mFixman

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by mFixman 6y ago
Sitting in an office besides someone having a Zoom meeting sounds is my personal version of hell. I probably wouldn't make it as a telemarketer.
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by mFixman 6y ago
Exercise and sunlight before work has done wonders for my mental health while working from home. I'm lucky that the first part of my commute through green areas — I can ignore the second part through a congested part of London now that
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by mFixman 6y ago
A hacker can swap my name + address with a murderer right now without access to my DNA. All of the hypotheticals in this thread (except for the CRISPR future superweapon) can happen right now without the need of a DNA leak: the US had an ex
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by mFixman 6y ago
Most importantly, there's a big difference between seeing someone being tortured to death and frequently seeing people being tortured to death every weekday.
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by mFixman 6y ago
Our definition of "intelligence" is overfit for humanity. There's no reason why an alien civilization have any interest in linear sequences. The way I see it, any communication system that doesn't make it possible to com
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by mFixman 6y ago
I come to HN for discussion. Can we leave smug posts on Reddit?
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by mFixman 6y ago
There must be something more to Swiss efficiency than referenda. The article puts the case of the Jurassic question, which most of the Bernese government opposed but was ultimately gone to a referendum. In many other countries there would b
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by mFixman 6y ago
I did a similar move from flats in Buenos Aires with balconies, bidets, and modern lifts to flats without those things in London. I would choose the London ones every time. In paper they might seem worse, but in practice my current flat is
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by mFixman 6y ago
I think it's the O(log n) algorithm that uses matrix exponentiation to find out the n'th Fibonacci number.
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by mFixman 6y ago
The Conservative Party in Great Britain has been trying to make home ownership a reliable method of saving for the last century. They pretty much succeeded: house prices have been going up almost constantly since the war, and owning a house
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by mFixman 6y ago
Congratulations, you just killed collective bargaining. Now workers have no effective way to demand changes to their workplaces.
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by mFixman 6y ago
"Prove that you voted for Putin or you are fired".
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by mFixman 6y ago
I never really understood the point of camera covers. If my computer is compromised to the point where an attacker can access my camera and microphone, information from my camera and microphone are the least of my problems.
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by mFixman 6y ago
Congestion.
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by mFixman 6y ago
This whole "in a perfect world everyone would walk just like me" is just an attempt to justify the constant loss of walking space to cars since the 1950s. My dream is that one day pedestrianised spaces would be large enough to all
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by mFixman 6y ago
I use it to put some music or listen to the news without having to pull my cellphone and risk getting sucked into Reddit.
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by mFixman 6y ago
A big chunk of that sub was transphobic posts.
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by mFixman 6y ago
That's the same slippery-slope argument people user to complain about Reddit banning pedophile subs in 2012. Extremist subs and their brigading were the biggest treat to free speech and creativity in the site.
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by mFixman 6y ago
Do you really think bank fraud did not exist before the Internet?
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by mFixman 6y ago
That's the most Silicon Valley way of doing things. For one, I'm glad to live in a world where those kind of things still exist.
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by mFixman 6y ago
For that use case, it makes sense for an app to read the clipboard when it's in the Foreground. I cannot think of a single good use case of a background app reading the clipboard like TikTok is doing in this link.
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by mFixman 6y ago
Anecdotal data, but you are wrong. If you count total comp FB London pays waaaay more than British tech companies and pretty much anything outside of high finance. The salaries aren't that much lower from what you'll get in Silico
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by mFixman 6y ago
Most Big Tech companies have offices in other rich countries like Britain or Canada. You will have a ridiculously high salary rather than a garangutan SV salary, but it's worth not getting stuck in a Bay Area traffic gridlock every day
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by mFixman 6y ago
Most modern tech companies have a single height-adjustable desk per person, so most of the time your desk will be slightly higher or lower than your neighbour's.
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by mFixman 6y ago
My Latin American State university had a nice solution: a 1 year long introductory course open to everyone which you had to pass to formally enter the university, similar to a centrally-administered course on SAT exams. The system ticked mo
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by mFixman 6y ago
It's not just the programming. You also get hands-on experience with gears, including unintuitive ones like the one-way spirally thing. I was never taught these kind of things anywhere else.
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by mFixman 6y ago
I have great memories of building and programming things in my OG Lego Mindstorms. I consider the day when I started building things from my imagination rather than from the instructions book to be the start of my career as a programmer. It
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by mFixman 6y ago
The article contradicts itself. The first half talks about how to treat mental health like we treat physical health, and we treat physical health in a transactional "businesslike" way. The second half of the article proposes doing
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by mFixman 6y ago
When I hear the songs from Central Europe I think more "German style rap" than "American style rap". I guess your biases depend on what you base yourself on.
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by mFixman 6y ago
I'm old enough to hate the topsong from almost every country, but I really like Indonesia's: https://open.spotify.com/track/7ksK7gpPDFdY4JLHr1hKfY?si=dgj... I wonder why that is. Maybe 2020 Indonesian music i

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