team or the latest 0day. Ideally there should be measures in place to mitigate these worst case scenarios but those are legitimatel
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This is something like an added benefit. If an organization has a good culture they'll like what you're doing and keep you working for then, if not then they'll get rid of you and free up your time something better. As far as
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It's not unavoidable, a lot of people don't do it. I would say they are making a mistake though. The thing is that people on the other side should either recognize what you're doing or appreciate you relieving the tension in
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The other aspect is organizational appetite for risk. The first company I worked for let anyone grow into any role they proved they could do. If you solved the hard problems you were the senior developer, if you took the reigns you were qui
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by jrumbut 5y ago
I don't think the complaint is about the lack of new ideas for coins. No shortage there. There have been a lot of prototypes, trials, testing, and scams, but not a lot of hits. The only major exceptions are the same old cryptocurrencie
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by jrumbut 5y ago
> an OS with long term storage is a problem because it accumulates incorrect files, mistakes, and other long term choices that will hamper your productivity This is why containers became so successful, IMO. For a long time I thought bein
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by jrumbut 5y ago
Having almost finished, it's not just possible it's relatively straightforward and not that uncommon. I didn't even have a good undergrad GPA. You do need an advisor with some imagination to leverage your skills and fill in g
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by jrumbut 5y ago
I took the leap. The English->Portuguese sample sounded nothing like me at all except for one syllable where it sounded like it was playing back a brief snip of what I had recorded. The English->French version did a little bit better,
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by jrumbut 5y ago
No, it's a very different situation since radiation therapy has such a long history at this point. I'm just not sure what the margin for error is, the failure modes for this magnetic therapy, or what makes a good magnetic therapis
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by jrumbut 5y ago
This is a great comment. I've always been a little uncomfortable with the thought of this magnetic treatment in a way I couldn't put into words and this nails it. I'm willing to trust, perhaps naively, that everyone is getti
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I'm joking a bit with the style and my limited experience leads me to agree with the OP. The middle paragraph includes my sincere response that a system where discovery is rewarded, failure forgiven, and dishonesty punished is ideally
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> The incentive structure of scientific publication is such that there are big rewards for being right on an important question, bigger the earlier you are to the party, and little to no penalties for being wrong, so long as the error ca
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by jrumbut 5y ago
Perhaps health insurance companies can't do this, but I know for absolute certain no one is looking closely enough at every little company's hiring decisions to find out if someone is doing this.
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What I worry about is having this data laundered through a couple of vendors. "How could we know our vendor's vendor was using genetic information in their proprietary risk score?" "How could we know our client's cl
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by jrumbut 5y ago
Is there not a type for things that were fun to do at the time but are unhappy memories? I have a few of those ;)
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The thing for me is keeping his money. If he signed up, and for whatever reason they decided they didn't want his business so they gave him a refund, I wouldn't love it but it wouldn't upset me much either. But they can'
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by jrumbut 5y ago
I was curious too. An HN user takes credit for it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24499159 Apparently it does some simple transformations of the actual status page, which is why the Amazon copyright stuff is in t
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The difference is that 10 years ago "someone posted a video" was in its infancy as a driver of policy. Today it's quite a mature, potent force (and worthy of deconstruction). I'm having trouble figuring out what to belie
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I'll agree with you on horseradish anyway.
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We've been trying to get rid of it for 100 years, my heart goes out to anyone just inventing it.
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I saw horizontal scrolling and got nervous, but then I realized they were just hiding a "scroll to top" button over there. Delightful!
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This is the smartest way to do it.
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I don't quite understand this argument. Our ancestors were able to get themselves very polarized in their (technologically) simpler times. They believed really wild and counterproductive things too. We have increased in our polarizatio

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