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by mac01021 6y ago
Can you explain what the different use cases are? In particular, what is Airflow good at that Nifi is not? I have used Nifi a little bit and Airflow not at all. Reading the home pages of the two products, it's hard for me to know whe
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by mac01021 6y ago
I won't argue that this outcome is not terrible. But even the best education system we have in the world could well be orders of magnitude worse than some other system that's never been realized before. It's also possible (I
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by mac01021 6y ago
What amount of battery life do you expect to be achievable for "Evergreen"?
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by mac01021 6y ago
That's for Norway only, though, right?
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by mac01021 6y ago
> “Employees who work in a role that can effectively be done from home are welcome to do so until at least October 2,” If I can _effectively_ fill my role from home, why wouldn't I be welcome to do it for as long as that's true
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Ask HN: Weather Forecasts with Confidence Interval?
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by mac01021 6y ago
Is 10 years short? 20% for 10 years is what it would take for many computer science majors to pay for their degree. And that's ignoring the time value of the money.
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by mac01021 6y ago
What other players are going to emerge in the market?
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by mac01021 7y ago
If I could, in a sensible way, engage my 3-year-old in adding features with me to this springboot service, I totally would.
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by mac01021 7y ago
I unloaded trucks, scraped foodscraps into the trash, and delivered pizzas all before the age of 20. Not thrilling work, but it can pay the rent.
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by mac01021 7y ago
My preschooler is probably something like INTP. Teleconference learning is not working great for her so far.
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by mac01021 7y ago
Are any of these talks available online?
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by mac01021 7y ago
In theory you could produce the H2 off planet. Also, that tidal power looks pretty good...
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by mac01021 7y ago
The power generation mechanism you use to get the electric current for electrolysis may or may not be clean.
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by mac01021 7y ago
They don't need lots of money to buy lots of stuff. They need to keep themselves fed and keep the electricity on while they're out of work. Food and electricity are two things that will still be produced throughout any "shu
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by mac01021 7y ago
What fraction of applicants were taking the subject tests in the first place?
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by mac01021 7y ago
"... whose press credentials end in 2020" is a significant part of the headline missing from the HN title.
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by mac01021 7y ago
I can't speak for the GP but: I'm reasonably "indifferent" in the sense that I am not at all worried for my safety or the safety of my child. I still feel a duty as a citizen not to go out in public and be a vector of c
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by mac01021 7y ago
But why are profit margins on new durable goods dropping? More competition amongst dealers? Used cars lasting longer? Manufacturers price-gauging the dealers?
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by mac01021 7y ago
Yes it is those things. We've had the tech since forever, but businesses have not embraced them as a sole or primary means of internal communication. If you make the decision to structure the coordination of your business around email
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by mac01021 7y ago
Which state is not?
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by mac01021 7y ago
What happened in 2008?
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by mac01021 7y ago
> Dealer network profit is increasingly reliant and dependent on service income. Why increasingly?
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by mac01021 7y ago
I've worked as a W2 employee delivering pizzas in my own car. I was definitely an "employee", if anyone is. Crucially, this meant that I had to work the hours specified by my boss and make whatever deliveries he specified dur
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by mac01021 7y ago
I've done the same job. They pay the employee per mile, an amount that is intended to cover fuel and maintenance for a typical car. The rate they pay is presented to you before you accept the position at the company and if it is not
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by mac01021 7y ago
Why is the cost of switching threads so much higher than the cost of switching fibers?
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by mac01021 7y ago
As a mere mortal reading the code, I would rather not have to reason about try blocks longer than a couple of lines.
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by mac01021 7y ago
Interesting talk, but does that retry logic really provide me with more confidence about its correctness than equivalent impure code?
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by mac01021 7y ago
Because what is the CPU supposed to do if you divide zero by zero or take the square root of -1? It's actually not exactly a decision being made by the language designers. The IEEE standard governs the floating point logic embedded in
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by mac01021 7y ago
> This is blatant unfairness, being punished for working and rewarded for not working. It's not (not always) blatantly unfair. I can earn lots of money by working because I live in a society, governed by a body of laws, which has pr

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