musingsole

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by musingsole 7y ago
Most people using metrics aren't great at interpreting them on their own in the first place. Look at Chile's notorious misuse of waiter ranking (you fill out a survey after your meal). If a server gets less than 5 stars, their job
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by musingsole 7y ago
Metrics with hard numbers are always too precise to be useful. Even the well-meaning will micromanage based off the difference of a 5 or 6 on a scale of 50. I find the key is metric obfuscation. Instead of "1023 likes", color code
723.
by musingsole 7y ago
This logic came up a lot in discussions of a soda tax. In a world of government mandated (if not provided) healthcare, one argument in favor of the tax is the government has a right to your health and can therefore discourage or outright fo
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by musingsole 7y ago
Vendor lock-in at the level of Google, Microsoft or Amazon is not the same as becoming overly reliant on a single small factory down the road providing a critical sensor.
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by musingsole 7y ago
I'd extend the same argument to Python
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by musingsole 7y ago
> Still, the guy who can create "Chart.js" (an artist) should be getting paid a lot more than a guy who can only use it (a craftsmen). Why? One without the other is pretty pointless. I can accept the roles are different but not
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by musingsole 7y ago
I cannot stand debugging MQTT devices. From establishing a connection to sending data, it is consistently difficult to pinpoint where the failure in a system is occuring. Contrast this with HTTP and WebSockets that are extremely simplistic
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by musingsole 8y ago
> re: giving people a discount or other reward for proven gym attendance And cut out the people who exercise elsewhere. Let the corner case chase begin!
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by musingsole 8y ago
That's more of an outlining tool than a mind map. An inner node should be able to connect back to any outer node to fully define a thought space.
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by musingsole 8y ago
I've heard of buildings built on top of others before. Is it commonly because the buildings have actually sunk into the ground or are they somehow pushed?
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by musingsole 8y ago
Me too. If anyone has any pointers to such a database, I'd be interested. I have some devices that are looking like they'll need a custom filesystem based key store, but others running linux with a need to sync the two types of de
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by musingsole 8y ago
I tried testing it, but it hasn't come through yet. HN hug of death? Do the messages to the other person get a delay? Being able to set that delay, or potentially set a window during which the thought would be randomly sent would be co