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by l0b0 6y ago
I may have rewatched maybe 1% of the videos I've seen, so either I'm way outside their target group, the recommender isn't adapting to my behaviour, or 1% is the best it can do. Also, based on my experience with GDrive suppor
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by l0b0 6y ago
Considering the computation necessary to downscale every video I'd suggest this join would be a small drop in a big ocean.
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by l0b0 6y ago
YouTube recommendations could be made enormously more useful with two trivial (really!) fixes: SELECT * FROM videos WHERE NOT EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM votes WHERE video_id = videos.id AND user_id = $user_id) AND NOT EXISTS (SELECT 1 FR
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by l0b0 6y ago
Ok, rant time. I used Google Drive to back up photos for several years, but after moving to somewhere with a different currency I naturally wanted to avoid those extortionate fines banks charge for multiplying two numbers together. I tried
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by l0b0 6y ago
Could also be summarized as "pivoting hard is almost certain death" – bleeding-edge tech just changed the number of problems from large N to N+1. You have to basically shift the mindset of an entire company, and everybody was hire
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by l0b0 6y ago
I've heard the exact same things (except for the actual salary) from two separate families who've lived in Singapore. Private persons withholding someone's passport for any reason whatsoever should be punishable similar to sl
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by l0b0 6y ago
Can you add comments to that without a lot of extra work? I got started on a simple markdown solution, but stopped because it looked like I'd need to develop or use a third party comments system.
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Ask HN: Human-friendly hosted blog platform?
1 points by l0b0 6y ago|3 comments
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by l0b0 6y ago
It is absolutely a bad thing. I've been in the web dev space for 15+ years now, and I've never seen useful back button hijacking yet.
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by l0b0 6y ago
Interesting question, but how would you even get close to an accurate judgment of how many people it actually takes to get the job done globally? Maybe 10k is about right, especially to do a highly localized task with millions of customers
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by l0b0 6y ago
As a software developer, being introduced only to the managers and not the team as part of the interviewing process is one of the biggest red flags (except during social distancing times, of course). Picking up the vibe is an excellent way
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by l0b0 6y ago
Where's the actual diff? It would be interesting to see how much and what sort of code is actually involved.
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> Research scientists […] submitted a paper to the peer-reviewed academic journal Astrology […] Someone might want to very quickly correct that to "Astrobiology". This whole presentation, of going from a tweet to a Quora Q&
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by l0b0 6y ago
"A witty saying proves nothing." -- Voltaire The world is far more complex than any human could possibly fathom, and reducing complex subjects to witticisms usually works against those subjects, whether intentional or not.
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by l0b0 6y ago
1. My first job out of university, when I discovered you can do interesting things with programming. 2. Learning XForms, which can do most of what JavaScript is used for in a tiny amount of code. 3. Learning JetBrains IDEA, the only IDE t
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For Your Eyes Only(damninteresting.com)
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by l0b0 6y ago
Especially an immutable database (like Git's index) sounds like a very powerful concept. No more need for modification dates (they would be in the change record) and no need at all for separate log tables and all that guff. Every CRUD
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by l0b0 6y ago
While on the subject of people creating user-hostile experiences, try disabling "Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of your selections above" in Firefox. Now instead of a different set of fonts for every single websit
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by l0b0 6y ago
FYI, the formatting of several of the Python code blocks is messed up, starting with lines like this: ```python linenums=”21” def get_value(self, input_key): Also, might be worth noting that the "The Pythonic Implementation of Python H
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by l0b0 6y ago
Related video[1] about teleprompters, including some insight into the nitty gritty. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeRu4xYH_W0
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by l0b0 6y ago
I wonder if anyone has tried to do something like this for meeting invite responses, which are sent at least in Evolution without any user intervention. Could you craft a meeting invite URL or mail such that the response would include a fil
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by l0b0 6y ago
My takeaway was that "software developer" is not a very useful job description anymore. CRUD, web dev, games, HPC, embedded and other fields require vastly different skill sets. Changing between these fields can be like starting y
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The Impact of Toxic Influencers on Communities(intenseminimalism.com)
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by l0b0 6y ago
There are so many problems working in tandem here: - Leaky abstractions which are treated/documented as if they're perfect. Read a file, do a thing, write a file. Except when running in parallel, things are never that simple. - Lo
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by l0b0 6y ago
This sounds like a "golden hammer" argument[1], basically saying that SQL can do everything Django can do, and if you know SQL really, really well you can do powerful stuff which would be clunky in Django. Of course that's
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by l0b0 6y ago
I must confess I did not recognize that icon from anywhere. Seems like a much simpler root cause is that many others also did not recognize this as a chat icon, particularly those outside of webdev or design circles.
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by l0b0 6y ago
I'm not saying it was factually correct or internally consistent, just that it's miles ahead of any computer-generated text I've seen elsewhere.
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by l0b0 6y ago
Is this sort of thing reproducible? I must confess I'm sceptical of the idea that this was entirely produced by a machine.
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by l0b0 6y ago
From the about page[1]: > […] prove the feasibility of fusion as a large-scale and carbon-free source of energy […] [1] https://www.iter.org/proj/inafewlines
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by l0b0 6y ago
Yes. This I can wholeheartedly agree with. Which makes me sad, because it means social and news media usually works against fixing the issues which most of us agree should be fixed. Instead they focus only on the things which keep us all

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