mr_gibbins

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by mr_gibbins 4y ago
Minus paywall: https://archive.ph/C7EPx
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Bosses unsure if UK's four-day week trial can continue(telegraph.co.uk)
2 points by mr_gibbins 4y ago|6 comments
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by mr_gibbins 4y ago
A lovely little game, I didn't enjoy Q and P as the main controls as it forces two hands and there are few existing games using this layout, so a little counter-intuitive. Otherwise a great LL clone!
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by mr_gibbins 4y ago
Good for him. What a way to lead a life, searching for alien tech at the bottom of the Pacific. I'd swap the grind for that any day. Let the other professors shake their heads and stir their Earl Grey in the cramped faculty staffroo
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by mr_gibbins 4y ago
I don't know, he's already completed 60 engineering projects and this is his 15th attempt at his 61st project. The motivation and talent is certainly there. At 17 I was pushing supermarket carts around and smoking weed with my f
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by mr_gibbins 4y ago
Of course it depends, for me timeboxing works really well. Each morning I set up my to-do list, between X and Y time of the day, for each task I want to achieve. Then I follow that list. Even if I don't want to do the thing that I&#x
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by mr_gibbins 4y ago
I can image my own VM, but I don't necessarily want to image my own VM, especially when I'm in something of a rush or I just want something vanilla. This is the big appeal of e.g. AWS Linux. If I want a VM I can get one in ab
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by mr_gibbins 4y ago
Snap. I, for my sins, am new at a WITCH company (please don't throw rotten fruit at me), and there is an obscene amount of dead time in my calendar and will be for the foreseeable. I'm rinsing their training and development reso
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by mr_gibbins 4y ago
Now MS own it, it's kind of like a mosquito taking a bite from an elephant. Any potential disruptor would need a LOT of capital to get going.
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by mr_gibbins 4y ago
The ones who made fortunes during the American gold rush were the people selling shovels, not the ones panning for gold.
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by mr_gibbins 4y ago
I think that would be problematic - there would be a significant proportion of downed drones, whether by mechanical failure, bird strike, overhead cables, bridges, battery outages, etc. It would be particularly dangerous for drivers to have
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by mr_gibbins 4y ago
SELECT * FROM Foo WHERE Bar != 42; if Bar was an INT and had a high density (1/distinct values) then a columnstore index on Bar might perform faster than a per-row index. Worth trying out as it isn't certain and would depend on r
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by mr_gibbins 4y ago
A quick scour of Google seems to come up with about 0.2 gallons per hour (about 900ml) for an idling engine, so assuming you keep your engine running (and discounting extra fuel used moving forward in the line), let's say you have a 16
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by mr_gibbins 4y ago
Just a quick note, something my dad taught me. Break apart the garlic into segments, peel them then use a broad, flat kitchen knife and crush the garlic with the heel of your hand. Once crushed, gather together and finely chop. I've
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by mr_gibbins 4y ago
The people paying $00,000s or more for games are not people who are interested in the games, as such. They'll never open them and play them, or even do what the store owner here did and keep them safe, showcase them to interested peop
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by mr_gibbins 4y ago
Are you describing Twitter?
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by mr_gibbins 4y ago
It looks like a startup that's hit a brick wall viz a viz licensing pictures. One way of getting around this, albeit perhaps at the expense of user experience, is to insert stock photos. E.g. I imagine 'carrots' is not parti
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by mr_gibbins 4y ago
The advice I give my students is this: - Pick a SECTOR or INDUSTRY to work within - something that interests you (healthcare, law, manufacturing, education...) - Pick a TECHNOLOGY AREA that interests you (front-end app development, computer
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by mr_gibbins 4y ago
I don't have a specific best-practice answer but you could invoke a back-end method which fetches the AWS credentials from Secrets Manager (using a baked-in access key), thereby hiding them from the front-end? Worth taking a look at th
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by mr_gibbins 4y ago
If the lab leak hypothesis is proven beyond all doubt, then it embarrasses China. Embarrassing one of the world's superpowers is broadly seen as an undesirable thing to do. Ergo, scientists producing findings backing up the hypothesis
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by mr_gibbins 4y ago
A shoutout to Rob Manuel who has been diligently producing the newsletter for more than 15 years now. He does stuff with @fesshole, a live show too amongst other things. A excellent and underrated little corner of the web. Popular links b
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B3ta.com is over 15 years old and still going strong(b3ta.com)
2 points by mr_gibbins 4y ago|1 comments
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by mr_gibbins 4y ago
Bold claim. If true, I would like to see the academic paper which I expect would contain the big-O time complexity, an explicit comparison to e.g. quicksort, and a general-purpose algorithm. If the sort is multi-threaded then this needs to
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by mr_gibbins 4y ago
Not to play Code Golf here but the premise that retention takes 50+ lines of SQL is plain wrong. Here's an implementation (T-SQL) in less than 10 lines. Table setup script is here: https://pastebin.com/9DajyzLp . The
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by mr_gibbins 4y ago
Absolutely agree. People with 10+ years, a good network and decent resume pop their head up above the parapet and get instantly mobbed with offers. They're on the market 2 weeks, tops. No-one good is going to do a takehome just so th
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by mr_gibbins 4y ago
Of course, it depends on the context. As a casual chess player, it's fine that I don't really know what I'm doing, and that I'm apt to be roundly beaten 7 times out of 10. There are no consequences to being bad at ches
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by mr_gibbins 4y ago
I've posted on this before but I make twice as much, more, as an industry pro than in my work as a non-tenured academic. I've been offered tenure and turned it down, because if I took it, my family would starve. It needs to chan
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by mr_gibbins 4y ago
Absolutely this, the more you know the more you realise you don't know. I think the best kind of knowledge is T-shaped - a niche, narrow pillar of a subject you know inside out, and a broad and shallow range of technologies you are at
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Ask HN: I miss Usenet. Are there any modern equivalents?
261 points by mr_gibbins 4y ago|269 comments
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by mr_gibbins 4y ago
We are given AWS technologies inside specially-provisioned sandboxes to teach at the university, and the courses are marketed and badged as AWS. Students get free training, certification discounts and more. No money changes hands, but AWS

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