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by mFixman 5y ago
I'm starting some 45 days of vacation between jobs. I cannot leave the UK while unemployed due to visa issues, so I want to use this time to relax, improve my ML skills, and get back some good habits I lost during the pandemic. I'
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My least favourite example of bad C++ change is deprecating and removing the overload of `std::random_shuffle` that doesn't require a new random device and a random function [1]. Sure, that version was cryptographically insecure, but 9
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Personally, I think going to the industry straight from college was a mistake. In half a decade of working in the real world I've learned nothing more than dealing with office politics and the importance of delegating work while still
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Go to Do not Disturb -> Details -> Hide Notifications -> Hide All. This will prevent notifications from popping up and also not remove any existing notifiation from the notification bar. (I'm using Samsung; YMMV).
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A one-way flight from SFO to LAX releases 153kg of CO2 to the athmosphere [1]. A one-way road trip from San Francisco to Los Angeles in a car with 30 MPG efficiency releases 135kg of CO2 to the athmosphere [2]. The only way out of this is t
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Personally, I do mind them. It's hard to relax with so many aggressive ads in my face trying to sell me things all the time. London is already really good with restricting obstructive adverts in the city to buses and cabs; it's a
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Cars cause traffic jams.
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In my particular case: * Top row of physical buttons wasn't a big deal since I map Caps Lock to Esc. * Changing volume and brightness is better in the touchbar: the buttons are large enough to get them by touch, and sliding the finger
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Damn, I liked the touchbar :-( I think that Apple's biggest mistake is not making it more obvious that the bar is editable in all programs. It becomes pretty useful when you can keep only the functions that you use the most.
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I know nothing about economics, so please correct me if I'm saying something dumb. Am I right in believing that a big housing market crash is unlikely unless there's an accompanying big stock market crash? House prices have been r
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A certain company I'd rather not mention since I'm still negotiating the offer to. You can find good salary data in levels.fyi. In my experience, that is very accurate.
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FAANG in London pays ~£200k total comp for a senior engineer. There are also a couple of local non-FAANG companies that pay similar salaries.
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I moved to Britain a couple of years ago, and I was surprised at how many legitimate transactions are done in an insecure way. For example, I had had to talk my credit card number out loud on a telephone call to put a deposit on a flat and
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I can only see data on Celcius. Maybe it depends on your location?
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Articles about Facebook bring the worst of this site.
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We can get very close, but even if we had technology to make an indistinguishable copy the original wouldn't fall in value and none of the copies would be near it. The Mona Lisa isn't valuable because it's a nice painting: it
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A company cannot out-engineer bad management nor out-manage bad leadership. A lot of people who worked in giant tech companies can tell you stories of talent being wasted on tight deadlines for unnecessary projects.
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So the Burmese government and military junta had nothing to do with the genocide. The local media, endemic discrimination, local warlords, international support, nor the people actually guiding and doing the genocide had any responsability.
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It's as bizarre as the original Mona Lisa in the Louvre being about a billion dollars more expensive than an identical copy sold on the banks of the Seine.
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Tobacco kills 8 million people per year, and that's with over half a century of regulation and cessation problems taxation. It's also a disgusting habit that destroys any area smokers step in. HN is at its worse when fuming over F
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Siri and similar voice assistants work really well as an universal remote control. Right now I can ask Alexa to open or close the curtains, to start cleaning my house, or to play some music or podcast — all without having to find where my c
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by mFixman 5y ago
Not really. Every processor has an Overflow Flag [1] that can be used to check for overflows in arithmetic operations. Most programming languages don't have a way to explicitly action on contents of that flag since it would complicate
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That's my point: I strongly disagree with the "every civilization will go through the same phases we go through" statement. I also disagree that "civilization" is something that could be applied to non-human things
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Does anyone know any examples of useful smart contracts on Ethereum? Most of what I hear on the news in either NFTs or toy problems like lotteries.
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> The assumption is that other civilizations will converge on some of the same technology that we've developed and recognize a patterned signal when they see one. Why would anyone think that? No other species in the history of the E
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I never understood these kind of analyses that talk about aliens reaching "humanity’s level" like it's inevitable or somehow special. We could blast radio waves with ABBA songs into space to find whether there are other Swedi
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Are tics really that big of a deal? I had an abnormally large amount of visible tics when I was growing up as a teenager. This got my parents worried despite assurances from doctors, but they all went away when I grew up along with my raspy
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The necessity of separation between of church and state was also a key piece of Bolshevik propaganda. Is it okay to say that it's unjust that a countries must be governed an absolute autocrat appointed by God?
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Cannot confirm. My local farmer's market in London is stronger than ever, and two new ones opened up at walking distance from my house in the last year. Working from home and allowing people to sneak out of work on a Wednesday noon to
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Is it possible to have a debate about CEO payout without the dumb comparisons with the Soviet Union? Imperial Russia was an absolutist autocracy in theory for most of its history and in practice for all of it. Does being against despotism m

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