kerpele

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by kerpele 4y ago
Not sure where your information that n8 was supposed to run Meego comes from, but I remember working with the Nokia s60 team already early 2009 and they were using n8 protos at the time. It’s definitely possible that there were two paralle
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by kerpele 6y ago
I’m not a ship engineer but I do know that ships are not built to be suspended from the ends. I guess in the worst case the hull breaks which would mean the canal to be blocked for quite a while.
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by kerpele 6y ago
Threatening the researcher really is the cherry on top here
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by kerpele 6y ago
Works again. I wonder if the fix was just rebooting a server
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by kerpele 6y ago
Wow, looks like triplebyte profile settings page is full of dark patterns. Like, setting yourself as not interested in offers will forcefully revert back after a time period, and that even though there’s a checkbox for opting in to being sh
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by kerpele 6y ago
Not sure if you were serious or not but your comment seems like a nice example of what the article talks about
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by kerpele 7y ago
> The main class of failures that I am worrying about regarding the MTTR is the very same observable problem that you solved last week occurring again due to a lack of quality gates. To the customer this looks like last weeks problem was
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NPM: 429 Too Many Requests(github.com)
145 points by kerpele 7y ago|163 comments
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by kerpele 7y ago
Wow, this article made me realize I was a part of the very early generation game devs in Finland getting my first job in the industry in 2001. I was so young and naive then that I didn't understand how early it was.
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by kerpele 7y ago
Okay, I looked it up and apparently CS is the only stem field where there seems to be significant bias ( https://blogs.helsinki.fi/edu-kumpula/2019/10/10/faculty-of-... )
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by kerpele 7y ago
Is it possible that the problem there is the amount of women starting studies in stem fields? I don’t have any numbers but anecdotal evidence of two Helsinki based schools in CS related programs had very lopsided gender ratios in bachelors
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by kerpele 7y ago
That's awesome! Although, all copyrights are Apple's on that particular file. I wonder if everything's been done by the book.
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by kerpele 7y ago
If someone told the young Linux freak me back in the early 2000s that one day Internet Explorer’s rendering engine is based on the KDE rendering engine I would’ve probably died laughing and frozen in horror at the same time. Yeah, I realize
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by kerpele 7y ago
I just realized my terminology was way wrong. Sorry. You have Manhattan distance and you want Euclidean distance to make sure the path is always optimal. Execution speed should be the same or better in the average case with Euclidean distan
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by kerpele 7y ago
Nice visualization! I don’t think the algorithm is correct though. The heuristic seems to use Euclidean distance instead of “how the crow flies” and thus this implementation goes along the axis instead of directly towards the goal. This cau
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by kerpele 7y ago
Nobody has six hour workday and nobody thinks anybody has that. It’s only in the imagination of the writer of this marginally factual article.
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by kerpele 7y ago
Most people don’t have any leverage for these kinds of negotiations and would fairly likely get shafted if there were no laws to protect them
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by kerpele 7y ago
Most people probably aren’t willing to sacrifice themselves for the possible slight advancement of mankind. Especially laborers who are the ones most affected by work time limits.
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by kerpele 7y ago
I wasn’t alive when the work week was shortened to 5 days from 6 but it is my understanding that the conversation this sort of a proposal Sparks is the exact same as that proposal back then did. It’s kind of amusing.
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by kerpele 7y ago
I think the big issue with companies like Facebook is not that their development model moves too quickly for them to be able to react to their issues but that they simply don’t care. Facebook has known about the issues with privacy, hyper t
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by kerpele 7y ago
Exactly. I remember a few years ago I came across an article on a major car website that ranked four wheel drive as more important in winter conditions than proper winter tires. I personally don’t care if accelerating takes a little longer
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by kerpele 7y ago
On the other hand, a machine will not get tired or bored where a human most definitely will if the diff is anywhere near that 500 lines
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by kerpele 7y ago
if their audience blocks ads this isn’t going to help, it’ll only make people mad. I know I’m upset.
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by kerpele 7y ago
I can’t believe Ars Technica would do this. Do they not realize who their audience is?
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by kerpele 7y ago
It's kind of interesting that a piece of legislation written hundreds of years ago will be used to decide something like this.
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by kerpele 7y ago
I hope the contract that sparked this whole fiasco is big enough to cover the ton of goodwill they've lost (and keep losing) over this issue.
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by kerpele 7y ago
I don't understand. Don't you have the site URL stored with the password to allow bitwarden to automatically find the password entry for you?
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by kerpele 7y ago
I use on Mac (Firefox & Safari) and iPhone, wife uses on Mac (chrome) and Android. Neither has had any issues in the past year and a half outside of mild confusion about the new Safari extension after Apple removed support for the old e
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by kerpele 8y ago
I completely agree with this article. I've worked in scrum and kanban teams and also lead both kinds at some point. To me kanban is by far the better option for the exact reasons outlined in the article. The point is that deadlines are
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by kerpele 8y ago
Awesome!

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