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by mjlee 5y ago
3rd Hand anecdote that I liked regarding this: During World War II, [Nobel laureate, Ken] Arrow was assigned to a team of statisticians to produce long-range weather forecasts. After a time, Arrow and his team determined that their forecast
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by mjlee 5y ago
I'm reasonably sure this is because in the US the rear brake lights are often also used as the turn signal and the hazard lights. Under hard braking on European/Japanese cars the hazard lights will automatically come on. Because t
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by mjlee 5y ago
OT but still vaguely regarding puzzles - Jane Street has a pretty satisfying puzzle every month: https://www.janestreet.com/puzzles/
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Council seeks to quash planning decisions issued in error by junior staff member(kentonline.co.uk)
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I'm afraid this isn't completely true. You can still be interrupted for capacity issues no matter what your bid is. It's quite rare on more common instance types, but becomes a problem if you have more than a few GPU or high
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by mjlee 5y ago
> I'm sure I'm not the only person with naked pictures of my wife. I'm not completely convinced that says what you want it to.
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by mjlee 5y ago
They're already selling tickets for the in person event, as well as making some of it available online for free.
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by mjlee 5y ago
I wonder if this will affect AWS re:Invent - meant to be kicking off end of November in person. I expect it would flop if it was just customers and no engineers.
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by mjlee 5y ago
What Got You Here Won't Get You There is a frequently recommended book about changing yourself to get to wherever There is. It seems that Mitchell has chosen to stay the same and change where There is instead. Sounds like a fantastic
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by mjlee 5y ago
This page is returning a 500 for me. Perhaps they should use Kubernetes.
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On the page right now: > Currently, there are 11817 unicode character glyphs in the database. Japanese, Korean and Chinese characters are currently not supported.
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by mjlee 5y ago
I love how that website has a ten step installation guide. Makes it looks like slightly gory IKEA!
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by mjlee 5y ago
The methodology is a bit odd. As best as I can tell it looks at the cheapest data plan that offers >500MB. If there's a plan that's $1 more per month but offers 100GB of data, the price per visit would drop rapidly but this tra
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by mjlee 5y ago
This has been discussed before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27606039 I'm not sure there's any new information since that article was written.
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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-18/apple-rea... That is exactly what the rumours suggest Apple is working on.
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https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/security/sec90cd29d1f/... - I've never used it, but it's meant to work for around 5 hours after your battery dies.
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by mjlee 5y ago
First Sea Lord (Head of the Royal Navy) Admiral Sir Arthur Wilson described submarines as "Underhanded, unfair and damned un-English". He also suggest that enemy submariners be tried as pirates and hanged if caught. Thankfully (fo
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Experience with the Linotron Phototypesetter or How We Spent Our Summer Vacation [pdf](cs.princeton.edu)
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At sea they use a similar thing - Emergency Escape Breathing Devices - https://www.maritimejournal.com/news101/industry-news/eebd_m... About the only time you should pull a plastic bag over your head.
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by mjlee 5y ago
I'm not sure this really is all that good for gamers. It'll solve the short term problem of lack of supply, sure, but in a years time we'll instead have a whole bunch of e-waste mining cards and a very thin second-hand market
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by mjlee 5y ago
The standard pedals use Look Delta cleats. You can use any shoe that is compatible with those cleats. I can't recommend any ones in particular - it's a bit like running shoes in that you want to try them on if possible.
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by mjlee 6y ago
https://github.com/SuperQ/smokeping_prober This project is quite good for a smokeping-a-like for prometheus.
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by mjlee 6y ago
Charitably, it's less prone to limescale insulating the elements, increasing service life and making the system more efficient as you don't need to run water as long waiting for it to heat up.
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by mjlee 6y ago
The term for this in the general case is Greater Fool Theory - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_fool_theory
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by mjlee 6y ago
Airplay 2 adds multi-room streaming, and a nifty shared up-next playlist that multiple users can add to.
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by mjlee 6y ago
You can get USB multimeters and oscilloscopes and the TS 80 soldering iron is nice and compact. Also - consider local maker/hackerspaces if they're available (and, well, probably in a few months time in any event).
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by mjlee 6y ago
Where in the world are you? Can you join a union? Many of them offer free/very cheap legal advice on employment matters.
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Ask HN: What's your workflow from digital camera to printed/published photo?
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This is actually pretty similar to the NATO system for organising departments - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staff_(military)#Continental_s... The officer in charge of operations and plans for a warship can sit in an
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by mjlee 6y ago
I think Arthur Samuel would agree. This approach has a loss function, parameters, and inputs that feed in to a model to optimise the parameters. The big difference between this and the other approach mentioned in the article is the model is

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