rmellow

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by rmellow 6y ago
In some countries the decimal symbol is a comma. So, the latter.
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by rmellow 6y ago
For whatever it's worth, I haven't gotten any sort of spam or followups from them. Haven't bothered to look for a ToS!
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by rmellow 6y ago
Not sure. They only require the host to sign up - guests may join anonymously with the link.
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by rmellow 6y ago
In times of Covid, I've found that serendipity can be found in online parties - I'm specifically referring to https://spatial.chat (no affiliation). This is able to mimic in-person social interactions in a way that it&
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by rmellow 6y ago
Data Scientist, but would be easy to adapt.
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by rmellow 6y ago
The best technical interview I've had: - Take home: 2 days to read a newly released Deep Learning paper. - On site: explain the paper to the hiring manager. - Evaluation: (1) Did the candidate understand it? (2) Did the candidate go fa
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by rmellow 6y ago
There is an attempt at intrusion from Sony though: To use the YouTube app, it asks you to associate a Sony app to your YouTube account, that can track your video history (in or out of the PS4) and reserves the right to share videos to your
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by rmellow 6y ago
I do the same! I don't care about the minute (imho) differences in graphics between a multiple thousand dollar maxed out PC for the newest games, vs a $300ish PS4 that is pretty much guaranteed to work fine FPS wise and look great. No
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by rmellow 6y ago
What are the symptoms of that allergy?
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by rmellow 6y ago
Same. I dye mine black with a marker so it doesn't stand out so much.
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by rmellow 6y ago
As someone in tech who chose to grow their career in Canada instead of the US (where I could easily make double), I very much appreciate your comment. I still haven't discarded the possibility to move to Europe, as there are aspects of
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by rmellow 6y ago
Not parent, but I would have done the same. I transitioned to MacOS from Windows 7 in 2011. When I opened my 2019 XPS with Windows, I got immediate anxiety due to how much Windows has devolved in the last 8 years. On a brand new system, ope
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by rmellow 6y ago
Anything goes as long as we get cheap energy, right? /s
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by rmellow 6y ago
Seconded. Us non-Americans watching what's going on can't be expected to know something an unremarkable American cop said 50 years ago. Is it such a well known phrase among Americans or something that most people just learned was
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by rmellow 6y ago
I would really appreciate an explanation for this: (1) why does this get created (2) why it's not deleteable.
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by rmellow 6y ago
A decade ago when I had my own Ultima Online server, I would have asked you to host for me!
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by rmellow 6y ago
This is exactly https://spatial.chat
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Ask HN: Examples of Positive Leadership?
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by rmellow 6y ago
> Form factor is, candidly, still too big for my tiny hands As someone frequently getting pinky finger injuries from holding my phone, I feel you. Popsockets are a solution, but an annoying one that changes the form factor my phone and d
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by rmellow 6y ago
It's more than expressing a thought with more words than necessary: so many articles start with something along the likes of "it was a sunny May afternoon in the office of Dr. Whoever, where the cobblestones in the entrance glinte
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by rmellow 6y ago
The fact you pointed out the New Yorker makes me happy I've expressed my thoughts well. I had exactly that example in mind.
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by rmellow 6y ago
> This was one of the best articles I've read lately, it's not filled with empty prose as is the style today. Agreed! Why is that the style today? I've heard it has something to do with SEO but I'm unsure how, or if t
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by rmellow 7y ago
The movie industry doesn't lobby because "their product is so good people are stealing it". They lobby because they can, as do other industries no one wants anything to do with. My country passed laws to have a minimum percen
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by rmellow 7y ago
And Application Menus as well have been forcefully disabled. I moved to KDE after that and surprisingly, it's lighter. Considering that I don't have to rely on Gnome Shell hacks for basic functionality, my KDE system is even more
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by rmellow 7y ago
The Chevrolet "Nova" has a different name in Latin countries. In Spanish "No va" means "not going", obviously something you don't want from a car. The Mitsubishi "Pajero" is called "Montero&
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by rmellow 7y ago
Also on an XPS :) The trackpad yes, but considering modern MacBook keyboards, I think I'm better off with the XPS. When I'm on my work MacBook I completely ignore the Touchbar as much as I can. It looks cool, but functionally it
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by rmellow 7y ago
For this and other reasons I switched to a KDE distro and saved >$1000 on hardware. Yes it's not as pretty and takes some getting used to. But there was no tangible benefit to paying extra to be in the Apple ecosystem. I can code ju
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by rmellow 7y ago
I'm a "less fortunate, mistaken, and afraid" immigrant living in Canada. It would feel so refreshing to get the truth straight sometimes, instead of the oh-so-subtle and gentle ways Canadians have of dealing with clashing cul
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by rmellow 7y ago
There's a decent middle ground: an assistant "parasite" https://bjoernkarmann.dk/project_alias It feeds noise into Google Home/Alexa until your custom keyword is spoken. It's also open source.
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by rmellow 7y ago
Which industry and how many years of experience if I may ask? I work with deep learning, and with ~2 years of experience >125k CAD base is a rare find.

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