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by ralmeida 7y ago
I don't think I'm following here. The viewer was suicidal, but wasn't anymore when he was berated. My interpretation from your link is that "watching videos of someone playing games helped a viewer not commit suicide
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by ralmeida 7y ago
> And the evidence that people will avoid doing things they might otherwise do, even at significant cost to themselves, for the sake of their family and close friends, is abundant. Rational people, maybe. People on the verge of suicide
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by ralmeida 7y ago
Fair enough. There is indeed a chance that, counterintuitively, "burdening" the at-risk person with the consequences of their acts may work. However, whose "burden of proof" is it? Should "OP" provide evidence
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by ralmeida 7y ago
Because it may backfire and increase the probability that they follow through.
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by ralmeida 7y ago
OP is probably referring to a conversational technique where one person tries to gain rapport with another by (sometimes slightly) insulting them. It's more common in the hookup scene, "pickup artist" scene, etc, FWIW. I&#x27
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by ralmeida 7y ago
Even those "image-based" opening trackers? I do agree that the 'confirm receipt' flag is not a good idea.
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by ralmeida 7y ago
Strictly speaking, yes, but the level of integration is very different. I can get the version of Python which would come bundled elsewhere, but if they remove Automator, there's nothing I can do.
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by ralmeida 7y ago
Just because it's not easily enforceable doesn't mean shops will accept knowingly breaking their terms with Apple. And, as mentioned in a sibling comment, there are ways to do it, like an auditor posing as a customer, or simply
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by ralmeida 7y ago
I love taking my own time just as much as the next engineer, but if there are extrinsic factors calling for short-term solutions, one can’t take several weeks or months to “research the system” before the crisis is solved.
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by ralmeida 7y ago
That's a very interesting topic! Does anyone know of other resources (blog posts or books) talking about how to build such extensibility in a SaaS app? Obviously, there are lots of inspiration to be drawn from apps we use everyday, suc
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by ralmeida 7y ago
I think you did a fine post but a wrong generalization. The advice you mentioned is bad because it's not generalizable and possibly not reproducible , but IMO claiming that the advice being ex post is the cause of that was a str
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by ralmeida 7y ago
At middle-management levels, dependencies are probably more abstract than system-level dependencies. Imagine your product has no mobile app yet, but one is in the roadmap for next year. Then someone in marketing is in talks with Apple about
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by ralmeida 7y ago
Maybe lifting a lot of weight, or got injured while playing in a major sporting event?
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by ralmeida 8y ago
Reasonably well-known in Brazil among crafts-interested general audience and related areas.
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by ralmeida 8y ago
There is, between Python 3 and JS
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by ralmeida 8y ago
Since it was "deliberately produced and edited", presumably by multiple people, it's even less likely to speak much about the education of the person on-screen, as the post in question appears to have questioned.
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by ralmeida 8y ago
The Timing app for macOS (no affiliation) does essentially that, and then displays in a timeline of sorts. When one really needs to track time spent on tasks/projects, a quick after-the-fact look at the timeline makes it easy to spot b
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by ralmeida 8y ago
The key distinction for me is that Lambda is event driven. If you have a microservice/function which is seldomly called, in Fargate you would pay 24x7 just to be listening for calls.
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by ralmeida 8y ago
Sort of. Lambda is event-driven and on-demand, Fargate is "task-based". As mentioned in the sibling comment, if you build a "ping" HTTP endpoint in both, in Lambda you will have just a function which is called when neces
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by ralmeida 8y ago
Or that housing prices are too high.
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by ralmeida 8y ago
Lots of announcements of cloud-related tech, which HN users find interesting.
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by ralmeida 8y ago
Yep, happens in Brazil as well, where it’s called a “fumacê” [1] (roughly “smoke galore”), especially when Dengue fever cases are high. Probably happens in other tropical, poor countries as well. [1] http://g1.globo.com/sp&#
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by ralmeida 8y ago
It comes from "slide decks", because not too far long ago, presentations were made with actual 35mm transparencies which were slid into a projector, and were carried in decks.
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by ralmeida 8y ago
Can you prove it is? Many many things can be personally identifiable given enough resources and associated data, so it's unclear whose burden of proof it is, especially considering sibling comment mentioning a GDPR exception to delete
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by ralmeida 8y ago
A third-party audit, like mentioned in a sibling comment, would be great. Many claims are verifiable, however, especially the claims that data remains on your device - just run it without internet, or sniff the traffic.
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by ralmeida 8y ago
I think it’s unlikely too, though they may buy measured or estimated energy consumption in ‘green credits’ (i.e. provide the same amount of clean energy back into the same grid), as pointed out in a sibling comment.
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by ralmeida 8y ago
At least office buildings and datacenters, unclear (to me) about factories.
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by ralmeida 8y ago
In approximate percentages, how much time do engineers spend working alone vs in pairs (counting only time spent on actual coding)?
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by ralmeida 8y ago
Not OP, and even though I agree with them (that it _is_ orthogonal), I think the burden of proof should be with the original claimer, rather than the refuter needing to prove a negative.
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by ralmeida 9y ago
It may (or may not) be less, but if scientists just discard the tests which don't pass both, then passing both becomes the new prior, and we go back to the same situation.

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