nieksand

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by nieksand 3mo ago
It seems like this policy would lead to shortages in less common sizes of clothing.
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by nieksand 4mo ago
Nor will human generated market research.
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by nieksand 11mo ago
Unexpected, runaway AWS cost is a real problem. "Tunable spending limit" has consequences that can create other, equally real, problems. Best effort: Turn off all compute resources, drop dynamically-adjustable persistent resources
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by nieksand 11mo ago
What semantics do you expect when your spending limit is hit? Turning off all compute resources (EC2, Lambda, Fargate, etc) seems obvious, but what about systems managing state like S3, EBS, and DynamoDB? Should buckets, volumes, and table
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by nieksand 3y ago
https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2015/wp15162.pdf "In 2003–05, Germany undertook extensive labor market reforms which were followed by a large and persistent decline in unemployment. Ke
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by nieksand 3y ago
It's buried in Excel sheets, but looks like quite a few folks: https://studentaid.gov/data-center/student/loan-forgiveness/...
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by nieksand 4y ago
I find it fascinating that this article only calls for young men to change their behavior but demands nothing of young women.
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by nieksand 4y ago
I think periodic off-sites (or on-sites in the era of remote) are incredibly valuable even without a specific business issue to address. It's easy to say that strategic thinking and planning should be continuous, but in reality there&#
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by nieksand 4y ago
My last use of FogBugz was in 2012. After replying to FogBugz's fake bill, I noticed an auto-reply in my gmail spam: Title: "Notification - Please visit support team" Sender: "Sales and Success" The short body decl
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by nieksand 4y ago
One big question is how long you have till you need the money. If you need to cash out within a year or two for a mortgage down payment, I would consider taking the inflation hit and plopping it in an FDIC insured savings account. If you
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by nieksand 4y ago
You could work your way through some of the "Linux Programming Interface" by Kerrisk. Even if you only use high level languages, the LPI provides insight on what's happening under the hood. It also gives important context fo
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by nieksand 4y ago
I've heard that publish-or-parish is a challenge for all theologians.
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by nieksand 4y ago
The questionnaire looks pretty reasonable, but I'd be concerned about the sketchy looking "Psychometric assessments" that's next in the list. Also, at what point will the candidate be able to vet whether Canonical is a s
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by nieksand 4y ago
Building first and talking after isn't likely to end well, especially for B2B. Trying to buy online ads after the fact is not likely to get you anywhere... you are just one of a million voices screaming out in a crowd. If you don&#x27
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by nieksand 4y ago
Here is the German explanation of what happened: https://www-sueddeutsche-de.translate.goog/wirtschaft/erdgas...
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by nieksand 5y ago
It sounds like a pretty good question to me. As a follow up you could scope out how familiar the candidate is with alternate encoding options and what the trade-offs and use cases are. (BSON/MessagePack, Protobuf/Avro/Thift,
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by nieksand 5y ago
I would classify atoi() as a mediocre question at best. I would look for the following in a "fine" question: 1. It demonstrates knowledge of fundamental concepts or techniques. 2. It lets you distinguish the quality of answer&#x2F
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by nieksand 5y ago
If you are interested in assembling your own microscope and have access to a 3D printer, I highly recommend: https://openflexure.org/ For me the interesting part was the build process. If you care more about microscopy tha
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by nieksand 5y ago
Who do I have to justify it to? What makes said entity qualified and competent to evaluate my justification? What criteria will be used to determine if my justification is valid?
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by nieksand 5y ago
Weird. There were goods crossing between the Ukraine and Russia, but that didn't stop soldiers from crossing the border and occupying Crimea. Perhaps it was the exception that proves the rule.
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by nieksand 5y ago
How can you optimize something that you can't measure? For any proxy measurements (e.g. how well you are sleeping), how can you ensure it's not something else in your life driving the effect? It sounds like snake oil territory to
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by nieksand 5y ago
Google owned Boston Dynamics at one point. I'm curious what made them flip flop back to robotics again.
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by nieksand 5y ago
Mr. Hunkin has been publishing a new Secret Life of Components series to youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JAgXz6xO0s&list=PLtaR0lZhSy... It is really great stuff if you enjoy building things.
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by nieksand 5y ago
Cape Analytics | Senior Software Engineer | Munich, Germany | ONSITE (currently remote) | Full time Cape Analytics uses machine learning on aerial imagery to characterize property risk and value for the insurance industry. We have offices i
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by nieksand 5y ago
Cape Analytics | Senior Software Engineer | Munich, Germany | ONSITE (currently remote) | Full time Cape Analytics uses machine learning on aerial imagery to characterize property risk and value for the insurance industry. We have offices
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by nieksand 5y ago
Some example power draws are in Section 5.4 of the RP2040 datasheet: https://datasheets.raspberrypi.org/rp2040/rp2040-datasheet.p...
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by nieksand 5y ago
I have been playing with the Pico for a couple of weeks now, though I haven't incorporated it into any big projects yet. The quality of the documentation is phenomenal. Very competent people clearly put serious effort into making it g
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by nieksand 5y ago
Which country is this? I was not able to identify it via googling.
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by nieksand 5y ago
You might find "Three Steps to Yes" by Gene Bedell helpful. Much of the content is obvious in isolation, but put together it helps orient your outlook.
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by nieksand 5y ago
I doubt I represent a typical American. You can perhaps find comfort that I was down-voted to oblivion within fifteen minutes for posting such a naughty thought. Here is my distillation of arguments for keeping the USPS: * USPS is required

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