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by sfn42 3y ago
I thought firing a gun would leave gunpowder residue on your hands
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by sfn42 3y ago
Firing a gun leaves residue on your hands etc. They can tell whether you fired it
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by sfn42 3y ago
That's not really how it works. It's trained specifically for one track, it doesn't really process the visual information in terms of "the car is off course, correct it". It's more like "when the image loo
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by sfn42 3y ago
I think that statement is spot on. To draw a parallel, I see people spend hours and hours watching programming videos, and at the end they can't do a thing on their own. You should spend more time doing the thing than you spend watchin
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by sfn42 3y ago
How do we know the cars are moving? It doesn't seem clear to me, they could both be standing still.
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by sfn42 3y ago
Search engine optimization-optimized junk pages?
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by sfn42 3y ago
There's also nothing stopping you from running postgres, sql server, MySQL etc locally.
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by sfn42 3y ago
I never claimed Frank Lloyd Wright knew more than the Romans..
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by sfn42 3y ago
Modern concrete is what you need it to be. We know much more about concrete production today than the Romans did. We make compromises, it's not all about quality. If you're building a garage you're fine with it lasting 100+ y
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by sfn42 3y ago
Yeah. I've seen these types too, and what I find when I start working on fixing their sorry excuses for systems is that they don't even work. Because they're not geniuses, just like I can't work with their crap confident
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by sfn42 3y ago
People are idiots, they call support for the dumbest shit.
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by sfn42 3y ago
Personally I think quality is cheaper. Sure, it takes some time to write tests and refactor things when you realize they need refactoring. But those things end up saving much more time than shortcuts that accrue technical debt and only get
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by sfn42 3y ago
I don't see the problem. Don't set a budget limit if you don't want your app to go offline. Lots of people wouldn't mind if their app went offline for a bit. They'd prefer to not suddenly get a $10,000 bill
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by sfn42 3y ago
You say that as if there is another solution. This is one way that you can design your software - follow existing conventions so that people's existing knowledge is useful for understanding your software. The alternative can be summari
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by sfn42 3y ago
The way i see it, that's just a huge advantage. My partner works as a medical research assistant. They had filled data into a huge spreadsheet in a software I think was called IBM SSES or something along those lines. Basically an excel
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by sfn42 3y ago
I agree that we're talking past each other. I completely agree with everything you've said here.
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by sfn42 3y ago
I don't really see how this disagrees with me at all. Yeah, you can make a layout what "works" on all sizes, I said that. For something trivial it can even be great on all sizes. But a more complex website like let's say
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by sfn42 3y ago
You can just make one layout that works totally fine on all screens. Problem is you're basically just making a mobile layout and scaling it up so it'll be shit on larger screens
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by sfn42 3y ago
Why are you making this so complicated? The simplest solution is just a button with text on it. But sure, maybe you want a symbol instead, they do look nice and take less space. So when sound is playing, the button should have a symbol that
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by sfn42 3y ago
"Mute" "Unmute" I want a button to tell me what it does if I click it. If you want to show the current status that is a different thing, not a button. A button exists to be clicked, it should communicate what it will do
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by sfn42 3y ago
I thought the whole point was that nobody knows how to make the pencil we think of as a regular pencil. There's the graphite core, the wood handle, the yellow paint, the eraser and the little metal ring holding the eraser. No one perso
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by sfn42 3y ago
I'm not going to pretend to be some sort of authority on the subject, but personally I think both fit the bill. It is premature to optimize when you don't know how your system performs, and it can be premature to optimize if you m
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by sfn42 3y ago
Sadly, HN was not able to help you understand what premature optimization is. What the SQLite team did was systematically measure the performance of their system, identify potential bottlenecks/inefficiencies, create and measure improv
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by sfn42 3y ago
I worked in a team that did this. It was mostly staffed by juniors, and the team leader wasn't very interested in the technical aspects, they just went to a page, checked that the new feature worked alright and gave the green light. So
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by sfn42 3y ago
You don't understand my argument. If they don't pump it, someone else will pump more to compensate and we'll end up pumping it up later anyway. I don't think there's going to be transport ships docked for lack of fu
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by sfn42 3y ago
I don't really know what you think I don't understand. I'm not arguing from the point of view of an A/B test, I'm arguing from the point of a Netflix user. I don't care how others ruin their lives. There's
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by sfn42 3y ago
It's bullshit. Us(Norway) not pumping oil doesn't change anything. The problem isn't pumping, the problem is burning. We need to reduce the demand, not the supply. Reducing supply from Norway just causes other suppliers to sc
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by sfn42 3y ago
You could say they encourage binging, you could say they have good UX. I don't really know what type of functionality were talking about here, I'm thinking things like automatically playing the next episode, skipping intros etc. T
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by sfn42 3y ago
Man i really hate how people absolve themselves of responsibility like this. "It's not my fault I spent all weekend watching Netflix, it's their UI!" No, it isn't. I love when they release full seasons at a time. I
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by sfn42 3y ago
Eh, I would count myself among those doubting a lot of experimental evidence. There is a lot of bad science around, and even good science is frequently used to draw incorrect conclusions. If everyone uses 95% confidence as the standard then

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